# claims

claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-03-05T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/great-pyramid-speed-of-light/
title: The Great Pyramid’s location isn’t as spooky as this post makes out - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-03-31T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The coordinates of the Great Pyramid of Giza and the speed of light in metres per second are the same and this could be more than coincidence

textual_rating:
One line of latitude passing through the pyramid contains the same numbers as the speed of light in a vacuum, but there are around 20,000 other lines of latitude passing through the pyramid, so you have to choose the number deliberately to make it look like a coincidence.


claimant: HART Group
claim_date: 2021-06-16T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/Hart-Newsround-report-misleading/
title: Critical report on BBC Newsround story is misleading - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-06-29T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
There is a distinct likelihood children will develop myocarditis if they receive a Covid-19 vaccination.

textual_rating:
There is some evidence linking Covid-19 vaccines to myocarditis, and the symptoms that have been reported are “very rare” and “typically mild”.


claimant: Justine Greening
claim_date: 2017-06-27T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/education/more-young-people-are-going-university/
title: More young people are going to university - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-08-16T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Record numbers of young people are going to university, including more people from disadvantaged backgrounds.

textual_rating:
Mostly correct at the time, and now correct on all measures. Some figures produced by government statisticians showed a slight dip in the proportion of disadvantaged students attending university when the claim was made. Newer data now suggests that this was temporary and that the longer term picture is one of generally increasing numbers.


text: MPs can claim £50 for breakfast.
url: https://fullfact.org/online/how-much-can-MPs-claim-for-breakfast/
title: MPs cannot claim £50 for breakfast as viral post claims - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-02-27T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Incorrect. MPs can claim £25 for food bought during the day if they stay overnight outside their constituency and London.


claimant: The Spectator
claim_date: 2022-04-30T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/crime/spectator-defence-staring-train/
title: Man wasn’t jailed only for staring at a woman on the train - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-05-06T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A man was sentenced to 22 weeks in prison after a woman reported him for “continuously staring” at her on a train.

textual_rating:
This only tells part of the story. The man in question was jailed under the Public Order Act for “causing intentional harassment, alarm or distress”, after staring at a woman and then also blocking her exit when she tried to leave.


claimant: The Times
claim_date: 2016-12-01T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/immigration/parents-born-outside-uk/
title: A third of babies have at least one parent born outside the UK - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-12-01T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The proportion of babies born to foreign parents has risen from a quarter in 2008 to a third in 2015.

textual_rating:
The rise was less dramatic than that, and you probably wouldn’t call all those parents ‘foreign’. In England and Wales, the proportion of children who have at least one parent registered as born outside the UK rose slowly each year from about 30% in 2008 to about 33% in 2015.


text: CPR involves doing chest compressions only.
claimant: Instagram user
claim_date: 2021-06-12T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/children-CPR/
title: NHS says you should perform rescue breaths on children who aren’t breathing - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-06-25T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
UK guidance says CPR should involve, alongside chest compressions, rescue breaths on children in all cases (unless there is a good reason why this is not possible), and on adults if the person administering them is completely confident and the person who is unwell doesn’t have Covid-19.


text: The number of miscarriages in Lanarkshire doubled in 2022 because of the Covid-19 vaccines.
claimant: facebook user
claim_date: 2023-04-23T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/nhs-lanarkshire-miscarriage-data-error/
title: Miscarriages in Lanarkshire did not double in 2022 - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-04-28T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is not true. The number of miscarriages in Lanarkshire fell slightly in 2022. Neither Scottish nor English data suggests that the Covid-19 vaccines are associated with a higher rate of miscarriage.


text: Care workers in France are being rewarded with a £1,500 tax-free lump sum.
url: https://fullfact.org/online/france-hospital-worker-bonus/
title: Viral claim about France’s tax-free health care workers bonus needs context - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-04-22T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Care workers in nursing homes will get a bonus, but it’s not yet clear how much. Healthcare staff fighting Covid-19 will get €1,500 (£1,300). Other hospital staff will get €500 (£440).


text: The UK’s gig economy workforce has doubled since 2016.
claimant: Trades Union Congress
claim_date: 2019-06-28T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/has-gig-economy-doubled/
title: Has the gig economy doubled in size in three years? - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-07-16T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Correct, although there is no fixed definition of the gig economy. This is looking at “platform work”—jobs that are found via a website or app and accessed using a laptop, smartphone or other internet-connected device.


text: Bill Gates created the new coronavirus and a vaccine for it.
url: https://fullfact.org/online/coronavirus-5G/
title: These claims about the new coronavirus and 5G are unfounded - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-03-13T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is incorrect. The Bill Gates and Melinda Gates Foundation has funded a research institute that has a patent to a different coronavirus.  Coronavirus is a large category of viruses that includes the common cold, SARS and the new virus that causes Covid-19.


claimant: The Telegraph
claim_date: 2021-04-21T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/32-vaccinated-hospital/
title: There’s more to the claim only 32 vaccinated people were hospitalised with Covid-19 - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-04-23T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Early findings show that of 74,405 Covid-19 cases admitted to hospitals between September and March, just 32 had received a vaccine at least three weeks before.

textual_rating:
These figures are correct, but comparing them is misleading, as vaccinations didn’t start until December, so this doesn’t show how effective the vaccine is at stopping hospitalisations.


text: One in 100 children who catch Covid-19 get sick enough with the disease to be admitted to hospital.
claimant: nhs england
claim_date: 2022-02-03T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/nhs-covid-risk-children/
title: NHS video overstates the risk of Covid-19 to children - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-02-09T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is not true. It reflects the approximate proportion of children who tested positive for Covid-19, who were admitted to hospital. This rate has roughly halved recently. A child’s real risk of admission due to Covid is also much lower than this rate suggests, because many infections are not detected as cases, and some admissions are not due to Covid.


text: Vaccines cause ME/CFS.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-02-04T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/vaccine-grave-picture/
title: There are no mouse brains in Covid-19 vaccines - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Getting a vaccine may exacerbate ME/CFS symptoms in people who already have these illnesses, but there is no data from clinical trials on this.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-10-10T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/sea-turtle-india-misleading/
title: Thousands of sea turtles did not hatch on Indian beach this week - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A major clean-up of an Indian beach led to hundreds of thousands sea turtles hatching along its coast this week.

textual_rating:
The clean-up happened over three years ago. At least 80 turtles were spotted there afterwards, not hundreds of thousands. A photo claiming to show the beach after the clean-up, covered in turtles,  was taken on the other side of India.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-02-19T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/vaccine-ingredients/
title: This image about vaccine ingredients is extremely misleading - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-04-26T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Genetically modified yeast, animal, bacterial and viral DNA in vaccines can be incorporated into the recipient’s DNA causing unknown genetic mutations.

textual_rating:
Modified DNA can be used in the production of some vaccines, but is very unlikely to end up in the final product. Even if it did, there’s no evidence it can cause mutations.


text: UK is testing more people for Covid-19 than any country other than China and Italy.
claimant: BBC Today programme
claim_date: 2020-03-16T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/coronavirus-testing-numbers-UK/
review_date: 2020-03-19T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
title:
There’s limited data on how many Covid-19 tests are being done globally, but the UK doesn’t rank third in the world - Full Fact

textual_rating:
This is incorrect. As at 13 March, the latest data available when this claim was made, the UK ranked fifth (behind China, South Korea, Italy and Russia) for the number of Covid-19 tests carried out. These statistics only included the 38 countries and regions with official data on Covid-19 tests at that time.


text: A serial killer or abductor is currently active in various UK locations.
claimant: facebook user
claim_date: 2022-08-13T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/serial-killer-hoax-dundee/
title: Reports of a serial killer on the loose in Dundee are false - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-08-18T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
False. Identical posts using the same picture and details have appeared on dozens of community Facebook groups in other cities. There is no evidence the alleged incidents ever occurred.


text: A newly qualified teacher’s salary was £21,500 in 2010 and £22,000 in 2018.
claimant: Twitter user
claim_date: 2018-08-25T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/pay-rises-how-much-do-nurses-police-teachers-and-mps-get-paid/
title: Pay rises: how much do nurses, the police, teachers and MPs get paid? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-09-07T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
These figures don’t take account of inflation since 2010. In 2018 prices, a new teacher’s salary in a local authority-run school in England and Wales (outside of London) was £25,400 in 2010, and is now £23,000.


text: A fully qualified nurse’s starting salary has not increased since 2010 when it was £22,000.
claimant: Twitter user
claim_date: 2018-08-25T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/pay-rises-how-much-do-nurses-police-teachers-and-mps-get-paid/
title: Pay rises: how much do nurses, the police, teachers and MPs get paid? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-09-07T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
These figures don’t take account of inflation. In 2018 prices, it was £25,000 a year in 2010, and in 2018 it’s £23,000.


text: Tesla has invented a new electronic currency, endorsed by Elon Musk.
claimant: Public
claim_date: 2022-07-11T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/tesla-electronic-currency-elon-musk/
title: No evidence Tesla has ‘invented a new electronic currency’ - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-07-19T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
There is no evidence this is true. Neither Tesla nor Mr Musk have announced this, and Full Fact could find no information supporting the claim.


text: 1.1 million Brexit postal ballots are missing or rejected.
claimant: AC Grayling
claim_date: 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/missing-eu-referendum-votes/
title: No postal votes from the EU referendum are recorded as “missing” - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-01-18T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
No votes from the referendum are recorded as “missing”. Close to one million postal ballots weren’t returned, which can be due to a variety of reasons. An additional 170,000 or so were returned on time but not counted—mostly due to problems with identifying the voter.


text: Just 961 staff investigate tax fraud.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2022-05-20T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/benefits-tax-fraud-evasion-dwp/
title: Figures on benefit and tax fraud investigators misrepresented - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-06-14T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
False. This was the number of full-time equivalent staff in HMRC’s “Wealthy team”  engaged in customer compliance activity. HMRC employs around 28,000 staff altogether in customer compliance.


text: Over the last ten years half a million fewer men than women have been accepted to university.
claimant: Karl McCartney
claim_date: 2017-01-18T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/education/half-million-fewer-men-accepted-university-women/
title: Half a million fewer men accepted to university than women - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-01-18T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is true for students living in the UK when they applied, for all students accepted to UK universities since 2007 the difference is a little over half a million.


claimant: Conservative party
claim_date: 2019-04-08T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/conservative-council-tax/
title: Do Conservative councils charge £100 less tax than Labour or Liberal Democrat councils? - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-04-26T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Conservative councils save families around £100 a year more than Labour and Liberal Democrat councils.

textual_rating:
The method the Conservatives have used to make their comparison is flawed in several ways and therefore pretty meaningless.


text: Asylum seekers in the UK receive £175 a week.
claimant: public
claim_date: 2023-03-05T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/news/asylum-seekers-benefit-payments-hotels/
title: Asylum seekers do not receive £175 a week - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-03-08T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Asylum seekers receive around £45 per week but much less if meals are provided at their accommodation.


text: 45% of young trans people in this country, modern Britain, have attempted suicide.
claimant: Paris Lees
claim_date: 2018-03-22T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/young-trans-people/
title: Young trans people in Britain - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-03-23T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
We can’t say how representative this is of the young trans community in Britain as a whole—the overall sample was not adjusted to try and be representative. It’s based on a survey of LGBT people aged 11 to 19, with 594 young trans respondents.


text: We now have 420,000 more people in employment than there were before the pandemic began.
claimant: Boris Johnson
claim_date: 2022-01-18T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/january-2022-boris-johnson-employment/
title: PM misleads on employment figures, again - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-01-19T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
False. The total number of people in employment, including the self-employed, is 600,000 lower than before the pandemic began.


text: Spending on mental health went up by £575 million last year.
claimant: Jeremy Hunt
claim_date: 2017-11-20T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/nhs-spending-mental-health/
title: NHS spending on mental health - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-12-19T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This refers to the increase in spending by Clinical Commissioning Groups, but doesn’t account for inflation. Factoring that in the increase was around £368 million. It’s not a complete picture of mental health spending because other money is spent by the NHS on specialised mental health services. The figures on this aren’t regularly published.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-05-02T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/vaccine-exposure/
review_date: 2019-06-06T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
If you have been recently vaccinated you need to stay away from babies, young children, pregnant women, immunocompromised people, the elderly, and terminally ill people for at least two weeks minimum.

title:
This post greatly exaggerates the risks of infection from people who have just been vaccinated - Full Fact

textual_rating:
If you’ve recently had a live vaccine, Public Health England doesn’t generally caution against close contact with any of these groups. Experts say that the risk of transmitting a virus like this is tiny and that in general people in close contact with these groups getting vaccinated is a major benefit to them.


text: There have been 1,517 deaths and 1,102,228 adverse reactions caused by the Covid-19 vaccines.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-08-02T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/yellow-card-deaths/
title: Yellow Card data isn't proof of Covid-19 vaccine deaths - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-08-04T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
These figures relate to Yellow Card reports. This is a mechanism to allow individuals to report any suspected reactions or side effects even if the reporter isn’t sure that it was caused by the vaccine. 

The MHRA says “It is very important to note that a Yellow Card report does not necessarily mean the vaccine caused that reaction or event”.


claimant: Instagram user
claim_date: 2020-11-01T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/did-she-die-in-vain/
title: “Article 61” of Magna Carta doesn’t allow you to ignore Covid-19 regulations - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-11-03T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Article 61 of Magna Carta allows for lawful dissent and rebellion. It also means that businesses don’t have to close under Covid-19 regulations.

textual_rating:
This is all incorrect. Clause 61 of the 1215 Magna Carta set out rules for 25 specific barons. It did not allow the general population to rebel, and it was also removed from subsequent versions of the document.


text: A video shows the burning of the Alcazar library in Marseille during the recent riots in France.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2023-07-05T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/marseille-library-fire-video/
title: Riot video of Marseille library actually shows fire at Manila post office - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-07-05T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The video shows a fire that severely damaged the Manila Central Post Office in the Philippines in May.


text: The UK will spend £36 million on efforts to close the Calais “Jungle” camp
claimant: Daily Mail
claim_date: 2016-10-24T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/immigration/36-million-isnt-just-close-calais-jungle/
title: We aren't spending £36m just to close the Calais 'jungle' - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-10-25T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The UK has committed £36 million and some of this money will be used to close the camp, but it’s also being spent on border security and keeping child migrants safe.


text: The EU army will call up all 16 to 25 year olds to serve in an army for the European Union.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-09-09T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/EU-army-conscription-September-2019/
title: UK citizens can’t be conscripted into an ‘EU army’ - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Incorrect. There is no EU army. There are no formal plans for an EU army. The UK has a veto on EU security and defence policy so couldn’t be forced to participate in an EU army.


text: There is no VAT paid on Jaffa Cakes, razors, and pitta bread, unlike tampons.
claimant: Stella Creasy MP
claim_date: 2015-10-26T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/tampons-jaffa-cakes-and-razors-we-pay-no-vat-some-these-items/
title: Tampons, Jaffa Cakes, and razors: we pay no VAT on some of these items - Full Fact
review_date: 2015-10-29T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Jaffa Cakes and shop-bought pitta bread are zero-rated, but VAT on razor blades is at the standard 20% rate. VAT on tampons is at a reduced rate of 5%, the minimum it can be under current EU rules.


text: Under the new withdrawal agreement, the UK can't sign trade deals until at least 2021.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-10-17T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/viral-image-boris-johnsons-brexit-deal/
title: We fact checked this viral image on Boris Johnson's Brexit deal - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-10-18T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The UK can sign trade deals during the transition period but they wouldn’t be able to come into force until the transition period ends on 31 December 2020.


claimant: Jo Johnson MP, Universities and Science Minister
claim_date: 2015-07-01T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/education/are-there-record-numbers-young-people-going-university/
title: Are there record numbers of young people going to university? - Full Fact
review_date: 2015-09-24T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
There are record numbers of young people going to university, including from disadvantaged backgrounds.

textual_rating:
Accurate based on numbers and rates of young people accepted onto full-time places at university in England. Advantaged students are still substantially more likely to go to university.


text: Fibres from face masks and test swabs are evidence that nanoparticles are being inserted into us.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-04-04T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/masks-swabs-covid-morgellons-fibres/
title: Fibres from masks and swabs aren’t 'Morgellons' - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-04-14T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is not true. Nanoparticles are not part of masks and swabs, and are too small to be seen with the naked eye.


text: Iain Duncan Smith MP gets free accommodation.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2018-08-19T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/mps-expenses-claim-lunch-gym/
title: Not all of these claims about what MPs can claim in expenses are correct - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-08-30T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
MPs can claim expenses for rent on a second residence or hotel if their constituency is outside London, and if they don’t live in free accommodation, such as Downing Street. Iain Duncan Smith is a London MP, so can’t claim accommodation expenses.


claimant: The Guardian
claim_date: 2020-01-31T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/lung-cancer-diagnosis-route/
title: There are some mistakes in these figures about lung cancer diagnoses - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-02-14T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Patients diagnosed with lung cancer after visiting A&E are five times more likely to die within a year compared to diagnoses after a GP referral.

textual_rating:
This is incorrect. A diagnosis following a GP referral was associated with a three      times higher likelihood of survival after 12-months compared to diagnosis following an emergency presentation route.


text: The cladding used on Grenfell Tower has previously been banned in the USA.
url: https://fullfact.org/online/Grenfell-Tower-Labour/
title: Most of these claims about Grenfell Tower are wrong - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-02-29T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Correct. The cladding used on Grenfell Tower is been banned on tall building in some parts of the USA.


claimant: facebook user
claim_date: 2022-12-06T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/child-cyclist-hit-and-run/
title: Post about child cyclist injured in ‘hit and run’ is fake - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-12-06T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A Facebook user needs help to identify a young cyclist left unconscious following a recent hit and run incident.

textual_rating:
False. No such incident took place and the pictures show two separate accidents which occurred in Australia.


text: British 90 year-olds knew Panzers.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-09-23T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/65-year-old-rationing/
review_date: 2019-10-31T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Correct, today’s 90 year-olds would have remembered panzers though are unlikely to have seen them in combat.


text: Pelicans can take their spines out of their mouths to cool themselves down.
claimant: Public
claim_date: 2020-10-24T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/pelican-spine-cool-down/
title: Pelicans don’t push their spines out of their mouths to cool down - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-03-28T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
False. Pelicans don’t do this—pictures shared alongside this claim actually just show birds yawning.


claimant: National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers
claim_date: 2022-06-18T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/rmt-nhs-test-trace-ppe/
title: RMT exaggerates money ‘wasted’ on PPE and NHS Test and Trace - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-06-22T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
You could fund the NHS for years, give every low-paid worker in Britain an above inflation pay rise and close every food bank in the UK just from the money wasted on PPE and NHS Test and Trace.

textual_rating:
This is not true. The total amount spent by the government on PPE and NHS Test and Trace during the pandemic was less than one year of NHS funding.


text: Symptoms of Covid-19 include nausea, hair loss, bone marrow damage.
url: https://fullfact.org/online/coronavirus-5G/
title: These claims about the new coronavirus and 5G are unfounded - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-03-13T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is incorrect. Symptoms have been reported as including fever, coughing and shortness of breath.


url: https://fullfact.org/health/flu-shot-ingredients/
title: Image on flu jab ingredients is misleading - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-10-31T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Flu shots contain polysorbate 80, which has been linked to ovarian damage and infertility. It could induce liver failure.

textual_rating:
At least one UK flu vaccine does contain polysorbate 80. There’s no evidence that the levels found in vaccines can damage fertility or the liver.


claimant: Mail Online
claim_date: 2022-11-15T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/council-tax-rate-increase/
title: MailOnline muddles up cost of a possible rise in council tax - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-11-15T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Households will face an average £100 hike in council tax per month if council tax rates increase by 5%.

textual_rating:
This is not correct. The average band D council tax bill would increase by £98 per year, not per month, if rates increased by 5%. The average council tax bill per dwelling would increase by approximately £75 per year.


text: Videos on social media claim to show the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2022-02-24T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/ukraine-invasion-tiktok-clip/
title: Videos claiming to show Ukraine invasion sourced to old TikTok videos - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-02-24T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Some of these videos clearly do not depict the Russian invasion of Ukraine as they predate the invasion.


text: People were stabbed at protests in London over the weekend of 13 June.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-06-14T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/stabbing-london-protests/
title: There were no stabbings reported at protests in London over the weekend - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-06-15T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is incorrect. The Met Police have said that there were no reported stabbings at the protests over the weekend.


text: Patients are now waiting over two weeks on average to see a GP.
claimant: Labour Party
claim_date: 2019-08-11T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/gp-appointment-waiting-times/
title: We can’t say patients are waiting over two weeks to see a GP on average - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-08-13T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
There are no reliable figures that prove this. This refers to non-urgent appointments at GP practices, but the figure isn’t necessarily representative of GP practices nor patients across the UK.


text: MPs get free healthcare, retirement packages, paid holiday and unlimited paid sick days.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2022-04-04T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/viral-pensions-post/
title: Viral pensions post has its maths all wrong - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-04-20T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
MPs can’t claim private healthcare on expenses, but can use the NHS like anyone else. They do have a workplace pension scheme. They get paid regardless of how many holiday or sick days they take.


text: The increase in net migration under the Conservative government is the highest it has ever been.
claimant: David Dimbleby
claim_date: 2016-09-29T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/immigration/conservatives-migration-record/
title: The Conservatives’ migration record - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-09-30T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The greatest annual increase in estimated net migration in the last 20 years was under the Labour government in 1998. Levels of net migration under this government are thought to be the highest ever recorded.


text: The flow of patients through emergency care is faster than ever.
claimant: Rishi Sunak
claim_date: 2023-01-18T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/Rishi-Sunak-patient-flow-discharge-rates/
title: Government fails to back up PM’s claim that A&E patient flow is 'faster than ever' - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-02-01T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Neither Number 10 nor the Department of Health and Social Care have explained what figures Mr Sunak was referring to. NHS England data shows the volume of A&E attendances in December was the highest on record, but the proportion of patients waiting over four hours is also at a record high.


text: The BMA misled junior doctors on whether their pay would be cut.
claimant: Ben Gummer
claim_date: 2016-02-08T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/why-government-accusing-bma-lying/
title: Why is the government accusing the BMA of lying? - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-02-10T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Ministers dispute suggestions that some doctors might get a 30% pay cut, which they blame on a pay calculator that was withdrawn by the BMA. The union hasn’t responded to our request for comment. There’s also a broader disagreement about what the government intended to do about pay at the time.


claimant: Jeremy Corbyn
claim_date: 2017-11-01T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/are-super-rich-paying-less-income-tax/
title: Are the super-rich paying less income tax? - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-11-01T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The amount of income tax paid by the super-rich has fallen from £4.4 billion to £3.5 billion since 2009.

textual_rating:
The numbers are correct—up to 2014/15—but it's not a fair comparison. Tax rates changed in 2010 and some rich people moved their income around to avoid tax, which distorts the figures.


text: Total travel and accommodation costs for SNP MPs were £79,852 in the last 12 months.
claimant: Campbeltown and Kintyre SNP branch
claim_date: 2018-07-11T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/snp-conservative-mp-expenses/
title: These figures on MP expenses are incorrect - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-08-14T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This most likely refers to 2017/18 when SNP MPs’ travel and accommodation expenses totalled £1.3 million, or £37,000 on average per MP.


text: An estimated 1 million people marched for a People’s Vote on Saturday 23rd March.
claimant: People's Vote
claim_date: 2019-03-23T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/peoples-vote-march-count/
title: There almost certainly weren’t a million people on the People’s Vote march - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-03-25T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
It’s impossible to say with precision how many people attended the march. However experts in crowd estimation put the number at between 312,000 and 400,000.


text: Pre-eclampsia occurs between 26 and 32 weeks into pregnancy.
claimant: Daily Mirror
claim_date: 2021-09-23T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/pre-eclampsia-mirror/
title: Pre-eclampsia doesn’t only occur 26 to 32 weeks into pregnancy - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-09-23T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This was actually the timing for recruitment for the study the Mirror was reporting on. The NHS says that pre-eclampsia can occur from 20 weeks into pregnancy until a few weeks after delivery.


text: The BBC lost £50 million through non-payment of the licence fee this year.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-08-02T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/facebook-post-incorrect-claims-tv-licence-fee-non-payment/
title: Facebook post makes incorrect claims about TV licence fee non-payment - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-08-25T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
There's no official data yet on how much the BBC lost in 2020/21. The £50 million figure is likely to be based on an estimate from Julian Knight MP, but this is an estimate of the extra amount lost due to the BBC being above its target for licence fee evasion, not the overall amount lost due to non-payment.


text: There are 4,000 GPs in training now compared to 2,600 in 2014.
claimant: Stephen Barclay
claim_date: 2023-05-09T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/gp-workforce-appointments/
title: Four claims about GP numbers fact checked - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-05-10T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
These figures represent the number of doctors accepting offers on to GP specialty training programmes in England each year, not the total number of trainees at any one time, which is much higher. Health Education England said in March there were a total of 13,847 GP trainees by headcount on the programme.


claimant: Stuart Rose
claim_date: 2017-11-23T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/uk-economy-relegation-zone/
title: Is the UK economy in the relegation zone? - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-11-24T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The UK has gone from being one of the top economic performers in terms of growth in the G7, Europe and the world to being bottom of the league in the last year.

textual_rating:
It’s correct the UK had the fastest growing economy in the G7 in 2014 and was faster growing than the EU average in 2015. Various experts have said it is near the bottom of the G7 countries in 2017 and its growth is now lower the the EU average.


text: The vaccines aren’t safe during or prior to pregnancy.
claimant: Instagram user
claim_date: 2021-08-16T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/Mike-Yeadon-video/
title: Video falsely claims that you cannot refuse the Covid-19 vaccines - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-09-06T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Approximately 200,000 women across the US and England reported that they were or could be pregnant at the time of vaccination with no serious safety concerns regarding maternal or fetal outcomes. 

The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists says that the vaccine “is considered to be safe and effective at any stage of pregnancy”.


text: The Kray twins were never let out.
url: https://fullfact.org/online/kray-twins-great-train-terrorists-jail/
title: Claim about the Kray Twins and great train robbers’ prison releases are false - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-02-27T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Reggie Kray was released early on compassionate grounds after being diagnosed with terminal cancer. His brother Ronnie died in hospital after collapsing in prison.


claimant: Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth
claim_date: 2015-10-21T00:00:00Z
title: The proposed Renewables Obligation cut off: how much onshore wind capacity loses out? - Full Fact
review_date: 2015-11-19T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Extending the grace period for the proposed early closure of the Renewables Obligation to onshore wind to include projects with planning applications in place, could mean funding being given to a further 7.1 gigawatts of projects.

url:
https://fullfact.org/economy/proposed-renewables-obligation-cut-how-much-onshore-wind-capacity-loses-out/

textual_rating:
Only 0.2 of the 7.1 gigawatts would be expected to qualify for the funding in the government's best estimate.


text: Pensioners are given £8,840.00 to live on.
claimant: Facebook account
claim_date: 2023-03-30T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/minimum-wage-pension-comparison/
title: Comparison of minimum wage and state pension incomes is out of date - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-03-31T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This may refer to research published in 2019 which found this was the average amount per year that the bottom fifth of single pensioners by income were getting between 2015 and 2018. The exact amount you receive in state pension depends on the individual.


url: https://fullfact.org/europe/vote-leave-facts-leaflet-migration/
title: Vote Leave "facts" leaflet: migration - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-05-23T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
More than a quarter of a million people came to the UK from the EU in the 12 months to September 2015 - the equivalent of a city the size of Plymouth or Newcastle in just one year

textual_rating:
Over a quarter of a million is correct according to official estimates, around the same as Plymouth’s population but not quite as much as Newcastle’s.


claimant: BBC News
claim_date: 2018-05-24T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/education/ofsted-hasnt-inspected-300-schools-decade-or-more/
title: Ofsted hasn’t inspected 300 schools for a decade or more - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-06-05T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
1,620 schools, most rated outstanding, haven’t been inspected for six years or more. 290 haven’t been inspected for more than a decade.

textual_rating:
Correct. 1,620 state schools in England, most of which were rated outstanding in their last inspection, have not been inspected for six years or more. Of these, 296 have not been inspected for between ten and eleven years.


text: Ivermectin is a safe and effective treatment for Covid-19 symptoms.
claimant: Public
claim_date: 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/covid-vaccine-rap-battle/
title: Vaccine rap battle full of misinformation - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-10-20T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The Department of Health and Social Care previously told Full Fact that, based on available data, there is not sufficient evidence to prove that ivermectin is a safe and effective treatment for Covid-19.


text: Scotland’s net energy consumption is already provided by renewable energy sources.
claimant: Nicola Sturgeon
claim_date: 2022-09-29T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/snp-sturgeon-blackford-swinney-renewable-energy/
title: Senior SNP politicians mislead on renewable energy generation - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-10-14T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
False. In 2020 around a quarter of Scotland’s total energy consumption came from renewables. The Scottish Government has since said Nicola Sturgeon meant to refer to gross electricity consumption instead—renewables account for the equivalent of almost 100% of gross electricity consumption.


text: Three studies show “Covid-19 vaccines are harmful and ineffective”.
claimant: The Exposé
claim_date: 2023-01-09T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/expose-covid-vaccine-studies/
review_date: 2023-02-14T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
title:
Article claiming studies show Covid-19 vaccines increase infection risk is false and misleading - Full Fact

textual_rating:
Two of the studies referenced show that, in certain scenarios, more vaccinated people were infected with Covid-19 than unvaccinated people, but this is not good evidence of vaccine ineffectiveness. None of them show the vaccines to be harmful.


text: 400,000 women are sexually assaulted in the UK every year.
claimant: Owen Jones
claim_date: 2017-11-02T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/crime/sexual-and-domestic-abuse-england-wales-and-scotland/
title: Sexual violence and domestic abuse - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-11-03T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
There is no way of knowing exactly. This figure is probably too low. The latest estimates say 533,000 women aged 16-59 were sexually assaulted in England and Wales in 2015/16.


text: Sunscreen increases the risk of skin cancer.
claimant: facebook user
claim_date: 2023-06-04T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/sunscreen-cancer-hormones-endocrine-disruption/
title: Evidence doesn’t show sunscreen increases cancer risk - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-07-06T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The evidence generally shows that sunscreen use significantly reduces the risk of cancer from sun exposure.


text: The coordinates of the Great Pyramid of Giza is 29.9792458°N
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-03-05T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/great-pyramid-speed-of-light/
title: The Great Pyramid’s location isn’t as spooky as this post makes out - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-03-31T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is only one coordinate, giving its latitude but not its longitude. It is also only one of many lines of latitude that pass through the pyramid.


text: Labour’s Energy Bills Plan is “fully-funded”.
claimant: Keir Starmer
claim_date: 2022-08-14T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/labour-energy-bills-plan/
title: Labour’s energy price freeze: fact checked - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-08-16T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This might not be true. The plan includes spending about £2 billion that is already factored into the government spending plans.


text: It takes a German worker four days to produce what a UK worker makes in five.
claimant: Philip Hammond
claim_date: 2016-11-23T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/germans-work-less-earn-more-more-productive-than-uk/
title: Germans are more productive than us, work less, and earn more - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-11-23T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Roughly correct in 2015. On average, it took a German worker under four hours to make what a UK worker made in five hours. Since they worked fewer hours each week, they took about four and a half days to produce what a UK worker produced in five.


text: Shamima Begum has secretly returned to the UK.
url: https://fullfact.org/online/shamima-begum-has-not-secretly-returned-britain/
title: Shamima Begum has not secretly returned to Britain - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-02-27T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is not true—we know Ms Begum was in Syria on 14 February 2020. She is banned from returning to the UK, and there is no evidence to suggest she has.


text: Police budgets are being cut.
claimant: BBC Question Time audience member
claim_date: 2017-03-23T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/crime/happened-police-budgets/
title: What's happened to police budgets? - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-03-24T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Direct government grants to the police have been cut for the past five years. They will continue to fall over the next few years. Most local forces have the power to maintain their budgets if they raise the maximum amount they are allowed to.


text: The SNP has delivered 52,600 homes for social rent.
claimant: Scottish National Party
claim_date: 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/social-renting-scotland/
title: The state of social renting in Scotland - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-08-31T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is how many were completed between 2007/08 and 2017/18. This figure isn’t complete, as it doesn’t include homes for social rent that weren’t partially funded by the government.


text: More than a quarter of all evening meals in the UK are vegan or vegetarian, research shows.
claimant: BBC News
claim_date: 2018-02-07T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/vegetarian-vegan-uk/
title: How much meat do we eat? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-02-21T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
An estimated 29% of evening meals contained no meat or fish in 2017, according to market research designed to be representative of Britain. We don’t know how many evening meals were vegan, though.


text: The UK has lost its measles free status just three years after the virus was eliminated.
claimant: Department of Health and Social Care
claim_date: 2019-08-18T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/measles-free/
title: Being ‘measles free’ doesn’t mean there are no cases of measles - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-08-20T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The World Health Organisation no longer judges measles to have been eliminated in the UK – but that doesn’t mean there was ever a year when there were no cases of the disease.


