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Today the Disability Benefits Consortium — a collection of 50 charities and organisations that work with the disabled — issued a press release arguing that the Government needed to do … Read
A group of MPs has today echoed Full Fact's criticism of media coverage of issues around incapacity benefit claims. A report out this morning from the Work and Pensions Select … Read
Immigration remains a contentious issue this week as the Coalition publishes a Consultation on Family Migration aimed at dealing with the issues around entry to the UK by non-EU nationals … Read
For the first time yesterday, the Office for National Statistics published additional guidance on statistics about workers' nationality, alongside its data on employment.After the frequent stories using data on employment … Read
For many months now Full Fact has complained about a frequent misrepresentation of statistics relating to foreign workers. Time and again, when the monthly labour market statistics bulletin was published … Read
David Cameron today claimed that his Government's commitment to making data publicly available was integral to improving public service delivery. But has open data really been responsible for driving up heart surgery survival rates? Read
A row has emerged over cuts to legal aid in recent weeks. Though the Government have claimed our costs are far higher than other countries, campaigners insist this is misleading. So what do the figures show? Read
The front page of this morning's Metro carried the headline "Britain at top of drug death table". So is the UK's record on drug-related deaths as bad as this would suggest? Read
Earlier this week, Full Fact investigated claims in the Sunday Times, Daily Mail and Express that a government-backed scheme which loans vehicles to those on Disability Living Allowance (DLA) was … Read
Today's Daily Mail claims that those in receipt of the higher mobility component of Disability Living Allowance can drive away taxpayer-funded luxury cars, branding the scheme a "scam". But is this a full and fair portrayal of the facts? Read
