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The real cost of cancelling aircraft carriers
David Cameron’s been accused of making the wrong decision when he allowed the increasingly expensive aircraft carrier procurement programme to go ahead. FactCheck navigates the choppy waters of defence spending.
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Can bosses pick Brits over immigrants?
Work and Pensions minister Iain Duncan Smith wants to stem the flow of immigrants into Britain’s workforce, to give young Brits a better chance on the jobmarket. But can the Government do anything to restrict entry from the EU? FactCheck investigates.
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Are public sector pensions unaffordable?
Are public sector pensions set to cost the taxpayer more money as Francis Maude MP claims? FactCheck investigates.
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The case for our luxury Legal Aid budget
The claim “The only place with more expensive Legal Aid than England and Wales is Northern Ireland, and no doubt they’ll be addressing the same question” Ken Clarke, Justice Secretary, on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, June 29, 2011
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Why Cameron’s right on public sector pensions
The public sector earn more and will get a better deal on pensions than the private sector. Bold claims from the Prime Minister. FactCheck investigates.
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Counting the cost of Shapps’s ‘affordable rent’
Just how much will the affordable rent programme cost? Millions or billions? FactCheck investigates.
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Answers needed over MP’s contribution to circus debate
FactCheck gets its claws into the circus animal debate, the story that’s put the big cat among the Westminster pigeons.
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Minister is all at sea over coastguard cuts
The claim “I welcome the Select Committee’s recognition that the Coastguard Service is in urgent need of modernisation. ” Transport Secretary Philip Hammond, 23 June, 201
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Does Labour’s exam paper attack need revising?
Who marks the markers? Exam boards are under fire after a spate of mistakes in papers. But have Labour been swotting up on the details?
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Libya operations – a modest cost?
The claim “What I can say is that the costs should be modest compared to some other operations like Afghanistan, and the Ministry of Defence’s initial view is that this will be in the order of the tens of millions not the hundreds of millions of pounds.”
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Exclusive: FactCheck – The 1.1 million potential losers in Danny Alexander’s pensions shake-up
Who are the hidden losers in Danny Alexander’s pensions vision? FactCheck gets to work…
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Is the academy programme the answer for failing schools?
Are academies the magic bullet that will save Britain’s failing schools? FactCheck hit the books…
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Is Miliband right about benefit cuts to cancer patients?
Ed Miliband picked an emotive subject when he claimed the Welfare Bill would see 7,000 cancer patients lose almost £100 a week in benefits. “How can that be right?” he asked. FactCheck investigates.
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Free Schools: revolution or retreat?
FactCheck reveals that just eight Free Schools in England have the final go-ahead to open in September 2011, with a further 16 awaiting funding approval. Will poorer students benefit as planned? FactCheck investigates the schools set to open.
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Did Ministers ‘misinterpret’ research to justify scrapping the EMA?
It caused teenage riots when it was axed. Does the Government’s justification for scrapping the Education Maintenance Allowance pass the FactCheck test?