Version 2.0, October 2026
The Update Register records every change to what this site says: corrections, new evidence, rewrites, new pages and the outcome of reader challenges. It is public, published alongside the Gaps Register, so that any change to a claim on this site can be traced here, not only the ones a reader happens to ask about.
Each entry gives its number, the date it was logged, the pages it affected and what changed. Severity follows the same scale as the Gaps Register where a rating is given: CRITICAL (a factual error that undermines a core argument), HIGH (a material development needing a substantive update), MEDIUM (an addendum or clarification) and LOW (a minor correction or note).
How to Use This Register
When something changes in the world:
- Add a pending entry with the trigger, the affected pages and a first view of severity.
- Check the dependency map (Section 4) for other pages affected.
- Draft the new text before editing any page.
- Once the change is made, log it in Section 3 with what changed and why.
When reviewing a page:
- Flag anything that looks stale or that new evidence contradicts.
- Add a pending entry even if the update isn't urgent. The register is the project's memory.
When a reader submits a challenge:
- Every submission through Challenge a Claim appears in Section 1a, whether or not it holds up. A challenge that fails the check is recorded as rejected, with the reason, not dropped.
- It is checked against the source like any other trigger, not accepted on the submitter's word.
- If it leads to a change, the change is logged in Section 3. If it doesn't, the reason is recorded in Section 1a, so the same point isn't argued from scratch next time.
Section 1: Pending Updates
Updates identified but not yet drafted or made.
- The Two-Jar Fiscal Framework: how to tell Jar 1 spending from Jar 2 (logged 29 July 2026). The paper's own "Open question" section lists five contested cases (education, defence, the NHS, R&D and welfare) that need their own work before its first test can be treated as settled.
- Free Expression: merge into Public Office Covenant or stay separate (logged 29 July 2026). Published as a standalone working paper; §6 of the paper leaves open whether it should eventually be folded into Public Office Covenant.
Section 1a: Reader-Submitted Challenges
Every submission through Challenge a Claim appears below as soon as it arrives, whether or not it holds up. The table is read directly from the database the form writes to; it isn't maintained by hand. Each challenge is checked against the source like any other trigger, not accepted on the submitter's word.
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Section 2: In Progress
Updates currently being drafted or reviewed.
(None in progress.)
Section 3: Completed Updates
Newest first. The numbers match the project's internal change log, so a number cited elsewhere on the site (for example "U182") can be found here. This table lists the 162 entries that changed what a page says. Where several entries made the same kind of change, they are grouped under the first number and the others are named in the text.
The remaining numbers (U008–U012, U014–U017, U019–U021, U024, U026, U029–U030, U039, U045, U047–U048, U065–U071, U073–U074, U076–U096, U099–U100, U103, U108–U109, U111, U124, U126, U133–U135, U140–U143, U145, U149, U152–U155, U158, U160, U163–U165, U174, U195, U253, U255, U257, U263, U268, U276, U283, U284) changed how the site works without changing what it says: navigation, page layout, sharing buttons, charts, registration, backing, sign-in, search, discussion forums, source links and internal records. They are not listed individually. U285 and U286 added two short passages to the Foreword, the owner's personal introduction, and are not listed either.
Until October 2026 this table stopped at its tenth entry, and three of those had different numbers from the internal log (the old U008, U009 and U010 are U036, U037 and U038 below). The site promised that every correction was logged here, but the corrections themselves were recorded only in the internal log. This version publishes them.
| # | Date | Pages | What changed |
|---|---|---|---|
| U289 | 5 November 2026 | Budget 2026 and the Reset (new); Key Proposals on 13 pages | New page summarising the October 2026 Budget from the official documents and comparing each relevant measure with this site's proposals: moves towards, moves away, a different approach, or related. It does not score the government. Related proposals now carry a neutral link to the page. One page like this will follow each Budget and Spring Statement. |
| U288 | 5 November 2026 | Overseas Aid; Sources Register | Correction. The page said the government's promise to return to 0.7% had no test. In fact, since July 2021 the return has depended on two published tests put to the House of Commons: no borrowing for day-to-day spending and underlying debt falling, as forecast by the OBR. The October 2026 Budget says they will not be met in this Parliament. The page now says so, and its second proposal is now to put those tests into law and report against them at every Budget. |
| U282 | 3 November 2026 | What We're Watching; Welfare; The State Pension Explained | Key Proposals now carry a tag when a government announces, legislates or brings into force something close to them, or rules them out, taken only from official documents. The new section on What We're Watching lists every tagged proposal. The first two are this site's proposals to replace the triple lock with a smoothed earnings link, tagged as partly adopted. |
| U281 | 3 November 2026 | Welfare; The State Pension Explained; Public Spending Overview; The Fiscal Hierarchy; Sources Register | The October 2026 Budget confirmed the change to the triple lock first announced in September: from April 2030 the state pension is to rise by the highest of inflation, 2.5% or the amount needed to keep its value against earnings, to be legislated in this Parliament. The Department for Work and Pensions estimates savings of £15 billion a year by 2039-40 and £50 billion by 2049-50 in cash terms. The pages now cite the official documents rather than news reports, note that the government keeps a 2.5% minimum rise that this site's proposal does not, and the Fiscal Hierarchy page no longer describes the pension as protected from any reform. |
| U275 | 29 October 2026 | Science and Research (new); Public Spending Overview; Introduction; Sources Register | New Science and Research pillar. It sets out UK research spending against other countries, the rise in the government's research budget, how university research is funded below its cost and supported by international students' fees, and the £8 billion a year of R&D tax relief. It proposes paying the full cost of publicly commissioned research in stages, a regular published evaluation of R&D tax relief, and a protected minimum for curiosity-driven research. |
| U274 | 29 October 2026 | Overseas Aid (new); Public Spending Overview; Introduction; Sources Register | New Overseas Aid pillar. It does not argue for a particular level of aid, but examines what is counted as aid, including almost £10 billion spent on supporting asylum seekers in the UK between 2020 and 2024, how the budget has been managed, and where the cut to 0.3% of national income falls. It proposes funding refugee costs in the UK outside the aid target, defining in law the conditions for restoring 0.7%, and allocating aid by published evidence of results. |
| U273 | 29 October 2026 | Environment (new); Public Spending Overview; Introduction; Sources Register | New Environment pillar covering water, flooding, waste and nature. It sets out the £19.2 billion of public spending, why sewage treatment is paid for through bills rather than taxes, the Independent Water Commission's findings on maintenance money, the rising number of homes at risk of flooding, England's recycling rate against Wales's, and the government's progress on its nature targets. It proposes asset-health registers for water companies, long-term funding for maintaining flood defences, statutory recycling targets for English councils, and up-to-date monitoring of protected wildlife sites. |
| U272 | 29 October 2026 | Transport (new); Public Spending Overview; Introduction; Sources Register | New Transport pillar, the largest area of public spending that no page covered. It sets out where the £48.9 billion goes (more than half to rail), the fifteen-year decline of buses outside London, the gap in transport spending per person between London and the rest of England, why the UK builds so expensively, with HS2 as the main example, and the erosion of fuel duty, frozen since 2011 at a cumulative cost of £139 billion. It proposes five-year capital budgets and a published pipeline for transport authorities, multi-year funding for bus networks, independent cost benchmarking for major schemes, and an end to the default fuel duty freeze with a plan for a single per-mile charge. |
| U271 | 29 October 2026 | What We're Watching; Tax Avoidance; Wealth Tax or Inheritance Tax?; Economic Renewal; Public Debt; Public Spending Overview; Sources Register | The first two outcomes on What We're Watching are written in. The October 2026 Budget left the main rates of capital gains tax unchanged, with a new relief for founders and a cut to another relief roughly cancelling out, and raised income tax on savings and property income instead. The Budget gave no reason. The Wealth Tax page now says the outcome counts against, not for, this site's 95% inheritance tax proposal, since even a moderate rise in a tax on wealth was not made. The OBR's new forecasts update Public Debt and the Public Spending Overview: debt interest £109 billion in 2025-26, forecast to reach £160 billion by 2031-32, and the current budget forecast to reach surplus in 2029-30 rather than 2030-31. |
| U270 | 27 October 2026 | Public Spending Overview | The spending table now says which areas no page on this site yet covers in depth: transport (about £47 billion a year), environmental protection (about £17 billion), overseas aid and science. The state pension row now points to the State Pension Explained page as well as Welfare. |