claimant: Oxfam
claim_date: 2016-09-13T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/wealth-uk-richest-1-and-poorest-20/
title: Wealth in the UK: The richest 1% and the poorest 20% - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-09-16T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The richest 1% of people in the UK own more than twenty times the wealth of the poorest 20% in the UK.

textual_rating:
Finding out what the wealthiest own is harder than you might expect, but this is a reasonable claim that’s based on a well-regarded set of estimates. It’s important not to confused inequalities of wealth with inequalities of income, which are much lower.


claimant: Public
claim_date: 2021-05-02T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/ethylene-oxide-covid-test-ivermectin/
title: Viral video spreads misinformation about ethylene oxide and Ivermectin - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-05-12T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Lateral flow tests could cause cancer or damage DNA because the swabs used to collect a sample from the user are sterilised with ethylene oxide.

textual_rating:
Overexposure to ethylene oxide itself can cause health problems such as cancer, but there is no suggestion that using something that has been sterilised by ethylene oxide is harmful. It is routinely used to sterilise medical equipment.


claimant: Boris Johnson
claim_date: 2019-08-11T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/crime/how-many-rapists-reoffend/
title: How many rapists reoffend? - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-08-16T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
In the last five years, we have seen literally hundreds of convicted rapists who have come out of prison commit another sexual offence.

textual_rating:
Correct. It shows that each year, in England and Wales, roughly 40-60 people are convicted of rape who had previous rape convictions. From 2013 to 2017, there were 263 such convictions.


text: In March 2018 close to 50,000 people were in receipt of these kind of benefits.
claimant: Katie Hopkins
claim_date: 2019-01-04T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/immigration/we-factchecked-viral-video-asylum-seekers/
title: We factchecked a viral video on asylum seekers - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-01-11T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Correct, 46,700 were in receipt of either asylum support or were failed asylum seekers receiving support because they were destitute. More recent figures show that total was around 47,500 in September 2018.


claimant: Ross Clark
claim_date: 2021-08-26T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/maajid-nawaz-ross-clark-israel-vaccine-immunity/
title: Immunity through Covid infection is much riskier than a vaccine - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-09-03T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Research from Israel suggests that the Pfizer vaccine is much less protective against Covid-19 than natural immunity from catching the disease.

textual_rating:
The research does say this. However, it also says that infected people are even better protected if they get vaccinated as well.


claimant: Public
claim_date: 2022-01-23T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/pfizer-ceo-covid-vaccine/
title: Pfizer’s CEO has had Covid-19 vaccine - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-01-25T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Pfizer’s CEO Albert Bourla hasn’t been vaccinated against Covid-19 because he is “healthy” and doesn’t want to “cut the line”.

textual_rating:
Mr Bourla said this in December 2020. He has since publicly shared pictures of him being vaccinated against Covid-19.


claimant: Chris Boardman
claim_date: 2018-08-12T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/cyclist-deaths/
title: How many cyclists are killed each year? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-08-17T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Correct. Refers to figures for Britain in 2016.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Of the almost 1,800 deaths that occur on our roads annually, around 450 are pedestrians in incidents where motor vehicles are involved.


claimant: Instagram user
claim_date: 2021-09-16T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/NASA-photoshopped-apollo-false/
title: NASA didn’t paste a picture of the Earth into photos from the moon - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-10-18T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Clouds don’t move in NASA footage of Earth rotating. This is further proof of a cloud map, used across a number of NASA images.

textual_rating:
The video used to make this point is not fast enough for us to perceive the movement of clouds. Movement can be seen in faster versions of the video.


text: Asylum seekers get £37.75 for every person in their household, loaded onto a debit card each week.
claimant: Katie Hopkins
claim_date: 2019-01-04T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/immigration/we-factchecked-viral-video-asylum-seekers/
title: We factchecked a viral video on asylum seekers - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-01-11T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
If asylum seekers are homeless or don’t have money to buy food, they can apply for asylum support, which can include a cash allowance of this amount.


text: As a percentage of GDP, government spending on the NHS is set to fall.
claimant: Norman Lamb
claim_date: 2016-09-23T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/uk-health-spending-compared-france-and-germany/
title: UK health spending compared to France and Germany - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-09-23T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is correct, assuming government spending plans happen and the UK’s output of goods and services (GDP) increases as predicted. The proportion of GDP made up by NHS spending is set to decrease to April 2021.


text: Disposable incomes of ordinary working people have collapsed over the last 15 years.
claimant: Chris Bryant
claim_date: 2016-11-17T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/disposable-incomes-have-broadly-stagnated-over-last-decade/
title: Disposable incomes have broadly stagnated over the last decade - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-11-18T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
It’s not clear what this is referring to, but over the last 15 years, disposable incomes have risen across all income groups. They’ve broadly stagnated over the last decade.


text: Poland lowered its retirement age using money from the EU.
url: https://fullfact.org/online/polish-pensions-are-not-directly-subsidised-uk/
title: Polish pensions are not directly subsidised by the UK - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-05-17T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
There is no evidence for this. Poland gets back more from the EU budget than it pays in, but none of this is spent directly on pensions.


claimant: Boris Johnson
claim_date: 2020-06-17T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/child-poverty-keir-starmer-boris-johnson/
review_date: 2020-06-18T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The government’s Social Mobility Commission concluded there are 600,000 more children living in relative poverty than in 2012.

title:
Boris Johnson incorrect to say Keir Starmer is “completely wrong” about past trends in child poverty - Full Fact

textual_rating:
Correct - this refers to the number of children living in low income households as defined by the government.


claimant: Caroline Lucas
claim_date: 2018-04-26T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/education/you-usually-need-earn-18600-year-bring-non-eu-partner-uk/
title: You usually need to earn £18,600 a year to bring a non-EU partner to the UK - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-04-27T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
If you want to marry and bring in someone from a country outside of the EU, you have to have a salary of over £18,600.

textual_rating:
Correct, this has been the minimum income requirement before tax since 2012, although in some circumstances you can include your partner’s income in meeting the threshold.


text: Labour’s poll support is at a record low.
claimant: The Times
claim_date: 2019-07-04T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/news/labours-polling-record-low/
title: It’s correct that Labour’s support is at a record low in polling history - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-07-08T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Labour polled 18% in a YouGov poll asking people how they’d vote in a UK-wide election. This is a record low, based on data going back to 1970.


claimant: Public
claim_date: 2017-04-27T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/how-many-people-use-food-banks/
title: How many people use food banks? - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-04-28T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The number of people using food banks since 2010 has gone from the tens of thousands to the millions.

textual_rating:
The number of uses of Trussell Trust food banks has increased over this period from 41,000 to 1.2 million, but we don’t know how many individual people use food banks in total. The Trust estimates it had 560,000 users in 2016/17, but this won’t reflect the total number of people using food banks in the UK.


text: Admissions for obesity have more than doubled in the last four years.
claimant: Metro
claim_date: 2018-04-05T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/are-more-people-going-hospital-obesity-related-illnesses/
title: Are more people going into hospital for obesity related illnesses? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-04-05T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Admissions with a primary diagnosis of obesity are at roughly the same level as they were in 2012/13, including those with a secondary diagnosis the figure has doubled since then. But a secondary diagnosis doesn’t necessarily mean this is why the patient was admitted.


url: https://fullfact.org/europe/eu-referendum-voting-guide-vote-leave-immigration/
title: EU Referendum Voting Guide: Vote Leave on immigration - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-05-19T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
More than a quarter of a million people came to the UK from the EU in the last 12 months – the equivalent of a city the size of Newcastle. If this continues for a decade, there will be over two million extra people.

textual_rating:
Over a quarter of a million is correct according to official estimates, not quite as much as Newcastle’s population.


text: The UK has led the world by committing to “net zero” greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.
claimant: Philip Hammond
claim_date: 2019-06-20T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/environment/uk-greenhouse-gas-emissions/
title: UK greenhouse gas emissions: fast progress but not yet enough to meet future targets - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-06-21T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The UK’s stated ambition to reduce emissions goes further than most other countries, and the UK is generally considered to be a world-leader in setting targets into law. A few other countries have set similar or more ambitious targets.


claimant: Julia Hartley-Brewer
claim_date: 2017-09-14T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/private-sector-hit-hardest-recession/
title: Was the private sector hit hardest by the recession? - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-09-15T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Following the economic crash private sector wages were hit more quickly, harder and for longer than the public sector.

textual_rating:
That’s correct. Private sector wages dropped much more rapidly than public sector wages during the recession. They then began recovering as public sector wages slowed. In recent years the gap between the two has narrowed again.


claimant: Public
claim_date: 2021-09-16T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/testicular-cancer-pregnancy-test/
title: Pregnancy tests can’t reliably diagnose testicular cancer - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-09-27T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A positive pregnancy test result for men could indicate high levels of hormones linked to testicular cancer.

textual_rating:
This is true in some cases, but pregnancy tests are not a reliable form of diagnosis for testicular cancer.


claimant: facebook user
claim_date: 2023-05-22T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/facebook-video-charts-vaccine-covid/
title: The Covid-19 vaccines were tested before rollout - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-06-29T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Vaccination against Covid-19 increases your chance of getting and spreading the disease and means you have a higher risk of hospitalisation and death.

textual_rating:
False. While some data might appear to show a correlation between past vaccine doses and Covid infection or serious illness, this does not mean that being vaccinated causes an increase in risk. Evidence from the UK Health Security Agency suggests that the vaccines offer some shortlived protection against infection with recent variants.


text: The upcoming emergency alert test will deactivate our phones until you follow instructions.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2023-03-20T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/emergency-alert-deactivate-personal-data/
title: Emergency alert won’t give government access to your location or personal data - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-04-18T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
You will need to acknowledge the alert before you can use certain features. The Cabinet Office confirmed to Full Fact that it won’t stop a phone call in progress and incoming calls won’t go to voicemail, though you will need to acknowledge the alert to answer a call.


claimant: The Independent
claim_date: 2017-06-15T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/law/fire-safety-regulations-has-government-delayed-reviewing-them/
title: Fire safety regulations: has the government delayed reviewing them? - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-06-21T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Former housing minister, Gavin Barwell, failed to give the go-ahead to a safety review, despite it having been delayed for years.

textual_rating:
A review of the fire safety part of building regulations was recommended to the government in 2013. The government said it would conduct a review and publish updated regulations in 2016/17. The regulations remain unchanged. The government says the work is ongoing.


text: More than a third of babies are born to foreign parents.
claimant: The Times
claim_date: 2016-12-01T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/immigration/parents-born-outside-uk/
title: A third of babies have at least one parent born outside the UK - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-12-01T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
About a third of babies in England and Wales have at least one parent born outside the UK. You probably wouldn’t call all those parents ‘foreign’.


claimant: Public
claim_date: 2023-05-16T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/wrong-picture-police-officer-killed-dogs-tower-hamlets/
title: Wrong man pictured in social media posts about Met Police shooting of two dogs - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-05-18T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A photograph shows a clearer image of a police officer who attended an incident in Tower Hamlets in east London earlier on 7 May where two dogs were shot dead.

textual_rating:
The man pictured facing the camera is not a police officer, does not work for the Metropolitan Police and was not involved in the incident in any way.


text: Phones will not work until the alert is acknowledged.
claimant: Public
claim_date: 2023-03-10T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/emergency-alert-personal-covid-data/
review_date: 2023-03-24T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
title:
Emergency Alerts won’t match personal data with information collected during the pandemic - Full Fact

textual_rating:
Calls and notifications will still come through to the phone but you have to press ‘ok’ before you can use it as usual.


text: A 35% pay uplift for junior doctors would cost at least £2 billion, not £1 billion.
claimant: Stephen Barclay
claim_date: 2023-04-17T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/junior-doctors-pay-restoration/
title: Would a 35% pay uplift for junior doctors cost £1 billion or £2 billion? - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-05-17T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The two estimates measure different costs. The Department of Health and Social Care says the gross cost of pay restoration (ie, what it would add to the NHS wage bill) would be over £2 billion. The British Medical Association estimates the net cost (ie, its overall impact on public finances) would be around £1 billion.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-09-29T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/supreme-court-no-EU-stipend/
review_date: 2019-10-04T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: That’s correct.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The Supreme Court is a member of the network of the Presidents of the Supreme Judicial Courts of the EU.

title:
That claim you’ve seen about Supreme Court judges getting paid £175,000 by the EU is totally made up - Full Fact


text: Polling figures show that Theresa May’s Brexit approach is ‘pissing off most of the nation’.
claimant: Leave.EU
claim_date: 2018-07-15T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/these-poll-figures-are-leave-voters-not-most-nation/
title: These poll figures are for leave voters - not "most of the nation" - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-07-19T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The numbers in the graphic refer to opinion among Leave voters only, not the public as a whole. Opinion of the progress of Brexit varies depending on what question is asked.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-11-23T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/500000-new-patients/
review_date: 2020-01-09T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Every year for the past 10 years, 500,000 people who weren’t born in the UK and haven’t paid taxes signed up with a UK GP.

title:
Claim that 500,000 people who haven’t paid any UK tax sign up with GPs per year is wrong - Full Fact

textual_rating:
About 650,000 people a year, of whom most are probably immigrants, sign up with GPs in England and Wales. They have all almost certainly contributed to public services like the NHS by paying taxes though.


text: Universal Credit will make work pay.
claimant: Department for Work and Pensions spokesperson
claim_date: 2016-02-03T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/universal-credit-will-it-make-work-pay/
title: Universal Credit: will it "make work pay"? - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-02-03T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Overall, Universal Credit will strengthen work incentives for people claiming the benefit, the Institute for Fiscal Studies has said. But certain groups, such as single parents, will see their work incentives weakened.


text: Those administering the Covid vaccines will get £12.58.
claimant: Instagram user
claim_date: 2020-12-05T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/covid-vaccine-infertile-sued/
review_date: 2020-12-17T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
title:
A post about coronavirus vaccines gets facts about their safety, ingredients, and legality wrong - Full Fact

textual_rating:
This is an “item of service” fee, and covers the cost to GPs of providing the treatment. Similar payments are made to GPs for providing a range of services.


text: Dental X-rays don’t work as a means of finding out a person’s age.
claimant: Angela Rayner
claim_date: 2016-10-20T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/immigration/dental-age-tests/
title: Asylum seekers and dental age tests - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-10-21T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The British Dental Association describes them as “ineffective”, and there’s a large margin for error. The Home Office does accept voluntary tooth X-rays as evidence of age in an asylum application.


text: A little girl gets a dollar towards her kidney transplant every time her picture is shared.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2018-06-29T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/kidney-transplant-share/
title: Posts claiming ‘every share earns money’ for sick children tend to be fake - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-09-16T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is not true. The picture is from 2017, of a girl with leukemia, whose family was encouraging people to donate blood.


text: Asylum seeker benefits cost the UK taxpayer £60 million per year.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-10-04T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/asylum-benefit-fraud-tax-avoidance/
title: This viral post on benefits and tax avoidance is inaccurate - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-10-08T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Incorrect. In 2019/20 the Home Office spent £470 million on providing accommodation and cash support to people seeking asylum.


text: Esther McVey’s record is of 1,000 more jobs per day.
claimant: Esther McVey
claim_date: 2019-06-03T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/counting-esther-mcveys-record-employment/
title: Counting Esther McVey’s record on employment - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-06-14T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Correct, looking at the increase in employment during her time as Work and Pensions secretary, since her first stint at DWP, and since the Conservatives entered government. But the employment increase can’t necessarily be attributed to any specific government policies.


text: Prisons are filling up with foreigners.
claimant: BBC Question Time audience member
claim_date: 2016-10-20T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/immigration/foreigners-prison/
title: Are our prisons "filling up with foreigners"? - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-10-21T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
About one in eight prisoners in England and Wales is a foreign citizen. The percentage has been falling over the last few years.


text: Snapchat knows what time you were born even if you don’t put those details in the app.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-08-02T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/snapchat-doesnt-secretly-learn-the-time-you-were-born/
title: Snapchat doesn’t secretly learn the time you were born - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-08-13T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Birthday, time of birth and place of birth are all entered manually by the user to access certain in-app features.


text: 7.7% of UK goods exports go to the EU.
claimant: Daily Express
claim_date: 2020-05-24T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/eu-goods-exports-gdp/
title: Claim that 7.7% of UK goods exports go to the EU is a big underestimate - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-05-26T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Incorrect. 46% of UK goods exports go to the EU, according to the latest data for 2019. Those exports amount to 7.7% of GDP.


claimant: Public
claim_date: 2023-03-14T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/stanley-kubrick-moon-landing-fake/
title: No evidence Stanley Kubrick faked the moon landing - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-04-03T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: The man in the video appears to be an actor—not the real Mr Kubrick.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A video shows director Stanley Kubrick admitting to faking the 1969 moon landings in collaboration with the US Government and NASA.


claimant: Maria Caulfield
claim_date: 2022-07-13T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/maria-caulfield-ambulance-support-contract-heatwave/
review_date: 2022-07-15T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Maria Caulfield told Parliament earlier this week that the government “are procuring” the ambulance service support contract.

title:
Health minister claims contract yet to be awarded has been ‘procured’—then denies she said it - Full Fact

textual_rating:
Ms Caulfield can clearly be heard saying the government “have procured” the contract in a Parliament TV recording, and this is also reflected in the official parliamentary record.


url: https://fullfact.org/news/article-about-leaked-lib-dem-emails-fake/
title: An article about leaked Lib Dem emails is fake - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-08-16T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Chuka Umunna has suggested a possible coup against Liberal Democrat leader Jo Swinson, and wrote “It’s a fact the no-deal Brexit is the best possible outcome for the party”.

textual_rating:
This is incorrect. Mr Umunna has not done either of these things, and the claim comes from edited images masquerading as a genuine Guardian news article.


text: A picture of the prices at a petrol station in Gibraltar shows what fuel really costs without tax.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2022-06-13T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/gibraltar-fuel-tax/
title: Are petrol and diesel taxed in Gibraltar? - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-06-16T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Road fuel is taxed in Gibraltar via fuel duty, though at a lower level than in the UK. However, it is not subject to VAT, as it is in the UK.


text: An audience member on Question Time was actually Carrie Johnson’s mother.
claimant: Twitter username
claim_date: 2022-06-24T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/carrie-johnson-mother-question-time/
title: Carrie Johnson’s mother did not appear on recent episode of Question Time - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-06-27T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Though the two could be said to bear a slight resemblance, the audience member is not Carrie Johnson’s mother.


text: 57% of Clinical Commissing Groups plan to reduce their spending on mental health services
claimant: Luciana Berger
claim_date: 2016-10-26T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/spending-mental-health-services/
title: Spending on mental health services - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-10-26T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Correct, as best we know. 57% of Clinical Commissioning Groups that responded to an FOI request said they planned to reduce their spending this year. 128 out of 211 CCGS had responded to the request when this statistic was published.


claimant: Public
claim_date: 2023-05-04T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/drink-spiking-ice-sink/
title: Sunken ice isn’t a reliable way to spot if your drink’s been spiked - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-06-16T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
People should watch out for ice sinking in their drink, because that means it has been spiked with drugs.

textual_rating:
This isn’t a reliable way to spot if a drink’s been spiked. A very high concentration of ethanol may cause ice to sink in a drink, but in most drink spiking cases, ice will continue to float. It can be very difficult to tell if a drink has been spiked, but changes to the taste or colour of a drink, or a gritty substance at the bottom, can be indicators.


text: People earning £80,000 are not in the top 5%. Doctors and lawyers make more than that.
claimant: BBC Question Time audience member
claim_date: 2019-12-21T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/election-2019/question-time-income-taxpayers/
title: If you are earning £80,000 you are in the top 5% of income tax payers - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-12-05T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
If you are earning over £80,000 you are in the top 5% of earners. The average salary of a doctor or a lawyer is substantially lower than that.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-08-08T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/grant-shapps-video/
title: Grant Shapps misspoke about double vaccinated people on BBC Breakfast - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-08-13T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The Covid-19 variants have planned release dates, as shown by a document from the WHO, John Hopkins University, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the World Economic forum.

textual_rating:
This document appears to be fake. There is no evidence that the Covid-19 variants are being planned.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-02-20T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/european-flag-scotland/
title: Nicola Sturgeon has not banned the Union Flag from Scottish government buildings - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-02-26T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Nicola Sturgeon has banned the Union Jack from British government buildings and replaced it with the EU flag.

textual_rating:
The Union Flag has not been banned from Scottish government buildings. It is still flown on Remembrance Day as has always been the case. However, it’s true that in 2021, Nicola Sturgeon instructed that the European flag be flown daily, except for on specific flag dates.


text: US patents 7897744 and 8506968 are for SARS.
url: https://fullfact.org/health/us-patents-on-viruses/
title: Viral image about patents for viruses is misleading - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-02-24T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The first number is the US patent number for the SARS virus. The patent application was made by the CDC, but after the outbreak in 2002. The second number is a patent for a SARS vaccine which has now expired.


text: £37 billion was spent on the NHS Track and Trace app.
claimant: Karl Turner
claim_date: 2022-11-17T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/karl-turner-37-billion-test-trace-app/
title: Labour MP wrongly claims £37bn spent on Test and Trace app - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-11-18T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This figure was the total budget allocated to NHS Test and Trace over the first two years on the pandemic. In the first year of the pandemic the vast majority of spending went on testing, with £35 million spent on the app.


text: A 10% rise in immigration leads to a 2% reduction in wages.
claimant: Boris Johnson, ITV
claim_date: 2016-06-09T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/immigration/does-immigration-reduce-wages/
title: Does a 10% rise in immigration lead to a 2% reduction in wages? - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-06-21T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The Bank of England found that a 10% increase in the proportion of foreign born workers in lower paid service jobs was associated with a near 2% fall in average pay for those jobs, when focusing on particular regions.


text: Ukraine’s road signs authority changed a sign to tell Russian troops to “go f*** yourselves”.
claimant: Public
claim_date: 2021-03-01T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/ukraine-road-sign-photoshopped/
title: Sign telling Russian troops ‘go f*** yourselves’ was Photoshopped - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-03-04T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The Ukrainian road signs authority did post a picture of this sign, but it is not genuine. Rather, it was Photoshopped as part of a post encouraging Ukrainians to dismantle road signs.


claimant: The Sun
claim_date: 2020-08-28T00:00:00Z
title: Unlicensed vaccine manufacturers are immune from some, but not all, civil liability - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-09-04T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
If an unlicensed COVID-19 vaccine is rushed into use by the British government, then the vaccine’s manufacturers would be exempt from civil liability.

url:
https://fullfact.org/health/unlicensed-vaccine-manufacturers-are-immune-some-not-all-civil-liability/

textual_rating:
This is generally correct. EU law, which has been adopted by the UK, protects manufacturers from liability if the government decides to supply their vaccines without licensing. However, they are not exempt from all liabilities.


text: Britain’s Foreign Office has warned its citizens not to travel to France because of the riots.
claimant: Public
claim_date: 2023-07-01T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/foreign-office-France-travel-warning/
title: The Foreign Office has not warned against travel to France - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-07-05T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is not true. The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office has advised people to avoid areas where riots are taking place, monitor local media and follow the advice of local authorities and travel operators. It has not advised against travel to France.


claimant: The Sun
claim_date: 2023-03-06T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/online-driving-in-flipflops-penalties/
title: Could you be fined for driving in flip flops? - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-06-30T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Driving in flip flops could land you a £1,000 fine and three points on your licence, or £5,000 and nine points.

textual_rating:
Driving in flip flops is not an offence in itself. But it could contribute to other offences, such as “driving without care and attention”, which has a maximum fine of £5,000 and nine points. It could also contribute to the offence of “not being in proper control” of the vehicle, which has a maximum fine of £1,000 and three points.


text: The government spent £60 billion on HS2.
claimant: Twitter user
claim_date: 2018-09-16T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/meme-on-government-spending/
title: How much of this meme on government spending is true? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-10-11T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Almost—it was predicted to be £56 billion in total in 2015. The cost to date has probably been around £4.1 billion.


claimant: David Davis
claim_date: 2017-05-04T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/news/labour-party-confidence-jeremy-corbyn/
title: Labour party confidence in Jeremy Corbyn - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-05-05T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Three quarters of the Labour Party passed a vote of no confidence in Jeremy Corbyn as leader in 2016.

textual_rating:
Three quarters of Labour MPs did so. In the leadership challenge that followed Mr Corbyn won 61.8% of the vote (59% among Labour Party members).


text: It costs £8 per day to watch TV in hospital if you’re 82.
claimant: Twitter user
claim_date: 2019-06-11T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/cost-tv-hospital-prison/
title: Does it cost more to watch TV in hospital than in prison? - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-06-13T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Costs vary by hospital. In some hospitals in England some TV channels are free for a limited number of hours, or free in children’s wards during the day. In others it can cost £8 per day for the cheapest TV package outside of these set hours, and in some hospitals it is free at all times. We’ve not seen any differences in the cost for adults based on their age.


text: It is now illegal to park on pavements in Wales.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-10-10T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/law/wales-pavement-parking/
title: You can still park on the pavement in Wales - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-10-11T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
False. The Welsh government is planning to give councils more power to fine problem parkers from July next year, but doesn’t plan to pursue an outright ban.


text: Covid-19 vaccines contain Marburg virus which will be activated by 5G.
claimant: twitter user
claim_date: 2023-03-25T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/marburg-covid-vaccines/
title: 5G isn’t going to activate Marburg virus hidden in vaccines - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-04-06T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
There is no evidence for Marburg virus being in the Covid vaccines. 5G does not cause viral illnesses.


text: Two authors predicted the coronavirus decades before the outbreak.
url: https://fullfact.org/online/books-supposedly-predict-covid-19/
title: Here’s what the books that “predicted” the Covid-19 coronavirus actually say - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-02-21T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
A 1980s sci-fi novel describes a disease called “Wuhan-400” that bears little similarity to the new Wuhan coronavirus. A book of “prophecies about the end of the world” written in 2008 predicted that a pneumonia-like illness would spread across the world in the year 2020.


claimant: Boris Johnson
claim_date: 2021-12-15T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/boris-johnson-european-booster-rollout/
title: UK booster roll out level twice the EU average - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-12-16T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The percentage of the UK population who have received a booster vaccine is double that of any other European country.

textual_rating:
Incorrect. As of 12-14 December, 35% of the UK population had received a booster, below Iceland (54%) and only just ahead of Austria and Hungary.


text: The UK has the highest death rate in the EU from drugs.
claimant: David Dimbleby
claim_date: 2018-10-11T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/are-drug-related-deaths-uk-highest-eu/
title: Are drug related deaths in the UK the highest in the EU? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-10-12T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Estonia had the highest rate of drug-related deaths per million people aged 15 to 64 in the EU, based on research using data from 2015 and 2016. The UK placed joint-third alongside Ireland.


text: There are 1.5 million British people employed in businesses owned by EU citizens in the UK.
claimant: Chuka Umunna MP
claim_date: 2016-10-06T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/uk-jobs-and-eu-owned-businesses/
title: UK jobs and EU-owned businesses - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-10-07T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
In 2014, about 1.6 million people were employed by businesses that were EU-owned, or by businesses whose parent company was EU-owned. We don’t know how many of these employees were British.


text: London is 55% non-white.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2023-04-05T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/55-per-cent-london-non-white-wrong/
title: London is not ‘55% non-white’ - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-04-06T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
False. At the 2021 Census, 53.8% of respondents said they were white, meaning 46.2% were “non-white”.


text: You should never throw cold water on an overheated dog.
claimant: public
claim_date: 2023-06-19T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/overheating-dog-advice-water/
title: Experts advise pouring cool water on an overheating dog - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-07-31T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Experts advise either immersing or covering  the dog in cool water while creating an air flow, and that “any water is better than no water” in emergency situations. Colder water may be more effective if a dog has become unconscious. The water should be applied “gently” to prevent shock or panic.


text: The Metropolitan Police is investigating the Covid-19 vaccine programme.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2022-01-13T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/met-police-has-not-launched-investigation-covid-19-vaccine-programme/
title: Met Police has not launched an investigation into the Covid-19 vaccine programme - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-01-20T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The force confirmed to Full Fact there is no criminal investigation and no indication any crime has been committed.


text: Higher education in this country is blindingly white.
claimant: Sarah Churchwell
claim_date: 2018-05-24T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/education/higher-education-white-middle-class/
title: Higher education: a white, middle-class affair? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-05-25T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
In the UK in 2016/17, 74% of UK students in their first year of an undergraduate degree were white. Among 18 year-olds in England, white pupils are the least likely of any ethnic group to take up a place in UK higher education.


text: Construction of the Channel Tunnel cost £16 billion in today’s prices.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-02-16T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/test-trace-tunnel/
title: We can’t say if Test and Trace has cost more than the Channel Tunnel—yet - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-02-24T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is complicated, and hard to be sure about. We’ve seen some estimates that are higher, and others that are lower.


claimant: Ken Marsh
claim_date: 2021-01-06T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/police-mask-exemption/
title: Do you need to carry proof if you’re exempt from wearing a mask? - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-01-13T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Police will now require written evidence of a medical exemption if people are to avoid a fine for not wearing a mask.

textual_rating:
The rules have not changed, people with medical exemptions from wearing a mask are not legally required to carry an exemption card or badge. But the police union says officers may ask people for proof to enforce mask wearing laws.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-06-28T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/lateral-flow-tests-cordial/
title: Pouring diluted cordial onto a Covid-19 test won’t give an accurate result - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-07-02T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Diluted cordial poured onto a lateral flow test appears to test positive, meaning the tests are a farce.

textual_rating:
The tests are not designed to have acidic substances, like drinks, poured on them. This will break the test.


text: A letter sent by Prime Minister Liz Truss to Kwasi Kwarteng is actually signed by Kwarteng himself.
claimant: Facebook account
claim_date: 2022-10-15T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/kwasi-kwarteng-letter-signature/
title: A letter from the Prime Minister wasn’t mistakenly signed by Kwasi Kwarteng - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-10-20T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Mr Kwarteng’s name does appear below Ms Truss’s signature, but this appears to be the convention for such letters.


text: Deaths from flu and pneumonia have been replaced with Covid-19.
claimant: Anthony Brookes
claim_date: 2020-11-17T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/coronavirus-figures-talk-radio/
title: The number of people dying right now is not the same as in any other year - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-11-18T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
While the figures point towards a decrease in the number of deaths caused by flu and pneumonia, this has not just been replaced with deaths from Covid-19, which far exceed that possible shortfall.


text: The Bank of England sold some £80bn of gilts at the same period as the chancellor's mini-Budget.
claimant: Iain Duncan Smith
claim_date: 2022-10-13T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/Iain-Duncan-Smith-Bank-of-England-gilts/
title: Bank of England did not sell £80 billion in gilts shortly before mini-Budget - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-10-17T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The Bank of England did not sell any gilts during this period. The £80 billion figure refers to the amount by which the Bank is projected to reduce its holdings of government bonds over the next year, through a combination of planned gilt sales and maturing bonds.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-09-12T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/cctv-showing-womans-drink-being-spiked-is-a-dramatisation/
title: CCTV showing woman’s drink being spiked is a dramatisation - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-09-16T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: The footage isn’t real. It’s a staged performance set up by a social media influencer.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
CCTV footage depicts a woman’s drink being spiked at a bar. She begins to feel dizzy and is led out by the two men who are thought to have spiked her.


text: Recent monkeypox cases are in fact herpes infections.
claimant: The Expose
claim_date: 2022-05-25T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/monkeypox-vaccine-AIDS-claims/
title: No evidence rise in monkeypox cases is linked to Covid-19 vaccine - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-05-31T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
There is no evidence for this. All monkeypox cases in the UK have been confirmed by a laboratory test.


text: The EU’s founding principle is free trade among its members.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/how-much-trade-wto-terms/
title: It's not correct that 98% of world trade is done via the WTO - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-08-15T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This was one of the EU’s founding principles. Since 1992, it is also committed to European citizenship; a common foreign and security policy; and cooperation between EU governments on justice and home affairs.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-02-19T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/vaccine-ingredients/
title: This image about vaccine ingredients is extremely misleading - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-04-26T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: These chemicals have been used in vaccines as preservatives. They are not in antifreeze.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Phenol / phenoxyethanol is in vaccines and is used as antifreeze. It is toxic to all cells and can destroy the immune system.


text: This screenshot shows an empty NHS funding bill debate.
url: https://fullfact.org/online/NHS-Funding-Bill/
title: This is an image of one debate about the NHS Funding Bill - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-02-27T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
It is true that this is a debate for the NHS Funding Bill, however, bills go through many readings in parliament and the House of Lords.


