Blog posts tagged "Economy"

May 3, 2012 8:37 pm 1 Comment

Iain Duncan Smith may have said he wants to make work pay, but the department for work and pensions has been written to by its own cleaners who say they aren't paid enough to live on. FactCheck looks at their demands for a "living wage".

November 28, 2011 5:08 pm 13 Comments

"The bad news for Mr Balls is that the OECD specifically praises coalition policy on cutting the deficit and keeping borrowing rates low in helping to create the right conditions for that recovery."

January 26, 2011 7:07 pm 16 Comments

The claim "He is going too far and too fast with deficit reduction and that is what is inhibiting growth in this country" Ed Miliband, Labour leader, Prime Minister’s Questions, 26 January 2011

January 25, 2011 6:11 pm 15 Comments

"They are clearly disappointing figures but the statisticians tell us that the weather had a huge effect – we had the coldest December for 100 years, businesses were closed, people couldn’t get to work... So we’re not going to be blown off course by the bad weather."

December 16, 2010 5:39 pm 5 Comments

CutsCheck analyses whether police cuts announced this week by the Home Office are worse than individual force had been expecting.

November 29, 2010 7:03 pm 3 Comments

The Treasury tells FactCheck that Chancellor George Osborne "misspoke" when he said economic growth will be higher in every quarter in every year compared to the OBR's June forecasts.

November 24, 2010 5:36 pm 3 Comments

FactCheck analyses David Cameron's claim that Labour supports the government's plan to withdraw the mobility component of disability living allowance from people in state-funded care homes.

November 23, 2010 6:30 am 8 Comments

FactCheck analyses Health Secretary Andrew Lansley's commitment to "cut the deficit, not the NHS".

November 11, 2010 6:04 pm 6 Comments

FactCheck analyses Shadow Chancellor Alan Johnson's claim that Labour "paid down debt" and controlled borrowing.

November 5, 2010 5:41 pm 6 Comments

FactCheck analyses the Government's decision to exclude "intra-company transfers" from its annual migration cap.