Right now, it’s party conference season—likely the last one before the next general election

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** What’s behind the ‘Net Zero proposals’ the Prime Minister has said he’ll scrap ([link removed])
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In a speech last week announcing changes to the government’s Net Zero strategy, the Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said he would scrap a number of proposals, including taxes on meat and flying, compulsory car sharing, and a “diktat” for households to sort rubbish into seven different bins.

Some of the things Mr Sunak mentioned do appear to have some basis in existing government plans or legislation. Others—like the purported taxes on meat and flying, and compulsory car sharing—have been suggested by other bodies, but Full Fact has seen no evidence that they were ever taken up as government policies or proposals which would require “scrapping” to prevent.

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** The government does not pay private health companies twice as much as GPs ([link removed])
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Calculations on social media have led to claims that the government pays private health companies twice as much as GPs.

This isn’t right. NHS England spent £10.9 billion purchasing care from independent sector providers specifically in 2021/22, while payments made to general practice during this financial year totalled £10.1 billion.


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** It’s not true that 50% of child asylum seekers turn out to be adults ([link removed])
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In a post to X (formerly Twitter) earlier this month, Reform UK party leader Richard Tice shared an article about plans to introduce new age assessment processes for asylum seekers, and stated that “50% ‘children’ turn out to be adults”. This isn’t true.

The 50% figure likely refers to the number of resolved cases where someone’s age has been disputed and the applicant found to be an adult. As only a minority of asylum applications who claim to be under 18 have their age disputed, it's not correct to say that 50% of all child asylum seekers turn out to be adults.

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