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.
Health
Nearly a quarter of respondents to a Royal College of Nursing survey said they had taken an additional job. We don’t know how representative this is of all nurses. Read
Economy, Business & Finance
This is correct, as a percentage of all adults either working or looking for a job across the UK. Read
Europe
Although the EU’s GDP is growing, it is at a slower rate than the rest of the world’s. Read
Economy, Business & Finance
The figure is about the number of three day emergency food supplies given out to children by the Trussell Trust last year—about 437,000—not the number of children who received them. Read
Economy, Business & Finance
In England the share of households with a second home is small. The majority of households in England, Northern Ireland and Scotland own their home. Read
Economy, Business & Finance
This isn’t quite right, but wage growth is at its lowest level in peacetime since the Napoleonic Wars. Read
Economy, Business & Finance
The UK unemployment rate was 4.3% earlier this year, compared to 9% average across the Eurozone. Read
Economy, Business & Finance
The Scottish deficit is more than three times that of the UK as a whole, as a proportion of GDP. Read
Economy, Business & Finance
Self-employed mothers can exchange maternity allowance for shared parental leave and pay for their partner, if he is employed—but they have to give up the allowance. Read
Economy, Business & Finance
Last year HMRC estimates it made £29 billion extra as a result of its compliance activities. Read
