UK Facts
What the data actually shows about Britain today. An independent, non-partisan guide to official UK statistics — the economy, housing, the NHS, crime, immigration and the public finances — in plain English, with a local lens on Hampshire and every source cited.
Non-partisan
No party affiliation. We present the data and check claims from the left and the right by the same standards.
Sources cited
Statistics come from official producers — ONS, OBR, Home Office, NHS England, Bank of England, council records — and each is cited with its series, period and geography. Where we use a secondary source, such as a House of Commons Library briefing, or where a historical document has no reachable official copy, we say so at the point of use rather than implying otherwise.
Corrections policy
We correct errors promptly and transparently, with a public changelog on every amended fact check.
Who we are
UK Facts is an independent, non-partisan project based in Portsmouth, run by a very small team. It is published at uk-statpack.co.uk — the site is the address, UK Facts is the name. We take the official statistics behind Britain’s political arguments — costs, percentages, headcounts, waiting lists, crime figures, council budgets — and present them in plain English, so anyone can see what the data actually shows.
The project exists because political debate is heavy on claims and light on sources. Material statistical claims link to their underlying source, with official data used wherever it is available. Some figures on this site are calculated from official inputs, or drawn from House of Commons Library computations and independent models — where that is so, the page says which, rather than implying a single official publication carries the number.
What we do
Britain in numbers. Plain-English data pages on the economy and cost of living, housing, jobs and pay, the NHS, crime, immigration, inequality and the public finances — alongside long-run historical charts, and trackers for national polling, manifesto pledges and government promises.
How power works. Four linked sections on the machinery behind the arguments: who owns the media, who funds the parties, how votes become seats and what Brexit actually changed. Each is built from official registers and each is explicit about the difference between what the evidence shows and what it cannot.
A local lens. National statistics rarely get broken down to the places people actually live. Our Hampshire section covers all 13 local authorities — including Portsmouth, Southampton and Winchester — with comparisons, political maps and service geography. More counties are planned.
Fact checks. We check viral and political claims — national ones, and local ones circulating in Portsmouth and Hampshire — against official data, and publish rated verdicts with every source linked and a public changelog on each check. Recent checks have covered asylum accommodation costs, council debt, viral videos about Portsmouth civic decisions, and misreported care cases. Our full process is set out on our methodology page.
Where the data comes from
Headline statistics are refreshed regularly from the Office for National Statistics (ONS), the Bank of England and NHS England. Other figures are drawn from the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR), the Home Office, the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), local authority records and other official publications. Where a figure cannot be refreshed live, we serve the most recent verified snapshot and say so.
The sections on how power works draw on further official registers: the Electoral Commission’s political finance database, Companies House, the House of Commons Library and Ofcom.
We use official, publicly available data only. Every page cites its sources, and every fact-check verdict links directly to the primary evidence.
Editorial independence
UK Facts has no affiliation with any political party. We accept no money from political parties, politicians or their staff, and we carry no political advertising. The project is self-funded, so no outside funder has any influence over what we cover or what we conclude.
We select claims for checking based on their reach and their statistical content — not on who made them — and we apply the same standards of evidence to claims from every part of the political spectrum.
Privacy and analytics
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We use Cloudflare Web Analytics to count page views and see which pages people find useful. It is cookieless: it stores nothing on your device, uses no fingerprinting, and does not follow you between sites or sessions. We cannot identify individual readers from it, and neither can anyone else.
We run no advertising, we sell and share no data, and we use no advertising or social-media tracking pixels. Analytics runs on the live site only, so our own testing never appears in the figures. If you block it, nothing on this site stops working.
Our team
UK Facts is built and run by a very small, Portsmouth-based team. Everyone who works on the site must disclose any political memberships or conflicts of interest, and anyone with an active role in a political party or campaign may not work on our fact checks.
Contact us
Seen a claim you think we should check, or a number that looks wrong? Have a question about our work, or a concern about something we have published? We read everything we receive.
For general enquiries, claim suggestions, corrections and complaints, email [email protected].
Last updated: 16 August 2026