text: 15,000 passengers are arriving into the UK daily at the moment.
claimant: Matt Hancock
claim_date: 2020-04-16T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/government-hasnt-provided-evidence-its-claim-15000-arrive-day-uk/
review_date: 2020-05-01T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
title:
The government hasn’t provided evidence for its claim that 15,000 arrive per day into the UK - Full Fact

textual_rating:
The government hasn’t yet provided any evidence to back this up, and the Home Office has said it does not recognise the figure and that in their view it is wrong.


text: There were over 44,000 new doctors in the NHS and 80,000 more nurses between 1997 and 2010.
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/labour-inequality-1997-2010/
title: Labour's record on inequality and social mobility: 1997 to 2010 - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-06-17T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The total number of FTE qualified nurses working in general practice and NHS hospitals increased by 79,000 and the number of doctors by 48,000.


text: There were 32 deaths from suicide in Ireland in August.
url: https://fullfact.org/online/people-did-die-covid-19-ireland-august/
title: People did die of Covid-19 in Ireland in August - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-09-25T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
It’s too soon to know this figure as only a coroner can officially rule a death as a suicide, but this figure is realistic looking at past data.


text: There are 4,000 abortions a week in Britain.
url: https://fullfact.org/law/factchecking-campaigning-leaflets-abortion/
title: Factchecking campaigning leaflets on abortion - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-03-08T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
There were around 202,000 recorded abortions in Britain in 2016. That’s around 4,000 a week on average.


text: Many people are buying online and not going to the shops.
claimant: Richard Madeley
claim_date: 2018-06-07T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/how-much-shopping-gets-done-online/
title: How much shopping gets done online? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-06-08T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The proportion of retail sales made online is steadily increasing, but at around 17%, doesn’t account for the majority of purchases.


claimant: Public
claim_date: 2022-09-25T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/gardening-far-right-extremism/
title: Article saying gardening is a sign of ‘far-right extremism’ does not exist - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-09-29T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A news article claimed that gardening and canning are “signs of far-right extremism to watch out for”.

textual_rating:
This apparent screenshot of an article has been digitally manipulated. Global News never published this article.


text: A diamond rattlesnake has bitten a dog, which is now fighting for its life.
claimant: Public
claim_date: 2023-06-11T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/hoax-dog-bitten-diamond-rattlesnake-facebook/
title: Hoax posts about dog bitten by rattlesnake shared widely online - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-06-14T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is a hoax. Identical posts have appeared in Facebook groups around the UK, and one of the pictures is at least two years old.


text: Extending the Brexit transition period would cost an estimated 15 billion.
claimant: Andrea Jenkyns
claim_date: 2018-10-25T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/extending-brexit-transition-period-cost/
title: Would extending the Brexit transition period cost £15 billion? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-11-07T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
We can’t know for sure—much will depend on the size of the EU’s next budget and the sum would probably have to be negotiated. But £15 billion a year seems a reasonable estimate for now.


text: All humans in the Channel belong to the UK.
claimant: Public
claim_date: 2023-05-13T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/uk-eu-fish-humans-channel/
title: Not all fish in the Channel belong to the EU - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-05-31T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is misleading. While the UK does have an obligation to maintain coastal search and rescue operations (as all other coastal states do) and does provide support to asylum seekers while their claim is considered, it is wrong to suggest that France does not have a role in preventing small boat crossings in the Channel.


claimant: Leanne Wood
claim_date: 2017-05-04T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/what-rape-clause/
title: What is the "rape clause"? - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-05-05T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The Conservative government has cut benefits for more than two children in a family unless the mother can prove she was raped when that child was conceived.

textual_rating:
The Conservative government has introduced a two-child cap on the per-child payment under Child Tax Credit. There are five exceptions to this cap, including an exception for conception during non-consensual sex or sex in an abusive relationship. The criminal offence of rape doesn’t have to be proven but evidence of non-consensual sex related to conception must be provided.


text: We just had two years (2016-2018) of record-breaking Global Cooling.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-02-03T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/not-experiencing-global-cooling/
title: No, we are not experiencing “global cooling” - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-02-22T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Incorrect. “Global cooling” describes a long term period during which the earth’s average temperature is cooling. Although the average global temperature was slightly lower in 2017 and 2018 than in 2016, these drops were not record breaking. Global temperatures tend to fluctuate from one year to the next and NASA data shows that overall global warming is occurring: the planet is getting hotter and hotter over time, and at a faster and faster pace.


claimant: Daily Mail
claim_date: 2020-11-20T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/mail-deaths-chart/
title: The Daily Mail’s chart of Covid-19 death figures doesn’t use the real numbers - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-11-23T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Weekly death figures in late 2020 are barely higher than the maximum in the previous five years, once you adjust for population growth.

textual_rating:
This is false. The figures used assume a level of population growth between 2019 and 2020 that is not credible.


text: Labour was winning in the polls over the last year.
claimant: John McDonnell
claim_date: 2016-09-15T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/news/polls-didnt-show-consistent-labour-lead/
title: Polls didn't show a consistent Labour lead - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-09-16T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is incorrect. Three isolated polls since the last general election have shown Labour ahead. Each time that has happened, most polls showed the Conservatives ahead. Individual polls aren’t enough evidence to see if one party is leading.


claimant: Lord Sumption
claim_date: 2022-01-08T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/law/colston-four/
title: Claims on ‘Colston Four’ case leave out key questions the jury had to answer - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-01-14T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The “Colston Four” admitted to pulling down the statue of Edward Colston and dumping it in the river. Legally, that is criminal damage.

textual_rating:
That’s not how the law defines criminal damage. Part of the definition is that it is done without “lawful excuse”. The defendants argued they had an excuse.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2023-01-23T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/fake-argos-airpods-deal-tax/
title: Argos £3 AirPod Max deal is fake - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-01-25T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: The deal is fake.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Argos is currently selling Apple AirPod Max for £3 until their fine for late payment of tax is paid off.


url: https://fullfact.org/online/joan-burgess-vaccine-picture/
review_date: 2021-01-07T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The same image of an elderly woman being vaccinated has been used by the media to show a woman called Joan being vaccinated in Manchester and a woman called Susan getting vaccinated in South Africa.

title:
A satirical caption in a South African newspaper under a picture of a British woman getting the vaccine has caused confusion - Full Fact

textual_rating:
The picture is of a woman called Joan Burgess being vaccinated in Manchester. The picture appeared in a South African newspaper with a joke caption in part of the paper which is usually satirical.


text: The UK can sign a three-page trade agreement with the EU and then trade tariff-free under GATT 24.
claimant: Iain Duncan Smith, David Campbell Bannerman, Martin Howe, Jon Moynihan, Rebecca Ryan
claim_date: 2019-08-30T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/gatt-24-again/
title: GATT 24: new argument, same old problems - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-09-05T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
In theory such an agreement could satisfy GATT 24, allowing tariff-free trade on most goods with the EU. It would lead to significant wider barriers to trade, and the EU is unlikely to sign up to it.


claimant: Jeremy Hunt
claim_date: 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/ask-full-fact-stroke-patients-and-weekend-deaths/
title: Ask Full Fact: stroke patients and weekend deaths - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-01-14T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
People who have a stroke at the weekend are 20% more likely to die than if it happened on a weekday.

textual_rating:
Academic research backs that up, although it's difficult to say why. It's possible that people treated at the weekend are more seriously ill on average.


text: Funding for schools has increased significantly in recent years.
claimant: Daily Express
claim_date: 2020-01-09T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/record-public-spending-2020/
title: State spending isn’t at a record high when you consider the size of the economy - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Spending on schools was around £50 billion in 2018/19. Spending per-pupil in England has fallen 8% since 2009/10.


url: https://fullfact.org/online/shocking-food-facts/
title: These food facts are mostly incorrect or misleading - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-06-14T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Incorrect, honey does not have a genetic memory.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
You can check whether honey has been diluted with sugar syrup by washing it in water to reveal a honeycomb pattern and the honey’s genetic memory.


text: A no deal Brexit means the UK will not be part of the planned “United States of Europe”.
url: https://fullfact.org/online/what-does-wto-rules-brexit-look/
title: What does a “WTO rules” Brexit look like? - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-03-29T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
As this is not EU policy it’s misleading to say a no deal Brexit would mean the UK would be able to avoid this “plan”.


text: The Covid-19 vaccine is a “device” and does not fulfil the legal definition of a vaccine.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-05-31T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/Twickenham-Covid-19-vaccine-claims-false/
title: Hecklers at Twickenham Stadium vaccine drive spout false claims - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-06-04T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
None of the Covid-19 vaccines available in the UK are “devices” and all have been authorised for use as vaccines by the MHRA.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-06-16T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/student-nurses-covid/
title: This is what has happened with student nurses who volunteered to work for the NHS early - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-06-22T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Student nurses of the 2017 cohort were asked to join the NHS workforce early this year, due to Covid-19.

textual_rating:
This is true, final year nursing students were given the option to join the workforce early and be paid for this work, due to Covid-19.


text: New changes in wine import regulation will save British wine drinkers £130 million a year
claimant: Defra
claim_date: 2021-07-25T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/wine-regulation-cost/
title: The government’s numbers on savings for wine drinkers don’t add up - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-08-02T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Most of this isn’t a “saving” but a maintenance of the status quo. It is only a saving compared to the government’s abandoned policy which would have introduced regulatory costs.


text: New analysis shows that the UK will be £135 billion richer with no deal.
claimant: The British Journal
claim_date: 2019-07-08T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/brexit-economic-boost-heavily-questioned/
title: Old claim about Brexit economic boost resurfaces - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-07-18T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The analysis in question is two years old, and claims that GDP would grow by £135 billion if the UK unilaterally removed all barriers to international trade after Brexit. The analysis has been criticised by other economists, especially for its argument that the UK would not face new non-tariff barriers to trade with the EU in this scenario.


claimant: Sharon Hodgson MP
claim_date: 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/education/free-school-meals-and-universal-credit/
title: Free school meals and Universal Credit - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-03-29T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Analysis by the Children’s Society has found that more than 1 million children living in poverty would miss out on a free school meal because of the cliff edge.

textual_rating:
This comes from a rough estimate of how many children could receive free school meals under the new income threshold, compared to the number of children living in poverty. It is not a calculation of how many will miss out compared to the old benefit-linked system.


text: Buses have been cut by nearly half.
claimant: Siân Berry
claim_date: 2019-11-19T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/election-2019/public-spending-buses-not-down-half-decade/
title: Public spending on buses not down by half in a decade - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-11-20T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is referring to a report which found that local authority spending in England and Wales on bus services had fallen by 45% from 2010/11 to 2017/18 (without adjusting for inflation). But this ignores a larger chunk of government spending which goes directly to commercial bus companies. That fell by 19% across England (excluding London) between 2009/10 and 2018/19.


claimant: BBC
claim_date: 2020-08-24T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/child-anxiety-pandemic/
title: Claims of pandemic fall in child anxiety may not apply across the whole country - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-08-27T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Anxiety levels among young teenagers dropped during the coronavirus pandemic, a study has suggested.

textual_rating:
There is nothing wrong with the study, which surveyed year 9 students in the south west of England. But this data may not be representative of children across the country and in other age groups.


text: Tommy Robinson filmed Asian men involved in a grooming case and went to jail
url: https://fullfact.org/online/Tommy-Robinson-Image/
title: These claims about radical Muslim preachers and Tommy Robinson are mostly incorrect - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-07-25T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Correct. Tommy Robinson reported on a trial in which defendants were accused of grooming young women. The trial had a ban on reporting until all linked cases were tried. He was imprisoned for breaking the ban.


text: Lateral flow tests show a positive result with drinks including lemonade, Coca Cola and Fanta.
claimant: Facebook User
claim_date: 2022-01-16T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/testing-liquids-lateral-flows/
title: Lemonade and Fanta don’t test positive for Covid-19 - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-01-18T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is inaccurate. Testing soft drinks can return what appears to be a positive result, but this is a misuse of the test and returns an invalid result.


text: Two siblings won the right to marry in the US.
claimant: World News Daily Report
claim_date: 2019-08-06T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/brother-sister-marriage/
title: A brother and sister did not win the right to marry in the United States - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-08-29T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This did not happen. The story originally came from a satire website using pictures of a British couple who won the right to have a civil partnership instead of a marriage.


text: 819 people were turned away across eight council areas during voter ID trials.
claimant: David Schneider
claim_date: 2019-10-13T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/crime/voter-id-2019/
title: Voter ID scheme: far more turned away than convicted of electoral fraud - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-10-16T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Across all ten trial areas in 2019, 1,968 people were turned away for not having the correct ID. Of those people, 740 did not return to vote.


claimant: Aseem Malhotra
claim_date: 2021-11-25T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/covid-vaccines-heart-disease/
title: Concerns raised about legitimacy of research linking vaccines and heart attacks - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-11-30T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A study found the risk of a group of patients having a heart attack within five years increased from 11% to 25% after they were given their mRNA Covid-19 vaccine.

textual_rating:
Serious concerns have been raised as to the quality of the research. Its publisher notes it may contain “potential errors”.


claimant: public
claim_date: 2023-03-24T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/secret-covenant-Rockefellers/
title: No evidence the Rockefeller family wrote a ‘secret covenant’ to control the public - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-04-24T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The Rockefeller family created a “secret covenant” detailing how an elite class controls the public through tactics such as poison and debt.

textual_rating:
There is no evidence that the text is connected to the Rockefellers, or that there is a genuine secret plot. It first appeared anonymously online in 2002, with no mention of the Rockefeller family.


claimant: Rishi Sunak
claim_date: 2023-01-11T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/rishi-sunak-nhs-dentist-numbers/
title: Are more dentists now working in the NHS? - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-01-17T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Increases in the number of NHS dentists and funding are a result of the new reformed NHS dentistry contract.

textual_rating:
Number 10 hasn’t explained the basis for this claim. The figures we’ve seen for the number of NHS dentists and funding predate the reformed contract coming into effect in November 2022.


claimant: Alex Phillips
claim_date: 2023-07-03T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/news/alex-phillips-reform-english-tests/
review_date: 2023-07-28T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The UK is one of the only countries in the world where you don’t have to pass an English language proficiency test to study at university.

title:
Most international students enrolling in UK universities have to prove they’re proficient in English - Full Fact

textual_rating:
This is misleading. Although there are a few exceptions, most international students are required to prove they are proficient in English before enrolling at a UK university, and many must take a test in order to do that.


text: People with Covid-19 should take aspirin 100mg and Apronax or paracetamol.
claimant: Blog post
claim_date: 2020-06-07T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/italy-covid-5g/
title: Facebook post about Italy, coronavirus and 5G is almost all false - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-06-26T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Trials into both of these drugs’ effectiveness in treating Covid-19 are ongoing, but haven’t concluded yet. Paracetamol can ease symptoms but isn’t a specific treatment.


text: Reported crime is rising under the Conservatives.
claimant: Labour press release
claim_date: 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/crime/crime-under-conservatives/
title: Is crime up under the Conservatives? - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Crimes recorded by the police have been rising since 2014, but that's partly down to changes in recording practices. Crime in England and Wales is falling over the long term according to the more reliable Crime Survey.


claimant: Angela Crawley MP
claim_date: 2018-10-13T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/universal-credit-women/
title: Do new Universal Credit requirements affect women more? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The new conditionality requirements for lone parents under Universal Credit will have a hugely disproportionate impact on women.

textual_rating:
Since April 2017, the “lead parent” of a child has been required to work, or be looking for work, for up to 16 hours a week once the child turns three. Some research suggests this could be more challenging for single parents—the vast majority of whom are women.


claimant: facebook user
claim_date: 2023-01-18T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/cholesterol-PCI-statins/
title: Cholesterol treatments can save lives and don’t cause dementia - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-02-13T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Statin drugs for high cholesterol do not reduce heart attack risks, don’t unblock arteries and don’t stop new blockages forming.

textual_rating:
False. Statins are known to significantly reduce heart attack risks and reduce both new plaque formation and the size of existing plaques.


text: US patent 2006257852 is for the new coronavirus.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-05-06T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/coronavirus-vaccine-patents-bill-melinda-gates/
title: These patents are not for the new coronavirus or its vaccine - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-05-19T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
It is not. It is an abandoned patent from 2006 for chemical mixtures related to the SARS virus, which is another type of coronavirus.


claimant: Public
claim_date: 2021-01-23T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/masks-nuremberg-code/
title: The Nuremberg Code doesn’t state that mask mandates are a war crime - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-01-18T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: This is false. The Nuremberg Code doesn’t say anything about masks.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Mask mandates preventing access to food, healthcare or education are a war crime, according to the Nuremberg Code.


text: The EU plans to ban British kettles, toasters and hairdryers.
claimant: Eleanor Harding & Tania Steere
claim_date: 2014-08-30T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/first-they-came-vacuum-cleaners-will-it-be-kettles-next/
title: First they came for the vacuum cleaners: will it be kettles next? - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-05-12T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
At best this is a stretch. It's not a ban: the EU is considering regulation which would limit the amount of energy appliances such as kettles and hairdryers use. A study into the proposals has been drafted, but no legislation has been brought forward yet.


claimant: Facebook account
claim_date: 2022-08-28T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/electricity-meter-tampering/
review_date: 2022-12-21T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Tampering with a meter is illegal, and can also be dangerous.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
To save on your electricity bill this winter all you need is a small piece of wire to bypass your electricity meter.

title:
Tampering with electricity meters to try and save on energy bills is illegal and dangerous - Full Fact


text: When Ireland cut its corporation tax rate, their GDP went up.
claimant: Jeremy Hunt
claim_date: 2019-06-30T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/would-corporation-tax-cut-pay-itself/
title: Would a corporation tax cut more than pay for itself, as Jeremy Hunt suggests? - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-07-11T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Correct, recent estimates suggest the Irish economy grew by over 25% in 2015 due to companies relocating, although the impact on the underlying economy was considered more limited.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-07-09T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/letter-doctor-surrey/
title: This letter claiming to be from a doctor in Surrey is full of errors - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-07-23T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A letter from a consultant at a hospital in Surrey claims that hospitals are empty and that there is no pandemic.

textual_rating:
There are numerous inconsistencies in the letter which suggest it is not from someone working at a hospital in Surrey.


text: The Guardian deactivated its 2021 “Person of the Year” poll after J.K. Rowling took the lead.
claimant: Breitbart News
claim_date: 2021-12-29T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/news/rowling-guardian-person-of-the-year-breitbart/
title: Guardian didn’t deactivate ‘Person of the Year’ poll because J.K. Rowling took the lead - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-01-04T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The article was not a poll but a request for readers to nominate their “Person of the Year”. The responses were reported on 30 December, including Ms Rowling as a nominee. The Guardian regularly runs similar articles and deactivates submissions after a period of time. It did not publish a tally of the results.


claimant: Theresa May
claim_date: 2016-12-14T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/delayed-transfers-care-does-geography-matter/
title: Delayed transfers of care: does geography matter? - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-12-15T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
There is a 20 fold difference between the best and worst performing councils in terms of delayed transfer of care from hospital.

textual_rating:
Based on the latest figures this looks to be about right. We’ve asked the Department of Health for its figures.


text: 21% of coronavirus deaths in England are in care facilities.
url: https://fullfact.org/online/Scotland-coronavirus-care-home-deaths/
title: It’s not true that 58% of Covid-19 deaths in Scotland were in care homes - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-07-23T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Correct up to May. This was reported by the ECDC based on figures from the Office for National Statistics.


text: Our railways cost 40% more to run than others in Europe.
claimant: Andy Burnham
claim_date: 2015-08-01T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/britains-privatised-rail-40-too-expensive/
title: Britain's privatised rail: 40% too expensive? - Full Fact
review_date: 2015-08-12T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Research carried out for the government has shown a 40% cost-efficiency gap between Britain and four European nations. But it's now quite dead.


text: Universal Credit has got 200,000 people into work.
claimant: Boris Johnson
claim_date: 2020-01-22T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/boris-johnson-pmqs-universal-credit/
title: Universal Credit has not got 200,000 people into work - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-02-07T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Incorrect. This was the government’s estimate of what Universal Credit would do by 2024/5. It may not be reliable, and can never be measured properly.


text: Social care has been slashed by £7.7 billion since 2010.
claimant: David Lammy
claim_date: 2019-10-27T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/adult-social-care-nurse-numbers/
title: Claim about social care spending and nurse numbers needs more context - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-11-01T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This figure refers to the savings councils in England report having had to make since 2010 on adult social care spending—through things like efficiency measures, renegotiating contracts, innovation, reducing and stopping services. It’s not the amount their budgets were reduced by, which have fallen by much less.


claimant: YouTube user
claim_date: 2017-05-21T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/nhs-video-factchecked/
title: NHS video, factchecked - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
We’re seeing the largest sustained drop in NHS funding as a percentage of GDP since the founding of the NHS.

textual_rating:
Correct. The King’s Fund has found that between 2010 and 2020 UK NHS spending will see the largest ever sustained reduction as a percentage of GDP.


text: There are now 1.9 million more children in good or outstanding schools compared with 2010.
claimant: Michael Gove
claim_date: 2019-06-09T00:00:00Z
review_date: 2019-06-11T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
url:
https://fullfact.org/education/misleading-say-1-9-million-more-children-in-good-or-outstanding-schools/

title:
It’s still misleading to say 1.9 million more children are in good or outstanding schools - Full Fact

textual_rating:
This doesn’t acknowledge that there were 560,000 more pupils in state-funded schools in England in 2017 compared to 2010, and changes to inspection practices. 580,000 pupils are in schools that haven’t been inspected since 2010.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-07-29T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/mrna-covid-vaccine/
title: mRNA vaccines are being developed for Covid-19, but they do not change your DNA - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-08-17T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The new Covid-19 vaccine will be the first of its kind ever. It will be an mRNA vaccine which will literally alter your DNA. It will wrap itself into your system. You will become a genetically modified human being.

textual_rating:
mRNA vaccines are some of the many vaccines being developed to combat the Covid-19 virus. However, they do not alter a person’s DNA.


claimant: Survation
claim_date: 2015-11-20T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/crime/do-one-five-uk-muslims-sympathise-britons-fighting/
title: Do one in five UK Muslims sympathise with Britons fighting for IS? - Full Fact
review_date: 2015-11-23T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Nearly one in five British Muslims has some sympathy with those who have fled the UK to fight for IS in Syria.

textual_rating:
The survey asked about sympathy with "young Muslims who leave the UK to join fighters in Syria", not just those fighting in the conflict, and not just those fighting for IS.


text: The EU price cap on gas is 43.99 euros per mega watt hour. The UK is £263.99 per mega watt hour.
claimant: Facebook account
claim_date: 2022-08-14T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/EU-UK-energy-price-cap-comparison/
title: The EU has not set lower gas price cap than the UK - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-08-23T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is not true. The EU has not set a gas price cap for its members. The UK’s price cap on gas for domestic consumers is well below £263.99 per mWh.


text: The vaccines have caused deaths and injuries.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-03-20T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/Covid-QA-graphic/
title: Inaccurate Covid vaccine ‘Q&A’: fact checked - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-03-25T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The MHRA has determined a possible link between the AstraZeneca vaccine and a rare blood clot which has caused 72 deaths in the UK to 18 August 2021.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2022-11-13T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/missing-boy-tyler-rollins/
title: Boy claimed ‘missing’ on Facebook was found months ago - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-11-24T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A photo shows a boy called Tyler Rollins who went missing recently after he left for school and never came back.

textual_rating:
False. The picture is of a boy of a different name who went missing in Wales in June but was quickly found safe and well.


text: People over six foot tall are twice as likely to get coronavirus.
claimant: The Telegraph
claim_date: 2020-07-28T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/coronavirus-tall-people/
title: There is no proof you’re more likely to get Covid-19 if you’re tall - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-08-10T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
There is no proof of this. In the UK, taller men were more likely to report having had coronavirus, but this trend was the opposite in the US.


text: The Queen didn’t die on 8 September.
claimant: Facebook account
claim_date: 2022-09-27T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/global-leaders-not-planning-recession/
title: Queen’s funeral was not cover-up for planning global recession - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-10-03T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
There’s no evidence to suggest the Queen didn’t die on 8 September. Her recently published death certificate confirms she did.


claimant: Robert Courts
claim_date: 2019-09-16T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/lib-dems-first-call-eu-referendum/
title: Were the Lib Dems the first party to campaign for an EU referendum? - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-09-18T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Correct to the best of our knowledge. The Liberal Democrats campaigned for this from at least 2007.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The Liberal Democrats were the first mainstream party to call for an in/out referendum on the UK’s EU membership.


claimant: Huffington Post
claim_date: 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/paying-buckingham-palace-cost-refurbishment/
title: Paying for Buckingham Palace - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-11-24T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: That’s about right.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Profit on the Crown Estate over the last 10 years is enough to pay for the renovation of Buckingham Palace six times over.


claimant: Boris Johnson
claim_date: 2020-06-03T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/new-data-reveals-pms-testing-speeds-claims-as-wrong/
title: New data reveals PM’s testing speeds claims as wrong - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-07-09T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The tests conducted at the 199 testing centres, as well as the mobile test centres, are all done within 24 hours.

textual_rating:
Incorrect. When this was said, on 3 June, 19% of tests at regional testing sites and 5% of tests at mobile test centres were done within 24 hours.


text: Unemployment under Labour rose.
claimant: Suella Fernandes
claim_date: 2017-04-06T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/unemployment-under-Labour/
title: Unemployment under Labour - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-04-07T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Correct. The UK unemployment rate and total number of people unemployed was higher when Labour left government than when it entered it. That said, unemployment was relatively low for much of the party’s term.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2023-02-15T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/naz-shah-diversity-quote-tweet/
title: Naz Shah did not say quote about grooming gangs - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-02-20T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Naz Shah said: “Those abused girls in Rotherham and elsewhere just need to shut their mouths. For the good of diversity.”

textual_rating:
She did retweet this comment from a parody account but quickly deleted it and said it had been done accidentally.


claimant: Jacob Rees-Mogg
claim_date: 2022-03-05T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/russia-ukraine-bloomberg-sanctions/
title: Government has not backed up Russian sanction claims - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-03-09T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The UK has sanctioned £258.8 billion of Russian bank assets, while the US has sanctioned £240 billion and the EU £38.8 billion.

textual_rating:
The Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office has not explained how it has calculated these figures or detailed what they represent, so they cannot be verified, and it is unclear whether they are comparable.


text: Pornhub was blocked for users in Russia following the invasion of Ukraine.
claimant: facebook user
claim_date: 2022-02-25T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/not-blocking-Russia-after-ukraine-invasion/
title: Pornhub isn’t blocked in Russia following the invasion of Ukraine - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-03-01T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This was a rumour that appears to be untrue. Pornhub worked normally when other fact checkers used software to simulate a visit from Russia.


text: Flu and heart attacks went away this year.
url: https://fullfact.org/online/event-201-pitbull-coronavirus/
title: US rapper Pitbull wrong to claim Event 201 was ‘rehearsal’ for coronavirus pandemic - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-02-18T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
A drop in flu cases in both the US and UK was likely down to measures brought in to stop Covid-19. Heart attacks have not gone away.


text: 50% of mental health problems develop by the age of 14 and 75% by the age of 18.
claimant: Barbara Keeley MP
claim_date: 2018-03-08T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/what-age-do-mental-health-conditions-develop/
title: What age do mental health conditions develop at? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This was the finding of a study of New Zealanders born in the early 1970s that followed them throughout their lives. The study’s authors caution that it might not apply to all countries, particularly as around 90% of those who took part in the study were white.


claimant: Tom Newton Dunn
claim_date: 2015-08-17T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/crime/human-rights-victories-won-criminals/
title: The human rights victories won by criminals - Full Fact
review_date: 2015-09-10T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
One third of those who have won a case against the UK at the European human right court were terrorists, criminals or prisoners.

textual_rating:
Around half of successful cases involved someone convicted or suspected of a criminal offence at some point. The answer depends on how you define "criminal".


text: In 2017 Labour said a 2.2% increase in NHS funding would make it the envy of the world.
claimant: Damian Green MP
claim_date: 2018-06-21T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/nhs-spending-manifesto-pledges/
title: The latest plans for NHS England spending outstrip both main parties’ manifesto pledges - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-06-22T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Labour’s 2017 manifesto pledged roughly 2.2% annual funding increases for the NHS in England for the rest of the decade. In the same manifesto they said they wanted to “restore the NHS to its place as the envy of the world”. They didn’t directly connect this to their specific pledges.


text: Vaccinated people are still being hospitalised and getting sick.
claimant: The Conservative Woman
claim_date: 2021-08-11T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/conservative-woman-article-falsely-claims-vaccines-dont-work/
title: Conservative Woman article falsely claims vaccines don’t work - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-08-18T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The vaccines are not perfect. Some people who have been vaccinated do fall sick and die of Covid-19. But their risk of this is far lower than people who have not been vaccinated.


claimant: The Conservative Woman
claim_date: 2021-08-11T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/conservative-woman-article-falsely-claims-vaccines-dont-work/
title: Conservative Woman article falsely claims vaccines don’t work - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-08-18T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
We should never do any testing of asymptomatic people. All we’re doing is generating false positives.

textual_rating:
False. Testing people who don’t have symptoms uncovers many people who have asymptomatic and presymptomatic Covid-19. The false positive rate of Covid-19 tests is very low.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2022-08-01T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/70-billion-contract/
review_date: 2022-08-04T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The government has awarded a £70 billion contract for ‘Everything net zero’ to a company with only two employees in Cornwall.

title:
The government has not awarded a £70 billion net zero contract to a small Cornish company - Full Fact

textual_rating:
This is not right. A not-for-profit group of local councils in the East of England has selected a company registered in Cornwall (which said it had an average of two employees in 2019) to run tender competitions for contracts for the public sector bodies like schools and hospitals to achieve their net zero goals. The maximum amount that can be procured through it is £70 billion, but the company has not been given this amount of money from the government.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-04-26T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/lorraine-kelly-himalayas/
title: Viewers spot Lorraine Kelly Himalayas gaffe - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-04-29T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Lorraine Kelly said photos from India showed the improvement in air quality driven by the lockdown, with the Himalayas visible in a photo taken after lockdown compared to one taken before.

textual_rating:
The “before” photo is just an edited version of the “after” photo, illustrating what the skyline might have looked like before lockdown.