| U269 | 27 October 2026 | Demographics; Sources Register | Three claims corrected after checking the page's infographic against its sources. The infographic still showed a wealth comparison (under-35s down 2.1%, over-65s up 49% since 2006) that the page had already dropped because no source could be found; it now shows the Resolution Foundation's figure, a gap in typical wealth between people in their early 30s and early 60s that grew from £135,000 to £310,000. The page and infographic called 61 the median age at which people in the UK inherit; the source estimates 61 as the most common age at which today's young adults will inherit, and the page now says that. The average first-time buyer age of 33 and the finding that people want around two children are now sourced. |
| U267 | 27 October 2026 | Devolved Governments (new); Introduction; Sources Register | The Devolved Governments pillar is now published, replacing the placeholder that had been up since July. It explains how the Barnett formula funds Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland (£92.6 billion a year from 2026-27), compares spending per person across the UK's nations and English regions, and sets out what is known about each nation's need. It proposes an independent assessment of need for every nation and English region, the same needs-based rule for all three devolved governments, putting the rules in law, and funding England's new strategic authorities on the same measure. |
| U266 | 27 October 2026 | Tax Avoidance; Demographics; Sources Register | Capital gains tax figures updated to HMRC's 2026 release. In 2024-25, a record 584,000 people paid the tax, about 1% of adults, on a bill of £24.2 billion, and 45% of it came from people with gains of £5 million or more. The page previously gave 348,000 people and £16.9 billion in 2022-23, described as the peak. HMRC puts the jump down to cuts in the tax-free allowance and people selling before the rate rise in October 2024. Demographics: the infographic said over-65s would outnumber under-18s in England in 2045 for the first time in recorded history. No source could be found for that. The ONS's 2024-based projections put it in 2028, and the infographic now says so. |
| U265 | 26 October 2026 | Demographics; Immigration; Tax Avoidance; Sources Register | The old-age dependency ratio now uses the ONS's 2024-based population projections, published in April 2026: 280 people of pension age for every 1,000 of working age in mid-2024, rising to 329 by mid-2049, or about 3.6 working-age people for each person of pension age falling to 3.0. This replaces an older ONS projection to 2067. Two passages on the Demographics page and its infographic still used a figure that could not be sourced, a fall from 3.2 to 2.1 workers per pensioner by 2050, and said it would put over 50% more burden on each worker. The official projection is a smaller fall, about 15% fewer working-age people per person of pension age and about 17% more cost for each, and the page now says so. Tax Avoidance: the number of estates paying inheritance tax is updated to 2023-24, 30,400 estates or 4.7% of deaths, from 31,500 (4.6%) in 2022-23. |
| U264 | 25 October 2026 | Me; NHS; Platform Integrity; Sources Register | The Your Area section now also shows your main hospital trust: the share of your neighbourhood's emergency admissions that go to it, how many A&E patients it saw within four hours, how many waited 12 hours or more to be admitted, how many patients were ready to leave but still in hospital, and why they were waiting, each against England. The figures are updated monthly. The NHS page's figure for patients medically fit to leave but still in hospital is updated from February 2024 (13,662 a day) to September 2026 (13,647 a day, about one general and acute bed in seven), and its claim that this reached one bed in three in some trusts now reads close to one in three, in the worst-affected trusts. |
| U262 | 25 October 2026 | Me; Platform Integrity | New Your Area section on the Me page. Enter a postcode in England to see the Institute for Fiscal Studies' estimate of what revaluing council tax would do to the average bill in your council area, with and without the government adjusting its grants to councils, how your area compares with the rest of England, and how the share of homes in each band would change. Platform Integrity now explains how the postcode is looked up and that it is kept only in your browser. |
| U261 | 25 October 2026 | Local Government; Sources Register | Made clear what the Institute for Fiscal Studies' council tax revaluation figures assume. The council figures (Hackney +45%, Fylde -15%) are for a straight revaluation that keeps today's bands, and only if central government adjusts its grants to councils to match; without that the changes are much smaller (Hackney about +5%). The page had described them as bills proportional to value, which is a different option, and had treated Fylde and Wyre, two councils, as one. |
| U260 | 24 October 2026 | Tax Avoidance; Sources Register | Updated the figures on how much of their income households pay in taxes on spending, such as VAT. The poorest fifth pay 21.0% of their gross income against 7.5% for the richest, from the Office for National Statistics' 2023-24 figures; the page had used the previous year's 22.4%. The page now says the Institute for Fiscal Studies figure showing a flat 13–16% of spending for all income groups uses 2016-17 data, and adds the ONS's 2023-24 figures on the same measure, which show the same pattern (15–17%). The IFS source is now linked. |
| U259 | 24 October 2026 | Local Government; Sources Register | Corrected how much council tax takes from poorer and richer households. The page said roughly 5% of the poorest fifth's income against roughly 2% of the richest fifth's. The Office for National Statistics' latest figures, for 2023-24, are 5.7% and 1.5%, so the gap is wider than the page said. The source now links that edition. |
| U258 | 24 October 2026 | What We're Watching | Added the Office for National Statistics' next migration estimates, for the year ending June 2026 and due on 26 November 2026. They will show whether net migration has kept falling from 171,000 in 2025, and the Immigration page will be updated with the result. |
| U256 | 23 October 2026 | What We're Watching (new) | New page listing decisions, votes and data still to come that will test what this site says: the Budget's capital gains tax decision and the OBR's new forecasts (28 October 2026), and California's billionaire tax vote (3 November 2026). Each item says what it tests and which pages it will change; when the outcome is known it is written in and logged here, whichever way it points. |
| U254 | 23 October 2026 | Economic Renewal; Gaps Register; Phase the Transition In Over Two Stages | Gap 8 partly resolved. Economic Renewal §4.5 now says what evidence would justify moving from the 60–70% first stage to the full 95% rate: five tests covering the effective rate on the largest estates, revenue, avoidance, enforcement and the legal protections, judged each year by the Office for Budget Responsibility and the National Audit Office rather than the Treasury. The tests allow the move but can't force it; Parliament still decides. |
| U252 | 23 October 2026 | Sources Register | Every source in the Sources Register now links to the original, apart from one superseded row kept so citation numbers don't shift. Linking the last 19 rows turned up a few mis-named sources, now corrected: a report attributed to an Austrian electoral authority doesn't exist and is replaced with the main academic review of votes at 16 in Austria; a business investment comparison is IPPR's analysis of OECD data; and a Resolution Foundation report was cited under the wrong title. |
| U251 | 23 October 2026 | Economic Renewal; Gaps Register; How We Reach Conclusions | Gap 34 is now resolved. Economic Renewal sets out whether publishing each estate's tax would be lawful: information about the dead is outside data protection law, but anything identifying living relatives or co-owners isn't, so the law creating the inheritance tax authority would have to authorise each published detail and keep it proportionate. HMRC's legal duty of confidentiality and a 2022 EU court ruling against unrestricted public ownership registers both point the same way. Two safeguards were added: company holdings are published only as the estate's own stake, and living relatives can ask to withhold details where there is a real security risk. Any future legislation would still need full legal review. |
| U250 | 23 October 2026 | Economic Renewal; Gaps Register | Gap 20 asked whether HMRC could enforce a 95% inheritance tax. Economic Renewal now has a section, drawing on the National Audit Office's 2025 report, setting out HMRC's current capacity (about 910 staff for 850,000 wealthy taxpayers, collecting £5.2bn a year in extra tax at about £15 per £1 spent) and three warning signs: the wealthy tax gap is probably underestimated, penalties have collapsed and there is no full strategy for the very wealthy. It lists what the proposed independent authority would need before Stage One. The gap stays critical until that authority is costed. |
| U249 | 23 October 2026 | Economic Renewal; Gaps Register; claim page | Gap 9 asked how strong inheritance taxes have been diluted before. Economic Renewal now sets out four cases: UK estate duty (eroded by early gifts and trusts despite an 80% top rate), capital transfer tax (which closed the gift route in 1975 until it was reopened in 1986), the US estate tax (legislated down from a 55% rate to a $15m exemption) and Sweden. It matches each route of erosion to a defence in the design. It also states a weakness the page hadn't faced: in UK law, 'constitutional' protection of the rate can only be a political barrier, because Parliament can undo it by ordinary majority, as happened to the Fixed-term Parliaments Act's two-thirds rule. Gap 9 stays critical, with that question now the open part. |
