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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
Cabinet Office Minister Francis Maude told the Today programme that civil servants on median incomes could accrue retirement benefits worth £500,000. Is this true, and if so, how representative is it? Read
The UK's poor performance compared to other developed countries for stroke mortality has been cited in the White Paper published by the Department of Health in 2010 as one of … Read
During the controversial Ken Clarke interview on Radio 5 Live last month, BBC presenter Victoria Derbyshire claimed that the average prison sentence for a rape conviction was five years. A … Read
Today's Daily Mail claims that a vast majority of prison inmates are enjoying benefits supposedly reserved for "better-behaved offenders". Is this true? Read
