We check facts about the UK economy. This includes money issues like prices, taxes, jobs, people out of work, and housing. We also look at how these things are different in each part of the UK.
Economy, Business & Finance
Quoting the Department of Communities and Local Government, several newspapers have reported on the 10-figure sum which can be attributed to fraud and error in the Council Tax benefit system. Read
Economy, Business & Finance
The most harmful inaccuracies are often those that get uncritically repeated time and time again. So quite naturally a few eyebrows have been raised over a much-repeated figure used by … Read
Economy, Business & Finance
After the Evening Standard leaked content of 'Britain Unchained', the magnum opus of five Tory MPs, there has been a media defence of the British labour force. But what do the statistics say? Read
Economy, Business & Finance
Today the Daily Mail and the Daily Star both reported that firms were turning to foreign workers to meet their demand for labour as 'young people in Britain just don't want to work'. But what are the facts behind the claims? Read
Economy, Business & Finance
Following the release of bleak economic statistics, some commentators have again claimed that the UK and Italy are the only G20 countries in a 'double-dip' recession. Is this right, and is it the best measure we can use? Read
Economy, Business & Finance
The finger is being pointed this week at 2 million people who are supposedly costing the Treasury over £2 billion through 'cash-in-hand' payments which aren't subject to tax. Full Fact took a more in-depth look at the reasoning behind the numbers. Read
Economy, Business & Finance
After a routine release of unemployment statistics, a not-so-routine row about the 'Olympics effect' rages on between journalists and ministers. But who's got their stats wrong? Read
Economy, Business & Finance
With thousands of farmers protesting at cuts to milk prices, several commentators have claimed that some farmers lose money on every litre of milk they produce. So what kind of a deal are they getting? Read
Economy, Business & Finance
Immigration is inevitably a contentious issue, both in terms of fact-checking and policy-making. Full Fact has had to look at several immigration-related claims, and has found that publicly-available data on … Read
Economy, Business & Finance
Earlier this year the Guardian ran an editorial attempting to debunk a 'convenient untruth' - the belief that there are potentially thousands of 'never-worked' families living on what have been … Read
