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Immigration in NI: Home Office response to FactCheckNI’s Freedom of Information Request
15 December 2025
In September, FactCheckNI published a fact check of claims made by DUP MLA Edwin Poots. Some aspects of this claim were rated as “unsubstantiated” due Articles
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Immigration in NI: Does Belfast have the second highest number of asylum seekers in the UK, and do almost a fifth of them live in BT12?
11 September 2025
***Update 12 December 2025: As detailed below, we made a Freedom of Information request to the Home Office regarding the aspect of this fact check
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Immigration in NI: Does Belfast provide homes to more “illegal migrants” than every other UK city except Glasgow?
28 August 2025
On 21 August, a social media user calling themselves “Basil the Great” claimed in a post on X (formerly Twitter): This isn’t accurate, for several
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Rates in NI: Do businesses in Belfast pay rates that are four times higher than their equivalents in Dublin?
28 July 2025
In an Assembly debate on the cost of doing business on 2 June, UUP MLA Diana Armstrong said: “A local business owner recently shared a
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Housing in NI: Are rents rising faster in Belfast than in London?
8 July 2025
In a post on social media, the Alliance Party claimed: “Rent [is] rising faster in Belfast than London.” This claim is supported by evidence. There
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