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.
Europe
Germany sells about 14% of all the passenger cars it makes domestically to the UK, a little over one in seven. (That makes up about 18% of the passenger cars it exports, a little under one in five). Read
Economy, Business & Finance
According to an industry database, half the nightclubs in Great Britain have closed down in the past decade. Read
Economy, Business & Finance
Half the Jobcentre Plus sites in Glasgow are set to close under DWP plans. The Department plans to reduce its office space nationwide by 20%. Read
Economy, Business & Finance
People from black and minority ethnic backgrounds are underrepresented on FTSE 150 company boards. Read
Economy, Business & Finance
A scheme providing compensation of 25% on single train fares for delays between 15 and 29 minutes will be introduced from 11 December on some services. Read
Economy, Business & Finance
As unions take strike action on Southern Railway over driver-only trains, we look at what regulators have said about the safety question. Read
Immigration
It’s correct that there were about 1.7 million unemployed people in the UK at the last count, in July-September 2016. Read
Economy, Business & Finance
We looked at whether HS2 will be faster for travellers than current trains. Read
Europe
Campaigners on both sides of the EU referendum made false claims, or predicted things that turned out to be wrong. Sometimes they made false claims about the false claims made by each other. Read
Economy, Business & Finance
Calculations by a housing charity for the number of under-18s and expecting mothers living in temporary accommodation stack up. Read