| U248 | 23 October 2026 | Education; Criminal Justice; Agriculture; NHS; Wealth Tax or Inheritance Tax?; Public Debt; Trade; Tax Avoidance; Housing; Defence; Economic Renewal; Revenue Architecture; Artificial Intelligence | Sixteen Key Proposals were re-worded because their fixed text had become wrong, out of date or inconsistent with the rest of the site. This is a substantive change, so each gets a new version and its supporter count resets. Examples: the private schools proposal now reflects that VAT has applied since January 2025; the court backlog is about 80,000 cases; criminal legal aid fees fell by about a third since 2008; the farm lending proposal names the National Wealth Fund, since the Green Investment Bank was sold in 2017; the index-linked gilts proposal now targets the stock, because new issuance has already fallen to European levels; and the income tax proposal no longer says 'every pound' of inheritance tax revenue, since part goes to the Sovereign Wealth Mechanism. |
| U247 | 23 October 2026 | State Pension Explained; Immigration; Free Expression; Channel Small Boats; Two-Jar Fiscal Framework; Housing; Artificial Intelligence; Trade | Final batch of the check of unverified figures. State Pension Explained: the international comparison now uses the OECD's 2023 figures throughout, and shows the UK's 54% on the OECD's own measure alongside the 25% from the State Pension alone. Immigration: about 30% of adult social care jobs are held by people without British nationality, not 17% born abroad. Free Expression: the High Court's Palestine Action ruling and the secrecy of the Afghan data superinjunction are described as the sources support. Smaller corrections on Channel Small Boats, Two-Jar, Housing, AI and Trade. |
| U246 | 23 October 2026 | UK Subsidy Audit; Britain by the Numbers; The Generational Balance Sheet; Cost of Living | Seventh batch of the check of unverified figures. UK Subsidy Audit: creative industry tax reliefs cost about £2.45bn a year, roughly three times the £800m stated, and the share of UK Export Finance's supported businesses that were small firms is 336 of 650, not 88%. Britain by the Numbers: UK publishing exports are £4.5bn a year, not £340m, and the BBC World Service reaches 355 million people a week. The Generational Balance Sheet no longer calls debt interest the third-largest area of spending. The Cost of Living paper drops an unsourced international comparison. |
| U245 | 23 October 2026 | Trade; Immigration | Sixth batch of the check of unverified figures. Trade: UK–US trade of £329bn was for the year to September 2025, not 2024 (£314.6bn), and the creative industries figure is updated to about £146bn. Immigration: the total Immigration Health Surcharge figure couldn't be confirmed and is replaced with the annual figure (about £2.5bn in 2024/25); a '£16 a week' wage effect attributed to the Migration Advisory Committee couldn't be found and is replaced with the MAC's actual conclusion and a published estimate of the effect at the bottom of the pay scale. |
| U244 | 23 October 2026 | Energy; Revenue Architecture; Wealth Tax or Inheritance Tax? | Fifth batch of the check of unverified figures. Energy: the claimed £200–350 saving per household from market reform had no source and is replaced with the range of published estimates (about £67–300, depending on design and gas prices), in the text and the infographic; fuel poverty is 2.36 million households in England on the official measure, not 6 million. Revenue Architecture: the bank levy raised £1.3bn in 2024-25. Wealth Tax or Inheritance Tax?: no published costing of the page's own wealth tax design was found, so its £8–15bn is now labelled as a working estimate and set against the nearest published figure. |
| U243 | 23 October 2026 | Public Debt; Public Office Covenant; State Pension Explained | Fourth batch of the check of unverified figures. Public Debt: UK debt rose 14.9 points of GDP between 2019 and 2024 on IMF figures, not 17.9 (the infographic is corrected too), and the claim that debt targets had been 'set and broken eight times since 2011' is replaced with the Institute for Government's count of ten sets of fiscal rules since 1997, most changed or abandoned. Several figures on other pages were checked and confirmed; UK pension assets are about £3.2 trillion. |
| U242 | 23 October 2026 | Criminal Justice; Defence; Education | Third batch of the check of unverified figures. Criminal Justice: the reoffending rate is updated to 29.9%; the cost of a prison place (£57,000) was Northern Ireland's figure, and England and Wales is about £52,000 per prisoner; the Ministry of Justice's budget cut is now described as the IFS does (14% in real terms since 2007-08), not as the largest of any department. Defence: the Royal Navy has eleven frigates and destroyers, not thirteen, and France's 2026 nuclear doctrine is described accurately. Education: the claim that the UK spends more per pupil than Estonia, Canada, Japan and Finland holds only when university spending is counted, which tuition fees inflate, and the page now says so; the claim that 90% of prisoners were persistently absent from school couldn't be sourced and is replaced with ONS figures (52.5% of young people given custody, against 10.9% with no convictions). |
| U241 | 23 October 2026 | Demographics; Economy; How Tax Works; Tax Avoidance; Immigration | Second batch of the check of unverified figures. Demographics: the table of median inheritances by wealth group had no real source and was internally inconsistent (the poorest group received more than the next poorest); it is replaced with the IFS's estimates of how much inheritance adds to lifetime income (29% for children of the wealthiest fifth, 5% for the poorest). The dependency ratio, wealth-by-age and population projections are replaced with ONS and Resolution Foundation figures, and the same dependency-ratio error is fixed on Immigration. Economy: the estimate of what a UK oil fund would earn had it saved part of North Sea revenue was several times too high and has been recalculated; aerospace, creative industries, R&D and productivity figures are corrected or sourced. How Tax Works no longer uses the unsourced £470bn North Sea figure. Tax Avoidance: a £652m single tax recovery couldn't be found and is removed, and the share of graduates expected to repay their loans in full is 55%, not 23%. |
| U240 | 23 October 2026 | NHS; Welfare; Political Renewal; Criminal Justice; Public Spending Overview; State Pension Explained; Cost of Living | First batch of a check of figures flagged as not yet re-checked. NHS: GP list sizes updated (2,160 patients per GP in August 2026); the staff survey figures, the cost of the December 2025 medicines deal and the procurement figures were unsourced or wrong and are replaced with NAO and NHS figures. Welfare: Prime Minister Andy Burnham's September 2026 plan to replace the triple lock from 2030 is now reflected, and the page no longer says every major party is committed to it; Reform UK's position corrected (it moved from not guaranteeing the triple lock to keeping it, not the other way round); PIP and mental health figures replaced with published DWP data. Political Renewal: the claim that about 70% of seats are safe had no source and is replaced with the Electoral Reform Society's finding that one seat in six had been held by the same party for a century; donation, Lords attendance, peerage and age figures replaced with sourced ones; Labour's majority is 174. |
| U239 | 23 October 2026 | Economic Renewal; Gaps Register; How We Reach Conclusions; claim page | Two gaps answered. Economic Renewal now replies directly to the objection that the tax is double taxation (§7): much of a large estate's growth is never taxed, because capital gains tax is wiped at death, and an heir pays no income tax on an inheritance; the reply concedes the objection's force for estates built from fully taxed salary. §4.4 now states what publishing every estate costs in privacy and security, and limits it: each estate's valuation, reliefs and tax are published by name, linked to the already public grant of probate, but not itemised holdings, addresses or heirs' shares, and lookups are logged as in Norway. Gap 33 is resolved and Gap 34 partly resolved, pending a data protection review. Four new sources. |
| U238 | 23 October 2026 | Gaps Register | Rewritten in plain prose, and every gap's status reviewed against this month's corrections. Gaps 1 and 8 move from CRITICAL to HIGH: since the income tax cut now follows proven revenue, there is no borrowing gap to finance, though the revenue path and the trigger for Stage 2 are still open. Gap 18 (proportional representation) and Gap 26 (reform sequencing) are now partly resolved, by new evidence in Political Renewal and by the Reform Sequence Roadmap. Figures repeated from the pillars were brought into line: the effective inheritance tax rate on the largest estates (about 12%, not 27%), HOWOGE's credit rating, the reason KfW's borrowing is off Germany's books, how long the UK Infrastructure Bank ran, and the number of non-UK Universal Credit claimants (about 1.3m). |
| U237 | 23 October 2026 | Update Register | The site promised that every correction was logged here, but this table stopped at its tenth entry, and the corrections since August were recorded only in the project's internal log. All 124 entries that changed what a page says are now published, numbered to match the internal log, with the rest named as site changes. The status table was also out of date: it listed registration, backing and discussion forums as not started, and described the challenge form as anonymous. |
| U236 | 23 October 2026 | Economic Renewal; claim pages | Rewritten in plain prose. The finding that heirs overtook self-made billionaires comes from UBS's 2023 report and is about wealth, not numbers of people, and the 2024 report found the reverse. The 60% and "every billionaire under thirty" figures are Oxfam's, now cited. "Top 1% to hold 40% of global wealth by 2030" wasn't found; the World Inequality Report's current figure is 37%. AI spending now $725bn in 2026. The North Sea revenue figure (£330bn+ to 2017, FT) and Norway's fund ($2.4tn) are now sourced. Claims about AI shrinking the wage base were softened, since income tax receipts are still rising. |
| U235 | 23 October 2026 | Me (budget tool); State Pension Explained | The budget tool's per-person figures now use the ONS mid-2025 population of 69.5m (previously 67.6m), lowering each by about 3%. Healthy life expectancy updated to 2022–24 (60.9 for men, 61.3 for women, England), about five years below a pension age of 66, which is now rising to 67. |
