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Office for National Statistics
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Claim Scots have lower immunity to Covid-19 Mostly True
Ferret Fact Service looks into a claim about the immunity of Scots affecting current Covid-19 rates.
Coronavirus: How badly has Scotland been affected?
Ferret Fact Service looks at the different ways to measure the number of deaths linked to coronavirus in Scotland and around the world.
Private finance schemes cost Scottish taxpayers £40bn, says spending watchdog
Private finance schemes by successive governments have left Scottish taxpayers footing a £40 billion bill to build schools, hospitals, roads and other projects worth £9 billion, according to Scotland’s spending watchdog.
Scottish homeless deaths to be officially published from next month
Scotland's national records will begin publishing specific statistics on homeless deaths for the first time next month.
Revealed: the companies in Scotland where the gender pay gap is growing
The gap between what women and men are paid widened in favour of men at over 170 organisations in Scotland last year, including prominent companies such as Ineos, Babcock, Farmfoods and Brewdog.
Claim Labour voted against carers’ benefit increase is Mostly True
Ferret Fact Service looks at the debate over the increase to the carer's allowance.
Review promised on Scottish homeless death statistics
Scotland's national records office says it will undertake a review that could see it count the deaths of homeless people for the first time.
Does Scotland attract only four per cent of the UK’s immigrants?
Ferret Fact Service looks at Ruth Davidson's claim that Scotland only attracts four per cent of the immigrants that come to the UK.
Economic figures ‘manipulated’ to fit government narrative
Vital information on the health of the economy is “arbitrarily” altered to avoid awkward questions, claims former ONS worker.