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
With a wide range of estimates available on the number of people working on zero-hours contracts, do new figures show that the total doubled in 2013? Read
Economy, Business & Finance
The government has claimed that its flagship welfare reform policy could save the taxpayer as much as £38 billion over the next decade, but today a Labour Treasury spokesperson said that it was in fact costing £190,000 per claimant Read
Economy, Business & Finance
The future of North Sea oil and gas has been the unknown factor underpinning many disagreements between the Yes and No camps in the Scottish independence debate. So just how vital is it to the amount of money that would be available to a sovereign Scottish government? Read
Europe
With Europe and welfare reform both topics at the top of the political agenda at the moment, Chancellor George Osborne used his speech to Open Europe this week to claim that European countries "can't go on" spending the amounts they do on social protection. Read
Europe
As Oscar Wilde might have said had he jacked in the play writing and become a factchecker, "to make a mistake once is unfortunate, to make it twice looks like … Read
Europe
A leaked European Commission report was at the centre of a media storm this weekend, with the Sunday Telegraph claiming that it revealed the "true scale of European immigration". Now that the report has been made public, what can we conclude from it? Read
Europe
According to a new report, the EU has generated more than 3,500 new business directives since the May 2010 election. But with some sectors more tightly regulated than others, the load isn't evenly distributed. We've looked at the detail of the research. Read
Europe
Today Nick Clegg warned that "isolationist forces are on the rise" and those in favour of remaining in the EU need to stand up and be counted. As he argued the case for the UK retaining its membership, he made a series of claims. We've looked at his evidence. Read
Economy, Business & Finance
Chancellor George Osborne reiterated in his conference speech yesterday that his economic plan is working. Here's our look at the evidence he points to in support of this claim. Read
Economy, Business & Finance
The controversial proposed high speed rail link between London and the north of England was back in the news last week after Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls refused to commit to writing a "blank cheque" to fund it. But how much is being spent on the scheme compared to other transport projects? Read
