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FactCheck: IPPR skewers Grayling’s stay-at-home mums theory
April 17, 2012 12:29 pm 3 Comments
"The IPPR actually thinks the figures show the reverse of what Mr Grayling wants them to show."
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FactCheck update: DWP fail to explain disappearing “workfare” document
February 29, 2012 11:49 am 31 Comments
"Confusion reigns, and despite repeated phone calls and several days to think about it, DWP has declined to clarify the situation."
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FactCheck: Work experience or slave labour?
February 24, 2012 1:28 pm 33 Comments
"Much like the French Foreign Legion, the scheme is "entirely voluntary" to enter, but there may be an element of compulsion later on if you decide to leave."
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FactCheck: Are Britain’s young people paying for the euro crisis?
November 16, 2011 1:00 pm 4 Comments
“These figures show just how much our economy is being affected by the crisis in the eurozone.” Chris Grayling, September 16 2011 The background The employment minister has pinned the blame for this week’s dire unemployment figures firmly on the sovereign debt crisis in Europe. We’ve already FactChecked the claim – increasing popular on the [...]
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FactCheck: Exclusive – Back-to-work scheme ‘could cause 10,000 redundancies’
June 3, 2011 5:26 pm 50 Comments
When people paid to advise the unemployed are handed P45s themselves, it's time to worry. FactCheck investigates the potential cost of the Government's Big Idea on cutting joblessness.
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The Work Programme – still a work in progress
April 21, 2011 6:08 pm 14 Comments
They're on drink, on drugs and on benefits by the thousands, according to new figures. But how will the Government get Britain's addicts back to work?
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FactCheck: Is the Government’s new benefits policy fit to work or shirking its duties?
April 4, 2011 5:28 pm 24 Comments
Half a million people 'on the sick' are really fit to work, the Government estimates. But how realistic are the claims behind the benefits shake-up?
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Stats watchdog ticks off PM over immigration figures
March 31, 2010 4:39 pm 11 Comments
The UK Statistics Authority has written to the prime minister over his inaccurate use of immigration figures in a podcast last week.
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Is violent crime going up or down?
March 9, 2010 8:35 pm 7 Comments
Cathy Newman's FactCheck looks at the differing claims of the Labour ad Conservative party over levels of violent crime.

