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BBC Question Time is organised around a few “big questions” asked by the audience. Michal who joined Full Fact for two weeks in November is building the automated tools that will classify them. Read
Economy, Business & Finance
Mark Carney said real household incomes are about £900 lower than they were forecast to be just before the referendum, partly down to Brexit. The exact figures behind this calculation haven’t been pub Read
Europe
This week the Commons voted on 15 amendments that have been passed in the House of Lords over the past few months. We looked at what happened. Read
Economy, Business & Finance
The UK has six of the poorest 10 regions comparing GDP per person against nearby countries, but this doesn’t mean the people who live there are poorer. Read
This week Question Time was in Reading. We factchecked claims on the number of school places, who the UK’s biggest trade partners are, online shopping and rail prices. Read
Economy, Business & Finance
The UK’s biggest export market is the USA. We exported 18% of our goods and services there in 2016, followed by Germany which took 9% of our exports. Our biggest trade deficit is with Germany. Read
Economy, Business & Finance
The average rail fare in Britain has increased by 20% in real terms since 1995, though it dropped by 1% between 2017 and 2018. Read
Education
The number of state-funded school places has increased by about 825,000 in England since 2010. Read
Economy, Business & Finance
How much shopping is done online, and where do people get their news? Read
Crime
Sending a child to a prison facility, like a young offender institution, for a year costs more than the fees for Eton. Read
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