All Facts

Question 1

Welfare spending reductions

Answer 1

2010-2017 - £30bn reduction to welfare payments, social services, and housing subsidies

Question 2

Local authority cuts

Answer 2

2010-2015/16 = 27% reduction in real terms of spending

Question 3

Defecit in 2012

Answer 3

10% of GDP

Question 4

Defecit in 2017

Answer 4

3% of GDP

Question 5

Cuts to bus services

Answer 5

reduced by over 50% since 2010

Question 6

Homelessness

Answer 6

Homelessness doubled between 2010 and 2017

Question 7

Food bank usage

Answer 7

over half a million people using food banks

Question 8

How has social care spending in real terms changed in the most deprived areas (bottom 20%)

Answer 8

reduced by 14%

Question 9

How has social care spending in real terms changed in the least deprived areas (top 20%)

Answer 9

fallen 8% in real terms

Question 10

What are local councils saying according to a survey by the New Local Government Network

Answer 10

70% said that local governments would not be able to provide non-statutory services by 2023

Question 11

how many people use libraries

Answer 11

half of people in each jurisdiction

Question 12

how many people are frequent users

Answer 12

50% of people who use libraries say they are frequent users

Question 13

how many people think libraries are important to the community

Answer 13

75%

Question 14

library source?

Answer 14

Carnegie Trust

Question 15

how many library jobs were lost?

Answer 15

8,000

Question 16

how many libraries have shut since 2010?

Answer 16

over 473

Question 17

How many single parents are there in the UK?

Answer 17

1.7 million

Question 18

How many people are in precarious work?

Answer 18

7 million

Question 19

Evidence that support for welfare has decreased.

Answer 19

BSA

- level of agreement for spending more on welfare benefits for the poor fell from 61% in 1989 to 30% in 2014

Question 20

How many families who receive welfare are working poor?

Answer 20

50% - JRF

Question 21

Stat showing large media usage.

Answer 21

Over 80% of adults in the UK watch the news everyday (Jigsaw research)

Question 22

Citizen estimate for % of fraudulent benefit payments?

Answer 22

25%

Question 23

Evidence that working is better than benefits.

Answer 23

66% more in work than on benefits average

Question 24

What percentage of families in the UK receive some form of benefits?

Answer 24

64%

Question 25

Stat for lack of social housing

Answer 25

4.5 million people are on housing waiting lists

Question 26

Stat for overcrowding

Answer 26

600,000 families are living in overcrowded homes

Question 27

Stat for falling home ownership

Answer 27

there are over 200,000 fewer homeowners since 2010

Question 28

How many 20-30 year olds move back in with there parents

Answer 28

1 in 4

Question 29

Stat for unaffordable homes

Answer 29

Key public sector workers cannot afford to buy homes in nearly 80% of towns, despite falling prices in some areas

Question 30

Bedroom Tax

Answer 30

a 14% reduction in housing benefit if you were living in a house with one spare bedroom and 25% for one or more.

Question 31

Example of inefficiency of universal credit.

Answer 31

Supposed to be rolled out by 2017, now aiming for 2023

Question 32

Cost of London tube strike to the economy

Answer 32

10 million per day