There is evidence the lockdown in India improved air quality and visibility to the point where the Himalayas were visible from Jalandhar.


url: https://fullfact.org/europe/eu-referendum-voting-guide-stronger-jobs/
title: EU Referendum Voting Guide: Stronger In on jobs - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-05-19T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
More jobs — over 3 million jobs are linked to our trade with the EU, that's one in ten jobs (Source: HMT)

textual_rating:
Estimates show around three million jobs are linked to our trade with other EU countries, but don’t tell us anything about the number of jobs linked to British membership of the EU. Nobody is forecasting that these three million jobs would be lost if we left the EU.


text: Less than half of the migrants entering Europe are from Syria.
claimant: The Sun
claim_date: 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z
title: Just under half of migrants and asylum seekers who've crossed into Europe are Syrian - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
url:
https://fullfact.org/immigration/just-under-half-migrants-and-asylum-seekers-whove-crossed-europe-are-syrian/

textual_rating:
This is correct, according to the United Nations. 48% of migrants and asylum seekers arriving in Europe by sea since January 2015 have been Syrian.


text: British OAPs who have worked for 45 years get a total yearly benefit of £6,000.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-11-09T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/pensioners-refugees-fifth-of-benefits/
title: This image on benefits for pensioners and refugees is not correct - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-02-13T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
A British pensioner with 45 years’ worth of national insurance contributions is likely to get at least £700 a year more than this, and be eligible for more benefits on top.


claimant: Public
claim_date: 2021-11-09T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/electric-car-generator-wheel/
title: You can’t recharge an electric car by attaching a generator to the wheel - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-11-11T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
An electric car can self-charge as it drives by attaching a generator to the wheel to harness the energy as it spins.

textual_rating:
This is not true, and breaks two major laws of physics. An electric car battery would deplete whether or not you attach a generator to the wheel.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-08-09T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/children-coronavirus-act/
review_date: 2020-08-13T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
As part of the Coronavirus Act, children can be detained for 14 days without their parents’ consent, and their parents don’t have to be informed, only a teacher, according to a letter from the Children’s Commissioner.

title:
Can children be detained without their parents’ consent if the authorities think they have coronavirus? - Full Fact

textual_rating:
Although the government had since said a child could not be detained without their parents’ knowledge or consent under the powers in the Coronavirus Act, the law itself seems ambiguous enough that this theoretically could happen. The law says steps should be taken to avoid this, and says a parent or guardian should be contacted, so this scenario seems unlikely.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2018-03-14T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/clary-sage-radox-isnt-dangerous-pregnant-women/
title: Clary sage in Radox isn’t dangerous for pregnant women - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-03-08T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A Radox bath product contains the ingredient clary sage which can induce labour in pregnant women and should never be used during pregnancy, especially in the first and second trimester.

textual_rating:
The Office for Product Safety and Standards told us there’s no evidence that clary sage would be dangerous for pregnant women in the quantities found in bath products.


text: The EU has stopped the UK from having free ports.
claimant: James Cleverly
claim_date: 2019-08-02T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/free-ports/
title: What’s a free port, and does the EU have them? - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-08-02T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Incorrect. Free ports exist within the EU. The UK had free ports until 2012. However, EU law means free ports exist in a more limited form than elsewhere in the world.


text: It’s called the Delta Covid-19 variant because you’d have to be completely asleep to believe it.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2022-11-24T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/delta-variant-is-real/
title: Covid-19 variants including Delta are real - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-11-25T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Like other viruses, the one that causes Covid-19 has variants, which are named after Greek letters. Types of brain waves are also named this way, which is why there is a delta wave that occurs when people are sleeping. There’s plenty of evidence that the Delta variant is real, including the fact that it’s been sequenced multiple times, has infected and killed people.


text: The state is removing more children from their families than at any time since the 1980s.
claimant: The Economist
claim_date: 2018-03-22T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/education/are-more-children-being-taken-from-their-families/
title: Are more children being taken from their families? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-03-29T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is correct as far as available figures show. More children are becoming ‘looked after’ by a local authority than at any time since the mid-1980s, and increasing numbers are being adopted or placed with a special guardian. These figures don’t perfectly reflect the numbers of children who are away from their original parents.


claimant: facebook user
claim_date: 2019-06-16T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/false-list-mp-crimes/
title: List of MPs’ crimes isn’t true - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-03-25T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
This is a list of criminal accusations and convictions against members of the House of Commons in 2022.

textual_rating:
False. The list supposedly described members of the US Congress more than 20 years ago, and even then it wasn’t verifiable.


claimant: Conservative party
claim_date: 2017-05-22T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/are-conservatives-right-about-labours-tax-plans/
title: Are the Conservatives right about Labour’s tax plans? - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-06-06T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The Labour Party plans to increase the basic rate of income tax to 25% to pay for social care for older people.

textual_rating:
Incorrect. Labour hasn’t announced any plans to increase the basic rate of income tax. It’s said that it won’t raise income taxes for those earning less than £80,000. We’ve asked the Conservatives for more information.


claimant: Jacob Rees-Mogg
claim_date: 2017-10-26T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/law/it-legal-kill-people-fighting-islamic-state-syria/
title: Is it legal to kill people fighting for Islamic State in Syria? - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-10-27T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The UK government killing British nationals fighting for Islamic State in Syria is lawful under international law.

textual_rating:
It depends on how you interpret international law. Different states interpret it differently. The UK government believes it can be lawful in some circumstances.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-04-17T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/justgiving-commission-captain-tom/
title: JustGiving are not keeping £2m from donations to Captain Tom - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-04-21T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
JustGiving has kept a large percentage of the funds raised by Captain Tom Moore for the NHS. Some posts say the platform has kept £2 million.

textual_rating:
This is not right. JustGiving does charge processing fees and collects voluntary donations, but says more than 97% of money raised goes to charity. The platform has donated £100,000 to Captain Tom’s fundraiser.


text: A vaccine for the coronavirus was being trialled in January 2020 days before the outbreak.
url: https://fullfact.org/online/coronavirus-vaccine/
title: The virus in this clinical study is not the coronavirus seen in China in 2019/2020 - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-01-28T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Incorrect. The trial referenced was for a different type of coronavirus—Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS).


text: Alcohol deaths in England at record high after 6% rise in a year.
claimant: The Independent
claim_date: 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/britain-sobering-up/
title: Booze telling the truth? Is Britain sobering up or not? - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-02-08T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Correct, in terms of deaths that are a direct result of alcohol misuse. However, the number of alcohol-specific deaths per 100,000 people has remained virtually the same over the last ten years.


text: Research found that a third of UK home-workers have no dedicated workspace at home.
claimant: Mail Online
claim_date: 2023-06-16T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/mailonline-work-from-home-survey/
title: MailOnline corrects article on homeworking - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-06-22T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The research was a survey of office workers in general—not home-workers in particular. We don’t know how many of the survey participants worked from home.


text: MPs get free breakfast and dinner.
url: https://fullfact.org/online/mps-free-housing-alcohol/
title: What can MPs claim on expenses? - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-07-17T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
MPs can claim for food expenses if they are travelling away from London or their constituency. Also, MPs can eat in parliamentary bars and restaurants which are effectively subsidised with public money.


claimant: facebook user
claim_date: 2020-04-13T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/starmer-muslim-grooming-prosecution-crime/
title: No evidence Keir Starmer tried to block the prosecution of Muslim grooming gangs - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-07-28T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Keir Starmer promoted an MP who suggested children keep quiet about being raped for the sake of “diversity”.

textual_rating:
The Labour MP in question, Naz Shah, retweeted a post from a parody account which made this comment. She rapidly deleted the retweet and apologised, saying it was an accident. Ms Shah was already on Labour’s front bench when Mr Starmer became leader, and is still a shadow minister.


text: Wearing protective gloves doesn’t prevent the spread of coronavirus.
url: https://fullfact.org/online/Coronavirus-Gloves/
review_date: 2020-05-06T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
title:
Official advice says handwashing is better at protecting against coronavirus than gloves - Full Fact

textual_rating:
This is true. The World Health Organisation says that regular handwashing is the best way to stop the virus spreading.


claimant: The Guardian
claim_date: 2021-07-25T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/crime/foreign-deportation-jamaica/
review_date: 2021-08-12T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
People from Caribbean countries such as Jamaica appear to be disproportionately targeted for deportation from the UK if they commit crimes.

title:
Higher deportation rates don’t necessarily demonstrate ‘disproportionate targeting’ of Jamaicans - Full Fact

textual_rating:
The data alone does not provide an entirely reliable ‘deportation rate’. Nor can it indicate the reasons why the deportation rate may vary. There may be many reasons why criminals from some countries are more likely to be deported than others.


claimant: The Telegraph
claim_date: 2020-03-02T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/coronavirus-WHO-cash-comments/
review_date: 2020-03-13T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The World Health Organisation (WHO) have advised people to use contactless payments instead of cash to reduce the risk of Covid-19 transmission.

title:
The WHO has clarified that they aren't warning people against using paper money due to coronavirus - Full Fact

textual_rating:
The WHO advises the public to wash their hands after handling money, especially if handling or eating food. But they haven’t issued a warning about using banknotes.


text: There are 32,000 jobs at risk in the steel industry.
claimant: Laura Pidcock
claim_date: 2018-03-08T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/british-steel/
title: 32,000 people work in the British steel industry - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-03-09T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is the number of people working in the whole steel industry in the UK in 2016. We don’t know with any certainty what the future holds for the steel industry.


text: That change to mesh sizes has reduced fishermen’s income by 40%.
claimant: Ann Widdecombe
claim_date: 2019-07-04T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/fishermens-mesh-eu-parliament-speech/
review_date: 2019-07-25T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
title:
There’s no solid evidence to support this Brexit Party MEP’s claim about fishermen’s nets - Full Fact

textual_rating:
That is based on an unsourced quote reported by a Cornish news website. We don’t know how or if income has been affected yet as the regulation only changed on 1 July 2019.


text: In Wales, Track and Trace costs £32 per head.
claimant: Ruth Jones
claim_date: 2020-11-04T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/ruth-jones-wales-contact-tracing/
title: Labour MP contact tracing claim at PMQs out by factor of ten - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-11-09T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The Welsh government has put £102 million into Test, Trace and Protect, which works out at £32 per person in Wales. It is unclear whether this funding is the total amount spent on contact tracing in Wales.


text: There’s been an increase in the number of EU staff in the NHS since the referendum.
claimant: Matt Hancock
claim_date: 2018-10-31T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/eu-staff-nhs-what-has-happened-referendum/
title: EU staff in the NHS: what has happened since the referendum? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-11-21T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Around 4,400 more EU nationals worked for the NHS in England in June 2018, compared to June 2016. But some of the increase could be down to more staff reporting their nationality. The proportion of staff who report they are EU nationals is about the same in 2018 as in 2016.


text: One in ten young people plan never to get a job.
claimant: The Sun
claim_date: 2022-12-07T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/sun-city-guilds-young-people-never-working/
title: Survey didn't find one in ten young people plan ‘never’ to work - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-12-13T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is not correct. It comes from a survey that found 9% of young people who were either in education or not working said they thought they would never start working. This amounted to about 4% of all young people.


url: https://fullfact.org/online/referendum-results-by-constituency/
title: How did different constituencies vote in the 2016 EU referendum? - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-04-30T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
In the 2016 EU referendum, 148 Labour constituencies voted to leave, 84 to remain. 247 Conservative constituencies voted to leave, 80 to remain.

textual_rating:
Best estimates are that 249 Conservative constituencies probably voted to leave, and 81 to remain (based on the 2015 general election seat distribution). For Labour it was 148 for leave, and 84 for remain.


claimant: Thérèse Coffey
claim_date: 2022-09-22T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/coffey-health-spending-september-2022/
title: Health secretary’s claim on health spending fact checked - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-09-22T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The money that the government spends through the Department for Health and Social Care is around 40% of our day-to-day spending.

textual_rating:
This figure seems to exclude about half of government spending. DHSC spending is actually around a quarter of what might be considered total day-to-day spending, once you factor in things like pensions.


text: A company called Omicron Nanotechnology Limited exists and has something to do with the pandemic.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-11-30T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/omicron-nanotechnology/
title: Dissolved Omicron nanotechnology company has nothing to do with Covid-19 variant - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-12-02T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
There was a (now-dissolved) company registered on Companies House with this name. It has nothing to do with the Covid-19 variant of the same name, except they are both named after the Greek letter omicron.


text: Greta Thunberg said in 2018 that the world would end in five years’ time.
claimant: Facebook account
claim_date: 2023-06-21T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/greta-thunberg-prediction/
title: Greta Thunberg didn’t predict the world would end in June 2023 - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-06-23T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Ms Thunberg did quote an article which inaccurately claimed a climate scientist had said climate change would “wipe out humanity” if the world didn’t transition away from fossil fuel use within five years, but she didn’t claim that the world would end in 2023.


claimant: Josh Stirling
claim_date: 2023-04-28T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/covid-vaccines-ONS-florida/
title: ONS data shows lower death rates in people vaccinated against Covid-19 - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-08-23T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: The data shows the opposite of this.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
ONS data shows unvaccinated people in the UK had lower all cause mortality than people who had the vaccine.


claimant: Public
claim_date: 2023-06-15T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/wetherspoons-facebook-free-meal/
title: Wetherspoons is not giving away free meals for two on Facebook - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-06-20T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Wetherspoons has confirmed that this is not a genuine offer.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Anyone who shares or comments on a Facebook post about Wetherspoons is entitled to receive a free meal for two.


text: A study found that 82% of people first encountered the term “cancel culture” in the past 12 months.
claimant: The Sun
claim_date: 2021-06-29T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/news/sun-cancel-culture/
title: Only a third of people first heard of the term ‘cancel culture’ in the past year - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-07-01T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Research actually shows that around a third of people first encountered the term in the past year. Almost half of the people surveyed said they had never heard it.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-11-21T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/vienna-protest-moscow/
title: ‘Vienna protest picture’ actually old photo of Moscow - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-11-24T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: The photo was actually taken in Moscow in 1991.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A photo shows a protest in Vienna, with the “vaccinated and unvaccinated standing together for what is right”.


text: The UK has the fastest growing economy in the G7.
claimant: Boris Johnson
claim_date: 2022-01-12T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/january-2022-gdp-growth-g7/
title: UK is fastest growing G7 economy by one measure, and fifth by another - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-01-13T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
That’s true if you look at change over the most recent 12 months of data. If you look at growth over the last quarter of data (Q2 to Q3 2021), the UK places fifth.


text: People with no recourse to public funds are not yet able to claim free school meal vouchers.
claimant: Stephen Timms
claim_date: 2020-06-17T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/education/free-school-meals-no-recourse-public-funds/
title: Some children with no recourse to public funds are eligible for free school meals - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-06-17T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The government has extended free school meal eligibility in England to some but not all people with no recourse to public funds, temporarily, during the pandemic.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-07-26T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/pensions-or-minimum-wage/
title: Viral Facebook post compares the national living wage with the state pension - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Pensioners who have paid half a century’s worth of tax and national insurance are given £8,840 to live comfortably.

textual_rating:
This is the average amount per year that the bottom fifth of single pensioners by income were getting between 2015 and 2018, according to research by retirement finance company Just Group. The exact state pension depends on the individual.


claimant: The Expose
claim_date: 2022-06-11T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/expose-false-total-vaccine-deaths/
title: Article vastly exaggerates number of Covid-19 vaccine deaths - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-06-20T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Throughout Europe, the USA, the UK and Australia, medicine regulators have received reports of 77,068 deaths due to Covid-19 vaccination.

textual_rating:
Incorrect. These are reports of deaths following vaccination, not necessarily because of it. Regulators for all four regions warn users not to misinterpret their data in this way.


text: Inheritance tax has been cut
claimant: Jeremy Corbyn
claim_date: 2017-03-22T00:00:00Z
title: Tax cuts: corporation tax, inheritance, capital gains and the bank levy - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-03-22T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
url:
https://fullfact.org/economy/tax-cuts-corporation-tax-inheritance-tax-capital-gains-tax-and-bank-levy/

textual_rating:
Government policies since 2010 have tended to push down inheritance tax, mainly because of an increased allowance for passing on “the family home”.


url: https://fullfact.org/europe/eu-referendum-voting-guide-vote-leave-trade/
title: EU Referendum Voting Guide: Vote Leave on trade - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-05-19T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
If we Vote Leave… We will trade with Europe without handing over permanent control to people we cannot vote out […] If we Vote Leave… We will control our own economy and trade

textual_rating:
We’ll still trade with Europe if we leave the EU. That trade will be controlled by, and may be affected by, any agreement we reach with the EU.


url: https://fullfact.org/news/parliamentary-expenses-meme-theresa-may-correct/
title: Parliamentary expenses: is this meme about Theresa May correct? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-11-14T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Theresa May claimed the entirety of her monthly mortgage payments—between around £1,700 per month and £2,700 per month.

textual_rating:
These aren’t monthly figures and Mrs May didn’t claim expenses for her entire mortgage. She claimed expenses on the interest payments for her mortgage on her second home, as MPs were allowed to do before 2010. She consistently claimed around £450-500 a month between June 2006 and January 2008.


text: There are 480,000 young people who are hidden from the unemployment figures.
claimant: BBC Question Time audience member
claim_date: 2018-05-10T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/youth-unemployment/
title: Is youth unemployment down 40%? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-05-11T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Incorrect. This seems to come from a misunderstanding of a report looking at the number of young people who are out of work, and not claiming benefits or being supported by job centres. These young people still appear in the unemployment figures, although they will not appear in the claimant count figures of people claiming benefits.


text: It’s free to watch TV in prison.
claimant: Twitter user
claim_date: 2019-06-11T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/cost-tv-hospital-prison/
title: Does it cost more to watch TV in hospital than in prison? - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-06-13T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
In-cell TVs costs £1 per week for prisoners to rent, but they can be removed as a disciplinary measure.


claimant: facebook user
claim_date: 2022-10-16T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/stokes-twins-accident-fake/
title: ‘Injured’ man in fake post is popular YouTuber - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-10-20T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A Facebook user needs help to identify a young man left unconscious following a recent car accident in Gloucester.

textual_rating:
The picture does not show the victim of a car accident but rather a US social media star who had suffered a burst appendix in 2019.


text: Documents released by Pfizer show an alarming amount of stillbirths and deaths in pregnant women.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2022-05-05T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/pfizer-vaccine-efficacy/
title: Post claiming the Pfizer vaccine has only a 12% efficacy rate is inaccurate - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-05-17T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
While pregnant women were initially excluded from Pfizer’s large-scale clinical trials, subsequent studies have not shown an increase in stillbirths or deaths in pregnant women who received the Covid-19 vaccine.


claimant: Public
claim_date: 2023-06-02T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/news/AI-drone-attack-air-force/
review_date: 2023-06-02T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A US Air Force-trained artificial intelligence (AI) powered drone “attacked” its human operators and communications towers during a simulation.

title:
The US Air Force has denied that an AI-powered drone ‘attacked’ operators in a simulation - Full Fact

textual_rating:
The US Air Force, which was the original source of this claim, has since denied this. It says the description of events was taken from a “hypothetical thought experiment” conducted outside the US military, and the US Air Force has not tested weaponised AI in the way described, either in real life or through a simulation.


text: The Covid-19 vaccines are in trials and are all experiments ending in 2023.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-07-01T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/hancock-video-WHO/
title: WHO advice about asymptomatic transmission has changed since the start of the pandemic - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-07-09T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The Covid-19 vaccine trials have been published in peer-reviewed journals, but data collection is ongoing to allow several years of follow-up on patients.


claimant: Public
claim_date: 2022-04-18T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/chemtrails-photographs-planes/
title: Photographs of aeroplanes don’t prove existence of ‘chemtrails’ - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-04-26T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False. The photographs do not show aeroplanes taking part in a chemtrails conspiracy.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Photographs show that those who say that chemtrails don't exist and that it's just aeroplane fumes are wrong.


claimant: Theresa May
claim_date: 2016-11-30T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/housebuilding-counting-governments-record/
title: House building: counting the government's record - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-11-30T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
House building starts fell by 45% under Labour, but have increased by over two thirds since the Conservatives were in government.

textual_rating:
This is correct, but also reflects the impact of the financial crisis on house building. The exact time period you look at and the measure of building can have a big impact on how the figures are interpreted.


claimant: Labour Party
claim_date: 2019-01-21T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/whats-cost-preparing-brexit/
title: What’s the cost of preparing for Brexit? - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-01-30T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The £1.9 billion the government has spent on preparing for no deal so far could pay the salaries of around 85,000 nurses, 50,000 secondary school teachers or 49,000 police constables.

textual_rating:
The government hasn’t said how much of the government’s additional Brexit funding is going to no deal preparations specifically. That would pay the salaries of roughly this many staff, but it doesn’t tell us anything useful as these workers would cost more to employ than their salaries alone.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-11-29T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/media-manipulation-film-crew/
title: Video thanking Hungarian key workers doesn’t show pandemic is staged - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-12-03T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A post suggests video footage showing a camera crew filming people in hazmat suits is evidence the pandemic is staged by the media.

textual_rating:
The footage was almost certainly taken of a film crew recording part of an advert where the Hungarian Prime Minister thanks key workers.


text: The Labour government lifted over a million pensioners and a million children out of poverty.
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/labour-inequality-1997-2010/
title: Labour's record on inequality and social mobility: 1997 to 2010 - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-06-17T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The exact level depends on the measure of poverty you use. Looking at absolute poverty the number of pensioner and children living in poverty both fell by well over a million. Meanwhile the number of pensioners living in relative poverty, after housing costs were accounted for, fell by over a million. The number of children in relative poverty fell by less than a million.


text: Being caught urinating in public could put you on the sex offenders register.
claimant: [Full Fact reader email]
claim_date: 2015-06-23T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/crime/ask-full-fact-does-urinating-public-put-you-sex-offenders-register/
title: Ask Full Fact: does urinating in public put you on the sex offenders register? - Full Fact
review_date: 2015-07-02T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Very unlikely. Being convicted of exposure requires an intention to be seen by others, and not everyone convicted of that offence has to register.


text: £6.3 billion has been cut from social care.
claimant: Rebecca Long-Bailey
claim_date: 2017-12-14T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/health-social-care-nhs-spending/
title: How much is spent on health and social care in the NHS? - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-12-15T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
A survey of councils providing social care in England said they reported or planned to make savings of £6.3 billion on adult social care services between 2010 and the end of 2017/18. Over this time spending on adult social care by councils has fallen by £1.3 billion in real terms.


text: The net migration target could only have been met if immigration of non-EU citizens was cut.
claimant: Emily Thornberry
claim_date: 2018-04-19T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/immigration/net-migration-target-was-never-likely-have-been-met/
title: The net migration target was never likely to have been met - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-04-20T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Correct. Significant reductions to non-EU immigration will have been needed given the government can’t control the volume of EU immigration. But non-EU levels are now roughly what they were back in 2010, so the target is far from being met.


text: Most students who immigrate to the UK return home after study.
claimant: Diane Abbott
claim_date: 2016-12-12T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/immigration/how-many-international-students-leave-after-studying-uk/
title: How many international students leave after studying in the UK? - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-08-08T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The available evidence is contradictory. Most student immigrants come from outside the EU on a temporary visa and a minority still have the right to remain after a few years. But emigration figures suggest the number staying in the UK may be higher than this.


text: Thousands of people died within weeks of being found fit for work.
claimant: Tamara Cohen
claim_date: 2015-08-27T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/reporting-fit-work-deaths-isnt-fit-purpose/
title: Reporting on "fit for work" deaths isn't fit for purpose - Full Fact
review_date: 2015-08-28T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The figures show people who died within weeks of their claim ending, not being found fit for work. Many claims have ended because the claimant died


text: 50% of delayed discharges accounted for by social care are in 24 local authorities.
claimant: Theresa May
claim_date: 2017-01-22T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/social-care-and-hospital-delays/
title: Social care and hospital delays - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-02-20T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Around 24 councils accounted for roughly half of delayed discharges from hospital in November 2016, but the majority of these delays were due to the NHS, not social care. Looking just at social care 20 councils accounted for 50% of the delayed discharges. These councils also tend to have more people, and the disparity is lower when you take population size into account.


text: Illegal immigrants and refugees living in Britain get a weekly spouse allowance of £225.
url: https://fullfact.org/online/pensioners-refugees-benefits/
title: Viral image about pensioners and refugees is wrong on every single number - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-01-31T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Incorrect. There is no weekly spouse allowance for refugees. People staying in the UK illegally are not entitled to claim any benefits.


text: Hydroxychloroquine cures Covid-19.
url: https://fullfact.org/online/hydroxychloroquine-not-radiation-sickness/
title: Hydroxychloroquine is not used as a treatment for radiation sickness - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-05-20T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
There is some limited evidence that it can work for some patients. It is not licensed as a treatment for Covid-19 in the UK outside of clinical trials.


text: Hate preacher Abu Qatada called for the death of soldiers and faced no action for his crimes.
url: https://fullfact.org/online/Tommy-Robinson-Image/
title: These claims about radical Muslim preachers and Tommy Robinson are mostly incorrect - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-07-25T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
We could find no specific evidence Qatada called for the death of soldiers, though he has advocated terrorism. Qatada was extradited to Jordan for terrorism charges in 2013 after spells in and out of UK prisons. He was cleared of terrorism offences in Jordan.


claimant: The Expose
claim_date: 2021-12-04T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/expose-scotland-vaccinations/
review_date: 2021-12-16T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Vaccinated people account for a higher proportion of Covid-19 deaths than infections. This suggests that the vaccines are actually making the recipients worse once exposed to the alleged Covid-19 virus.

title:
Why might vaccinated people account for a bigger share of Covid-19 deaths than infections? - Full Fact

textual_rating:
There’s no evidence vaccines make infections more severe. There are other reasons why vaccinated people account for a higher proportion of deaths than infections.


claimant: Facebook account
claim_date: 2023-01-02T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/missing-neighbour-Facebook-hoax-bexleyheath/
title: Fake posts about a missing elderly neighbour are circulating on Facebook - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-01-03T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A Facebook user is looking for their 87-year-old neighbour called Mr Andrew who went missing with his dog.

textual_rating:
This is a fake appeal. The image accompanying the post was shared in 2016, and shows a then-90-year-old man in the United States.


text: The UK has close to the lowest cost healthcare in the world.
claimant: Susie Boniface
claim_date: 2017-01-26T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/nhs-low-cost-healthcare/
title: The NHS: low cost healthcare? - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-01-27T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Assuming this refers to spending on healthcare as a percentage of GDP, the UK spends more than the average of the 35 OECD countries, but less than most of the G7 countries. These kinds of comparisons will differ depending on what you classify as ‘healthcare’.


text: We import flowers from Kenya under WTO rules.
claimant: Andrea Jenkyns
claim_date: 2019-01-09T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/no-kenya-doesnt-export-flowers-eu-wto-terms/
title: No, Kenya doesn’t export flowers to the EU on WTO terms - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-01-11T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Incorrect. Kenya-EU trade is governed by a trade agreement that supersedes WTO rules and removes tariffs on the import of Kenyan flowers to the EU.


url: https://fullfact.org/europe/eu-referendum-voting-guide-stronger-economy/
title: EU Referendum Voting Guide: Stronger In on the economy - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-05-19T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
For every £1 we put into the EU, we get back almost £10 in lower prices, more jobs and more investment.

textual_rating:
To compare the single membership fee that we pay into the EU to an estimate for many elements of the financial benefits that we might get from the EU is comparing apples to a basket of vegetables. The estimate for our financial benefit uses a precise figure for a very uncertain impact.


text: Government debt has doubled under the Conservatives.
claimant: Twitter user
claim_date: 2017-03-08T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/labour-and-conservative-records-national-debt/
title: Labour and Conservative records on the national debt - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Not correct. Public sector net debt, adjusted for inflation, rose by 53% between 2009/10 and 2016/17.


text: An injured dog has been found by someone posting in a County Durham Facebook group.
claimant: Public
claim_date: 2023-05-23T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/injured-dog-found-county-durham/
title: Hoax post about injured dog uses picture taken in Australia - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-05-31T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is a hoax. The dog in the photo was actually involved in an incident in Melbourne, Australia, in 2019.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-08-26T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/Germany-covid-vaccine-halt/
title: Germany has not stopped using Covid-19 vaccines - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The German government does not recommend the use of Covid-19 vaccines and has frozen licensing of vaccines.

textual_rating:
This is not true. The government suspended the use of the AstraZeneca vaccines to under 60s in March but it has not prohibited Covid-19 vaccinations or licensing.


text: A debate in parliament about teenage mental health was attended by only 11 MPs.
url: https://fullfact.org/online/mp-mental-health-debate/
title: Did only 11 MPs turn up to a debate on adolescent mental health? - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-06-19T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The sparsely-attended debate was an adjournment debate. These are not usually attended by many MPs as they do not involve voting and occur at the end of the day.


text: PPE being exported from the UK to other countries could have been used here.
claimant: Dominic Raab
claim_date: 2020-04-22T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/coronavirus-ppe-eu-uk/
title: Some PPE exported to the EU could have been used in the UK - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-05-01T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Not necessarily as British standards might vary from other countries. However, some PPE that has been exported to the EU could have been used here as they met EU regulations, which are the same standards used in the UK.


text: More than 11,500 children have been admitted to English hospitals with malnutrition since 2015.
claimant: Layla Moran
claim_date: 2020-07-12T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/layla-moran-child-malnutrition/
title: Layla Moran’s child malnutrition figures are wrong - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-07-23T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is incorrect. The true figure is at least 2,112 lower, and will be much lower still if the same mistake was made with every hospital.


text: 118,000 care home residents had been tested for Covid-19 as of mid-May.
claimant: Department of Health and Social Care
claim_date: 2020-05-20T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/coronavirus-tests-care-home-workers-data/
title: The government was wrong on its own data on Covid-19 tests for care homes - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-07-23T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Incorrect. When the Prime Minister made this comment, 57,000 residents had been tested in public labs, and 61,074 tests were processed in commercial labs. Adding these together gets to 118,000 but that’s not appropriate as this would lead to residents being double counted.


text: There are 10 times more staff dealing with benefits abuse than with tax evasion by the super-rich.
claimant: Angus Robertson
claim_date: 2016-04-13T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/do-benefit-fraud-investigators-outnumber-tax-inspectors-ten-one/
title: Do benefit fraud investigators outnumber tax inspectors 10:1? - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-04-14T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
There are more people working on benefit fraud, but not 10 times more. 3,765 staff currently work at the DWP investigating benefit fraud and error, compared to 700 at HMRC who focus on the wealthiest individuals. Over 26,000 people at HMRC work on all tax enforcement and compliance.


text: “Illegal immigrants” are kept in hotels and are fed and clothed as well as receiving benefits.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2022-06-12T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/immigration/hotel-asylum-seekers/
title: How much do asylum seekers living in hotels get to live on per week? - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-06-13T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
If an asylum seeker is placed in contingency accommodation such as a hotel, which offers meals, they are eligible for £8.24 per week to cover clothes, non-prescription medication and travel. They are not eligible for mainstream benefits.


text: The EU has ordered organic farmers to treat sick animals with homeopathy in a new directive.
claimant: Sarah Knapton
claim_date: 2015-04-24T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/eu-homeopathy-and-norwegian-vets/
title: The EU, homeopathy and Norwegian vets - Full Fact
review_date: 2015-06-01T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
EU legislation promotes homeopathy in organic farming if it's an effective treatment. The law isn't particularly new, as a revised version of the claim makes clear.


claimant: Facebook account
claim_date: 2022-06-01T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/fake-death-posts-bernie-gores/
review_date: 2022-06-07T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Both reports of the death of a man named Bernie Gores are fake.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Bernie Gores was reported to have died in both the Robb Elementary School shooting and in Afghanistan.

title:
Reports that ‘Bernie Gores’ died in both Uvalde school shooting and Afghanistan are fake - Full Fact


text: 1,000 GP practices have closed since 2010.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2018-01-29T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/nhs-viral-image-factcheck/
title: NHS viral image factcheck - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-05-17T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
There are around 1,000 fewer GP practices in England in 2017 than in 2010. Some practices may have merged together, rather than closing completely, but we don’t know how many have done so.


text: Covid-19 can be transmitted between humans and pets.
url: https://fullfact.org/health/can-animals-catch-coronavirus-from-humans/
title: Your pets almost certainly won’t give you Covid-19 - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-03-11T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
There is one reported case of a pet dog in Hong Kong testing ‘weak positive’ for Covid-19. However, the dog is showing no symptoms and there is some question to whether the positive test is valid. The WHO and NHS says there is no evidence that pets can become infected or pass the virus to people.


claimant: facebook user
claim_date: 2022-06-29T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/argentina-fifa-football-world-cup-holiday/
review_date: 2022-06-30T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The Argentine government is giving the entire nation a public holiday for the duration of the 2022 World Cup.

title:
Argentina is not giving all its citizens a 40-day public holiday so they can watch the World Cup - Full Fact

textual_rating:
No such holiday has been announced. The country gave workers a half-day holiday in 1978 when it was hosting the event.


text: Vets say that all cats should be kept indoors during the coronavirus outbreak.
claimant: BBC News Online
claim_date: 2020-04-08T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/coronavirus-cats-indoors/
title: Most people do not need to keep their cats indoors during the new coronavirus outbreak - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-04-08T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This advice only applies to cats from infected or self-isolating households. The article saying it applied to all cats has now been changed.


text: The Conservatives are cutting income tax for 32 million people.
claimant: Conservative party
claim_date: 2018-11-04T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/income-tax-being-cut-32-million-people/
title: Is income tax being cut for 32 million people? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-12-13T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is the number of people who will be paying less income tax in real terms in 2019/20 than in 2015/16.  

We haven’t been able to exactly replicate the figure as some of the underlying data isn’t publicly accessible – but it seems in the right ballpark.


text: The number of Covid hospitalisations is 0.5% of the level of cases.
claimant: Allison Pearson
claim_date: 2021-07-07T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/Allison-Pearson-Covid-stats-hospital/
title: Allison Pearson tweets misleading stats about Covid hospital patients - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-07-16T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The statistics used to make this claim compare positive test results when tests were first taken versus current hospitalisation figures. Because of the time it may take for symptoms to develop before hospitalisation, this is a flawed calculation.


text: The DWP employs 3,300 staff to investigate welfare fraud.
url: https://fullfact.org/online/comparing-benefit-and-tax-fraud/
title: There’s no easy way to compare benefit and tax fraud. - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-07-31T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
As of July 2018 the DWP employed 1,405 full-time equivalent specialists to investigate benefit fraud, and data suggests there may be another 2,000 or so doing related work.


text: The NHS has published its very first price lists for treatments.
claimant: Member of the public
claim_date: 2019-06-19T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/nhs-price-lists/
title: Is the NHS introducing price lists for treatments? - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-07-11T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The list in question was published last year and offers patients who do not qualify for NHS funding for certain treatments the option to “self-fund”. Some hospitals have been offering similar schemes since at least 2013.


text: The last Labour government once raised the basic state pension by 75p.
claimant: Theresa May
claim_date: 2017-04-26T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/state-pension-labour-conservatives/
title: Pensions under Labour and the Conservatives - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-04-26T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Correct, but this was an outlier. That was the rise in the full basic state pension in April 2000. Looking at the increase in this payment after inflation, it was higher on average under Labour between 1997 and 2010 than under the Coalition and Conservatives since 2010.


text: The government gave the police much more use of Tasers to help deal with street crime.
claimant: Boris Johnson
claim_date: 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/boris-johnsons-first-interview-2020-fact-checked/
title: Boris Johnson’s first interview of 2020: fact checked - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-01-15T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The Home Office announced police in England and Wales can bid for part of a fund to equip their force with more Tasers. Final funding allocations will be announced in February.


text: Spending on the main disability benefits will increase over the course of this parliament.
claimant: Department for Work and Pensions
claim_date: 2016-03-24T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/spending-disability-benefits-going-or-down/
title: Is spending on disability benefits going up or down? - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-03-31T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Spending on Disability Living Allowance, Personal Independence Payments and Attendance Allowance (the ‘main disability benefits’ this claim is referring to) is expected to rise slightly over this parliament, after rising prices are taken into account. It won’t rise by as much as it has been in recent years.


text: A Facebook user is seeking to reunite an injured dog in North Yorkshire with its owner.
claimant: facebook user
claim_date: 2022-12-19T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/freezing-lost-dog-stock-pic/
title: Fake lost dog post uses old stock image - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-12-21T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
False. The image of the dog in the post was taken in the Philippines in 2016. Similar posts using some of the same text have appeared before.


text: There are more homeless UK citizens than the entire population of Iceland.
url: https://fullfact.org/online/homeless-people-britain-iceland/
review_date: 2019-02-22T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
title:
The estimated number of homeless people in Britain is broadly comparable to the population of Iceland - Full Fact

textual_rating:
We don’t have definitive numbers but these figures are broadly comparable. The charity Shelter calculated that an estimated 320,000 people in Great Britain were homeless at the start of 2018. We don’t know how many are UK citizens. The population of Iceland at the end of 2018 was around 360,000.


text: Scientists knew about the new coronavirus long ago and called it “Disease X”.
url: https://fullfact.org/health/coronavirus-covid-disease-x-express/
review_date: 2020-02-18T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
title:
The World Health Organisation did not know about the Covid-19 virus before the current outbreak - Full Fact

textual_rating:
They didn’t. This is a misunderstanding about the phrase “Disease X”, which the WHO used to denote an unknown serious new disease that might cause a pandemic.


text: A no deal Brexit means the UK makes its own laws again.
url: https://fullfact.org/online/what-does-wto-rules-brexit-look/
title: What does a “WTO rules” Brexit look like? - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-03-29T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
If we leave the EU with no deal, EU laws will no longer have power or jurisdiction over the UK (although all existing EU law will be copied over into UK law).

However the UK will still follow certain international rules and regulations, such as trading rules determined by the WTO and the European Convention of Human Rights.


text: A no deal Brexit means the UK has its own justice system again.
url: https://fullfact.org/online/what-does-wto-rules-brexit-look/
title: What does a “WTO rules” Brexit look like? - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-03-29T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
If we leave the EU with no deal, EU courts will no longer have jurisdiction over the UK.

However the UK will still follow certain international rules and regulations, such as trading rules determined by the WTO and the European Convention of Human Rights.


text: A third of the Carillion contracts with the Government were led by the Labour government.
claimant: Theresa May
claim_date: 2018-01-17T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/labour-carillion-contracts/
title: How many PFI contracts did the last Labour government sign with Carillion? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is correct. 38% of PFI contracts with Carillion in the published data were awarded during the Labour government. But published data only include deals up to the end of 2015.


text: A Facebook user is appealing for help to find her five-year-old niece who has gone missing.
claimant: Public
claim_date: 1998-07-05T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/missing-girl-false-US-photo/
title: Missing girl hoax uses photo of kidnapped US child - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-07-14T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The post is a hoax. The post uses a photo from a US article about an eight-year-old child who was found in March 2023 after being kidnapped in 2018.


claimant: Instagram user
claim_date: 2021-09-22T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/klaus-schwab-vaccines/
title: mRNA vaccines aren’t gene editing and don’t alter your DNA - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-10-11T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: There is no graphene oxide in the Covid-19 vaccines.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
There’s graphene oxide in the Covid-19 vaccines which reassembles in the body and becomes a “supercomputer” or “superconductor”.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2018-05-19T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/royal-family-what-are-costs-and-benefits/
title: How does the royal family make money? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-05-24T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The royal family brings in £400m a year in private revenue, of which £360m is kept by government under the Sovereign Act 2011.

textual_rating:
Incorrect. The Crown Estate brought in £330 million in 2017/18, this money goes to the government who then give the Queen a grant based on 25% of the Crown Estate’s income two years previously.But the Crown Estate isn’t the royal family’s private property. The Queen pays tax to government on her other private incomes.


text: A photograph shows a young Angela Merkel posing with Adolf Hitler.
url: https://fullfact.org/online/isnt-picture-angela-merkel-and-adolf-hitler/
title: This isn’t a picture of Angela Merkel and Adolf Hitler - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-03-22T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
False. This picture shows Hitler with an anonymous girl. Mrs Merkel was born nine years after Hitler died.


text: More disabled people have entered the workplace during this government.
claimant: Theresa May
claim_date: 2017-09-13T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/disabled-people-work/
title: Disabled people in work - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-09-13T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Correct. 3.5 million disabled people are in employment, compared to 2.9 million in 2013. The employment rate for disabled people has also increased from 44% to 49%.


text: An image shows a new self-contained diesel-powered electric vehicle charging point in Lancashire.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-10-18T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/environment/lancashire-diesel-electric-car-charging-point/
title: Photo of diesel-powered electric vehicle charging point is at least two years old - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-10-21T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
There’s no evidence the image is from Lancashire and the county council says none of its charging points are diesel-powered. The image has been circulating since at least 2019.


text: 100,000 retail jobs have been lost in three years.
claimant: Labour
claim_date: 2018-09-16T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/have-100000-retail-jobs-been-lost-over-three-years/
title: Have 100,000 retail jobs been lost over three years? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-09-27T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
There were 98,000 fewer jobs in retail in Great Britain in June 2018 than in June 2015, a drop of around 4%. These figures don’t count self-employed jobs or those in online retail.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-08-18T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/immigration/europe-travel-rules/
title: Why the government recommends having 6 months left on passports to visit Europe - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-08-25T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Due to changes in validity since leaving the EU, your passport is now only valid for 10 years from the issue date on your passport.

textual_rating:
This is the case when travelling to many European countries. Other countries have different passport requirements.


claimant: Stuart Rose
claim_date: 2016-01-25T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/ask-full-fact-uks-trade-eu/
title: Ask Full Fact: the UK’s trade with the EU - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-01-26T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Britain sends 50% of exports to the EU and only 8% to the 'BRICS' economies (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa).

textual_rating:
44% of exports—of both goods and services—went to EU countries in 2014, and 8% to the BRICS. 50% to the EU would have been right a few years ago.


text: Trade union sign up for those aged between 25 and 34 is 17% and for those aged 16 to 25 it’s 5%.
claimant: Institute of Economic Affairs
claim_date: 2017-03-30T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/union-membership-among-young-people/
title: Union membership among young people - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-03-31T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is not quite correct. 13% of the UK population aged 25 to 34 were union members and employees in 2015 and 4% of those aged 16 to 24. Ms Andrews meant to refer to the proportion of trade union members in these age groups. 5% of trade union members were 16 to 24 in 2015 and 18% were aged 25 to 34.


text: The military has arrested Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2023-08-11T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/albert-bourla-not-arrested/
title: Pfizer CEO has not been arrested by the military - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-08-17T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
There is no evidence to support this. The claim can be traced back to a satirical website, and Pfizer has said the claim is false.


text: Rishi Sunak’s wife lives in Downing Street whilst claiming to live abroad for tax purposes.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2022-04-17T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/infosys-india-trade-deal/
title: Was Rishi Sunak’s in-laws’ company a ‘beneficiary’ of a UK-India trade deal? - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-04-28T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Akshata Murty previously lived in Downing Street but has reportedly moved to their home in West London. She has non-dom status for tax purposes, but this doesn’t mean she claims to live abroad. Non-dom status is for UK residents who are domiciled abroad, which is not the same as living there. Ms Murty recently announced she would pay UK tax on all her income.


text: Scotland gets 20% more per head because of money that comes from England under the Barnett formula.
claimant: Michael Forsyth
claim_date: 2018-01-25T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/scotland-england-public-services-spending/
title: Scotland spends 20% more per head on public services than England - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-01-26T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
It’s correct that spending on public services in Scotland is 20% higher per head than in England. But this money comes from the block grant from the UK Treasury, rather than from England specifically. An increasing proportion of the Scottish government’s budget also comes from taxes it raises.


text: GPs should be the first to be vaccinated when a Covid-19 vaccine becomes available.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-11-24T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/gp-vaccine-first/
review_date: 2020-11-25T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
title:
GPs and other frontline medical workers will be among the first to receive a Covid-19 vaccine - Full Fact

textual_rating:
The government has published plans indicating that health workers will be among the first to receive a vaccine when available.


text: Contrails disappear from the sky quickly, so lines of cloud which last for hours are chemtrails.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2022-10-25T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/contrails-can-last-hours/
title: Contrails can last for hours - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-10-28T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
False. Contrails can last in the sky for many hours depending on atmospheric conditions. There’s no good evidence chemtrails, as they are often described, are real.


text: Poor oral health raises the risk of mental illness by a third.
claimant: The Daily Telegraph
claim_date: 2021-12-20T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/gum-disease-mental-health/
title: Study linking gum disease and mental health shows correlation not causation - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-12-20T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
A study found people with diagnosed gum disease were more likely to go on to develop a mental health condition, but did not say whether one factor caused the other, as suggested.


text: Lockdown and the tier systems are deadlier than Covid-19.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-02-16T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/letter-mhra-filled-false-covid-19-claims/
title: Letter to MHRA is filled with false Covid-19 claims - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-05-10T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
There is no evidence to suggest this is true. Official estimates suggest that the lockdown in the spring of 2020 saved many thousands of lives.


text: The Lancet says 6.5 million migrants have registered with GPs in the last 10 years.
claimant: Public
claim_date: 2019-01-05T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/immigration/6-million-GP-registrations/
title: How many migrants have registered with GPs in the last decade? - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-02-04T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
According to the ONS, that’s how many new GP registrations there were between 2007 and 2017 where the person’s previous address was abroad. But migrants who moved between homes in the UK may have been double counted and we don’t know how many were only here short-term.


text: A picture of Volodymyr Zelensky in front of a green screen shows he was “never in his own land”.
claimant: Public
claim_date: 2022-06-27T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/zelensky-green-screen/
title: Photo of Zelensky in front of green screen doesn’t mean he was ‘never’ in Ukraine - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-07-12T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Mr Zelensky has remained in Ukraine since the Russian invasion of the country. The picture was taken in Ukraine, and is from a recording of Mr Zelensky’s virtual appearance at a number of technology conferences.


claimant: Amber Rudd
claim_date: 2017-08-09T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/crime/stops-and-searches-are-becoming-less-common/
title: Stops and searches are becoming less common - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-08-10T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Before recent reforms, fewer than one in 10 stops and searches led to an arrest. Now the rate is the highest on record.

textual_rating:
Correct. Figures from 2008-2011 showed 9% of all stops and searches resulted in an arrest. By 2015/16, this was up to 16% - the highest on record.


text: Government data shows 460 deaths and 243,612 injuries from Covid-19 vaccines in the UK.
claimant: Health Impact News
claim_date: 2021-03-04T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/460-vaccine-deaths-yellow-card/
title: Covid-19 vaccines haven’t caused 460 deaths - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is wrong. Deaths and other 'injuries' may occur after someone has had a vaccine, but this does not mean they were caused by the vaccine.


text: Wind turbines can never generate as much energy as the energy invested in building them.
claimant: Public
claim_date: 2019-02-14T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/wind-turbines-energy/
title: Overblown: Wind turbines don’t take more energy to build than they will ever produce - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-02-27T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Incorrect—this is based on a selective quotation. It could, in theory, be the case for turbines placed in poor locations. But studies show turbines pay their energy cost back quickly.


text: 500 churches in London have closed.
url: https://fullfact.org/online/churches-and-mosques-london/
title: Don’t trust claims about the change in the number of churches and mosques in London - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-10-03T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This comes from an estimate for the number of churches converted into homes between 2001 and 2006. Estimates indicate there was probably a net increase of around 800 church congregations between 2005 and 2015 in London.


text: The pesticide Monitor is so toxic that farmers are not allowed to enter their field for five days.
claimant: Publlic
claim_date: 2023-09-23T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/McDonalds-pesticide-Monitor-false/
title: McDonald’s french fries are not made from potatoes treated with the pesticide Monitor - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-05-17T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Restricting access to fields is a common safety protocol for commercial farms after using pesticides. When Monitor was used on potatoes, entry was restricted for four days in the US.


text: NHS England estimates that 30% of A&E visits don’t need to be made.
claimant: Jeremy Hunt
claim_date: 2017-01-09T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/are-patients-going-e-instead-gps/
title: Are patients going to A&E instead of GPs? - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-01-31T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The Primary Care Foundation estimated in 2010 that between 10% and 30% of cases attending A&E were of a type that could be seen by a GP.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-02-16T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/fake-metro-front-page/
title: A fake Metro cover shares false vaccine information - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-02-26T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: This is a fake front page. The Metro did not say this.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
On 16 February 2021, the front page of the Metro newspaper reported on concerns about Covid-19 vaccines.


text: The Labour party has never left government with unemployment lower than when it came in.
claimant: Mark Pawsey
claim_date: 2023-06-14T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/labour-unemployment-record/
title: Has a Labour government ever left office with unemployment lower than when it came in? - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-06-15T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is true of most Labour governments, including the two most recent examples which both saw unemployment increase, according to current data. But historic unemployment data, while not directly comparable with current data, suggests there’s at least one exception, with unemployment falling during the Labour minority government of 1924.


text: Ireland’s test and trace system cost £775,000.
claimant: Twitter user
claim_date: 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/flawed-comparisons-between-test-and-trace-systems-go-viral/
title: Flawed comparisons between test and trace systems go viral - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-01-08T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Incorrect. This was the cost of developing its contact tracing app. The whole test and trace programme is estimated to cost €700 million per year in Ireland.


text: Independent inspectors say that driver-only trains are safe.
claimant: Chris Grayling
claim_date: 2016-12-06T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/are-driver-only-trains-safe/
title: Rail dispute: are driver-only trains safe? - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-12-06T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
That’s the conclusion of the Rail Safety and Standards Board, and the Office of Rail and Road, who both say that such systems are safe provided that appropriate procedures are in place. Trade unions disagree, and deny that either organisation is actually independent.


claimant: Facebook account
claim_date: 2022-08-04T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/news/ukraine-land-sales-zelenskyy/
title: President Zelenskyy did not sell 17 million hectares of land to American conglomerates - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-08-18T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The real reason for the Ukraine war is that President Zelenskyy sold 17 million hectares of agricultural land to Monsanto, DuPont, and Cargill.

textual_rating:
While all three companies have invested in Ukraine’s agricultural industry, there’s no evidence that President Zelenskyy sold large amounts of agricultural land to any of them.


text: Cutting out refined sugar and eating an alkaline diet will starve cancer cells.
claimant: Barbara O'Neill
claim_date: 2023-05-23T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/sugar-cancer-alkaline-diet/
title: Sugar-free alkaline diets won’t ‘starve’ cancer - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-06-15T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Cutting out refined sugar will not mean the body has no glucose, which is what the cancer cells use for energy. There is no strong evidence that the ‘alkaline’ diet is effective in the treatment or prevention of cancer.


text: 423 mosques have opened in London.
claimant: YouTube user
claim_date: 2018-03-05T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/churches-and-mosques-london/
title: Don’t trust claims about the change in the number of churches and mosques in London - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-10-03T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
We don’t have an exact number for how many mosques there are and over what period they opened. There are 478 mosques, Islamic centres, prayer rooms and halls for hire in London according to an unofficial estimate. Some of these opened many decades ago.


text: Sixty percent of people in the UK asylum system entered the country illegally.
claimant: Today Programme
claim_date: 2021-03-24T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/government-asylum-claims-based-unpublished-data/
title: Government asylum claims based on unpublished data - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-03-30T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
It’s unclear whether this statistic is reliable because the Home Office has not published any details behind how it was calculated.


text: New figures show the serious crime rate in England and Wales is rising.
claimant: The Telegraph
claim_date: 2016-11-30T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/crime/why-homicide-now-2700-times-more-serious-cannabis/
title: Why homicide is now 2,700 times more serious than cannabis - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-12-01T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
New figures suggest recorded crimes are getting more severe, but they can’t prove that crime is rising.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2022-01-22T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/dover-queues-seen-from-space/
title: Dover lorry queues can be seen from space, like most UK traffic can - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-01-25T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
There were continuous lorry queues at Dover on 22 January 2022, that were longer than the Channel itself, and could be seen from space.

textual_rating:
We don’t know how long exactly the queues were on that date. They likely could be seen from satellite images, as most road queues can be. We haven’t seen evidence the queues were longer than the English Channel.


text: HMRC employs 300 people to investigate tax fraud.
url: https://fullfact.org/online/comparing-benefit-and-tax-fraud/
title: There’s no easy way to compare benefit and tax fraud. - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-07-31T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Incorrect. In February 2018 HMRC employed around 26,000 people “tackling all forms of non-compliance in the tax system”.


url: https://fullfact.org/online/wuhan-resident-evil-coronavirus/
title: This company is based in Shanghai, not Wuhan - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-01-30T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The lab from which the coronavirus originated has a similar symbol as the lab responsible for a mass outbreak in the Resident Evil games.

textual_rating:
The source of the new coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan has not yet been identified. The lab is based in Shanghai, not Wuhan and there is no reason to think it has anything to do with the new coronavirus.


claimant: Veronique Desaulniers
claim_date: 2023-03-18T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/mammograms-hiroshima-radiation/
title: Mammogram radiation levels aren’t comparable with nuclear bomb - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-03-31T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Following a 10-year mammogram protocol will expose you to as much radiation as standing one mile from the atomic bombing in Hiroshima.

textual_rating:
Even in the highest mammogram exposure scenario this is not true, and the vast majority of women will have significantly lower radiation doses than this.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-07-17T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/ukraine-soldiers-covid-vaccine/
title: Ukrainian soldiers have not died after having an American Covid-19 vaccine - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: This is not true.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A new Covid-19 vaccine was tested on fit young military men. Of the 15 tested, 8 went to intensive care, 3 on ventilators and 5 people, four of them servicemen, are dead.


text: You should never put wet towels on a dog’s back.
claimant: public
claim_date: 2023-06-19T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/overheating-dog-advice-water/
title: Experts advise pouring cool water on an overheating dog - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-07-31T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is correct. Experts do not advise putting wet towels over a dog’s back because it can trap heat. They recommend placing a wet towel under a dog and warn that the towel must be kept wet. Other cooling methods are preferable.


text: Figures show a “consistently higher” number of Covid-19 cases among vaccinated adults.
claimant: Godfrey Bloom
claim_date: 2021-11-04T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/godfrey-bloom-ukhsa-covid-cases/
title: Former MEP wrongly uses UK Covid-19 data - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-11-22T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is based on misleading information which cannot be used to measure the effectiveness of Covid-19 vaccines.


text: After leaving the EU, we will take back control of roughly £350 million per week.
claimant: Boris Johnson
claim_date: 2017-09-15T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/350-million-week-boris-johnson-statistics-authority-misuse/
title: £350 million EU claim "a clear misuse of official statistics" - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is wrong, it’s more like £250 million a week. In any case the impact on the economy from changes to trade after leaving the EU is likely to be far bigger than savings from the UK’s membership fee.


text: MPs get £25 per day food allowance. That adds up to £845,000 per year for all MPs.
url: https://fullfact.org/online/MPs-25-lunch-allowance/
review_date: 2020-10-26T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
title:
MPs can only claim £25 a day for food if they stay overnight outside London or their constituency - Full Fact

textual_rating:
MPs can only claim this allowance for food if they stay overnight outside their constituency or London for parliamentary work. This is not what they can claim for every day of working in parliament, so this larger figure is meaningless.


text: The VAERS website shows a list of damage and death caused by vaccines.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-02-16T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/covid-vaccines-not-medical-experiment/
title: The Covid-19 vaccine programme isn’t a medical experiment - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-02-18T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
No it doesn’t. It shows a list of events reported after vaccination, not necessarily caused by it. Reports in the UK so far show no deaths caused by Covid vaccines.


text: Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla is stepping down after admitting mRNA vaccines are not safe.
claimant: Facebook account
claim_date: 2022-12-12T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/Pfizer-CEO-has-not-resigned/
title: Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla hasn’t resigned - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-12-16T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Pfizer has confirmed Dr Bourla has not resigned and the clip on which this claim is based does not show him saying that mRNA Covid-19 vaccines are “not safe” or “sufficiently proven”.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-01-18T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/boris-johnson-eu-quote/
title: This Boris Johnson quote has been edited and taken out of context - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-01-23T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Boris Johnson wrote in 2013 that the EU is “better placed to strike trade deals with the US, or China, than the UK on its own. More generally, there is a risk that leaving the EU will be globally interpreted as a narrow, xenophobic, backward-looking thing to do.”

textual_rating:
These words are taken from a 2013 Telegraph article by Mr Johnson, but have been edited and taken out of context. He says these arguments are “untested” and also makes points in favour of leaving the EU.


text: The UK recorded just three deaths from respiratory conditions besides Covid-19 in October 2020.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-11-16T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/radiation-video-covid/
title: Covid-19 is an infectious disease, and a video claiming it isn’t is wrong - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-12-02T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is not true. In four weeks of October, 1,239 deaths were recorded just from flu or pneumonia in England and Wales alone.


text: £1.8 billion of money announced for the NHS over the next five years isn’t all new money.
claimant: Sally Gainsbury
claim_date: 2019-08-04T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/nhs-money-new-or-not/
title: Money for the NHS: is it new or not? - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-08-06T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This depends on how you define ‘new money’. The Treasury will have to increase spending by this amount—but it is money that NHS trusts had already earned, but were subsequently told they couldn’t spend.


text: In the six years from 2010 rail fares have risen 25% on average.
claimant: Lilian Greenwood MP, Shadow Transport Secretary
claim_date: 2016-01-04T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/rail-fares-25-six-years/
title: Rail fares: up 25% in six years? - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-01-04T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
That's right in cash terms - consumer prices have gone up by about 14% over the same period. The 25% increase is for 'regulated' fares, which make up about half of all fares.


claimant: Daily Mail
claim_date: 2019-11-04T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/diabetes-hospital-admissions/
title: The Mail’s diabetes front page needs context - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-11-04T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
One in ten patients admitted to hospital are suffering from a form of diabetes linked to being overweight and inactive

textual_rating:
This needs context. One in ten patients admitted to English hospitals in 2018/19 had type 2 diabetes, but a small fraction of those were admitted for their diabetes specifically.


text: Net migration was around 160,000 in 2009/10 and now it’s at record high levels of 380,000.
claimant: Alan Johnson
claim_date: 2015-02-04T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/immigration/net-migration-record-high-its-not-380000/
title: Net migration is at a record high, but it's not 380,000 - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-02-04T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The figures are wrong, but it’s correct to say that net migration is currently the highest estimate on record. Net migration was 336,000 in the latest set of figures, which count the year to June 2015. In 2009/10 it was thought to be around 205,000-240,000. An earlier set of estimates for 2009 (now revised) put the net migration figure closer to 160,000.


text: Low-paid workers are trapped in poverty.
claimant: Patrick Wintour
claim_date: 2014-11-11T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/factcheck-measuring-low-pay-isnt-same-measuring-poverty/
title: Factcheck: Measuring low pay isn't the same as measuring poverty - Full Fact
review_date: 2014-12-01T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This muddles definitions. The report in question didn't discuss poverty. Although the issues are related, not all low-paid workers are in poverty.


text: 2% or 3% of lorries going through Dover aren’t going to the EU.
claimant: Keir Starmer
claim_date: 2018-03-15T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/lorries-dover/
title: Lorries at Dover - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
We haven’t seen the evidence to confirm this. We were told the figures came from the Port of Dover authorities, who have previously given similar figures to parliamentary committees. They have so far been unable to confirm the figures, so we’ve asked for more information.


text: People arriving illegally in the UK will get food, a place to live, healthcare and education.
claimant: Public
claim_date: 2011-09-08T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/illegal-border-crossing-comparisons/
title: People crossing the UK border illegally do not automatically get jobs and benefits - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-03-17T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
People who have claimed asylum are entitled to basic support while their claim is being processed, but do not have access to all the same benefits as legal UK residents.


text: Labour’s universal basic income policy would cost £504 billion.
claimant: Daily Express
claim_date: 2019-09-23T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/labour-universal-basic-income/
title: Claim about cost of Labour’s welfare policy is unsubstantiated - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-09-26T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is based on the assumption that the Labour Party introduces universal basic income for all adults at a certain level. It has so far only said it will trial such a scheme if it gets into government and not released much detail on how such a scheme would work.


text: Children are silent super-spreaders of coronavirus.
claimant: The Mirror
claim_date: 2020-08-20T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/children-silent-super-spreaders-coronavirus/
title: Study doesn’t show that children are ‘silent super-spreaders’ of coronavirus - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-08-20T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is not proved by this study. It finds children have a high viral load, but offers no evidence on transmission.


text: An image shows a parasitic worm in a child’s heart, caught from a dog due to close contact.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-03-02T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/dog-heart-parasite/
title: This picture doesn’t show a child's heart infected with a dog parasite - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-03-22T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Incorrect. The picture is of an infected dog’s heart. The parasite can only be passed from an infected dog to a human via mosquito, not direct contact.


text: The mRNA Covid-19 vaccines are gene therapy.
claimant: Andrew Bridgen
claim_date: 2023-01-02T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/andrew-bridgen-gene-therapy-vaccines/
title: Andrew Bridgen wrong to call mRNA vaccines gene therapy - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-01-12T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Gene therapy involves making deliberate changes to a patient’s DNA to treat a genetic condition. While mRNA vaccines involve genetic material they don’t change the recipient’s DNA or enter the cell’s nucleus where the genome is.


claimant: instagram user
claim_date: 2022-01-13T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/board-of-education-covid-vaccines/
title: Covid-19 vaccines don’t make you a ‘ticking time bomb’ - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-01-28T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The spike proteins generated by the body in response to the Covid-19 vaccines make people a ticking time bomb for cancer, blood clots and other ailments.

textual_rating:
This is not true. Some health problems have been linked to vaccination in very rare cases, but the risk from not being vaccinated is much higher.


claimant: Public
claim_date: 2023-06-25T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/nandos-new-world-order-cash/
title: Picture of Nando’s ‘New World Order’ sign not taken in UK - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-07-11T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: This sign did not appear in a UK restaurant. Cash and card are both accepted by Nando’s in the UK.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A sign in a UK branch of Nando’s says: “We’re card only! Sorry, guess we’re part of the New World Order now.” Although the sign then says “just kidding”, this is not a joke.


claimant: The Jeremy Vine Show
claim_date: 2021-11-18T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/32000-greater-risk-andrew-pierce/
title: Unvaccinated people aren’t 32,000 times more likely to die from Covid-19 - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-11-19T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Figures from the Office for National Statistics say you’re 32,000 times more likely to die of Covid if you’ve not been double jabbed.

textual_rating:
The ONS report actually said that the age-adjusted risk of deaths involving Covid-19 was 32 times greater in unvaccinated people than in fully vaccinated individuals—not 32,000. 


In addition, the ONS and OSR have been clear that the 32 times greater figure changes over time due to a number of different factors, and this figure should not be used to measure vaccine effectiveness. 


The Jeremy Vine show has since tweeted to say that the statement was incorrect.


text: The so-called “Nigerian variant” of Covid-19 is twice as deadly as the dominant “Kent variant”.
claimant: Kent Live
claim_date: 2021-04-09T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/Covid-19-variant/
title: We don’t know if the ‘Nigerian variant’ is more deadly - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-04-21T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This reflects the number of deaths among the small number of cases from the “Nigerian variant” detected so far. At the time of writing there is not enough data to know whether this variant is more deadly or not.


text: Drinking a glass of water 30 minutes before a meal helps digestion.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-08-03T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/drinking-water-set-times-does-not-provide-certain-health-benefits/
title: Drinking water at set times does not provide certain health benefits - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-08-29T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Drinking water can help digestion, but we’ve not seen evidence that specifically drinking water 30 minutes before eating helps more than drinking water at other times.


text: There’s a record level of investment going into schools.
claimant: Justine Greening
claim_date: 2017-02-23T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/education/spending-schools-2020/
title: Spending on schools up to 2020 - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-02-24T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
We’ve asked the government for the source of this. The cash amount going to schools in England is rising and ahead of inflation, but spending per pupil is set to fall in real terms, by 8% between 2014 and 2020, taking school-specific inflation into account.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2018-11-28T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/figures-about-eu-health-costs-need-more-context/
title: Figures about EU health costs need more context - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-04-30T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The UK paid £674 million in health costs to European countries, but received only £49 million in return. Addressing this could “transform the financial situation of the NHS”.

textual_rating:
The figures are broadly correct, using figures for 2015, although addressing this situation would in itself only have a marginal impact on the financial situation of the NHS.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-05-10T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/wales-england-lockdown-rules/
review_date: 2020-05-12T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
In Wales you cannot use your car to visit places other than shopping for essentials, helping someone who is shielding, or to work.

textual_rating:
These are some of the main reasonable excuses for leaving the house according to Welsh law as of 11 May. There is nothing to say you cannot use a car to do these things.


claimant: facebook user
claim_date: 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/africa-himba-namibia-songs-traditions/
title: Social media posts about the ‘birth song’ of the Himba tribe are false - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-07-06T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: There is no such tradition within the Himba tribe.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Women of the Himba tribe create a unique song for each of their children which is then sung to them from the moment of conception until death.


text: The number of white people arrested for terror offences outstrips any other single ethnic group.
claimant: The Independent
claim_date: 2018-09-13T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/crime/ethnic-groups-arrested-terrorism/
title: What do we know about which ethnic groups get arrested for terrorism charges? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-09-24T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is correct for the year to June 2018, although this is based on ethnicity as recorded by the arresting officer. The margin is small—38% were perceived to be white and 37% were thought to be Asian. 9% were recorded as black and 16% as ‘other’.


text: The old EU-Japan trade deal was estimated to deliver a £2.6 billion boost to the UK economy.
claimant: Emily Thornberry
claim_date: 2020-11-26T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/japan-eu-deal-thornberry/
title: Is the UK's trade deal with Japan better than the EU's? - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-11-30T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is the estimate of annual GDP growth after 15 years, but it can’t be compared to the estimate for the UK-Japan deal because they used very different calculation methods.


text: Local authority budgets have been cut by 40% since 2010.
claimant: Jeremy Corbyn
claim_date: 2017-06-28T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/local-authorities-budgets/
title: Local authorities' budgets are roughly 26% lower since 2010 - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-06-29T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is roughly the reduction in the money English local authorities get from central government, since 2010. Overall, their budgets are 26% lower, because they also raise money locally.


claimant: Wayne Lineker
claim_date: 2021-03-12T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/spain-travel-covid/
title: Travel to Spain requires negative Covid test - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-03-25T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
When travel to Spain resumes, you will not need to have been vaccinated, you will only need a negative Covid-19 test taken in the 72 hours before arrival.

textual_rating:
Correct, based on the current rules, which may change. Spain has indicated that it may introduce vaccine passports but that these will not be compulsory. A negative Covid test is required.


text: The unvaccinated aren’t dying.
claimant: Instagram account
claim_date: 2022-06-17T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/unvaccinated-dying-covid/
title: Unvaccinated people are still dying from Covid-19 - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-06-27T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Unvaccinated people are, sadly, still dying from Covid-19 and other causes. Age-standardised mortality rates among unvaccinated people have been higher than for those who have been vaccinated.


text: The Moderna booster vaccine protects you against both Covid-19 and flu.
claimant: Nadhim Zahawi
claim_date: 2022-10-09T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/nadhim-zahawi-covid-flu-booster/
title: Nadhim Zahawi wrong to say Moderna booster protects against both Covid-19 and flu - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-10-10T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is not correct. In order to be protected against both Covid-19 and flu, people must have two different vaccines: a Covid-19 vaccine and a flu vaccine.


text: Only 32 vaccinated people have been hospitalised with Covid.
claimant: The Telegraph
claim_date: 2021-04-21T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/32-vaccinated-hospital/
title: There’s more to the claim only 32 vaccinated people were hospitalised with Covid-19 - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-04-23T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This needs context. A study looking at some people who were hospitalised for Covid between 8 December and 5 March, found only 32 people were hospitalised three weeks after vaccination.


text: A poll shows that UKIP’s Paul Nuttall is set to win in the Stoke Central by-election.
claimant: Leave.EU
claim_date: 2017-02-03T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/news/dont-trust-stoke-election-poll-until-we-know-more-about-it/
title: Don’t trust this Stoke by-election poll until we know more about it - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
We don’t know if this was a reliable poll. The information we need to assess the poll hasn’t been published.


text: The EU is asking for a 100 billion Brexit divorce bill.
claimant: Paul Nuttall
claim_date: 2017-05-04T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/eu-divorce-bill/
title: The EU "divorce bill" - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-05-05T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The EU says that the UK should pay a share of money that’s already been committed to various projects. There is no official bill from them yet—and any bill will be a matter for negotiations. €100 billion is much higher than other estimates.


text: Almost a third of children aged 2 to 15 are overweight or obese.
claimant: The Guardian
claim_date: 2018-04-23T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/childhood-obesity/
title: 28% of 2-15 year olds in England estimated to be overweight or obese - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-04-23T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
An NHS survey estimates that 28% of children aged 2 to 15 in England were overweight or obese in 2016.


text: The Conservatives are levelling up per pupil funding.
claimant: Conservative party
claim_date: 2019-09-09T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/education/schools-spend-record-levels/
title: Is schools spending going to be at record levels? - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-09-19T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Per pupil spending on schools in England is set to increase over the next three years to roughly the level it was at in 2009/10.


text: Aldi is giving away a free ‘food box’ to Facebook users that engage with its posts.
claimant: Public
claim_date: 2023-03-04T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/fake-Aldi_page-food-boxes/
title: Aldi is not giving away free food packages to Facebook users - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-03-07T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is not a real offer. The Facebook page that is promoting the offer is not associated with Aldi.


text: The number of hospital beds for people with acute mental health conditions has fallen by 30%.
claimant: The Observer
claim_date: 2018-07-21T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/mental-health-there-are-fewer-beds-nurses-and-psychiatry-trainees-2010/
title: Mental health: there are fewer beds, nurses and psychiatry trainees than in 2010 - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-07-26T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
These years aren’t comparable due to a change in collection method from 2010. Between 2010 and 2017 there was a 22% drop.


text: 128,000 children will not be in their own home at Christmas.
claimant: Jeremy Corbyn
claim_date: 2017-12-13T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/128000-children-are-homeless-britain/
title: How many children are homeless in England, Scotland and Wales? - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-12-14T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This many children were estimated to be in temporary accommodation across Great Britain earlier this year.


text: A dog pictured has been found freezing in a garden in Falkirk, Scotland and is unchipped.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/missing-dog-falkirk/
title: Facebook post about dog found ‘freezing’ in Falkirk is a hoax - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-12-15T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
False. The dog in question is owned by people in Northern Ireland, and the picture was taken from a Belfast Live article about the dog and its walker being attacked by lurchers in March.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2022-01-10T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/cheetah-greyhound-race/
title: Cheetahs race greyhounds, sometimes - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-01-18T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A picture shows an experiment was conducted to race cheetahs against greyhounds. When the cheetahs didn’t race the explanation given was that cheetahs had too much self-worth to race dogs.

textual_rating:
Cheetahs have raced greyhounds in the past. When they don’t, it’s been hypothesised this could be for a range of reasons including motivation. The picture provided as evidence is from a car advert, not a real greyhound/cheetah race.


text: The new UK-Japan trade deal will deliver a £1.5 billion boost to the UK economy.
claimant: Emily Thornberry
claim_date: 2020-11-26T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/japan-eu-deal-thornberry/
title: Is the UK's trade deal with Japan better than the EU's? - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-11-30T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is the estimate of annual GDP growth after 15 years, relative to 2018, before the existing EU-Japan trade deal took effect.


text: Around 17,000 people have died of Covid-19 in Britain.
claimant: Maajid Nawaz
claim_date: 2022-02-19T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/maajid-nawaz-joe-rogan-covid/
title: Maajid Nawaz got Covid-19 facts wrong on the Joe Rogan podcast - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-02-25T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is not true. By late January 2022, more than 142,000 deaths due to Covid-19 had been registered in England and Wales alone.


text: There have been three deaths linked to Covid-19 vaccines among children in Australia.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2022-01-19T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/kerry-chant-tweet-child-vaccines/
title: Tweet claiming three child deaths from vaccines in Australia is fake - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-01-25T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
There is no evidence for this. The tweet claiming this is fake, purporting to be from an Australian health official. The New South Wales health ministry has said the information in the tweet is incorrect.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-07-28T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/Covid-testing-in-hospitals/
title: Covid testing hasn't left 12 million on NHS waiting lists - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-08-20T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
12 million people are on waiting lists for operations and treatment because the NHS is too busy testing healthy people with no symptoms for Covid-19.

textual_rating:
The current waiting list is 5.5 million, and this is anticipated to rise, with some estimates up to 12.2 million. There are a number of factors contributing to the size of the waiting list. 

