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Is the deficit down by two thirds?
Between 2009/10 and 2015/16 public sector net borrowing decreased from 9.9% of GDP to 3.8%, or by around two thirds. Read
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Are six million people earning less than the living wage?
Close but not quite. Around six million jobs pay less than the voluntary living wage calculated by the Living Wage Foundation. Read
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4 million people taken out of income tax
Increases to the personal allowance have meant about 4 million fewer people had to pay income tax in 2015/16 than did in 2010/11. Read
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Have wages fallen in the past ten years?
Adjusted for inflation, the official headline measure of median wages has. Read
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Immigration
Are one in nine UK workers migrants?
About one in nine were foreign nationals in 2016. About one in six were born outside the UK. Read
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Health
Where does councils' money come from to pay for adult social care?
Public spending on social care in England isn’t allocated in the same way that spending on something like health is. Read
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Factchecks are now featured in Google Search
Factchecks from Full Fact and others will now be prominently featured in Google search for the first time. Read
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BBC Question Time, factchecked
We factchecked claims on free school meals and attainment, the size of the debt after a hard Brexit, how many pensioners are on benefits, and what happened to unemployment under Labour. Read
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Are 40% of welfare claimants pensioners?
There aren't readily-available estimates for the proportion of all welfare claimants who are pensioners or of working age. Read
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Unemployment under Labour
The number of people unemployed in the UK was higher at the end of the last Labour government than at the start Read
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