| U234 | 23 October 2026 | Platform Integrity | The commitment to publish the source code is softened: the code is private, publication is intended once it is stable, and no date is promised. The 30-day update rule and annual transparency report commitments are unchanged. |
| U233 | 23 October 2026 | Platform Integrity; How We Reach Conclusions; Challenge a Claim; Comparable Projects | Rewritten in plain prose. Platform Integrity described planned features as if they were running; it now separates what is live (registration, backing, discussion, Challenge a Claim) from what is planned (identity checks, AI-assisted review, link scanning, anomaly alerts, a transparency report). It said the source code was published, but the repository is private. Surnames are held privately, not verified. How We Reach Conclusions no longer claims that no figure lacks a source. |
| U232 | 23 October 2026 | Trade | Plain-prose pass. The US and UK now have a limited Economic Prosperity Deal, so "no deal" corrected. NICE's cost threshold was raised in December 2025, so this is reported as having happened. The EU accepted a 15% US tariff, higher than the UK's 10%. The UK is about 3.4% of world GDP, not 2.5%. The WTO has 166 members. Tariffs that would apply without a deal corrected (EU cars 10%; medicines and most aircraft parts tariff-free). The small-firm figure is the LSE's 16,400. The infographic was updated to match. |
| U231 | 23 October 2026 | Immigration | Plain-prose pass. Net migration peaked at a revised 944,000 and fell to 171,000 in 2025. The Dublin III claim qualified: it returned few people, and crossings rose while the UK was still in it. The CReAM study on migrants' fiscal contribution restated accurately. The Netherlands is denser than England on land area (about 520 per km²). |
| U230 | 23 October 2026 | Britain by the Numbers | Rewritten in plain prose. The London and North East table was rebuilt from current ONS data (GDP per head £72,201 against £29,957). Ethnicity, country-of-birth and language tables corrected (Romania and Italy added; a false "mixed is fastest growing" claim removed). Wealth by age now uses household medians. "Fastest secularisation in the developed world" removed. Premier League international rights are worth £5.3bn and international students number about 730,000. |
| U229 | 20 October 2026 | Leaving the ECHR | Rewritten in plain prose. Council of Europe non-members now include Vatican City and Kosovo, not just Russia and Belarus. The UK was the first to ratify the Convention, not the first to sign it. Protocol 11 dates corrected (signed 1994, in force 1998). An unsourced count of rights removed, and the academic study cited without a name now named (Duranti, 2017). |
| U228 | 20 October 2026 | Channel Small Boats | Rewritten in plain prose. 2024 arrivals were 36,816. First-half 2026 arrivals 11,884, down 41%, replacing unsupported figures. The pushback policy was withdrawn in April 2022, not November. The crush that killed a seven-year-old was in April 2024, not 2023. The Rwanda scheme cost about £700m in total, of which £290m was paid to Rwanda. Net migration peaked at a revised 944,000, not 606,000. |
| U227 | 20 October 2026 | Net Zero | Remaining em dashes removed. No change to content. |
| U226 | 20 October 2026 | UK Subsidy Audit | Rewritten in plain prose. Advanced manufacturing support is £4.5bn over five years, about £0.9bn a year, not £4.5bn a year. Bank Rate is no longer described as "currently 4.25%". The ECB's approach to reserves described accurately, and calling reserve interest a subsidy now noted as disputed. UK Export Finance's 88% is the share of businesses supported, not of value. |
| U225 | 20 October 2026 | The Generational Balance Sheet; Fiscal Hierarchy; Welfare; State Pension Explained | Rewritten in plain prose. The total for ages 0 to 19 corrected to about £22,000. Checked against the OBR's July 2026 report, read directly: the State Pension rises from 5% of GDP to about 9% by 2075-76 (about 7% if uprated with earnings). The three pension pages now use that figure. |
| U224 | 20 October 2026 | Bank of England Reserve Interest | Rewritten in plain prose. UK inflation was about three times Germany's when sterling joined the ERM in 1990, not on Black Wednesday. The Bank wasn't given formal responsibility for inflation targeting after Black Wednesday. The Financial Policy Committee came from a 2012 Act. The proposal is now attributed to Reform UK, and the ECB comparison corrected (0% on minimum reserves since September 2023). |
| U223 | 20 October 2026 | Free Expression | Rewritten in plain prose. The arrest count is now sourced (more than 3,600 by September 2026). The 2022 Act created the statutory public nuisance offence, not conspiracy to cause one. The Germany comparison corrected (displaying a banned group's symbols is an offence there too). An unsourced claim about Nordic countries removed. |
| U222 | 20 October 2026 | Cost of Living | Rewritten in plain prose and aligned with the corrected pillars: renters' housing cost burden 34% against 19% for mortgagors; child poverty 27% (4.0m); union membership's halving dated from about 1980, with current membership 22.4%. |
| U221 | 20 October 2026 | Agrivoltaics | Rewritten in plain prose. "84% import dependency in vegetables" was the fruit figure. Air travel is already partly in the UK carbon market, not about to be added. A claim about Danish land rules couldn't be verified and was replaced with Germany's DIN SPEC 91434 standard. The assumed export electricity price is flagged as high. |
| U220 | 20 October 2026 | Reform Sequence Roadmap | Rewritten in plain prose. Quotations from pillars rewritten this month were brought up to date. The roadmap's map still ended with income tax "phasing out" as inheritance tax revenue reached parity, the framing withdrawn in U182; it now shows income tax cut step by step, up to about a fifth at the ceiling. |
| U219 | 20 October 2026 | Devolved Governments | Rewritten in plain prose; the £83bn Barnett block grant split rechecked and unchanged. |
| U218 | 20 October 2026 | Artificial Intelligence; Economic Renewal; Introduction | Rewritten in plain prose, with most headline figures replaced. "$4tn committed through 2030" is now the $725bn that Amazon, Microsoft, Alphabet and Meta plan to spend in 2026. An unsourced "90% of frontier model revenue" removed. "Five companies control the infrastructure" replaced with the CMA's finding that AWS and Microsoft each hold 30–40% of UK cloud spending. "40% of UK tasks automatable now" replaced with IMF and IPPR estimates. Data-centre power growth is about 4x (NESO), not 10x. The AI Safety Institute is now the AI Security Institute. The infographic was updated to match. |
| U217 | 20 October 2026 | Agriculture | Rewritten in plain prose. Self-sufficiency 62%, fresh vegetables 53%, fruit 16%. Farmer ages now from June 2026 data. Peatland about 3m ha, with damaged peat emitting about 4% of UK emissions. The Netherlands is twice the size of Wales, not the same size. The Sustainable Farming Incentive closed in 2025 because its budget was fully used, not because of low uptake. The agricultural relief cap rose to £2.5m in December 2025. Ten new sources. |
| U216 | 20 October 2026 | Fiscal Hierarchy; Welfare; State Pension Explained | Rewritten in plain prose. Debt interest is not "larger than defence, education and transport combined"; it is £106bn against £119bn for education. NHS England's budget is £215bn (2026-27). The triple lock dates from the 2010 coalition. The OBR's State Pension projection was given as "8–10% of GDP"; corrected (and updated again in U225 to about 9% by 2075-76). |
| U215 | 20 October 2026 | The Two-Jar Fiscal Framework | Rewritten in plain prose. Norway's fund updated; spinout, pension-comparison and listing figures now sourced, with unsourced ones removed; Venture Capital Trust relief is 20% from April 2026; China's high-speed rail network is about 50,000km; the Mumbai–Ahmedabad line is under construction, not running. Twelve new sources. |
| U214 | 20 October 2026 | Housing; Education | Rewritten in plain prose. Citations from row 5 onwards had pointed one row out, after a source was inserted mid-table; fixed. Children in temporary accommodation 177,530. The Green Belt is 12.5% of England, not "larger than Wales". 1953 was a record for council completions (245,160), not 300,000 homes. Right to Buy: 2.04m sales, about one replacement per two sales in 2024-25. Private-renter housing support £12.3bn, not about £30bn. An unsupported EU rent comparison dropped. Ten new sources. |
| U213 | 20 October 2026 | Criminal Justice | Rewritten in plain prose. The Crown Court backlog was 80,061 at March 2026, the first fall since 2023 (the Key Proposal still quotes the older 73,105, because proposal wording is versioned). A leftover "6%" charge rate corrected to about 7%, and the claim that it "keeps falling" corrected, since it has risen since 2021–22. Scotland's presumption against short sentences now covers sentences up to twelve months. An unsourced figure for German prisons removed. |
| U212 | 20 October 2026 | Defence; Public Debt | Rewritten in plain prose. Ajax cost corrected to over £3bn paid by 2021; defence commitments updated (2.5% of GDP by 2027, NATO's 3.5% by 2035); Portsmouth services the surface fleet but no longer builds ships; the Public Office Covenant's core is disclosure, not lifetime bans. |
| U211 | 20 October 2026 | Public Office Covenant | Rewritten in plain prose. "22% of MPs were landlords" corrected to about one in eight declaring £10,000+ a year in rental income. Private-school pupils take about 30% of Oxbridge places, not 18%. The 4,000x and 60% billionaire figures are now labelled as Oxfam's global estimates, not UK facts. |
| U210 | 20 October 2026 | Education | Rewritten in plain prose. The page proposed VAT on private school fees as if it hadn't happened; it has applied since January 2025, raising about £1.5–1.7bn a year. The 40%+ cut to further education applied only to classroom adult education. The Early Years Pupil Premium rose to £570 in April 2025. PISA scores now name the subject (maths 2022). The attainment gap at 16 is about four times the gap at five. |