Much of the Covid-19 testing happens outside of the NHS.


text: Record levels of working class students are leaving university before completing their degree.
claimant: Angela Rayner
claim_date: 2017-07-09T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/education/are-more-working-class-students-dropping-out-university/
title: Are more working class students dropping out of university? - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-08-07T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The proportion of young UK students from disadvantaged areas dropping out of higher education in England by their second year is at its highest level for five years, but it’s not a record high. That’s looking at full-time students on their first degree, and is based on educational disadvantage. Disadvantaged students, including working class students, are generally more likely to drop out than advantaged.


text: Britain is the third largest military power in the world.
claimant: Toby Young
claim_date: 2019-04-19T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/news/does-uk-have-worlds-third-most-powerful-military/
title: Does the UK have the world’s third most powerful military? - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-04-24T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
A think tank ranked the UK third in the world for “military might” based on judgements about countries’ defence spending, nuclear power, infrastructure, personnel and readiness. But this isn’t the only way to measure military strength and a number of others rank the UK slightly lower.


text: The Gates Foundation has 200,000 shares in Serco.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-10-12T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/seco-track-trace-video/
title: This video makes a number of inaccurate claims about the Covid-19 pandemic - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-10-22T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The Gates Foundation bought 200,000 shares in 2019, bringing its total ownership to 3.74 million shares.


text: A quarter of Covid-19 deaths were not caused by the virus.
claimant: Zero Tolerance Media UK Main Page
claim_date: 2021-04-14T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/quarter-covid-death-certificate/
review_date: 2021-04-15T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
title:
Claims that a quarter of all Covid-19 deaths weren’t caused by the virus misinterpret the data - Full Fact

textual_rating:
This is true for deaths registered in England and Wales for the week ending 2 April 2021, not  the entire pandemic.


text: One in six asylum seekers didn’t meet with border officials and have vanished.
claimant: Daily Express
claim_date: 2016-09-28T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/immigration/what-happened-12000-asylum-seekers/
title: Have 12,000 asylum seekers vanished in the UK? - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-10-03T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Almost 12,000 asylum seekers, or around one in six, are listed as having their case “On Hold” but the Home Office says this includes people who missed a first asylum interview and attended later, rather than vanishing. Its data doesn’t make this clear.


text: The highest weekly Covid deaths in the UK was 652.
claimant: facebook user
claim_date: 2023-05-12T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/covid-weekly-deaths-peak/
title: UK’s worst week for Covid-19 deaths far worse than viral post claims - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-05-16T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is incorrect. The most deaths with Covid-19 mentioned in the death certificate during a seven-day period in the UK was 9,739 in the week ending 22 January 2021.


text: The government has committed to keep meeting the target of spending 2% of GDP on defence.
claimant: Camilla Cavendish
claim_date: 2018-02-15T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/defence-spending/
title: Government defence spending is 2% of GDP - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-02-16T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
In October 2017, the Defence Secretary described 2% as the “minimum NATO commitment” and said “we should aim to do better still”.


claimant: Public
claim_date: 2011-09-08T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/illegal-border-crossing-comparisons/
title: People crossing the UK border illegally do not automatically get jobs and benefits - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-03-17T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
People arriving illegally in the UK will get a job, benefits, driving licence and a tax-free business.

textual_rating:
This is misleading. People arriving in the UK illegally must apply for the right to remain in order to be able to work, apply for a driving licence or claim benefits. There is no such thing as a business tax exemption.


text: The BBC reported that 5.1 billion people watched the funeral.
claimant: Facebook account
claim_date: 2022-09-19T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/news/Queen-funeral-viewing-figures/
title: Did several billion people watch the Queen’s funeral? - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-09-20T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This figure hasn’t been reported by major BBC news outlets and the BBC says it’s not a figure it’s issued. Since we first published this check, a reader’s alerted us to the figure having been used by a presenter on BBC Radio Stoke—but this was after the claim started circulating online.


text: More than half of net migration to the UK comes from the EU.
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/vote-leave-facts-leaflet-migration/
title: Vote Leave "facts" leaflet: migration - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-05-23T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Estimated net migration of citizens from the rest of the EU is actually slightly lower than net migration from the rest of the world—not more than half.


text: Pasteurisation of milk is one of the main causes of lactose intolerance.
claimant: Liz Seibert
claim_date: 2023-08-20T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/raw-milk-lactose-intolerance-pasteurised-liz-seibert/
title: Pasteurisation does not cause lactose intolerance - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-09-04T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Lactose intolerance is caused by a deficiency in the enzyme that breaks it down, and by other gut diseases. Raw milk has not been shown to improve symptoms of the condition.


text: There are more teachers in English schools now than in 2010.
claimant: Theresa May
claim_date: 2016-09-14T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/education/number-teachers-english-schools/
title: The number of teachers in English schools - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-09-14T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
That’s correct, although the number of pupils has also increased. The number of primary school teachers has risen, masking a fall in the number of secondary teachers.


claimant: Public
claim_date: 2023-03-18T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/17-million-year-food-drink-subsidy-parliament/
title: The government doesn’t spend £17 million a year subsidising food in Parliament - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-03-24T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The government spends £17 million a year subsidising food in parliament, equivalent to £30,000 per MP.

textual_rating:
This is not true. According to reports, this is the three-year cost of catering services in the House of Commons. Last year it cost just over £7.5 million to run the catering service, which is open to more than 13,000 other parliamentary pass holders and visitors, as well as MPs.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-01-10T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/are-dogs-dying-eating-jerky-treats/
title: Are dogs dying from eating jerky treats? - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-01-31T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Dog food bought in B&M and made in China has led to two dogs being put down in the last two weeks because it destroys their kidneys.

textual_rating:
We have seen no specific evidence of this. There is evidence of a link between dogs eating jerky treats and developing a kidney disorder, but this is not linked to treats from one specific brand or shop. Many of the cases involve jerky made in China.


text: These unlicensed vaccines will be administered by non-medical staff, such as your employer.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-09-10T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/government-consultation-covid-vaccine-unlicensed/
title: Unlicensed vaccines are not untested - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-09-22T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The government is consulting the public on whether to change the rules around who can administer certain vaccines, which may include some people who don’t normally administer them, including some who aren’t registered healthcare professionals. It does not specifically mention employers.


text: One million migrants are expected in the EU this year and 800,000 have already arrived.
claimant: The Sun
claim_date: 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/how-many-migrants-are-coming-europe-and-uk/
title: How many migrants are coming to Europe and the UK? - Full Fact
review_date: 2015-09-23T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
One million people will seek asylum in the EU in 2015, according to the OECD; around half of them may already have arrived. All these estimates are uncertain.


text: WHO Director Dr Tedros said he hasn’t been vaccinated in a recorded interview.
claimant: Facebook account
claim_date: 2022-08-05T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/Dr-Tedros-has-been-vaccinated/
title: WHO director Dr Tedros has been vaccinated - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-08-22T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is not true. Dr Tedros has been vaccinated. The unedited version of this conversation shows him explaining that he delayed receiving the vaccine until it was available in poorer countries.


claimant: Amanda Pritchard
claim_date: 2021-11-08T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/amanda-pritchard-nhs-hospitalisations/
title: Covid-19 hospitalisations are below last year, not 14 times higher as NHS CEO claimed - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-11-08T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
We have had fourteen times the number of people in hospital with Covid than we saw this time last year.

textual_rating:
False. The number of people with Covid in hospital in November 2020 was above, not below, the level in November 2021.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2022-05-14T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/rnli-wristband-dbs/
title: RNLI lifeguarded beaches don’t all provide wristbands with contact details for children - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-05-25T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Some RNLI lifeguards may provide these wristbands but it is not a nationwide policy.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
When parents arrive on an RNLI lifeguarded beach they should take their child to the lifeguard hut where they can get a free wristband that their parents’ phone number can be written on in waterproof ink.


text: Student ‘loans’ don’t actually work like loans.
claimant: Martin Lewis
claim_date: 2018-05-03T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/education/student-debts-arent-really-debts/
title: Student ‘debts’ aren’t really debts - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-05-04T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
That’s right. What you pay for your student ‘loan’ depends on what you earn, not how much you borrowed, and it doesn’t appear on your credit file.


claimant: Public
claim_date: 2023-08-14T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/mountain-dew-Maui-fires/
title: Mountain Dew drink doesn’t prove Maui fires were ‘planned’ - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-08-18T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The ‘Maui Burst’ flavour of fizzy drink Mountain Dew shows a connection between recent wildfires on the island and directed energy weapons (DEW). It suggests the fires were somehow ‘planned’.

textual_rating:
There’s no evidence the fires were started using directed energy weapons, or that Mountain Dew is connected to either the fires or weapons.


text: Landmark Danish study shows face masks have no significant effect.
claimant: Carl Heneghan and Tom Jefferson
claim_date: 2020-11-19T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/danish-mask-wearing-spectator/
title: Danish study on mask efficacy only tells us half the story - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-11-24T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
A Danish study found the Covid-19 infection rate was lower among mask-wearers than non-mask wearers but not significantly so. 

However this is not proof that masks don’t have a significant effect, as the study didn’t look at whether mask-wearing protects others by stopping wearers from exhaling the virus.


text: Our mortality rate remains much the same as others.
claimant: David Warburton MP
claim_date: 2021-01-08T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/coronavirus-claims-david-warburton/
title: Several coronavirus claims made by MP in newspaper are inaccurate - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-01-22T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
In the week to 11 January, Our World in Data reported the UK had the fourth highest rate of Covid-19 death in the world. John Hopkins University said it had the eighth highest.


text: Vitamin B17 is banned because it kills cancer cells.
claimant: facebook user
claim_date: 2023-03-06T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/vitamin-B17-cancer/
title: ‘Vitamin B17’ from apricot seeds does not cure cancer - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-03-15T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
There is no good evidence that Vitamin B17, or amygdalin, treats cancer. The substance is regulated for sale in the UK, but in theory could be sold under licence if it was ever shown to be effective.


text: Upskirting is not illegal because there is no specific crime covering the act.
claimant: The Independent
claim_date: 2018-03-08T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/law/upskirting-whats-legal-situation/
title: Upskirting: what’s the legal situation? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-06-27T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Upskirting offenders have been prosecuted under existing laws but there is criticism these don’t go far enough. A new bill would specify upskirting as a criminal act if passed.


text: We can only sell lamb to Japan because of the EU-Japan trade deal.
claimant: Twitter user
claim_date: 2019-07-30T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/lamb-japan/
title: Lamb exports to Japan aren’t due to EU trade deal - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-07-31T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
We sell lamb to Japan as a result of Japan agreeing to drop an import ban. Japan charges no tariffs on lamb, so farmers will continue to export lamb to Japan tariff free post-Brexit.


text: Almost 5.5 million British people live permanently abroad.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2016-05-26T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/more-context-needed-these-facts-about-immigration/
title: More context is needed for these “facts about immigration” - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-06-27T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is based on an out-of-date estimate. A more recent estimate puts the number at just under five million.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-07-18T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/paris-protests-photograph/
title: Photo doesn’t show Covid protest in Paris - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-07-19T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Photograph of people filling the streets of Paris was taken during protests against Covid-19 regulations on 17 July 2021.

textual_rating:
False. Although there were protests in Paris on this day, this photograph was taken during celebrations after France won the World Cup in 2018.


text: Covid-19 vaccines have caused thousands upon thousands of life changing adverse reactions.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-04-24T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/do-not-resuscitate-video/
title: Viral video includes lots of false claims and half truths - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-05-10T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Reports of possible events that have occurred around the time of vaccination are made to the MHRA’s Yellow Card scheme. Just because they’ve been reported does not mean that they have been proven to be caused by the vaccine.


text: Wages are rising at the fastest rate in a decade.
claimant: Rishi Sunak
claim_date: 2019-08-01T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/wage-growth-august-2019/
title: Government uses bad measure of wage growth, again - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-08-07T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This ignores inflation which means it’s a bad measure to use. Average wages for employees in Great Britain grew around 2% over the last year in real terms, which isn’t the fastest in a decade.


text: There is no Delta variant test.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-08-28T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/delta-variant-tests/
title: There are ways of testing for the Delta variant - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-08-02T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Genetic analysis of positive tests allow scientists to identify different variants of Covid-19, including the Delta variant.


text: We’re spending record levels on our NHS—£149 billion a year.
claimant: Anna Soubry
claim_date: 2018-05-24T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/health-and-social-care-what-do-we-spend/
title: Health and social care: What do we spend? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-05-25T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
That’s how much public spending on health across the UK came to in 2016/17. Most, but not all of this money goes to the NHS.


text: Under Rishi Sunak’s plans, the UK is predicted to go into recession.
claimant: Liz Truss
claim_date: 2022-07-17T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/news/itv-conservative-leadership-debate/
title: ITV Conservative leadership debate: fact checked - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-07-17T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Neither the Bank of England nor the forecasts compiled by the Treasury have predicted a technical recession (two consecutive quarters of GDP contraction) this year, though at least one economic think tank has.


text: There has been a 400% increase in hate crime within the LGBT+ community.
claimant: Dawn Butler
claim_date: 2020-02-17T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/crime/LGBT-hate-crime/
title: Change in LGBT+ hate crime levels not as simple as Dawn Butler suggests - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-02-18T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Incorrect. There are two sources of data on this type of hate crime. One estimates a 261% increase in hate crime on the basis of sexual orientation and transgender identity, and the other estimates a 40% decrease in hate crimes based on sexual orientation since around 2010. Neither measure is perfect.


text: Police catch 11 year-olds being used to sell drugs.
claimant: The Times
claim_date: 2018-09-12T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/crime/cannabis-kids-under-18s-prosecuted/
title: Cannabis kids: are more under-18s being prosecuted for supplying the drug? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-10-04T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
We’ve not seen the evidence for this, though other data on the number of young people prosecuted for drug offences suggests it’s possible.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-12-01T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/shark-tank-diet-pills/
review_date: 2021-12-06T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False. Shark Tank has never featured weight loss pills.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Weight loss pills advertised on Facebook have been endorsed by judges on the US version of Dragons’ Den, Shark Tank.

title:
Facebook posts falsely advertise weight loss pills as endorsed by judges on US Dragons’ Den - Full Fact


text: The Pirbright Institute was responsible for foot and mouth.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-10-12T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/seco-track-trace-video/
title: This video makes a number of inaccurate claims about the Covid-19 pandemic - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-10-22T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
A pipe connected to the Pirbright Insitute’s Surrey facility was found to be the likely source of a 2007 foot and mouth outbreak.


claimant: facebook user
claim_date: 2022-02-16T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/heart-attacks/
title: Collection of heart attack articles includes one fake - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-03-01T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Shaking your duvet, climate change, energy drinks, shovelling snow and your electric bill can all reportedly cause heart attacks in 2022.

textual_rating:
The article claiming shaking your duvet can risk heart attacks is fake. The one about climate change is from 2010. The one about energy drinks does not prove energy drinks cause heart attacks. The last two are based on claims made by doctors.


text: Labour’s energy bills plan would stop people paying a penny more on their energy bills this winter.
claimant: Keir Starmer
claim_date: 2022-08-22T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/labour-energy-bills-seasonal-consumption/
review_date: 2022-08-25T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
title:
Labour’s £29 billion plan would not fully cover the cost of freezing the energy price cap - Full Fact

textual_rating:
Labour’s plan does not pledge enough money to freeze the unit price of energy during the winter, when consumption is higher, meaning people’s bills would eventually become more expensive, unless more money were provided.


text: Pictures of white vapour trails in the sky show chemtrails used for geoengineering.
claimant: facebook user
claim_date: 2022-05-07T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/white-lines-not-chemtrails/
title: White lines in the sky are not ‘chemtrails’ - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-05-27T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is not true. These white lines are contrails, formed when water vapour from aircraft engines freezes at high altitudes.


text: 4,300 more staff employed in mental health trusts since 2013.
claimant: Jeremy Hunt
claim_date: 2017-11-08T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/mental-health-staff-nhs/
title: Mental health staff in the NHS - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-12-19T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is not how many mental health specialist staff there are. It is the increase in all staff in English trusts with over half their outpatient activity in mental health specialities. Some of the staff were effectively re-categorised into the mental health category during this time, rather than being newly hired.


text: The full state pension is £179.60 a week
claimant: facebook user
claim_date: 2022-04-12T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/lords-allowance-pensions-true/
review_date: 2022-04-28T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
title:
Facebook post’s figures for the state pension and House of Lords allowance are broadly right - Full Fact

textual_rating:
This was correct for the financial year when the claim was first made on Twitter. As of 6 April 2022, the correct value is £185.15.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-07-22T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/tetanus-risk-social-media/
title: Facebook post on tetanus jabs gets a lot wrong - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-07-27T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
If a wound was not caused by a rusty nail where farm animals graze you most likely don’t have to worry about tetanus.

textual_rating:
Some wounds carry a higher risk of tetanus than others. However, it is not true to say that a wound caused by a rusty nail where farm animals graze is the only type of injury that could lead to tetanus infection.


claimant: The Conservative Woman
claim_date: 2021-08-11T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/conservative-woman-article-falsely-claims-vaccines-dont-work/
title: Conservative Woman article falsely claims vaccines don’t work - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-08-18T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Natural immunity is robust, complete, and durable. It cannot be improved upon by vaccination, or any other method.

textual_rating:
False. Studies have shown natural immunity to Covid-19 can wane, and that, among people who have been infected, those who have been vaccinated are less likely to be reinfected.


text: A picture showing people unwell on the streets of India shows the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-04-27T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/gas-leak-not-covid-19/
title: New York Post’s use of old India gas leak picture causes confusion - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-05-10T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This image was used in an article written by the New York Post about the Covid-19 pandemic. But it actually comes from a video taken in 2020 after a gas leak in Visakhapatnam, India.


text: Price inflation is “soaring” at a two year high of 1%.
claimant: Jonathan Prynn
claim_date: 2016-10-18T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/inflation-prices-soaring/
title: Adjective inflation: are prices “soaring”? - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-10-20T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
It’s correct that consumer price inflation is at a two year high. But that’s far from a “soaring” rate of inflation.


text: A video shows a protest in Spain against the effects of WEF globalism.
claimant: TikTok user
claim_date: 2023-02-14T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/spain-protest-WEF/
title: ‘WEF protest’ in Spain was actually over health system - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-02-20T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This protest happened in Madrid on 12 February but was about the healthcare system in the region and not about the World Economic Forum.


url: https://fullfact.org/online/coronavirus-mask/
review_date: 2020-02-27T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Each side of protective surgical masks has different functions, indicated by colour, and you should choose the way you wear by whether you are ill or not.

title:
You should generally wear a protective face mask with the coloured side pointing outwards - Full Fact

textual_rating:
This is incorrect. Generally, if they have a coloured side, you should wear your mask with this pointing outward—but always read the manufacturer’s instructions to be sure.


text: Coronavirus pneumonia is a dry cough with no runny nose.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-02-27T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/coronavirus-claims-symptoms-viral/
title: Viral post about someone’s uncle’s coronavirus advice is not all it’s cracked up to be - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-03-05T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Some Covid-19 patients do get pneumonia, and one of the symptoms is a dry cough. A runny nose doesn’t rule out Covid-19.


text: 160 MPs are for leave and 486 are for remain.
url: https://fullfact.org/online/referendum-results-by-constituency/
title: How did different constituencies vote in the 2016 EU referendum? - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-04-30T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
That’s pretty close to survey results of all the MPs just before the 2016 referendum. There has since been a general election and some MPs could have changed their view.


text: Labour left a £38 billion black hole in the defence budget.
claimant: Suella Braverman
claim_date: 2018-06-28T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/did-labour-leave-38-billion-black-hole-defence-spending/
title: Did Labour leave a £38 billion black hole in defence spending? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-06-29T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The Ministry of Defence says this, but this hasn’t been fully substantiated in the evidence it has published.


text: A map shows the potential sites of Russian nuclear strikes on the UK.
claimant: public
claim_date: 2022-02-25T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/nuke-map-uk-russia/
title: Map of Russian nuclear targets in UK dates back to the Cold War - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-03-02T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The locations were suggested by the UK government in documents made 50 years ago, during the Cold War, and don’t give any reliable indication of the situation today.


claimant: Patrick Basham
claim_date: 2020-11-07T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/news/express-trump-election-voter-fraud/
review_date: 2020-11-09T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
If you count the ballot fraud in the US election, most pollsters clearly failed. If you don’t include the fraudulent ballots, most pollsters failed on a spectacular scale.

title:
Express opinion piece wrong to allege evidence of widespread voter fraud in US elections - Full Fact

textual_rating:
There is no evidence of widespread fraudulent ballots in the US election. It is correct that the predictions of many pollsters were found to be inaccurate.


text: In 1955, Crest became the first fluoride toothpaste.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-03-26T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/fluoride-claims/
title: Not all these claims about fluoride are accurate - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-06-27T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Crest began testing its first fluoride toothpaste in 1955. It wasn’t the first fluoride toothpaste but fluoride became a standard additive around this time.


text: Last year, half a million children went for three days’ emergency food supplies.
claimant: Emily Thornberry
claim_date: 2017-11-16T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/children-emergency-food-supplies/
title: Did 500,000 children need emergency food supplies last year? - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-11-17T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
These figures refer to the number of three day emergency food supplies given out to children by the Trussell Trust, not the number of children receiving those supplies. 437,000 three day emergency food supplies were given to children between April 2016 and March 2017.


text: There are more jobs available for young people than ever before.
claimant: Jeremy Hunt
claim_date: 2023-03-12T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/news/jeremy-hunt-youth-unemployment-low/
title: Youth unemployment no longer at historic low - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-03-16T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The overall number of vacancies has fallen, meaning there are fewer jobs available across the board.


text: City of London police are warning people about a mobile network provider scam.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-07-02T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/city-of-london-police-scam/
review_date: 2020-07-08T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: This is not a real scam.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
title:
City Of London Police are not warning people about this scam claiming to involve banks and mobile network providers - Full Fact


text: More people died from suicide than from Covid-19 in August.
claimant: Twitter user
claim_date: 2020-09-09T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/post-comparing-deaths-august-guess/
title: This post comparing deaths in August is a guess - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-09-24T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
There is no data on the number of deaths from suicide in August this year, as the cause of death needs to be confirmed by an inquest. The monthly average from 2018, the most recent year we have data for, was slightly higher than the number of Covid deaths in August 2020.


text: PCR tests insert nanoparticles into your brain and cause Morgellons disease.
url: https://fullfact.org/online/video-pcr-tests-nanoparticles/
title: Video falsely claims PCR tests insert ‘nanoparticles’ into brain - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-01-21T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is entirely false. There is no evidence PCR tests insert anything into your brain, and there is debate about whether Morgellons is a real disease.


text: The Mu variant of Covid-19 is “immune to vaccines”.
claimant: Daily Express
claim_date: 2021-09-08T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/mu-variant-immune-vaccines/
title: Evidence so far does not show the Mu variant is ‘immune to vaccines’ - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-09-13T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The Mu variant possesses a number of mutations, some of which may make it more likely to evade the immune system. However, it is incorrect to say that the evidence so far suggests the variant is entirely “immune” to vaccines, or that they won’t work at all.


text: The number of people in fuel poverty may double to 12 million.
claimant: BBC News
claim_date: 2022-05-24T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/bbc-ofgem-12-million-fuel-poverty/
title: Ofgem said that 12 million households—not people—might end up in fuel poverty - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-06-10T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This comes from a comment by the CEO of Ofgem, who actually said that 12 million households, amounting to much more than 12 million people, might be affected. The figure is an uncertain forecast.


text: Interest payments on the national debt are the fifth biggest item of government expenditure.
claimant: Ben Wallace
claim_date: 2017-05-11T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/interest-payments-national-debt/
title: Interest payments on the national debt - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-05-12T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Correct. The government spends more on health, benefits, pensions and education (broadly defined) but debt interest takes up about 5% of all government spending (excluding payments to the Bank of England).


text: 1.9 million more children are now in good and outstanding schools, compared with 2010.
claimant: Theresa May
claim_date: 2018-10-10T00:00:00Z
review_date: 2018-10-11T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
url:
https://fullfact.org/education/government-stop-saying-1-point-9-million-good-or-outstanding-schools/

title:
The government should stop saying there are 1.9 million more children in good or outstanding schools - Full Fact

textual_rating:
This doesn’t acknowledge that there were 560,000 more pupils in state-funded schools in England in 2017 compared to 2010, and changes to inspection practices. 580,000 pupils are in schools that haven’t been inspected since 2010.


claimant: Public
claim_date: 2023-01-25T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/greggs-offer-free-sausage-roll/
title: Facebook offer of free sausage roll and drink at Greggs is not genuine - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-01-27T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Greggs has confirmed this is not a genuine offer.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Facebook users can get a free sausage roll and hot drink from Greggs in return for shares and comments on a post.


text: People who die of Covid would probably have died within a year.
claimant: Lord Sumption
claim_date: 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/lord-sumption-covid-errors/
title: Lord Sumption made several errors about Covid on Today - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is not supported by the evidence. Research suggests people who die of Covid lose about a decade of life, on average.


text: Lawyers are complaining about legal aid reductions despite making more money.
claimant: Daily Mail
claim_date: 2017-01-02T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/law/not-all-britains-lawyers-are-raking-it/
title: Not all of Britain’s lawyers are “raking it in” - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-01-06T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Turnover in the legal sector overall has been rising, but legal aid is a relatively small and falling proportion of that.


claimant: Sky News
claim_date: 2015-08-17T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/diagnosis-unknown-how-many-diabetes-cases-go-undetected/
title: Diagnosis unknown: how many diabetes cases go undetected? - Full Fact
review_date: 2015-08-17T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
3.3m people diagnosed with diabetes in the UK in 2013/14, whilst an additional 590,000 are undiagnosed.

textual_rating:
GP practice registers support the 3.3m figure, but the methodology and reliability of the undiagnosed figure is more uncertain.


claimant: Rebecca Long-Bailey
claim_date: 2017-03-12T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/have-conservatives-brought-70-billion-worth-tax-cuts/
title: Have the Conservatives brought in £70 billion worth of tax cuts? - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-03-20T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Conservative-led changes to corporation tax, inheritance tax, capital gains tax and the bank levy will lose the government £70 billion between April 2016 and April 2022.

textual_rating:
The individual figures stand up to a degree of scrutiny, but this claim gives a limited picture of how these taxes have changed overall.


text: Political parties can’t accept money from people who are not British citizens or businesses.
claimant: Chris Grayling
claim_date: 2018-03-15T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/law/most-non-uk-citizens-cant-donate-uk-political-parties/
title: Most non-UK citizens can’t donate to UK political parties - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-03-16T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Parties can accept money from people on the electoral register - a wider group than just British citizens. Irish, EU and Commonwealth citizens living in the UK can be eligible as well. Generally only UK and Irish businesses can donate.


claimant: David Cameron
claim_date: 2015-12-16T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/social-care-funding-how-did-sector-react-latest-plans/
title: Social care funding: how did the sector react to the latest plans? - Full Fact
review_date: 2015-12-21T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The local Government Association said the spending review would allow some councils to go some of the way to raise the money they need for social care.

textual_rating:
That's right, although how far the measures will go varies by area. Experts have estimated the funding gap for adult social care at between £2.8 billion and £3.5 billion by 2020.


text: Giving ice cubes to dogs during hot weather will actually cause them to overheat.
claimant: facebook user
claim_date: 2022-07-12T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/dogs-ice-cubes-heatwave/
title: Ice cubes will not cause healthy dogs to overheat on hot days - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-07-19T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Although dogs suffering from heatstroke should not be given ice, it is perfectly safe for healthy dogs.


text: Immigrants are 60% less likely to claim benefits than a British-born person.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2016-05-26T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/more-context-needed-these-facts-about-immigration/
title: More context is needed for these “facts about immigration” - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-06-27T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
That’s based on a decade-old report and only looked at immigrants from a few EU countries. Immigrants are probably less likely to be receiving out of work benefits than UK nationals, based on the best available evidence.


text: Some government buildings in London are operating under sharia law.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-07-22T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/london-islam-mosques-sharia-violent/
title: Islam in London: factchecking the viral image - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-08-08T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Three government buildings underpinned a government-issued Islamic financial bond. The buildings are still governed by English law though, and haven’t changed use. Because they underpinned the bond they had to be sharia compliant.


text: Last winter, tens of thousands of sick patients waited on A&E trolleys.
claimant: YouTube user
claim_date: 2017-05-21T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/nhs-video-factchecked/
title: NHS video, factchecked - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
There were 196,000 waits of over four hours in accident and emergencies in England in the winter months of 2016/17. These figures are the closest we have to a count of people on trolleys, which isn’t specifically recorded.


