Full Fact published many articles about claims he made as health secretary at the height of the pandemic. Among these, Mr Hancock denied saying that the government threw a “protective ring” around care homes during the early stages of the outbreak, when in fact heAs we’ve previously explained, this is correct based on one measure of poverty, but others offer a different picture. Mr Sunak’s figure is based on the number of people in absolute poverty after housing costs, which has fallen by 1.
7 million since 2009/10 according to thepublished in March. Looking at another measure, the number in relative poverty after housing costs, however, is up by 900,000 over the same period.At Full Fact, we want our fact checking to have real-world impact, to reduce the risk of inaccurate information spreading. So we’re grateful to the shadow Treasury minister, Tulip Siddiq, whose office told us it will ask Parliament to correct the record after she said 7.8 million people were on NHS waiting lists. , it’s actually around 6.5 million people, who between them are waiting for