| U209 | 20 October 2026 | Public Debt | Rewritten in plain prose. The comparison of debt growth with "0.7 points across advanced economies" matched nothing checkable; it now compares with the EU average (3.2 points). The infographic was out of date (OBR projection about 300% of GDP; debt £2.9tn, 93.8%). PFI described as £199bn of future charges for assets worth about £60bn. |
| U208 | 20 October 2026 | Public Spending Overview | Rewritten in plain prose. The international comparison mixed the UK's figures with other countries' figures on different bases; it now uses one classification throughout. On that basis UK social protection spending (13.3% of GDP) is well below France (23.7%) and the EU average (19.6%), while UK health spending is not low. The spending table's labels were kept, because the budget tool depends on them. |
| U207 | 20 October 2026 | Wealth Tax or Inheritance Tax? | Rewritten in plain prose. The domicile rule was out of date: since April 2025 inheritance tax depends on residence, and long-term residents stay liable for 3 to 10 years after leaving. The Wealth Tax Commission proposed a one-off 5% charge over five years, not 1%. France's wealth tax dates and thresholds, and the US estate tax exemption ($15m from 2026), corrected. Remaining income-tax-replacement wording aligned with U182. |
| U206 | 20 October 2026 | Local Government | Rewritten in plain prose. The Band H example confused 1991 and current values: Band H starts at £320,000 in 1991 values, about £1.5m today. Council tax is the only regressive direct tax, not the only regressive tax. A claim that England's valuation base is older than the ones Germany's court struck down was false (Germany's dated from 1964 and 1935). The gap in Section 114 notices before 2018 was eighteen years. |
| U205 | 20 October 2026 | State Pension Explained | Rewritten in plain prose. The page compared the UK State Pension alone with an OECD average that includes compulsory workplace pensions, overstating the gap; the comparison and the "60% less" claim corrected. Healthy life expectancy, life expectancy and workplace pension participation (80% of employees) updated and sourced. Chile's pension history now uses ILO figures. The earnings link returned in 2011, not 2010. |
| U204 | 20 October 2026 | How Tax Works | Rewritten in plain prose. London average home about £550,000, not £740,000, and the residence nil-rate band is now taken into account, so a London home alone triggers inheritance tax only in narrower cases. Threshold freezes now run to April 2031, pulling 5.2m more people into income tax. A contested reading of why governments issue gilts is now presented as contested. Singapore's top rate is 24%; Gulf tax details updated. |
| U203 | 20 October 2026 | Welfare; Fiscal Hierarchy; NHS | Rewritten in plain prose. Turnout is about 73% of over-65s and about 40% of under-35s (2024), not 80% and 45%. Universal Credit is £66.7bn (21%), matching the page's own table, not £87.8bn (28%). Two-child limit figures replaced with the government's costing and DWP's count of children affected. Norway's fund given as $2.2tn. "House prices up 500% in real terms since 1970" (no source) replaced with roughly doubled in real terms since 1990. Housing allowance history, Dutch and Norwegian sick pay, and the NHS waiting list (7.6 million cases, about 6.4 million people) corrected. |
| U202 | 20 October 2026 | Revenue Architecture | Rewritten in plain prose. The Numbers Ledger still described inheritance tax as replacing income tax; it now shows the share of income tax and NI it could fund (about 2% today, 20–23% at the full-rate ceiling). Ireland now applies a 15% minimum to large groups, and the global minimum tax yields about £1.6bn after the US carve-out, not about £2bn. An unsupported claim about litigation removed. |
| U201 | 20 October 2026 | Energy; UK Subsidy Audit; Cost of Living | Rewritten in plain prose. Levy-funded support for renewables was put at £1.5–2.0bn a year and the fossil fuel upper bound at eight times larger; environmental levies were about £14bn in 2025-26, so the two are comparable in size, and the argument now rests on how visible each is and whether it has an end date. The Renewables Obligation closed to new capacity in 2017. EU renewable electricity rose from 34% in 2019, not 17%. The 2022 price cap peaked at £4,279, with the Energy Price Guarantee holding bills at about £2,500. Electricity price updated to 26.3p/kWh. |
| U200 | 20 October 2026 | Economy | Rewritten in plain prose. Union membership is 22.4% of employees, not "under 20%". Manufacturing's share of the economy is 18% in Germany but 9.6% in France (UK 8%); the page said both were above 20%. Norway's £66bn counterfactual is about 40% of the NHS England budget, not all of it. An unverified 1987 Tony Blair quotation removed. The UK has no advanced-chip fabrication, not "zero fabrication capacity". The reason KfW's debt is off the German public books corrected. |
| U199 | 20 October 2026 | Demographics | Rewritten in plain prose. Fertility updated to 1.41 (England and Wales, 2024); the tile contradicted the body. "Inheritance tax captures under 3%" of transfers corrected to around 7%. Pensioner poverty 1.7m. An unsourced claim that over-65s hold 67% of housing wealth was removed. The bottom half hold about 10% of wealth, not 5%. An unsourced Resolution Foundation prediction was removed, and the description of Economic Renewal updated to an income tax cut. |
| U198 | 20 October 2026 | Tax Avoidance | Rewritten in plain prose. Business and agricultural property relief were described as unlimited; since April 2026, 100% relief is capped at £2.5m per person. Employer NI updated to 15% and the combined rates recalculated. The OBR's estimate of how much employer NI falls on wages is 76%, not about 80%. OECD comparisons moved to the latest data (UK tax-to-GDP 34.4%). Income tax in 1799 was two shillings in the pound (10%), not "2 pence". |
| U197 | 20 October 2026 | NHS | Rewritten in plain prose. France spends 6% more per person than the UK, not 9%; Germany 37% more in total, not 55%. Avoidable mortality had compared different years and now uses 2024 for both (UK 200, Sweden 123 per 100,000). Colon cancer survival is second-lowest of 19 peers, not lowest. Reaching French spending levels would cost about £20bn a year, not £40bn. Vacancies updated to 97,475 (March 2026). The social care claim narrowed to delayed discharge, which is what the cited evidence shows. |
| U192 | 14 October 2026 | What It Means to Be British | Private school fee income is about £10bn a year (implied by HMRC's VAT costing), not £26bn. The claim that the UK has the second-lowest social mobility in the OECD wasn't supported and was rewritten from the OECD's own report (U193); the British Social Attitudes figure on class was updated to 77% (2023). A line saying the full English breakfast was built on Irish bacon had no source and was removed (U194). |
| U186 | 14 October 2026 | Introduction; Economic Renewal; Trade; Immigration; Net Zero; What It Means to Be British; Political Renewal | Plain-prose rewrites began (U186 to U191 and U196), with figures rechecked as each page was rewritten. Corrections on the way included: Rolls-Royce sells aero engines in China, not cars; UK population about 69.5m; fertility 1.44; Woolf, not the American Toni Morrison, in a list of British writers; Lib Dem seats in 2019 were 11, not 18; youth turnout in 2024 was about 37%, not 47%; the Lords has 798 members after the 2026 Hereditary Peers Act; Labour's 2024 vote share was 4.3 points below Conservative and Reform combined, not above it; and an unsourced claim about how many stable democracies use proportional representation was removed. |
| U185 | 14 October 2026 | Welfare; State Pension Explained; Fiscal Hierarchy; Britain by the Numbers; What It Means to Be British | Poverty figures moved to DWP's revised June 2026 series: child poverty 27% (4.0m) in 2024/25; pensioner poverty 14% (1.7m). Welfare's international comparison mixed different measures and claimed other countries had a quarter to a fifth of the UK's rate; it now uses UNICEF's comparable figures (UK 20.7%, Germany 15.5%, Denmark 9.9%), about half. |
| U184 | 14 October 2026 | Homepage; Introduction; Public Debt; Criminal Justice; Britain by the Numbers | Headline figures checked. Debt is 93.8% of GDP (end-March 2026), reversing a change made in U178 after ONS revised its figures. The charge rate now uses one consistent Home Office series (11.1% in 2015–16, 4.6% in 2021–22, 7.3% in 2025–26) instead of mixing measures. Sixteen figures corrected in Britain by the Numbers, including healthy life expectancy, wealth shares, Welsh speakers, private schooling in the Cabinet (8%, not 29%) and the music industry's value. |
| U183 | 14 October 2026 | Economic Renewal; How Tax Works; Tax Avoidance; claim pages | Claim-page figures audited. Sweden's history corrected again: the 70% top rate dates from the late 1950s, reliefs for family firms came in the 1970s, before the cut, and the cut to 30% was in 1992. "55% of all tax receipts" corrected to 55% of HMRC receipts; "household wealth growing 5–7% a year" corrected to about 2% in 2024; an incorrect claim that income tax receipts are stagnating removed; Norway's rise in departures attributed to its wealth tax rise as well as its exit tax. |
| U182 | 14 October 2026 | Economic Renewal; Revenue Architecture; Wealth Tax or Inheritance Tax?; Demographics; Tax Avoidance; Introduction; and others | The flagship proposal was corrected. It rested on £200–400bn a year passing between generations, a figure no source supports; the best estimates are about £100–115bn a year. A 95% tax on all of it would replace about a fifth of income tax and NI, not all of it. The proposal changed from abolishing income tax to cutting it, lowest earners first, as far as the revenue pays for. The 95% rate, the two-stage design and the constitutional protections are unchanged; the claim page's wording changed, so its supporter count reset. |
| U181 | 14 October 2026 | Criminal Justice; Public Office Covenant; Education; Economy; Immigration | Legal aid's 59% fall applies to advice agencies and law centres, not all providers. The UK's field-of-study mismatch is 41% against an OECD average of 38%, not "40%, worst in the OECD". Migrants' use of hospital beds is not significantly different after adjusting for age and sex, not "about half". Two unsourced figures (SEND's share of new school funding, and a wage effect attributed to the Migration Advisory Committee) were replaced with sourced findings. |
