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Today the Public Accounts Committee has voiced "substantial concerns" about the Government's claim to be able to save £2.6 billion by reorganising its arm's length bodies - a move dubbed … Read
As part of the housing debate ahead of the London Mayoral Election, both the Labour and Conservative candidates have come to blows over affordable housing building. So where do they get their figures from? Read
Over the weekend the Daily Mail dubbed Brentwood, Essex, the skiving capital of Britain, on the basis of DWP figures that indicate 55 percent of incapacity benefit claimants are fit to work. Are their figures correct? Read
Last week Full Fact called on the London Mayoral candidates to commit to providing Londoners with better information by subscribing to the Code of Practice for Official Statistics should they … Read
NHS waiting times can often cause confusion given the myriad of ways the official data can be viewed. So when we saw a new set of claims from an unofficial, we wanted to know what it could really tell us. Read
A dramatic graph of the number of people in full time work was recently published over at Liberal Conspiracy, under the banner of 'Our jobs problem summed up in one … Read
Following Labour's claims yesterday about the 'Granny Tax' affecting the less well-off more, Full Fact analyses the statistics they were using. Read
In a major success for Full Fact, the new Chair of the national statistics watchdog — the UK Statistics Authority — has today moved to ensure that the public has … Read
One of the hottest issues in the 2012 London Mayoral Election has been crime. However the Conservative and Labour candidates have continually exchanged contradictory claims about trends in the capital Read
Trading insults about the accuracy of your opponents' claims has become a staple of election campaigns, and the race to be London Mayor has been a prime example of this. … Read
