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
The Institute for Fiscal Studies has previously described the practice of adding up multiple years of spending increases as “misleading”. Read
Economy, Business & Finance
A campaign group estimated £250 billion could be raised globally by a financial transaction tax, with £20 billion being raised in the UK. Read
Economy, Business & Finance
The number of people in employment is down since the pre-pandemic peak, while the number of employees (not counting the self-employed) is up. Read
Economy, Business & Finance
An article in the Express used accurate figures from Labour showing more pensioners are in debt, but that doesn’t mean that more pensioners have a debt problem. Read
Economy, Business & Finance
Welsh First Minister Mark Drakeford and Scottish Finance Secretary Kate Forbes said the countries would not be receiving more money as other areas of their provisional budgets are being revised down. Read
Economy, Business & Finance
A number of the taxes listed in the Facebook post don’t even exist in the UK. Read
Economy, Business & Finance
Its estimate combined various price rises and the fall in real wages. But this effectively counts some rising prices twice. Read
Economy, Business & Finance
Claims that struggling households are entitled to almost £100 in fuel vouchers annually have been shared thousands of times. Read
Economy, Business & Finance
So far UK temperatures have been milder than usual, according to the Met Office. Read
Multiple government web pages make the technically inaccurate claim that planned National Insurance contributions are going to rise by 1.25%, when it’s actually a percentage point increase. Read