| U180 | 14 October 2026 | Sources Register | Real links added: 390 of 414 sources (94%) now link to the original. |
| U179 | 14 October 2026 | Demographics; State Pension Explained; Trade; Sources Register | The healthy life expectancy gap between richest and poorest areas is about 20 years, not 22 (ONS 2022–24), with the worked example corrected. A no-deal Brexit was estimated at −7.6% of GDP after 15 years, not −7.5%. Several sources cited under names that don't exist are now marked as such on their rows. |
| U178 | 14 October 2026 | Public Debt; Public Spending Overview; State Pension Explained; Fiscal Hierarchy; Defence; Education; Welfare | Source links added to the spending pillars and claims rechecked. Corrections: the over-60s hold 49% of household wealth, not about 70%; PFI is £60bn of capital value and £199bn of future charges (NAO), not "£60bn of contingent liabilities"; Australian superannuation is AUD 4.3tn; the "178 weapon systems" figure is dated (2017); physics teacher recruitment was 31% of target in 2024/25, not 17%; and scrapping the two-child limit costs about £3bn on the government's costing. (A change to the debt ratio made in this pass was reversed in U184.) |
| U177 | 14 October 2026 | Net Zero; Demographics | Net Zero said 56% of homes were rated D or below; 56% are rated A to C, so about 44% (about 11 million in England) are D or below. The "70% of 2050 oil demand" figure is a reading by Energy Intelligence, not the IEA's own (the IEA gives 55% for petrochemicals). Demographics' "30% real wage growth since 1990" matched no published series and was replaced with the Low Pay Commission's measured figure plus a labelled estimate. |
| U176 | 14 October 2026 | Local Government; Public Spending Overview; Gaps Register | The pillar's £98bn headline for local government spending matched no line in the Treasury's spending data. Replaced with PESA 2025's £239bn total local government expenditure (about 8.3% of GDP), with an explanation that this is the same money as the national total, counted by who spends it. |
| U175 | 14 October 2026 | Net Zero | "Gas import dependency peaking at about 85% by 2048" had no source; it now cites one analysis (Uplift for the End Fuel Poverty Coalition: about 55% today, 85% by 2040) and notes that projections differ widely. An unsupported claim that the Cabinet Office found 85% of lobbyists exempt from the lobbying register now says critics estimated in 2013 that about 80% were left off. Two source attributions corrected (peatland condition; EU ETS benchmarks). |
| U173 | 14 October 2026 | Demographics; UK Subsidy Audit | House prices rose about 385% in cash terms between 1990 and 2024 and roughly doubled in real terms, not 470% and 230%; the table now uses the average price (£261,000). The Bank of England's QE transfer to the Treasury in 2024-25 was £36.3bn and fell, not £54bn and rising; £54bn was a budget request, not the outturn. |
| U172 | 14 October 2026 | Net Zero; BoE Reserve Interest; Sources Register | Real links added to most sources in seven sections. The £525bn retrofit estimate covers 28 million homes, not 29 million. The £895bn QE total includes £20bn of corporate bonds, not only gilts. |
| U170 | 13 October 2026 | Housing; Devolved Governments; Public Spending Overview; Local Government; Cost of Living; Net Zero | Housing had nine errors in fifteen sources, including a misreading of the Letwin Review, which found no deliberate restriction of building by housebuilders; the argument was rebuilt around what it did find. Other Housing corrections: the temporary accommodation count, a homeownership statistic, HOWOGE's credit rating, and a London land-value claim with no source (removed). Elsewhere: the Barnett block grant is £83bn, not £95bn; the SEND deficit figures are the LGA's (53% and 79%), not the NAO's; and North Sea jobs fell by 51% over a decade, not about 40%. |
| U169 | 13 October 2026 | Public Debt; Demographics; Gaps Register; and nine other pages | OBR projects UK debt reaching about 300% of GDP by 2075-76, not about 200%. An August correction had wrongly lowered the original figure; the regression is recorded in Gap 17. Other corrections: avoidable mortality (NHS); the source of a Pupil Premium finding (Education); child poverty 4.5m, matching the 31% rate; the foreign-national share of Germany's prisons (45%); remand rates in the Lammy Review, given separately for Black women (29%) and Black men (26%); a false claim that the UK is NATO's largest European contributor (Defence); votes at 16 (only Austria and Malta nationally); fruit and vegetable self-sufficiency swapped in Agriculture (16% is fruit; vegetables are about half); and Norway's wealth tax (about 0.4% of GDP, not 2%). |
| U168 | 13 October 2026 | How Tax Works; Revenue Architecture; Tax Avoidance | The average London home is about £550k, not £740k, so the claim that it is "more than double" the inheritance tax threshold was false and is reworded. Council tax banding is the Valuation Office Agency's job, not the Treasury's. London's share of income tax is just over a quarter, not 30%. 2023–24 corporation tax receipts were £93bn, not £85bn (the 2022–23 figure), and the Numbers Ledger totals were recalculated. The top 10% hold 41% of household wealth and the bottom half 10%, not 43% and 5%. |
| U167 | 13 October 2026 | Economic Renewal; Sources Register | Three more source errors fixed. The £10.8tn household wealth figure was credited to an unpublished survey round and now cites the ONS National Balance Sheet. "Billionaires 4,000 times more likely to hold office" is Oxfam's figure, not Wealth-X's. And there is no 2024 World Inequality Report; the figures are from the 2026 edition. |
| U166 | 13 October 2026 | Economic Renewal; Tax Avoidance; Gaps Register; claim pages | The project's main cautionary example was wrong in eight places. Sweden never had a 100% inheritance tax. Its top rate was 70%, cut to 30% by an ordinary parliamentary majority, eroded by reliefs and abolished in 2004. Corrected everywhere, citing Henrekson and Waldenström (2016); U183 later corrected the dates (70% from the late 1950s, cut in 1992). |
| U162 | 12 October 2026 | Economic Renewal; How We Reach Conclusions | New §10, the Kill Sheet, gathering the three existing falsification tests that bear on whether the 95% inheritance tax should go ahead. |
| U161 | 12 October 2026 | Gaps Register | Gap 10 said land value tax had been dropped, but it is a live proposal in Revenue Architecture; corrected. Gaps 33 to 35 added for three new objections from an outside critical review (double taxation, the privacy cost of publishing every estate, and wealth by generation), and five existing gaps sharpened. |
| U159 | 12 October 2026 | Economic Renewal claim pages | Argument chains added to the five claim pages that lacked one. The income tax claim's causation step was tagged UNVERIFIED, not SYNTHESIS, because its revenue case wasn't proven. |
| U156 | 8 October 2026 | Reform Sequence Roadmap (new) | New In Discussion paper setting out which reforms would need to come first, in three phases, with a map added in U157. Each track keeps its own timeline instead of being forced onto one scale, and the State Pension disagreement is left open. |
| U150 | 8 October 2026 | Welfare; Fiscal Hierarchy; Gaps Register | The two pillars make incompatible proposals on the State Pension. Rather than quietly picking one, each now points to the other, and the disagreement is logged as Gap 32 (U151), marked as open by design. |
| U148 | 8 October 2026 | Political Renewal | The Netherlands was listed with Germany and Scandinavia as a proportional system without problems; it is now described as the counter-case (very low threshold, long coalition talks). A new Steel Man objection argues that ranked-choice voting in single-member seats is a better reform than full proportional representation, drawing on published scholarship, and the response concedes that STV meets part of that objection. |
| U147 | 29 September 2026 | Political Renewal | The page credited Wales's new, fully proportional Senedd (first elected May 2026) with decades of stable government. Those decades were under the old system. It now separates the long Scottish and Northern Irish record from the untested Welsh one, and notes the Welsh minority government's budget defeat in July 2026. |
| U146 | 24 September 2026 | Whole site | Site search added, covering pages, proposals, gaps and sources. |
| U144 | 24 September 2026 | Energy; UK Subsidy Audit | The £11.7bn cost of North Sea decommissioning tax relief was credited to the wrong body; corrected to HMRC (February 2026). New §2.3 on who pays when a field closes. The proposal on decommissioning security narrowed to cash security when fields pass to weaker buyers, a substantive change that reset its supporter count. In the Subsidy Audit, Bank of England QE transfers were wrongly listed as fossil fuel support and have been removed. 15 new sources. |
| U136 | 22 September 2026 | All pillars | Discussion forums opened on each pillar for registered supporters (U136 to U139). |
| U132 | 22 September 2026 | Public Debt; Economy; Energy; Housing | Norway's fund was given as £1.7tn on one page, $2.2tn on another and "£1 trillion" in Economy's summary; all now show the figure in both currencies. Energy now explains why its fossil fuel subsidy range is so wide (£3.5–17.5bn): the two ends measure different things. Housing's "Managed Scarcity" heading retitled, and a claim that the housing shortage "has nothing to do with immigration" narrowed to what its data shows (90% of social lets go to UK nationals). |
| U131 | 22 September 2026 | Agriculture; Immigration | Sections reordered so both pillars end on Cross-Pillar Dependencies and then Proposals for Change, like the others. No wording changed. |
| U130 | 22 September 2026 | State Pension Explained; Public Office Covenant; Trade; Demographics | Steel Man sections added to the four pillars that had none. Trade's challenges the pillar's own claim to even-handedness. |
| U129 | 22 September 2026 | Public Debt; Agriculture; Wealth Tax or Inheritance Tax?; Energy | Counter-Arguments sections added to the four pillars that had none, each covering objections not already answered elsewhere on the page. |