text: Conversely, working pensioners are affected by the National Insurance rise.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2022-04-11T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/working-pensioners-NI-increase/
title: Working pensioners will have to pay the health and social care levy from 2023 - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-04-19T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
In 2022/23, working pensioners will not get an NI increase, as they usually don’t pay NI. They will have to pay the health and social care levy from April 2023, which is much the same as the NI increase.


text: New gender pay gap figures reveal 8 out of 10 firms pay men more.
claimant: The Guardian
claim_date: 2018-04-04T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/gender-pay-gap-new-figures/
title: Gender pay gap: what do the new figures tell us? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-04-06T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
New rules mean all UK employers with 250+ employees have to report their gender pay gap. 10,000 employers responded, and 78% pay men more than women on average, based on median hourly earnings.


text: £37 billion has been spent on NHS Test and Trace, and it’s not clear how this money was used.
claimant: Public
claim_date: 2022-05-04T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/test-and-trace-37-billion/
title: £37 billion was the two-year budget for NHS Test and Trace, not how much was spent - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-05-16T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This figure was the budget for the scheme in its first two years—around £29.5 billion was actually spent. While detailed figures for 2021/22 have not yet been published, the vast majority of spending in the scheme’s first year went on testing.


text: The average age of death from Covid-19 is 82.
claimant: Beverley Turner
claim_date: 2021-05-31T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/this-morning-vaccines/
title: This Morning guest makes misleading claims on vaccine efficacy - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-06-01T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is true for deaths involving Covid-19 registered in England and Wales between October 2020 and January 2021.


claimant: Matt Hancock
claim_date: 2020-10-22T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/matt-hancock-long-covid/
title: Matt Hancock got the evidence about long Covid wrong - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-10-26T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
There is no link between the severity of a Covid-19 infection and the chances of suffering “long Covid” afterwards

textual_rating:
This is incorrect, based on the data Mr Hancock mentioned, which suggests that people who suffer from “long Covid” had more symptoms when they were infected, and were more likely to have visited hospital.


claimant: facebook user
claim_date: 2023-05-27T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/nhs-staff-pay-rise-test-and-trace/
title: Money spent on Test and Trace couldn’t fund 15% NHS pay increase for 35 years - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-07-12T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The money spent on NHS Test and Trace would have paid for a 15% pay rise for every NHS worker from now until 2058.

textual_rating:
This is incorrect. Based on the most recent government figures, the £37 billion Test and Trace budget—which was not all spent—would only pay for a 15% rise for NHS hospital and community health service staff for about four years.


text: It is illegal not to accept cash as it is legal tender.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2023-02-16T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/legal-tender-not-illegal-to-accept/
title: It’s not illegal for shops to refuse cash - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-08-11T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
It is perfectly lawful for shops and businesses to not accept cash, even though coins and notes are legal tender in England and Wales (only coins are legal tender in Scotland and Northern Ireland).


text: The IFS found average working families will be £1,400 worse off because of the 2017 Budget.
claimant: Jeremy Corbyn
claim_date: 2017-03-15T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/average-working-families-and-budget/
title: “Average working families” and the Budget - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-03-15T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
That’s not correct. Figures on this scale don’t refer to the recent budget, they cover all changes to tax and benefits from 2015 to 2020. The average one-earner couple with children stands to lose £1,400 over this period and households with children overall are expected to be £1,300 worse off.


text: University applications fall by 25,000 as effects of Brexit and funding changes hit.
claimant: HuffPost
claim_date: 2017-07-13T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/education/have-university-applicant-numbers-fallen-2017/
title: Have university applicant numbers fallen in 2017? - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-07-14T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Applicant numbers have fallen by this much, compared to last year’s UCAS June deadline. There are probably a few things driving this, but UCAS says a major factor is a fall in the number of 18 year olds in the UK population. The 18 year old application rate is still at a record high.


claimant: David Davis
claim_date: 2021-02-03T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/vitamin-d-covid-evidence/
title: The link between vitamin D and Covid-19 is complex - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-03-01T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The death rate in Andalucía almost halved between November and December following the introduction of their vitamin D policy.

textual_rating:
The death rate in Andalucía did drop, but numbers increased again in January. There are also other reasons that may explain the drop in cases in Andalucía, and the difference between Andalucía and the UK case numbers.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-03-23T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/coronavirus-vaccine-not-ready/
title: US scientists have not created a vaccine for the new coronavirus - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-03-26T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A vaccine for the new coronavirus has been created by US scientists and will be ready to use from next Sunday.

textual_rating:
Whilst there are vaccines in development, it will likely be more than 18 months before they are ready to use. The image and videos accompanying the post are related to Covid-19 diagnostic tests, not vaccines.


text: 6,000 UK veterans sleep on the streets.
url: https://fullfact.org/online/veterans-asylum-seekers/
title: Figures for people seeking asylum in hotels and veterans sleeping rough are both wrong - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-08-28T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
A report two years ago claimed that 6,000 veterans were homeless, but homelessness includes those in temporary accommodation. The number sleeping rough is probably much lower.


text: During their 12 years in government, the Conservatives haven’t got the debt and deficit down.
claimant: Rachel Reeves
claim_date: 2022-09-26T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/Rachel-Reeves-deficit/
title: The deficit is lower than it was 12 years ago - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-09-26T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Debt has increased as a percentage of GDP over the last 12 years. But the deficit is lower now than it was when Labour left office.


text: More foreigners have jobs than before the EU referendum.
claimant: Daily Mail
claim_date: 2018-05-16T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/whats-happened-employment-vote-leave-eu/
title: What’s happened to employment since the vote to leave the EU? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-05-21T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Correct, the number of people born outside the UK in employment has increased over the past two years.


text: One in three dementia patients are forced to sell their homes.
claimant: Daily Mail
claim_date: 2019-07-19T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/people-dementia-sell-homes-pay-care/
title: How many people with dementia have to sell their homes to pay for care? - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-07-24T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Incorrect. A poll found that 16% of respondents who said they had friends or family with dementia also said that person had to sell their home to pay for care. But there are other drawbacks which mean the results are not reliable.


claimant: Nigel Farage
claim_date: 2019-06-07T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/would-brexit-party-win-general-election/
title: Would the Brexit party win a majority of 240 seats at a general election? - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-06-12T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
If the EU parliamentary election results happened at a general election under first past the post, the Brexit party would have a majority of over 240 seats.

textual_rating:
This is reasonable based on the best available estimates—but it’s very unlikely that these results would be replicated at a general election. EU election results can’t be used as a proxy for how people would vote in a general election.


url: https://fullfact.org/health/food-poisoning-US-UK/
title: You can’t really compare rates of food poisoning between the US and UK - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-10-24T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
One in six people in the US get food poisoning each year and one in 66 people in the UK get food poisoning each year.

textual_rating:
These estimates are both correct based on government figures, but they’re not      comparable due to differences in methodology and how the data was collected.


claimant: BBC Question Time audience member
claim_date: 2017-05-18T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/uk-foreign-aid-and-airport-never-took/
title: UK foreign aid, and an airport that never took off - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-05-19T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The UK government spent £285 million building an airport on the island of Saint Helena that planes can't use.

textual_rating:
About £285 million was spent on a project to design, build, and operate an airport on the island of St Helena for ten years. But due to the extreme winds on the island commercial flights have been unable to run as planned.


text: The vaccine has been pushed through in record time.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-11-12T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/nottingham-conspiracy-theories/
title: Luminescent enzymes not in Covid-19 vaccine and other myths debunked - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-03-05T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Correct, thanks to recent medical advances, new technologies and ample funding. The Covid-19 vaccines have been tested to the same high standards as all vaccines are.


text: The Conservatives got 3.5 million more people back to work, or 1,000 a day.
claimant: Esther McVey
claim_date: 2019-06-03T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/counting-esther-mcveys-record-employment/
title: Counting Esther McVey’s record on employment - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-06-14T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Since 2010, when the Conservatives entered government, employment levels have increased by 3.7 million, over 1,000 people per day on average. That can’t necessarily be attributed to any specific government policies.


text: If you see someone trick or treating carrying a blue pumpkin, it could be a sign they’re autistic.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-10-11T00:00:00Z
review_date: 2019-10-24T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
url:
https://fullfact.org/online/blue-trick-or-treating-pumpkin-buckets-are-not-official-symbols-autistic-community/

title:
Blue trick or treating pumpkin buckets are not official symbols for the autistic community - Full Fact

textual_rating:
The blue pumpkins are not an official campaign, but have been embraced by some people (mostly, it seems in America).


text: A HMRC boss, Edward Troup, once said that taxation is “legalised extortion”.
claimant: Justin Webb
claim_date: 2016-04-11T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/taxation-legalised-extortion-discuss/
title: "Taxation is legalised extortion": a quote out of context? - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-04-11T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
He did write this, but says it should be seen in context. The words appeared in a 1997 opinion piece in the Financial Times, in which Mr Troup argued against a particular approach to preventing tax avoidance.


claimant: Maria Caulfield
claim_date: 2022-12-15T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/maria-caulfield-nhs-nurse-pay/
title: Health minister’s claims on nurse pay fact checked - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-12-16T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The government would have to find £10 billion of funding to meet the Royal College of Nursing’s demands for a 19% pay rise.

textual_rating:
The £10 billion figure describes a pay rise of 19% for all NHS staff with the exception of doctors, dentists and very senior managers, not just nurses. It is unclear exactly how this has been calculated, and the Department for Health and Social Care (DHSC) has not confirmed whether it takes into account the amount that would be directly returned through taxes on higher salaries.


text: The Australian government has admitted Covid-19 vaccines are a poison.
claimant: Public
claim_date: 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/australia-covid-vaccine-poison/
title: Australian government hasn’t admitted vaccines are a dangerous poison - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-08-03T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Under Western Australian legislation, vaccines (alongside medicines such as paracetamol) are classed as poisons. This is just a legal definition, and does not mean the government is saying they are dangerous or planning to poison people.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-09-01T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/Wetherspoons-Covid-19-voucher-fake/
title: Wetherspoons Covid-19 reopening deal is fake - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-09-02T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: It’s not. Wetherspoons has confirmed the offer isn’t genuine.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Wetherspoons is offering a “meal for two with drinks” voucher to celebrate the lifting of Covid restrictions.


text: For every £1 spent on legal aid, the state saves £6.
claimant: Unite
claim_date: 2015-03-10T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/law/how-much-money-does-legal-aid-save-country/
title: How much money does legal aid save the country? - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-01-08T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This claim has evolved down a chain of several different pieces of research and should be treated with caution. Academics say that we need more research about the savings that spending on legal aid can bring.


text: Knife crime has soared to a record high.
claimant: Daily Express
claim_date: 2019-10-18T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/crime/knife-crime-october-2019/
title: Knife crime at eight-year high - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-10-22T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Correct, for England and Wales, though comparable data only goes back to 2011 and there are some data issues.


text: Covid-19 has a survival rate of 99.8%.
url: https://fullfact.org/online/covid-19-survival-rate-less-998/
title: Covid-19 survival rate is less than 99.8% - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-02-19T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The survival rate varies by country but this estimate is too high for the UK. Estimates of the survival rate range from around 99% to 99.5%.


claimant: Rebecca Pow MP
claim_date: 2021-10-20T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/environment/murky-claims-about-sewage-bill-fact-checked/
title: Murky claims about sewage bill fact checked - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-10-28T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The amendment the government rejected would have cost the taxpayer hundreds of billions of pounds to replace the sewage system in order to eliminate sewage discharge.

textual_rating:
The amendment itself did not explicitly require sewage discharge to be reduced completely, although its explanatory notes did say this. The amendment called for progressive reduction in harm. Details of the cost of replacing the sewage network are yet to be fully published.


text: NHS Professionals was owned by the NHS until David Cameron sold it off.
claimant: facebook user
claim_date: 2023-06-25T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/nhs-professionals-sold-david-cameron/
title: NHS Professionals was not sold off by David Cameron - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-07-21T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is false. The NHS Professionals website and its company accounts say it is still wholly owned by the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC).


claimant: Naomi Smith
claim_date: 2021-10-25T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/eu-mineral-water-imports/
title: Claims of an EU mineral water ban need a drop of context - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-10-28T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The UK will cease to recognise and allow the import of mineral water from the EU and EEA from January 2022.

textual_rating:
This is missing context. Manufacturers of EU mineral water can continue to export it to Britain as long as they renew their accreditation by 7 January 2022.


text: A photo shows sheep dyed by a farmer in Scotland.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-02-25T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/sheep-dye/
title: Some farmers dye their sheep, but a photo of a neon flock has been edited - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-02-25T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The photo has been edited, though farmers do sometimes dye their sheep for both practical and entertainment purposes.


text: Homelessness has increased by 1000%.
claimant: Public
claim_date: 2023-04-08T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/list-2010-claims/
title: Post comparing the UK today to 2010 has a number of errors - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-06-30T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Homelessness figures today are not directly comparable with 2010. But there is no evidence to support a 1,000% increase which figures suggest is a significant exaggeration.


text: House building numbers hit a record high under this government.
claimant: Rishi Sunak
claim_date: 2023-03-01T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/rishi-sunak-record-house-building-government/
title: Was Rishi Sunak’s new claim about a house building record accurate? - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-03-03T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The number of ‘net additional dwellings’ did hit the highest point on record in 2019/20, but these statistics only go back to the early 1990s. Other metrics and housing experts suggest that, while recent building figures are higher than in some previous years, they’re generally far lower than records set decades ago.


text: A picture shows the world's oldest living land animal, a tortoise named Jonathan.
claimant: Public
claim_date: 2021-04-06T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/jonathan-tortoise-190-oldest-animal/
title: Viral social media picture doesn’t show world’s oldest living land animal - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-07-15T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
It is true that the oldest known land animal is a tortoise named Jonathan, but this is a picture of a different tortoise.


claimant: public
claim_date: 2023-05-21T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/Tim-Schofield-stabbed-prison/
title: Tim Schofield has not been stabbed in prison - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-05-22T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: The Ministry of Justice has confirmed that this is not true.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Tim Schofield has been stabbed in prison and taken to an intensive care unit by an air ambulance where he is ‘fighting for his life’.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-06-12T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/hgv-rules-vosa/
title: HGV securing point rules aren’t changing - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-09-09T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: This is not true.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
From September the rules for securing loads on HGVs are changing and a certain way of securing loads will become illegal.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-10-12T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/seco-track-trace-video/
title: This video makes a number of inaccurate claims about the Covid-19 pandemic - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-10-22T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Recently introduced laws mean if you are told to self-isolate and do not, you will get a £1,000 pound fine administered by Serco.

textual_rating:
It is true a law was recently introduced to fine those breaking isolation orders from Test and Trace. However, Serco does not administer these fines.


text: Positive and negative control swabs are included in Covid-19 testing kits.
claimant: Facebook User
claim_date: 2022-01-04T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/lateral-flow-control-swabs/
title: Control swabs aren’t meant to be used for patient testing - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-01-10T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Control swabs are included in some testing kits. These are used to check that the tests are working properly and are not for use in patient testing.


text: A picture shows George Soros as an SS officer.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2018-07-28T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/george-soros-was-not-nazi-ss-officer/
title: George Soros was not a Nazi SS officer - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-07-31T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Incorrect. The picture is of Oskar Gröning, the so-called “bookkeeper of Auschwitz”, and not Mr Soros.


claimant: Facebook User
claim_date: 2021-12-01T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/FDA-drug-recalls/
title: The FDA recalls drugs for a wide range of reasons - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-12-16T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The FDA recalls 1,270 drugs every year that were previously approved but are then subsequently deemed unsuitable.

textual_rating:
The FDA recalls medications for a wide variety of reasons. These include lots of different manufacturing, storage, or labelling concerns. Just under 1,000 have been recalled in 2021.


claimant: Public
claim_date: 2023-08-02T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/france-supermarket-cashless/
title: It is illegal for businesses to refuse cash in France - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-09-05T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A very well known supermarket in France reinstated cash payments after a protest involving 50 people against card-only payments.

textual_rating:
There is no evidence this took place. It is against the law for businesses to refuse cash in France.


text: 91p per person per day has been spent on Brexit since 2016.
claimant: Best for Britain
claim_date: 2019-07-07T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/viral-brexit-costs-post-wrong/
title: This viral post about the costs of Brexit gets a lot of things wrong - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-08-29T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Incorrect. This seems to be derived from an estimate that the Brexit vote reduced UK GDP growth by £66 billion in two and a half years. That is not the same as money spent on Brexit, and it is an estimate based on modelling, not a definitive sum.


text: Remaining in the EU means we have ample supplies of fresh fruit and medicine.
claimant: Twitter user
claim_date: 2019-02-09T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/brexit-whats-germany-plus-deal/
title: Brexit: What’s a “Germany plus” deal? - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-02-15T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Correct, although it’s difficult to say how severe medicine and food shortages – if there are shortages - might be after Brexit.


claimant: Merryn Somerset Webb
claim_date: 2016-11-18T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/imf-brexit/
title: The IMF on Brexit - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-11-18T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The IMF says that the UK will be the fastest growing economy in the G7 in 2016, whereas it had predicted that a Brexit vote would be immediately bad for the economy.

textual_rating:
It’s true that the IMF puts the UK at the top of the G7 for growth in 2016. It had envisaged scenarios where the UK economy suffered soon after a vote to leave the EU. That hasn’t happened, although the IMF still thinks there’s trouble coming.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2023-02-27T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/ukraine-social-credit-app-great-reset/
title: Ukraine’s Diia app is not connected to the ‘Great Reset’ - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-03-15T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Ukraine has “tacitly” announced it’s the first country to implement the World Economic Forum’s ‘Great Reset’ by launching a social credit app which will include universal basic income, digital ID and a vaccination card.

textual_rating:
The existing Diia app can be used to store digital ID documents, including vaccine passports and an ID card. But Ukraine doesn’t have any official plans for a universal basic income scheme and the app has nothing to do with ‘The Great Reset’, a WEF initiative on how governments may respond to a post-pandemic world.


text: Mandatory Covid-19 vaccinations have just been passed “under the radar” by the European Council.
claimant: Public
claim_date: 2022-04-10T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/covid-vaccine-mandate-european-council-resolution-2361/
review_date: 2022-05-13T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
title:
Covid vaccines haven’t been mandated in the EU ‘under the radar’ under ‘Resolution 2361’ - Full Fact

textual_rating:
This is based on a misreading of a resolution passed by a completely different organisation. The resolution explicitly states citizens should be informed that vaccines aren’t mandatory.


text: A PHE report shows the Covid-19 vaccines have negative effectiveness in the over-40s.
claimant: The Daily Sceptic
claim_date: 2021-09-15T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/daily-sceptic-phe-over-40s/
title: Vaccines do not raise your risk of catching Covid - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-09-20T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Incorrect. The report contains data that it warns could be misinterpreted in this way. It also says that the vaccines are positively effective.


text: A report suggests an independent Scotland would have to keep the pound.
claimant: Kwasi Kwarteng MP
claim_date: 2018-05-31T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/would-independent-scotland-have-keep-pound-cut-public-spending/
title: Would an independent Scotland have to keep the pound and cut public spending? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-06-01T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
A report commissioned by the Scottish National Party recommends that an independent Scotland' should keep "the pound sterling for a possibly extended transition period”, although it does not rule out Scotland moving to its own currency in the longer term.


claimant: Chris Bryant
claim_date: 2022-03-23T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/solar-installations-vat-eu/
title: Chris Bryant wrong on 0% EU VAT for heat pumps - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-03-29T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
VAT exemption on solar panels and heat pumps already happens in the EU, so this is not a benefit of Brexit.

textual_rating:
This is not quite true. The EU requires member states to charge VAT on solar installations and heat pumps. However, from April, member states can choose to charge no VAT on solar panels and no less than 5% on heat pumps.


text: Almost half of young offenders are from black or ethnic minorities.
claimant: Daily Express
claim_date: 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/crime/young-offenders-ethnic-minorities/
title: Young offenders from ethnic minorities - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-11-17T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is correct if you look at “young offenders” who end up with custodial sentences. 47% of young people responding to a survey of young offender institutions by HM Inspectorate of Prisons reported they were black, Asian or minority ethnic in 2015/16. Ministry of Justice figures paint a similar picture of all children in custody.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-02-27T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/coronavirus-claims-symptoms-viral/
title: Viral post about someone’s uncle’s coronavirus advice is not all it’s cracked up to be - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-03-05T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
This new virus is not heat-resistant and will be killed by a temperature of just 26/27 degrees. It hates the Sun.

textual_rating:
There’s no evidence for this. There’s evidence that similar viruses transmit less well in the heat, but many countries with reported Covid-19 cases are experiencing temperatures higher than this.


text: The government is spending ‘record levels’ on mental health overall
claimant: Theresa May
claim_date: 2016-10-26T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/spending-mental-health-services/
title: Spending on mental health services - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-10-26T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This seems plausible, but the government no longer publishes the survey that would show it for certain.


claimant: Public
claim_date: 2023-06-27T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/titanic-shipwreck-depth-video/
title: Titanic shipwreck far deeper than cropped video might suggest - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-06-27T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: The wreckage of the ship is actually much deeper, at around 3,700 metres below sea level.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A cropped video gives the impression that the Titanic shipwreck lies around 2,500 metres below sea level.


text: The UK is spending £680 million to build a new railway line in Turkey.
claimant: Andy Burnham
claim_date: 2023-07-24T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/uk-turkey-railway-loan/
title: The UK government is not building a multimillion pound railway line in Turkey - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-07-26T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This figure refers to a loan being underwritten by the UK government, not money being directly invested by the government into the project.


text: 58.8% of graduates are in non-graduate jobs.
claimant: The Independent
claim_date: 2015-08-19T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/education/are-graduates-settling-non-graduate-jobs/
title: Are graduates settling for non-graduate jobs? - Full Fact
review_date: 2015-09-07T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This figure is based on a survey from 2010. Separate figures from earlier this year paint a different picture.


claimant: Conservative party
claim_date: 2019-11-17T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/election-2019/nhs-surcharge-tax-contributions/
review_date: 2019-11-18T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Under the current system, people on a work, study or family visa only pay a £400 surcharge to use the NHS.

title:
Claim that immigrants “only” pay £400 surcharge to use the NHS ignores their tax contributions - Full Fact

textual_rating:
This is the current level the international health surcharge is set at each year, but the taxes that people who come to work in the UK pay also goes towards things like the NHS.


text: Nurses on the lowest salaries have been given a 9.3% pay increase.
claimant: Oliver Dowden
claim_date: 2022-12-18T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/Oliver-Dowden-nurses-pay/
title: The lowest paid nurses aren’t getting a 9% pay increase - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-12-19T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
While the £1,400 pay increase awarded to NHS staff in England is worth 9.3% for the lowest paid NHS staff, for the lowest paid nurses specifically it’s worth around 5.5%.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-03-29T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/false-claims-about-mps/
title: This post about MPs is untrue and around 20 years old - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-04-05T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Of the 635 MPs in the House of Commons some have been accused of spousal abuse or writing bad cheques, or have been arrested for fraud, drug-related charges, shoplifting or drink driving, or have bankrupted at least two businesses, have bad credit, or are defendants in lawsuits.

textual_rating:
Incorrect. The post was originally circulated online around 20 years ago making claims about members of the US Congress and using almost exactly the same figures. Even back then the claims it made were unverifiable.


text: A video shows the last moments of the Ethiopian Airlines flight that crashed killing 157 people.
url: https://fullfact.org/online/not-ethiopian-airlines-flight/
title: This video does not show the final moments of the Ethiopian Airlines flight - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-03-22T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Incorrect. It’s a video from 2016 of an Etihad flight that experienced severe turbulence but went on to land safely.


url: https://fullfact.org/online/coronavirus-mosque-shut-lockdown/
title: Photo circulating of busy mosque was taken before lockdown - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-03-31T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
An image shows Muslims queueing to get into a mosque, standing closer than two metres apart, after the lockdown was announced.

textual_rating:
The picture was taken the Friday before lockdown measures were announced. Lockdown measures were announced on Monday 23 March, and included places of worship being told to close.


claimant: Daily Mirror
claim_date: 2021-11-14T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/news/greater-manchester-police-missing-child-not-my-dad/
title: Hunt for child who told man ‘you’re not my dad’ was false alarm - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-11-15T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Police are searching for a man and child after a member of the public reported the child telling the man “you’re not my dad”.

textual_rating:
This was correct at the time of publication, but police have since confirmed that this was a false alarm. They’ve visited the child to confirm he is safe and well with his father and there is no ongoing search.


text: Police numbers fell under Boris Johnson as Mayor of London.
claimant: Louise Haigh
claim_date: 2019-07-25T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/crime/police-officers-under-boris-johnson/
title: Police numbers under Boris Johnson’s time as Mayor - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-07-26T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Police officer numbers were higher when Boris Johnson left office compared to when he entered office, but were lower since his first budget as Mayor.


text: Corporation tax has been cut
claimant: Jeremy Corbyn
claim_date: 2017-03-22T00:00:00Z
title: Tax cuts: corporation tax, inheritance, capital gains and the bank levy - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-03-22T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
url:
https://fullfact.org/economy/tax-cuts-corporation-tax-inheritance-tax-capital-gains-tax-and-bank-levy/

textual_rating:
The rate of corporation tax has been cut step-by-step since 2010. That’s been partly but not completely offset by a reduction in allowances and efforts to tackle tax avoidance.


text: There is no reduction in viral transmission with the use of face masks.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-07-02T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/orange-county-board-meeting/
title: Video shares falsehoods about face masks and asymptomatic spread of Covid-19 - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-07-12T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Face masks can help to reduce transmission of SARS-Cov-2, and are recommended in many scenarios by the WHO and the UK government.


claimant: Oliver Dowden
claim_date: 2023-06-07T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/minimum-wage-tax-threshold-comparison/
review_date: 2023-06-22T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Personal allowance threshold changes mean someone working full time on the minimum wage has seen a ”£1,000 reduction in their tax”.

title:
Minimum wage earners haven’t seen a ‘£1,000 reduction in their tax’ compared to what they used to pay - Full Fact

textual_rating:
This is potentially misleading, because a “£1,000 reduction” could be understood in different ways. The figure is based on a counterfactual estimate of the additional amount someone on the minimum wage would pay in income tax and national insurance contributions (NICs) in 2023/24, had thresholds increased in line with inflation since 2010. It’s not an estimate of how the amount of tax and NICs they pay has actually changed since the Conservatives entered government.


text: Illegal immigrants and refugees living in Britain get a yearly benefit of £29,900.
url: https://fullfact.org/online/pensioners-refugees-benefits/
title: Viral image about pensioners and refugees is wrong on every single number - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-01-31T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Incorrect. People who are staying in the UK illegally cannot claim any benefits. People living in the UK as refugees are entitled to the same benefit and pension payments as any UK citizen. This means it’s theoretically possible for them to get that sum, but it’s highly unlikely due to the benefit cap.


text: The FDA says that hand gel causes cancer.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-11-17T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/not-all-hand-gel-dangerous/
title: Hand gel safety alerts only apply to certain brands - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-11-24T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The FDA has said that some particular types or brands of hand gel contain harmful ingredients, some of which are linked to cancers. However, this does not mean that all hand gels are harmful. The FDA and NHS advise that if soap and water aren’t available, hand gel should be used.


claimant: Naz Shah
claim_date: 2017-08-12T00:00:00Z
review_date: 2017-09-06T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Nearly 90% of those convicted of wider child abuse offences and on the sex offenders register are white men.

url:
https://fullfact.org/crime/what-do-we-know-about-ethnicity-people-involved-sexual-offences-against-children/

title:
What do we know about the ethnicity of people involved in sexual offences against children? - Full Fact

textual_rating:
There isn’t much publicly available information on this. The data we do have shows a large majority of those convicted of sexual offences (no matter the age of the victim) are white.


text: One in 50 Londoners snorts cocaine on a daily basis.
claimant: Mail Online
claim_date: 2019-05-19T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/crime/has-cocaine-use-really-doubled-five-years/
title: Has cocaine use really doubled in five years? - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-05-23T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
There isn’t enough available evidence to say this and we don’t know enough detail about the methodology behind this claim to assess its accuracy.


text: Sweden is abolishing cash.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/sweden-not-cashless/
title: Sweden is not abolishing cash - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-10-25T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is not true. Cashless transactions are common in Sweden, but the government told us it has no plans to stop issuing notes and coins.


text: Experts agree that jobs would be lost
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/eu-referendum-voting-guide-stronger-jobs/
title: EU Referendum Voting Guide: Stronger In on jobs - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-05-19T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The latest minutes from the Monetary Policy Committee at the Bank of England do warn that some jobs might be lost, at least in the short term. This is in line with what other economists have said about the impact on the economy of leaving the EU.


claimant: Twitter user
claim_date: 2021-09-24T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/petrol-panic-forecourt-esso-tooting-false/
title: Woman filling bags with petrol was not filmed in south London - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A woman has recently been filmed filling plastic bags full of petrol at an Esso forecourt in Tooting.

textual_rating:
This is not true. The video was published online two years ago and was filmed at a petrol station in Texas.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-03-30T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/public-debt/
title: What is the UK’s public debt? - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-04-26T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Not quite. Over that period debt has risen from £1 trillion to £1.8 trillion.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Since the Conservatives came to government, national debt has increased from £0.95 trillion to £2 trillion.


text: The NHS was not “overwhelmed” during Covid-19.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-02-16T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/letter-mhra-filled-false-covid-19-claims/
title: Letter to MHRA is filled with false Covid-19 claims - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-05-10T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is somewhat subjective but there is lots of evidence indicating NHS trusts were under severe pressure during the peaks of Covid-19.


claimant: Public
claim_date: 2022-10-05T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/news/jeremy-bowen-bbc-photo-frontline-ukraine/
review_date: 2022-10-07T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
An image shows a BBC journalist as he “pretends to be on the frontline” of the war in Ukraine, with a woman standing casually behind him.

title:
Image shared on social media doesn’t show BBC journalist pretending to be on the frontline of war in Ukraine - Full Fact

textual_rating:
This image shows just one moment from the BBC’s coverage of the war in Ukraine. The full video shows Russian shelling and Ukrainian citizens fleeing, and this BBC report has been corroborated by other media outlets.


text: Children are getting monkeypox.
claimant: TikTok video
claim_date: 2022-07-30T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/moneypox-child-cases/
title: Monkeypox isn’t just spread by sexual contact - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-08-09T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
A very small number of cases of monkeypox have been reported in children in the United States and Europe. Others have previously been reported in countries where the disease is endemic.


text: Event 201 was a complete rehearsal of the Covid-19 pandemic.
url: https://fullfact.org/online/event-201-pitbull-coronavirus/
title: US rapper Pitbull wrong to claim Event 201 was ‘rehearsal’ for coronavirus pandemic - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-02-18T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Event 201 was a real exercise to simulate how those in government, business and public health might respond to a global pandemic. It was not based on Covid-19 and does not mean the organisers had prior knowledge of the pandemic.


text: The UK population is 61.6 million, of whom 194,000 are refugees.
url: https://fullfact.org/immigration/ask-full-fact-how-many-refugees-are-uk-population/
title: Ask Full Fact: how many refugees are in the UK population? - Full Fact
review_date: 2015-10-09T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The latest estimate of the UK population was 64.6 million, as of 2014. The UN's latest estimate suggests that there were 117,000 refugees living in the UK that year.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-04-14T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/dial-55-april-2020/
title: Facebook post on how to make a silent 999 call is misleading - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-04-16T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
If you’re in a situation where you can’t speak, ring 999 and when they answer press 55. This tells them you need help but can’t speak. They will dispatch police to you.

textual_rating:
If you call 999 from a mobile and the operator can’t hear anything suspicious, you will be prompted to press 55 if you need the police. This will not necessarily mean the police will be dispatched. The police call handler will decide what to do.


text: Bill Gates has launched artificial breast milk.
claimant: Public
claim_date: 2022-05-15T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/bill-gates-artifical-breast-milk-formula-shortage/
title: Bill Gates hasn’t launched artificial breast milk - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-05-30T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Mr Gates has invested twice in a start up producing artificial breast milk, but the product itself is several years away from being available to the public.


text: The prime minister’s Chequers deal is more unpopular than the Poll Tax.
claimant: Justine Greening
claim_date: 2018-09-03T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/chequers-deal-brexit-more-unpopular-poll-tax/
title: Is the Chequers deal on Brexit more unpopular than the Poll Tax? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-09-06T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Not quite. Recent polling suggests that the Chequers deal is supported by fewer people than the Poll Tax was at its least popular, but fewer people also oppose it outright.


claimant: Instagram user
claim_date: 2021-10-07T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/new-south-wales-vaccine-hearing/
title: An Australian professor didn’t say Covid-19 vaccines aren’t vaccines - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-10-13T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A professor in New South Wales Australia, has said under oath that the Covid-19 vaccines are not vaccines.

textual_rating:
The professor specified that the Covid-19 vaccines used in Australia are not “live vaccines” but did refer to them as vaccines.


