More or Less Behind the Statistics
More or Less Behind the Statistics

Fact-check: Will Scottish pensioners really be funding English social care?

Tim Harford investigates some of the numbers in the news. This week: (00:40) First Minister John Swinney has claimed that Scottish pensioners are set to lose £2000, with the money going to fund English social care. We gently suggest he might like to consider the existence of the Barnett formula, and

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Tim Harford and the More or Less team try to make sense of the statistics which surround us. From BBC Radio 4

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