| U128 | 22 September 2026 | Economy | A plain-English caption added under the chart of output against jobs by sector, explaining how to read it. |
| U125 | 22 September 2026 | Fiscal Hierarchy; Economy; Agriculture; Wealth Tax or Inheritance Tax?; Energy; Artificial Intelligence | "Before You Read This" boxes added to the six pillars that lacked one. |
| U122 | 21 September 2026 | Tax Avoidance; Demographics; Wealth Tax or Inheritance Tax?; Trade; and others | Fixes to page structure from an audit of all pillars (U121 to U127): Trade's section titles made into real headings so they appear in its contents list; Tax Avoidance's numbering, which skipped §4, corrected; closing Proposals for Change sections added to Demographics and Wealth Tax; 23 tables in 11 pillars that displayed as run-on text repaired; and closing sections renamed consistently. |
| U117 | 21 September 2026 | All 25 numbered pillars; Net Zero | Argument chains and falsification tests added to every numbered pillar and to the Net Zero paper (U117 to U120), each built only from facts the pillar already sourced and checked against its citations. One batch was published before that check had been done; it passed the check afterwards, and the order of events is recorded here. |
| U116 | 21 September 2026 | Revenue Architecture | A chart of eroding tax bases added. Before publishing, its income tax panel was corrected: it described an AI profit tax as the project's answer, when the project's answer is the inheritance tax. |
| U115 | 21 September 2026 | Net Zero; Demographics; Welfare; Tax Avoidance; How Tax Works | Two older draft notes were checked against the live pages and their remaining new material added: carbon sinks and a fuel duty alternative in Net Zero; wealth by age group in Demographics (§2.3); the Alaska Permanent Fund in Welfare; the IFS's counter-view on whether VAT is regressive in Tax Avoidance; and the UK's OECD tax-to-GDP ranking in How Tax Works. 12 new sources. |
| U114 | 21 September 2026 | Demographics; Welfare; Economic Renewal | Demographics described its own idea (using inheritance tax revenue for housing, childcare and a citizen's endowment) as Economic Renewal's proposal. It wasn't, and Economic Renewal's revenue is already committed. Corrected to Demographics' own proposal, marked as unfunded. Welfare's £3bn early-years commitment is now cross-referenced as the project's only funded early-years proposal. |
| U113 | 21 September 2026 | Economy; Public Debt; Housing; State Pension Explained; Economic Renewal | The Economy pillar's separate British Wealth Fund (offshore wind lease revenue) merged into Public Debt's Sovereign Wealth Mechanism as a third funding stream, instead of running two near-identical institutions. Two proposals were reworded substantively, so their supporter counts reset. |
| U112 | 16 September 2026 | Agriculture; Economic Renewal | Agriculture never mentioned the inheritance tax reform, despite its own farm succession crisis and the reform's plan to close Agricultural Property Relief. New §5 addresses it, names the 2024 farmer protests, and points to the equity-stake and staged-payment protections, marked as untested for farmland. |
| U110 | 16 September 2026 | Economic Renewal claim pages (new) | One page per Key Proposal for Economic Renewal's six proposals, each with its evidence, assumptions, falsification test and update history. Proposal 5's wording corrected to match U107. |
| U107 | 16 September 2026 | Public Debt; Economic Renewal | Resolved a contradiction over what funds the Sovereign Wealth Mechanism. It is one institution, funded mainly by revenue from depleting assets, with a share of inheritance tax receipts added from Stage 2 to smooth their swings. Economic Renewal §8 had stated the wrong version outright. |
| U106 | 16 September 2026 | Economic Renewal | New §4.2, the Cross-Pillar Impact Map, setting out where other pillars' claims about the inheritance tax conflicted with this pillar or each other. It named six tensions instead of quietly fixing them; U107 and U112 to U114 then dealt with them. |
| U104 | 16 September 2026 | Revenue Architecture | New Numbers Ledger (§8.1) and Assumptions Register (§8.2). Stage 1 of the inheritance tax reform had no revenue estimate anywhere on the site; one was worked out from HMRC's 2023–24 data on estates by value band: roughly £10–15bn a year. It also showed that whether Stage 1 keeps the spousal exemption changes the figure by about 30%. A follow-up (U105) set out the gap against income tax in tables. |
| U102 | 16 September 2026 | Welfare; Gaps Register | DWP published the nationality of Universal Credit claimants for the first time in July 2025. Now cited in Welfare, with its limits stated (Universal Credit only). Gap 31 marked partly resolved. 16.4% of 7.9m claimants is about 1.3m, not the 1.26m some reporting used. |
| U101 | 16 September 2026 | The Generational Balance Sheet (new) | New In Discussion paper on spending, debt and wealth across generations. It was published as a working paper, not folded into a pillar, because the draft itself warned that the method for attributing debt to generations is contested. |
| U097 | 16 September 2026 | Nine pillars | Nine shareable infographics added, each figure checked against its pillar's text. An inconsistency found on the way (Norway's fund given as £1.7tn on one page and $2.2tn on another) was flagged for correction. A follow-up pass (U098) clarified captions, replaced off-topic panels, and labelled one company jobs estimate as unverified. |
| U075 | 28 August 2026 | Political Renewal | First reader challenge accepted. The case for proportional representation cited only foreign examples; it now notes that the UK already uses proportional systems for the Scottish Parliament, Senedd, Northern Ireland Assembly, London Assembly and Scottish local elections. A new source was added. The proposal's wording didn't change, so no supporter counts reset. |
| U072 | 28 August 2026 | Challenge a Claim | The anonymous form was replaced with a structured submission tied to a verified registration, with fields for the claim, the evidence and the proposed correction. |
| U063 | 24 August 2026 | Comparable Projects (new) | New page profiling eleven comparable UK policy organisations, with founding dates, funding transparency and political position. Every claim was checked against primary sources, because the research notes it started from were unverified. |
| U051 | 21 August 2026 | Tax Avoidance; Welfare; Housing; Criminal Justice; Public Debt; Education; NHS; Defence; State Pension Explained; Local Government; Public Office Covenant; Political Renewal; Demographics | "Before You Read This" boxes added to thirteen pillars, one at a time (U051 to U062 and U064), each written for the shape of that pillar's argument and checked against its own text. |
| U050 | 21 August 2026 | Economic Renewal | "Before You Read This" box added. (Its account of the Swedish precedent was later found to be wrong and corrected; see U166 and U183.) |
| U049 | 20 August 2026 | Immigration; Trade | "Before You Read This" boxes added, setting out what makes each subject hard before the detail starts. |
| U046 | 17 August 2026 | Fiscal Hierarchy | The table listed seven separately ranked tiers in today's system, while the page's own text says there are three protected tiers and one undifferentiated fourth tier. Corrected, and a diagram added. |
| U044 | 16 August 2026 | Most pages | Site-wide consistency check. Corrections included: Welsh speakers (the census recorded its lowest share, not growth); child poverty 4.3m and 31% everywhere; the PESA welfare total (£383.9bn); UK health spending per head against France (about 9% lower, not 26%); the 2024 seat share (63%, 411 seats) and vote-share gap (4.3 points); NHS and social care projections; the HMRC receipts total; the OBR's Brexit estimate (4%, not 4–5.5%); the effective inheritance tax rate (12%, not 27%); the State Pension's value against wages (25%, not 38%); the number of councils issuing Section 114 notices (seven); and duplicate or missing section numbers. Economic Renewal and Tax Avoidance, which both proposed an exit tax, now point to each other. |
| U043 | 12 August 2026 | Housing; Wealth Tax or Inheritance Tax? | Housing's argument chain cited material that only appeared later in the page, so it moved to §8.1. Wealth Tax's falsification test relied on Norwegian figures the page hadn't given, so the sourced figures were added to §5. A draft figure that couldn't be verified was caught and removed before publication. |
| U042 | 12 August 2026 | Channel Small Boats; Leaving the ECHR | A stray 194,000 corrected to the 193,000 used elsewhere; Sir Vincent Evans's term on the European Court corrected to end in 1991, not 1990; two Albanian removal figures explained as measuring different things; the description of Russia's exit from the ECHR clarified. |
| U041 | 12 August 2026 | Channel Small Boats | The GPS tagging row read as if a court ruling ended the pilot, though the pilot ended first. Rewritten with the actual sequence: pilot ended December 2023; ICO enforcement notice March 2024; tribunal and High Court rulings in March and May 2024. |
| U040 | 12 August 2026 | Economic Renewal | New passage, "What This Actually Changes", on how the proposal changes the relationship between people and the state, labelled as a value judgement. New §5.3 on an exit tax triggered by leaving the UK, with four sourced precedents (US, France, Norway, and the UK's own shelved 2025 proposal), including Norway's evidence that its exit tax didn't stop departures. |
| U038 | 12 August 2026 | Wealth Tax or Inheritance Tax?; Housing | Argument chains and falsification tests added to both pillars, restating claims they already made. |
| U037 | 12 August 2026 | Channel Small Boats (new); Leaving the ECHR (new) | Two new In Discussion papers published from draft notes, marked incomplete where the notes were unfinished. |
| U036 | 12 August 2026 | Tax Avoidance; State Pension Explained; Foreword (new); Challenge a Claim (new); Economic Renewal | "The Tax Myth" renamed Tax Avoidance and "The State Pension Myth" renamed The State Pension Explained. Foreword added. The five-stage argument chain and falsification test introduced and piloted on Economic Renewal's 95% inheritance tax (§3.4). Challenge a Claim page and this register's reader-challenge section added. |
