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Tuition fees are up, but will uni places be cut too?
The claim “Filling a hole of half a billion pounds by cutting university places could mean over 30,000 fewer young people going to university.”
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Robbing Waltham Forest to pay Waverley? The New Homes Bonus, brick by brick
FactCheck has taken ministers to task before on local government funding. Are they robbing from the poor again in an effort to curb the housing crisis?
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Would AV help or hinder the BNP?
The claim “BNP say no because they know AV will hurt them.” – Yes to Fairer Votes, April 13, 2011 The background The No to AV campaign argues that extremists such as the British National Party, the National Front and the British Union of Fascists would flourish under an AV voting system.
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Are universities more elitist than in Cameron’s Oxford days?
The claim “If you look at Oxford and Cambridge – the percentage of pupils from state schools going to those universities has actually gone down over the last 20 years…Only one black person went to Oxford last year. I think that’s disgraceful.” David Cameron MP, April 11, 2011
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Coastguard cuts threaten thousands of lives, and Prince William’s job
The claim “We want to make changes only if they improve the Coastguard support that people in fishing communities and elsewhere get.” David Cameron MP, Prime Ministers’ Questions, March 30, 2011
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Can FactCheck be April fooled?
FactCheck has come across many a spurious claim, and we pity the fools out there. But are we one of them? Here’s our pick of today’s April Fools.
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University tuition fees set to run riot
The claim “It is the Office For (Fair) Access that will decide whether or not they can go to that £9,000 threshold and very tough rules have been published and placed in this house for people to see” David Cameron MP, Prime Minister’s Questions, March 30 2011
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Police cuts – the legal landmine lurking for ministers
FactCheck learns the unions are spoiling for a fight over police cuts – and the Government could be leaving police chiefs in a legal minefield.
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Bad marks for Gove on EMA
The claim “£180m will be available for this bursary fund – enough to ensure that every child eligible for free school meals who chooses to stay on could be paid £800 per year – more than many receive under the current EMA arrangements”. Michael Gove MP, Education Secretary, announcing the replacement EMA scheme in the House of Commons, March 28, 2011
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Lib Dems’ Sure Start promise ends in tears
Cathy Newman discovers that the Lib Dems can’t keep their promise on Sure Start children’s centres as the cuts start to bite.
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Should we feel sorry for public sector workers facing pensions squeeze?
The claim “Lord Hutton’s recommendations on public sector pensions have led to calls for industrial action by public sector unions, but the reality is that his proposals will still leave them with hugely generous pensions that most private sector workers could never hope to achieve.” Ros Altmann, former Government pensions adviser, March 10, 2011 The…
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Tracking the cost of High Speed Rail
The claim “Each family (is) to pay over £1,000 for a vanity project” TaxPayers’ Alliance letter to The Daily Telegraph, March 10, 2011
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Cameron in the dock over frontline police cuts
The claim “He’s wrong. ACPO aren’t talking about frontline officers, so he’s simply wrong about that.” David Cameron MP, Prime Minister’s Questions, March 9, 2011 “Now we hear that companies who have been burgled are going to be sent fingerprint kits in the post.” Ed Miliband MP, Prime Minister’s Questions, March 9, 2011
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Painful contractions – Cameron breaks his promise on midwives
The Claim “We are going to make our midwives’ lives a lot easier… we will increase the number of midwives by 3,000.” David Cameron
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Police job cuts ‘tip of the iceberg’
As an independent review into police pay and conditions recommends savings of almost £500m, the Association of Chief Police Officers warns that planned Government cuts will still cost around 28,000 jobs in forces up and down the country. Are they right? FactCheck investigates.