Fact checks including the reporting of statistical immigration, migration and migrants
Immigration
Reform UK party leader Richard Tice wrongly claimed in a social media post that 50% of children seeking asylum were found to be adults. Read
Immigration
The home secretary told Parliament the current backlog bears “no comparison” to the situation in 2010, and that Labour would be “found wanting” in any comparison. Read
Immigration
The Prime Minister said there were 6,000 fewer people in the “asylum backlog”—but the latest published figures show a large rise in the number of people waiting for applications to be resolved. Read
Immigration
Robert Jenrick’s claim that up to 20% of adult men arriving at an asylum processing centre say they’re under 18 has prompted new questions about the Home Office’s use of statistics. Read
Immigration
The figure has been used by Priti Patel in Parliament and a number of times in the media, but it isn’t yet supported by published government statistics. Read
Immigration
A graph published by the Telegraph misses hundreds of thousands of people who moved to the UK to live, study and work in 2021. Read
Immigration
The Mail on Sunday recently published an article stating that four in 10 people crossing the Channel in small boats are from Albania. Read
Immigration
Research indicates that the majority of people crossing the Channel go on to be granted asylum, but the full picture is not covered by official statistics. Read
Immigration
Official estimates of migration to and from the UK have been wrong for several years, and have lost their quality mark as a result. Read
Immigration
Including children born to immigrants, this seems broadly correct for the period 2001-2016. Read