| U035 | 12 August 2026 | How Tax Works; Tax Avoidance; Economy; Local Government; Welfare | Findings on tax receipts added to four pages, and a breakdown of where the £313bn welfare budget goes added to Welfare. The state pension cost appeared in six places under three different wrong figures; corrected to £146.5bn. Other stale or contradictory figures corrected: education spending, Norway's fund value, the debt interest forecast, the effective inheritance tax rate, poverty rates and the tax gap. |
| U034 | 1 August 2026 | Most pillars | Page codes in titles and footers standardised. Real errors fixed on the way: Economy's footer had the wrong page code, and two pages pointed to the wrong web domain. |
| U033 | 1 August 2026 | How We Reach Conclusions (new) | New page on how this project reaches conclusions and where that method stops. |
| U032 | 31 July 2026 | Local Government | Expanded with council tax figures, IFS revaluation modelling and a section on ageing and the council tax base, labelled as this project's own analysis. Scotland council tax figures were dropped because they stayed contradictory after checking. |
| U031 | 31 July 2026 | Agriculture; Agrivoltaics (new working paper) | Agrivoltaics had grown into one of the pillar's core arguments, with precise payback figures for a technology still at trial stage. Cut back to one paragraph in the pillar, with the full case moved to a working paper marked as speculative. |
| U028 | 31 July 2026 | Trade | Removed a straw man. The page said Remain campaigners claimed Britain could no longer trade with the rest of the world; no mainstream figure said that. Replaced with what was actually argued: the Treasury's May 2016 short-term forecasts and President Obama's "back of the queue" remark. |
| U027 | 31 July 2026 | Energy | New section 2.2, "Geology or Policy?", showing that most of the gap between UK and Norwegian North Sea revenue comes from tax and state ownership choices, not geology. |
| U025 | 30 July 2026 | In Discussion (new section) | New In Discussion section for working papers held to a lighter standard of evidence. Three existing papers moved into it, and a new paper published on the proposal to stop the Bank of England paying interest on QE reserves. |
| U023 | 30 July 2026 | Devolved Governments (new) | Placeholder page published, explaining that the pillar was coming and why it needed care. The full pillar followed later. |
| U022 | 30 July 2026 | Local Government (new) | New pillar published, covering council tax's 1991 valuations, the growth of social care costs, Section 114 notices and Exceptional Financial Support, with 11 new sources. |
| U018 | 30 July 2026 | Energy | The title and footer carried the wrong page code; a stray statistic about pharmaceutical pricing, copied from another page, was replaced; and a new section 1.4 sets out the three separate kinds of energy subsidy, with the estimates marked as estimates. |
| U013 | 30 July 2026 | Public Spending Overview | The spending table's total row was corrected to what its own rows add up to (47.1% of GDP, £1,364bn, not the stated 43.8% and £1,264bn). The gap is probably grants to councils and devolved governments counted twice; logged as Gap 29 instead of guessed at. |
| U007 | July 2026 | Nine further pages | Inline citations extended to nine more pages. For four of them, which had no source list, sources were taken from institutions named in the text and flagged for checking; later passes (U167 onwards) checked them. |
| U006 | July 2026 | All pillars | Seventeen Cross-Pillar Dependencies tables that displayed as raw text were repaired, as was the Sources Register. Inline citations linking figures to their row in the Sources Register were introduced. |
| U005 | July 2026 | The Two-Jar Fiscal Framework (new) | Working paper published as drafted, including its own unresolved sections, which are marked as provisional. |
| U004 | July 2026 | Free Expression (new) | Working paper published as a standalone page. Whether it should later merge into Public Office Covenant is still open (see Section 1). |
| U003 | July 2026 | UK Subsidy Audit (new) | Working paper published. It had been written in June but never added to the site build. |
| U002 | June 2026 | Economy | The National Wealth Fund's role as a co-investor at Wylfa distinguished from this pillar's British Wealth Fund proposal, so the two aren't confused. |
| U001 | June 2026 | Energy | The Wylfa small modular reactor contract was signed in April 2026. The figures, cost table and medium-term proposal were updated to reflect a contracted programme, and a Key Point added, while the analysis of cost uncertainty was kept. |
Section 4: Dependency Map
When a page changes, check this map for knock-on effects. It lists which pages have explicit cross-references to each pillar. It covers the pillars that existed in June 2026; pages added since then list their links in their own Cross-Pillar Dependencies sections.
| Page changed | Check these pages |
|---|---|
| S1_01 NHS | S1_00 Overview, S1_03 Welfare, S3_03 Economy, S4_05 Demographics, S1_07 Public Debt |
| S1_02 Education | S1_00 Overview, S3_03 Economy, S4_05 Demographics, S4_02 Immigration |
| S1_03 Welfare | S1_00 Overview, S1_01 NHS, S3_03 Economy, S4_05 Demographics, S1_04 Housing |
| S1_04 Housing | S1_00 Overview, S3_03 Economy, S3_04 Economic Renewal, S1_03 Welfare |
| S1_05 Criminal Justice | S1_00 Overview, S2_01 Political Renewal |
| S1_06 Defence | S4_04 Trade, S3_03 Economy, S3_04 Economic Renewal |
| S1_07 Public Debt | S3_03 Economy, S3_04 Economic Renewal, S1_00 Overview |
| S2_01 Political Renewal | S3_04 Economic Renewal, S1_05 Criminal Justice, S3_03 Economy |
| S2_02 Public Office Covenant | S2_01 Political Renewal, S4_01 Energy, S3_03 Economy |
| S3_01 How Tax Works | S3_02 Tax Avoidance, S3_04 Economic Renewal |
| S3_02 Tax Avoidance | S3_01 How Tax Works, S3_04 Economic Renewal |
| S3_03 Economy | S1_04 Housing, S1_01 NHS, S1_03 Welfare, S3_04 Economic Renewal, S1_07 Public Debt |
| S3_04 Economic Renewal | S3_03 Economy, S3_01 How Tax Works, S3_02 Tax Avoidance |
| S4_01 Energy | S3_03 Economy, S3_04 Economic Renewal, S2_02 Public Office Covenant |
| S4_02 Immigration | S1_01 NHS, S1_02 Education, S3_03 Economy, S4_05 Demographics |
| S4_03 AI | S3_03 Economy, S1_02 Education, S3_04 Economic Renewal |
| S4_04 Trade | S1_06 Defence, S3_03 Economy, S4_01 Energy |
| S4_05 Demographics | S1_01 NHS, S1_03 Welfare, S3_03 Economy, S4_02 Immigration |
| S5_01 Gaps Register | All pages: review the open gaps whenever a pillar changes |
| S5_02 Sources Register | Any page where a new source is cited |
Section 5: Known Future Update Triggers
Events and milestones that will need updates when they happen. They aren't pending yet; they are listed here so they aren't forgotten.
| Trigger | Expected timing | Pages affected | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wylfa Generic Design Assessment conclusion | December 2026 | S4_01 Energy | A key milestone. Update the SMR section with the outcome. |
| Wylfa Final Investment Decision | To be confirmed, after the design assessment | S4_01 Energy, S3_03 Economy | The point of real financial commitment. Update the cost and financing analysis. |
| OBR forecasts and Fiscal Risks and Sustainability report | Spring and autumn forecasts; the long-term report each summer | S1_07 Public Debt, S1_00 Overview, S3_03 Economy, S1_08 State Pension Explained | Check debt, interest, growth and State Pension projections against the current figures. |
| ONS productivity data | Quarterly | S3_03 Economy | Flag if the trend changes materially. |
| Migration statistics | Twice a year (ONS) and quarterly (Home Office) | S4_02 Immigration, Channel Small Boats | Flag if net migration or crossings move away from the figures on the pages. |
| DWP Households Below Average Income | Each spring | S1_03 Welfare, S1_08, S1_09, S4_06 | Child and pensioner poverty figures. |
| NHS waiting list data | Monthly | S1_01 NHS | A key headline figure. Update if the trend changes direction. |
| Budget and Spending Review | Each autumn, with spending reviews every few years | S1_00 Overview, S1_07 Public Debt, all Section 1 pillars | Update spending figures, the debt path and any policy changes affecting proposals. |
| AI capability and investment milestones | Ongoing | S4_03 AI, S3_04 Economic Renewal | A fast-moving field. Review at least every six months. |
| General election | No later than August 2029 | S2_01 Political Renewal, all proposals | Check which proposals appear in manifestos. That is the project's measure of success. |
Section 6: Site Features
What the site does now, and what is planned. Platform Integrity describes each feature in more detail.
| Feature | Status | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Inline citations | Live | Figures link to their row in the Sources Register; most rows link to the original source. |
| Argument chains and falsification tests | Live | On every numbered pillar that makes proposals, and on the Economic Renewal claim pages. |
| Registration and supporter count | Live since September 2026 | Email and SMS codes, postcode district and first name. |
| Backing individual proposals | Live | If a proposal's wording changes substantively, its supporter count resets and the change is logged. |
| Challenge a Claim | Live | Structured submissions from registered readers, shown in Section 1a. |
| Discussion on each pillar | Live | For registered supporters. Posts containing links are held until link scanning is switched on. Replies are not yet supported. |
| Site search | Live | Pages, proposals, gaps and sources. |
| Me page | Live | Pillars you follow, proposals you back, a budget tool and a tax mix tool. |
| Identity verification for formal challenges | Planned | Not started. |
| AI-assisted first review of challenges | Planned | Not started. The rule stays that only a named person can change published content. |
| "The Mix" synthesis document | Not started | What the proposals together imply about fiscal trade-offs. To be drafted once the pillars are stable. |
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