text: Over 92% of Southern services are running to time against the temporary weekday revised timetable.
claimant: Southern Railway
claim_date: 2016-07-11T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/southern-trains-running-on-time/
title: Are Southern trains running on time? - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-07-13T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
92% of all Southern trains that had run by 8.30 am on Monday arrived at their destination within 5 minutes of their scheduled arrival time. By 4.30 pm, the same figure had fallen to 82%.


text: The coronavirus patent was applied for in 2015.
url: https://fullfact.org/online/wuhan-virus-patent-gates/
title: A patent for the coronavirus spreading in Wuhan was not applied for in 2015 - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-01-27T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Incorrect. A company applied for a patent on a weakened version of a virus in the same family as the new Wuhan virus.


claimant: David Davis
claim_date: 2016-10-10T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/brexit-which-eu-citizens-will-have-right-stay-uk/
title: Brexit: which EU citizens will have the right to stay in the UK? - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-10-24T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Five out of six EU immigrants have indefinite leave to remain in the UK, or will have by the time the UK leaves the EU.

textual_rating:
This is not fully substantiated by the evidence and will depend on the arrangements we make upon leaving the EU. Whatever happens, EU citizens are not going to be forced to leave en masse.


text: For a recall petition to succeed, 10,000 constituents must support it.
claimant: Jonathan Reynolds
claim_date: 2023-06-12T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/news/recall-petition-threshold/
title: The threshold for a recall petition to succeed is 10% of voters, not 10,000 - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-06-12T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This isn’t correct. A recall petition requires 10% of the eligible registered electorate to sign it in order to succeed. In almost all parliamentary constituencies, meeting this threshold would require fewer than 10,000 signatures.


text: Official government reports suggest the fully vaccinated will develop AIDS by the end of the year.
claimant: The Expose
claim_date: 2021-10-23T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/Covid-vaccines-AIDS/
title: Covid-19 vaccines don’t cause ‘a form of AIDS’ - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-11-30T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
It doesn’t. There are problems with both the underlying data used to come to this conclusion and the analysis of it.


text: Austerity has caused the death of 130,000 people in Britain.
claimant: Francesca Martinez
claim_date: 2019-06-13T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/130000-austerity-facebook/
title: These 130,000 deaths cannot be explicitly linked to austerity - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-10-10T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The report that the 130,000 figure comes from does not explicitly link this number to austerity, and there’s no way to know how much this was a factor.


text: Cuts to income tax will save the typical basic rate taxpayer £1,205 a year.
claimant: Conservative party
claim_date: 2018-10-31T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/saving-1205-income-tax/
title: Are we saving £1,205 a year in income tax? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-11-06T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is based on the increase in the tax-free personal allowance, from 2010/11 to 2019/20. But it doesn’t account for inflation. The figure drops to £940 once that’s factored in.


claimant: Twitter user
claim_date: 2020-05-25T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/cummings-blog-coronavirus/
review_date: 2020-05-26T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Correct. The edit appears to have been made on 14 April 2020.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A 2019 blogpost authored by Dominic Cummings was recently edited to include a warning about coronavirus.

title:
A 2019 Dominic Cummings blog post was recently edited to explicitly mention a coronavirus - Full Fact


text: Primary school children are being used to carry drugs.
claimant: Vince Cable
claim_date: 2018-04-19T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/crime/are-children-being-used-carry-drugs/
title: Are children being used to carry drugs? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-04-20T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Reports from police in England and Wales to the National Crime Agency suggest in 42% of forces children as young as 12 are being used, but we can’t confirm yet if there are younger children involved as well.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2018-09-01T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/freddos-vs-inflation/
title: The price of Freddos has risen five times faster than inflation - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-09-11T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
The minimum wage should be £18 an hour, because in 1999 one hour’s pay at minimum wage could buy you 72 Freddos, but in 2017 it could only buy you 30 Freddos.

textual_rating:
Actually, you could have got 36 Freddos in 1999. More broadly, Freddos are not a good measure of inflation. The price of Freddos rose about five times faster than inflation from 1999 to 2017, but the minimum wage also rose above inflation in that period.


claimant: Fraser Nelson
claim_date: 2017-10-05T00:00:00Z
title: Comparisons between disadvantaged English and Scottish students are tricky - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-10-06T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Students from a deprived background in Scotland are half as likely to go to university as those from England.

url:
https://fullfact.org/education/comparisons-between-disadvantaged-english-and-scottish-students-are-tricky/

textual_rating:
This is probably a reasonable claim, though the comparison is a bit tricky. It also doesn’t account for the substantial amount of higher education provided by further education colleges in Scotland.


text: There are no safe routes for people seeking protection in the UK.
claimant: Khalid Mahmood
claim_date: 2023-03-13T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/immigration/khalid-mahmood-safe-routes-refugees/
title: Labour MP wrong to say ‘there are no safe routes’ to enter UK - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-03-23T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is not true. The government has a number of resettlement schemes for people seeking protection in the UK, including the UK Resettlement Scheme, the family reunion route and nation-specific routes for people from countries like Ukraine and Hong Kong.


text: Labour policies would save the average family £6,700.
claimant: Labour Party
claim_date: 2019-12-04T00:00:00Z
title: Labour claims about savings under their policies are not credible - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-12-04T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: This figure is not credible and does not represent what an average family would save.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
url:
https://fullfact.org/election-2019/labour-claims-about-savings-under-their-policies-are-not-credible/


text: Covid-19 and influenza statistics are being combined to make the numbers look worse.
claimant: Julia Hartley-Brewer
claim_date: 2020-10-11T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/julia-hartley-brewer-flu-covid/
title: Flu and Covid-19 statistics are not being added together - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-10-12T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is not true. Statistics about the two diseases are being published separately in the same document. This has no effect on the numbers.


text: 670,000 people marched for a People’s Vote in London on Saturday 20 October
claimant: People's Vote
claim_date: 2018-10-20T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/news/did-670000-march-peoples-vote-brexit/
title: Did 670,000 march for a People’s Vote on Brexit? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-10-24T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is an estimate by the organisers of the march. We can’t say for sure if it’s accurate or not, but it may be on the high side.


text: Beer sales at British pubs have risen after the vote to leave the EU.
claimant: Daily Express
claim_date: 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/brexit-beer-sales-pubs/
title: Brexit and the great British pub - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-08-12T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is wrong. The figures available mostly cover the period before the referendum, and show that pub sales actually fell, although overall beer sales rose.


url: https://fullfact.org/online/viral-influencer-video-full-false-covid-19-claims/
title: Viral influencer video full of false Covid-19 claims - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-01-26T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
National Child Mortality Database identified deaths in under 18s increased dramatically in the first lockdown.

textual_rating:
This is wrong. The NCMD said there had been a slight increase but the numbers were too small to draw definite conclusions.


text: Dominic Raab posted and then deleted a tweet describing Scotland as a region of England.
url: https://fullfact.org/online/supposed-dominic-raab-tweet-not-real/
title: This supposed Dominic Raab tweet seems to be an old fake - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-11-26T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The tweet seems to be a fake. There is no evidence Mr Raab ever tweeted this, he has denied he ever did and it was covered widely as a fake by the media over a year ago when it first surfaced.


text: An underground tunnel is a secret UK military site.
claimant: Public
claim_date: 2022-02-25T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/uk-area-51-video-corsham/
title: Video of underground tunnel isn’t a secret UK military site - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-03-21T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The site in the video is part of a large nuclear bunker commissioned in the 1950s. It was declassified in 2004.


text: No fires could have burned hot enough to melt aluminium in cars in the recent Maui wildfires.
claimant: Public
claim_date: 2023-08-15T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/maui-fire-melting-point-metal/
title: Misleading video about melted cars in Maui shared widely online - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-08-21T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is not true. The melting point of aluminium is around 660°C, while wildfires burn at an average intensity of around 800°C.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-05-28T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/MHRA-yellow-card-poster/
title: Poster about Yellow Card scheme is not real - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-06-04T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: This poster is not actually from the MHRA.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A poster from the MHRA makes various claims about the vaccines and importance of Yellow Card reports.


text: Doctors have concerns about the mRNA vaccine’s long term effect on fertility.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-03-20T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/Covid-QA-graphic/
title: Inaccurate Covid vaccine ‘Q&A’: fact checked - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-03-25T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
False. The NHS recommends that pregnant women get vaccinated, and there is no evidence the vaccines affect fertility.


text: Fact checkers are funded by pharmaceutical companies.
claimant: Public
claim_date: 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/covid-vaccine-rap-battle/
title: Vaccine rap battle full of misinformation - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-10-20T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Full Fact has never received funding from a pharmaceutical company, and a full list of major donors who gave over £5,000 is available online.


text: Alcohol hand sanitiser can catch fire in a hot car.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-05-10T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/hand-sanitiser-catch-fire/
title: Can hand sanitiser catch fire in a hot car? - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-05-28T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
At temperatures below several hundred degrees celsius, there would need to be a spark for alcoholic hand sanitisers to catch fire.


text: The pumps can now be filled with E10 fuel which will destroy old cars.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-09-27T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/fuel-crisis-conspiracy/
title: No evidence government spreading fuel shortage rumours to sell surplus - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-09-29T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
E10 fuel is intended to phase out standard E5 fuel and isn’t suitable for all older cars. However, super unleaded E5 fuel will still be available.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-06-16T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/student-nurses-covid/
title: This is what has happened with student nurses who volunteered to work for the NHS early - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-06-22T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
They signed a six month contract taking them to full qualification, six months earlier than they had anticipated.

textual_rating:
The contract they signed will depend on the trust they worked for. But some nurses may have been under the impression they would work for six months and some of the communication about the policy to nurses was ambiguous.


claimant: Vernon Coleman
claim_date: 2021-07-24T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/Vernon-Coleman-Trafalgar-Square-conspiracy-claims-false/
title: Trafalgar Square “Freedom Rally” speech littered with false claims - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-08-19T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Wearing masks causes dementia, hypoxia and hypercapnia, bacterial pneumonia, and will “make children stupid”.

textual_rating:
There is no evidence for any of these claims. Tight-fitting masks can cause harm in rare instances but this is not the case for typical cloth masks.


text: Record levels of housing have been built under the Conservatives.
claimant: Oliver Dowden
claim_date: 2023-07-06T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/house-building-levels-PMQs/
title: Conservative and Labour claims on house building fact checked - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-07-12T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The number of ‘net additional dwellings’ in England has reached record highs in the last few years, but these figures only go back 30 years. Other historical data suggests higher records were set decades ago.


url: https://fullfact.org/europe/eu-referendum-voting-guide-stronger-prices/
title: EU Referendum Voting Guide: Stronger In on prices - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-05-19T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Lower prices for families — competition between businesses across Europe means lower prices in UK shops, cheaper flights and lower energy bills

textual_rating:
The studies cited emphasise how trade competition in the EU might lower prices but don’t look at how other factors such as EU regulation and agricultural policy might raise prices. It’s difficult to say overall what the impact of being in the EU has had on prices in the UK.


text: The Covid-19 pandemic was planned and was facilitated by the use of false positive PCR tests.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-04-24T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/do-not-resuscitate-video/
title: Viral video includes lots of false claims and half truths - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-05-10T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
We have repeatedly debunked the conspiracy that the pandemic was a planned operation and PCR tests have a high rate of accuracy.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-02-29T00:00:00Z
title: Viral posts about Covid-19 symptoms contain false information - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-03-20T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Covid-19 starts with a sore throat lasting 3-4 days. It then blends into a nasal fluid that enters the trachea and the lungs, causing pneumonia, which takes about 5 or 6 days. With pneumonia comes high fever and difficulty breathing. The nasal congestion makes you feel like you’re drowning.

textual_rating:
This is a roughly accurate description of the most common symptoms, although not everyone with Covid-19 gets pneumonia. The symptoms may not come in this order or at these times. There have been no reports of sufferers experiencing nasal congestion that makes them feel they are drowning.


text: King Charles gets £350 million a year tax free from the taxpayer.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2023-05-05T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/King-Charles-inheritance/
title: Claims about King Charles’s inheritance need context - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-06-06T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This figure actually refers to the annual net profits of the Crown Estate. This is public money that goes to the Treasury, which is used to calculate the size of the ‘Sovereign Grant’. In 2022/23, the Sovereign Grant was £86.3 million. This money is not taxed.


text: Masks increase the risk of bacteria and illness.
claimant: Public
claim_date: 2022-01-03T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/face-masks-children-oxygen-bacteria/
title: No evidence masks limit oxygen for children - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-01-06T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
It’s true that masks can pick up bacteria, but there’s no evidence that this can contribute to an increased risk of illness, if worn normally.


text: The European Union makes two thirds of UK law.
claimant: Daily Express
claim_date: 2015-03-02T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/two-thirds-uk-law-made-eu/
title: Is two thirds of UK law made by the EU? - Full Fact
review_date: 2015-03-19T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
That's about right if you count EU regulations as part of 'UK law'. The EU influence on <i>UK-only</i> laws is about 13%. But this counting exercise doesn't tell us very much.


claimant: Dan Hodges
claim_date: 2019-09-02T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/EU-cannot-unilaterally-extend-brexit-date/
title: A new Brexit bill doesn’t allow the EU to unilaterally extend the Brexit date - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A new EU withdrawal bill allows the EU to choose the length of a further Brexit extension and the UK has no say in it.

textual_rating:
Incorrect. If the EU suggests an extended exit date other than 31 January 2020, the government can ask parliament whether or not it approves of that proposal, and parliament can choose to reject it.


claimant: Youtube user
claim_date: 2021-07-08T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/midazolam-video-matt-hancock/
title: No evidence midazolam used to kill thousands of patients in April 2020 - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-12-01T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
There was an unprecedented increase of out of hospital doctor’s prescriptions of midazolam to the over-65s in March 2020.

textual_rating:
There was a large increase in out of hospital prescriptions of the drug for use as a sedative and analgesic in April 2020. We don’t know details of the patients it was given to, but it is likely they were older as the drug is used in palliative care.


text: A Facebook user is searching for their birth parents.
claimant: public
claim_date: 2023-03-27T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/searching-for-birth-parents-hoax/
title: Hoax posts claim Facebook user is searching for their birth parents - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-04-13T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is a hoax. Multiple users claiming to be from different places have shared almost identical appeals using the same photograph that comes from a 2021 blog about people’s favourite childhood toys.


text: TV weather maps have shrunk Scotland and grown England over the years.
claimant: Facebook account
claim_date: 2023-01-13T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/weather-maps-scotland-perspective/
title: Tilted perspective weather maps are no longer used by the BBC - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-01-31T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The image labelled “nowadays” was taken in 2006, and shows BBC weather graphics which are no longer in use. The BBC currently uses a “flat” perspective map for its UK weather forecasts.


text: We built 1.1 million homes in 2017.
claimant: Liam Fox
claim_date: 2018-03-08T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/million-more-homes/
title: There are 1.1 million more homes in England since 2010 - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-03-09T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Incorrect. This is the total number of homes added to the overall housing stock since 2010/11, or the number of new homes built since 2009/10.


text: Instagram blocks your posts to all but 7% of your followers.
claimant: Instagram user
claim_date: 2021-09-05T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/instagram-isnt-blocking-posts-to-your-followers/
title: Instagram isn’t blocking posts to your followers - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is not true. Instagram confirmed earlier this year that no changes had been made to feed rankings recently or since the claim first appeared two years ago.


claimant: Public
claim_date: 2021-08-27T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/9-11-world-trade-center-plane-south-tower/
title: 9/11 video doesn’t prove plane didn’t hit South Tower - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-09-09T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Home video footage shows that no planes were used in the 9/11 terror attacks on the World Trade Center.

textual_rating:
This is not true. The video only shows the impact from one angle, obscuring the second plane completely. There is ample evidence planes were used in the 9/11 attacks, including many videos showing a plane hitting the South Tower.


text: The live flu vaccine has been found to cause strep A.
claimant: Facebook usesr
claim_date: 2023-12-06T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/mice-flu-vaccine-kids-strep-a/
title: False claim persists that flu vaccine caused strep A in mice - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-01-24T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The study referred to found an increase in the likelihood of finding a bacteria called streptococcus pneumoniae in vaccinated mice. This is not the same as strep A.


text: Nurses are spending entire shifts in A&E car parks because of ambulance delays.
claimant: Dawn Butler
claim_date: 2018-01-11T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/ambulances-delayed/
title: More ambulances are being delayed outside A&Es - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-01-12T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
An unnamed nurse said this to ITV News, although we don’t know how widespread this is. One in six ambulances were delayed for over half an hour after arriving at A&Es in England in the first week of 2018.


text: If all the other lockdowns haven’t worked, why would this one be any different?
url: https://fullfact.org/online/viral-influencer-video-full-false-covid-19-claims/
title: Viral influencer video full of false Covid-19 claims - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-01-26T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
False. The government estimates locking down in the spring saved thousands of lives compared with doing nothing.


text: The risk of a child dying of Covid-19 is around one in 3.5 million.
claimant: Instagram user
claim_date: 2021-05-05T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/risk-children-death-covid/
title: The risk of dying from a Covid vaccine is lower than 1 in 31,000 - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-05-19T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The risk of a child dying of Covid is very low, but this figure refers to the England and Wales death rate as of May last year, when more people had it so chances of getting ill were higher. Estimates suggest perhaps 1 in 100,000 children who catch Covid die of it, but, in the UK at least, there are very few infections so the risk will be lower.


claimant: Face
claim_date: 2022-03-09T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/petrol-diesel-pump-price-fuel-tax/
title: Fuel duty and VAT adds about 80-90 pence per litre on petrol and diesel at the pump - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-03-11T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: It’s more like 80-90 pence per litre in fuel duty and VAT, depending on the station you buy at.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
In early March 2022, the government makes over £1 per litre on the petrol and diesel sales at the pump in the UK.


claimant: GB News
claim_date: 2022-01-22T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/gb-news-surgeon-covid-vaccines/
title: A surgeon made several incorrect claims about Covid-19 vaccine on GB News - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-02-02T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
UKHSA data shows that people who receive a booster dose of the Covid-19 vaccine are more likely to be infected with the disease.

textual_rating:
This is not true. The UKHSA data does not show this. Indeed the UKHSA warns against misinterpreting its data in this way.


claimant: Public
claim_date: 2022-04-08T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/harrier-jets-parliament-formation/
title: Harrier jets didn’t spell out expletive over Houses of Parliament - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-05-06T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A fleet of Harrier jump jets spelt “f*** off” in formation over the Houses of Parliament after they were decommissioned.

textual_rating:
The picture is false, and such a protest never happened. The farewell flypast didn’t even pass London.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-08-22T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/immigration/kabul-plane-truck-video/
title: No evidence Kabul airport video is faked - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-08-26T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: There is no evidence the footage is faked.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
A video suggests the Kabul airport footage of people running alongside a plane is faked as the people aren’t being blown over.


text: After nine years of a Conservative government, crime is up 30%.
claimant: Freddie Bailey
claim_date: 2019-10-05T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/nine-years-of-conservative-government/
title: Viral post about Conservatives’ record in government gets lots of things wrong - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-10-16T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Incorrect. There’s no perfect measure of crime, but best estimates suggest it has fallen in England and Wales between 2009/10 and 2018/19, under coalition and Conservative governments.


text: There are eight million foreigners living in the UK.
claimant: Daily Telegraph
claim_date: 2015-08-26T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/immigration/those-eight-million-foreigners-living-uk/
title: Those "eight million foreigners" living in the UK - Full Fact
review_date: 2015-08-26T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
There are an estimated eight million people who were <i>born abroad</i> living in the UK, although according to the census that was already the case in 2011.


text: The government spent £356 million on Buckingham Palace.
claimant: Twitter user
claim_date: 2018-09-16T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/meme-on-government-spending/
title: How much of this meme on government spending is true? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-10-11T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Almost—the refurbishments will cost £369 million. This will be funded by an increase in the Sovereign Grant (that’s money from the Treasury that comes from the profits of the Crown Estate).


text: Most EU states paid just €100,000 for their versions of Test and Trace.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2022-11-30T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/test-and-trace-cost-less-than37-billion/
title: European countries’ Test and Trace programmes cost much more than €100,000 - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-12-02T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
False. It’s hard to compare the costs of testing and tracing programmes, but even just Covid-19 apps launched by several European countries cost many millions of euros.


text: Half of maternity units don’t have consultants at the weekends.
claimant: Daily Mail
claim_date: 2016-10-26T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/do-we-have-enough-maternity-consultants/
title: Do we have enough maternity consultants? - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-10-31T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
43% of maternity units don’t have a consultant present during the day at weekends, according to a survey by the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists.


text: The UK’s EU budget rebate lasts until 2020/22
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-03-18T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/eu-budget-contributions-misleading/
title: This post about EU budget contributions is misleading - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-05-16T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
There is no fixed end-date for the UK’s rebate. But the EU wants to get rid of rebates for all countries that have one over the course of the next EU budget (2021-27). The UK could potentially block moves to remove its rebate.


claimant: public
claim_date: 2021-10-22T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/fentanyl-car-tape-fatal/
title: No evidence people are trying to kill with fentanyl-laced tape on cars - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-11-09T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
People are putting tape laced with fentanyl on car petrol caps. If you take the tape off with your bare hands it will kill you.

textual_rating:
Full Fact could find no evidence that this is happening. Even if it was, briefly touching a piece of tape laced with fentanyl would not kill you.


text: Covid-19 vaccines cause a form of AIDS which is causing people to exhibit symptomatic herpes.
claimant: The Expose
claim_date: 2022-05-25T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/monkeypox-vaccine-AIDS-claims/
title: No evidence rise in monkeypox cases is linked to Covid-19 vaccine - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-05-31T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
There is no evidence Covid-19 vaccines cause autoimmune disorders. However, there is some evidence, albeit unclear, that vaccines may trigger reactivation of existing shingles infections, which is caused by a virus from the herpes viral family.


text: A “scary” picture of a child with Mickey and Minnie Mouse was taken at Disney World in the 1940s.
claimant: Public
claim_date: 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/disney-world-1940/
title: ‘Scary’ Mickey Mouse picture wasn’t taken at 1940s Disney World - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-09-21T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The picture does appear to be a genuine vintage image of a child with Mickey and Minnie Mouse characters. But it was not taken at a Disney theme park in the 1940s, as the first—Disneyland—didn’t open until 1955.


text: An image shows Israelis dressing up as the burning Twin Towers for the Jewish holiday Purim.
url: https://fullfact.org/online/911-fancy-dress/
title: This picture of women ‘dressing up like 9/11’ was taken in the UK, not Israel - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-08-21T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Incorrect. The picture is of two students who wore the costumes for Halloween at a nightclub in Chester, England.


text: The Covid-19 vaccine doesn’t stop you catching the disease.
claimant: Beverley Turner
claim_date: 2021-05-31T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/this-morning-vaccines/
title: This Morning guest makes misleading claims on vaccine efficacy - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-06-01T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Data shows that even one dose can significantly reduce your chances of getting infected, even without symptoms.


text: Remain campaigners predicted that house prices would fall by 10% after a vote to leave.
claimant: Public
claim_date: 2016-12-01T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/false-claims-forecasts-eu-referendum/
title: False claims, forecasts, and the EU Referendum - Full Fact
review_date: 2016-12-02T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Not quite. The UK Treasury expected house prices to be 10-18% lower than they would otherwise have been in 2017/18.


text: Staying in the single market & customs union would not cover services.
claimant: Department for Exiting the EU
claim_date: 2019-03-27T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/brexit-department-misleading-claim/
title: Brexit department makes misleading claim on Brexit options - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-04-01T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Incorrect. A necessary condition for being a member of the single market is accepting rules on the free movement of services across the single market.


text: The number of mental health nurses has fallen from 46,155 to 39,358 [since 2009].
claimant: The Observer
claim_date: 2018-07-21T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/mental-health-there-are-fewer-beds-nurses-and-psychiatry-trainees-2010/
title: Mental health: there are fewer beds, nurses and psychiatry trainees than in 2010 - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-07-26T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is the difference in the number of mental health and learning disabilities nurses between two different months which isn’t the best way to compare the figures. Comparing the figures in September 2009 and 2017 shows the drop has been larger.


text: The Lancet says that 6.5 million migrants have registered with GPs in the last 10 years.
claimant: facebook user
claim_date: 2023-05-17T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/migrants-gp-registrations/
title: The Lancet did not report 6.5 million migrants registered at GPs in the last decade - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-05-30T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This information did not come from the Lancet. According to the ONS, that’s how many new GP registrations there were in England and Wales between 2007 and 2017 where the person’s previous address was abroad. Migrants who moved between homes in the UK may have been double counted and we don’t know how many were only here short-term.


text: One in five people are drinking too much alcohol.
claimant: The Guardian
claim_date: 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/britain-sobering-up/
title: Booze telling the truth? Is Britain sobering up or not? - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-02-08T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
21% of adults aged 16+ in England reported to an NHS Digital survey that they usually drank more than the recommended 14 units of alcohol a week in 2017.


claimant: Public
claim_date: 2021-11-07T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/hitachi-smart-dust-gps/
title: No evidence GPS ‘smart dust’ is being implanted in humans - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-11-12T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
“Smart dust”, invented by Hitachi, has GPS capabilities and can be absorbed after being sprayed onto people, taken in food or drink or even injected.

textual_rating:
While Hitachi did unveil a tiny chip in 2006, there is no indication it has GPS capabilities or that it would work after being implanted in the human body.


claimant: BBC News
claim_date: 2018-11-08T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/diabetes-prescriptions-cost-billion-year/
title: Do diabetes prescriptions cost £1 billion a year? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-11-19T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Diabetes prescriptions are costing the NHS in England more than £1 billion a year, according to figures from NHS Digital.

textual_rating:
We can’t know how much it actually costs the NHS. £1 billion was the net ingredient cost in 2017/18 of items for diabetes prescribed in England through NHS primary care settings. There is no available information on what discounts the NHS might receive or extra costs relating to dispensing.


text: There are fears patients’ lives are at risk due to medicine shortage.
claimant: Daily Express
claim_date: 2022-08-11T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/pharmacist-patients-survey/
title: Pharmacists survey didn't find patients’ ‘lives’ were being put at risk - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-08-11T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The survey on which this claim is based did not reference patients’ lives being at risk, but instead spoke of a risk to patient health.


text: In real terms there has been a pay cut.
claimant: Twitter account
claim_date: 2023-08-15T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/wage-growth-inflation/
title: What do the latest wage growth figures actually show? - Full Fact
review_date: 2023-08-21T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
When looking at pay adjusted for inflation using the Consumer Prices Index, regular pay and total pay growth fell by 0.6% and 0.2% respectively.


claimant: Daily Mail
claim_date: 2018-04-16T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/immigration/windrush-generation/
title: Windrush generation: what's the situation? - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Up to 57,000 Commonwealth-born people who arrived in the UK before 1971 could lose their homes, jobs, benefits, NHS treatment, or be threatened with deportation.

textual_rating:
This is the number of Commonwealth-born people living in the UK in 2017 who arrived before 1971, and self-report as not being a UK citizen. They have the right to remain in the UK indefinitely but some have recently had problems proving their eligibility. We don’t know how many have had such problems, and some who are UK citizens could also be affected.


text: It’s possible to “seize” Edinburgh Castle using powers granted by Magna Carta.
claimant: Public
claim_date: 2021-08-17T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/law/edinburgh-castle-magna-carta/
title: Magna Carta can’t be used to seize Edinburgh Castle - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-08-18T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is completely untrue. Magna Carta does not, and has never, been part of Scots law. The relevant clause only applies to 25 barons who lived in the 13th century, and was removed from the historic law a year after it was written.


text: There was no Marshall Plan for Britain, only for Germany.
claimant: Daniel Kawczynski
claim_date: 2019-02-02T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/europe/kawczynski-marshall-plan/
title: This MP is very wrong about the Marshall Plan - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
That’s incorrect. The UK received more funding from the Marshall Plan than any other country. We received around $3bn, and West Germany received around $1.5 billion.


text: Former prime ministers receive £115,000 a year for life.
claimant: Gyles Brandreth
claim_date: 2022-10-17T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/economy/liz-truss-public-duty-cost-allowance/
title: The facts around former PMs’ £115,000 annual ‘allowance’ - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-10-21T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Former prime ministers are entitled to claim up to £115,000 a year after they leave office, but this is for expenses associated with continuing public duties, rather than a salary.


text: Agenda 21 means people can’t have private property, mostly, or land of their own.
claimant: facebook user
claim_date: 2022-05-08T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/agenda-21-2030-edward-griffin/
title: The UN doesn’t have a plan to abolish private land ownership - Full Fact
review_date: 2022-05-17T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This is not true. Agenda 21 is a non-binding plan intending to improve sustainable development. It explicitly mentions respecting land ownership rights.


text: There are 1,000 fewer GPs now than there were when Theresa May became Prime Minister.
claimant: Jeremy Corbyn
claim_date: 2017-12-20T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/nhs-recruiting-new-gps/
title: Is the NHS recruiting enough new GPs? - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-12-22T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This uses figures that aren’t comparable, but it’s still almost certain that the number of GPs in England has fallen since last year, and could have fallen by over 1,000.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-07-20T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/warburtons-wheat-british/
title: Claims that Warburtons now gets its wheat from the USA are wrong - Full Fact
review_date: 2020-08-20T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
text:
Warburtons has decided to stop sourcing the majority of its flour from British farmers and will now source its flour through a Canadian and American deal with Frontier.

textual_rating:
Warburtons have changed their grain trader contract but they will still get their wheat from Canada and the UK, as they did previously. They don’t buy any wheat from the USA.


text: Covid-19 has a survival rate of 99.998%.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-05-25T00:00:00Z
title: Instagram post gets it wrong about Covid-19 vaccines and animal testing - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-06-24T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
url:
https://fullfact.org/online/instagram-post-gets-it-wrong-about-covid-19-vaccines-and-animal-testing/

textual_rating:
While there is no completely accurate statistic, based on the sheer number of people who died from Covid-19 we know the survival rate is lower than this.


text: Manchester City Council commissioned a mural of George Floyd over one of Lee Rigby.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-05-05T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/george-floyd-mural-manchester-was-not-chosen-over-lee-rigby-memorial/
title: A George Floyd mural in Manchester was not chosen over a Lee Rigby memorial - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-05-14T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Manchester City Council said they made no decision about the George Floyd mural in the city’s Northern Quarter.


text: Vaccines have severed the link between Covid-19 infections and serious disease or death.
claimant: Boris Johnson
claim_date: 2021-07-07T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/news/dawn-butler-boris-johnson-lying/
title: Was Dawn Butler right about Boris Johnson ‘lying’ to Parliament? - Full Fact
review_date: 2021-07-23T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
Incorrect. Vaccinated people are much less likely to catch Covid-19, or get seriously ill or die from it, but the link between infections and deaths has not been removed completely.


text: The government is only reconfiguring six new hospitals rather than building 40.
claimant: Jonathan Ashworth
claim_date: 2019-09-29T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/six-hospitals-not-forty/
title: The government has given six hospitals money to upgrade buildings - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-10-03T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
In its latest announcement the government has committed the money to upgrade six hospitals by 2025. Up to 38 other hospitals have received money to plan for building work between 2025 and 2030, but not to actually begin any work.


text: Human rights aren’t devolved in Northern Ireland.
claimant: Caroline Flint MP
claim_date: 2018-05-31T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/law/abortion-human-rights-and-devolution/
title: Abortion, human rights, and devolution - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-06-01T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
In general human rights are a devolved matter in Northern Ireland, but the Assembly and Northern Ireland Ministers are required to comply with the European Convention on Human Rights.


text: There has been a 22% drop in ambulances meeting their 15 minute transfer target since 2010.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2018-01-29T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/nhs-viral-image-factcheck/
title: NHS viral image factcheck - Full Fact
review_date: 2018-05-17T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The decrease is actually greater—28%. In 2010/11 in England 80% of ambulance transfers were done in 15 minutes, in 2015/16 it was 58%.


text: The weekly UK state pension is £141 compared to £304 in France, £513 in Spain and £507 in Germany.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-04-27T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/online/pensions-countries-comparisons/
title: This comparison of pensions in different countries is misleading - Full Fact
review_date: 2019-07-03T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
The figures for the UK, Spain and France are in the right ballpark in terms of the maximum available in each country, but differences between their pension systems means it’s not a fair comparison.


text: There are over 13,300 more nurses on our wards since May 2010.
claimant: Philip Dunne
claim_date: 2017-01-30T00:00:00Z
url: https://fullfact.org/health/are-there-more-nurses-our-wards/
title: Are there more nurses on our wards? - Full Fact
review_date: 2017-02-27T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Full Fact
publisher_site: fullfact.org
textual_rating:
This isn’t substantiated by the available data. We don’t have figures specifically for the total number of nurses on hospital wards. The claim refers to figures just for nurses working in ‘general care’ with adults, which misses out some nurses in children’s and mental health services who also work on wards.


