Fact check: What is NHS policy on trans patients in single-sex wards?
By By Stephen Wood, PA 21/06/2024Sir Keir Starmer claimed during a phone-in interview that NHS policy was not to treat trans patients identifying as female on women’s wards.
Fact check: Scottish child payment projected to keep 60,000 children out of poverty
By By Will Grimond, PA 20/06/2024The policy is part of a wider package aimed at dealing with child poverty in Scotland.
Fact check: The ‘tax burden’ and immigration projections
By By Full Fact via Election Check 24 20/06/2024Round-up of claims from the campaign trail checked by Full Fact, including projections of immigration levels and tax.
Fact check: Record for daily voter registration applications was set in 2019
By By Will Grimond, PA 20/06/2024The deadline to apply to vote was on June 18.
Fact check: Excess deaths are far below pandemic levels
By By Joseph Hook, PA 20/06/2024There was an average of more than 2,000 excess deaths per week in the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic.