Fact check: Welfare spending and WHO comments on hantavirus

Accommodation units at Arrowe Park Hospital on Merseyside, where passengers repatriated to the UK from MV Hondius were quarantined (Peter Byrne/PA) - (PA Wire)

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Welfare payments have not exceeded income tax ‘for the first time ever’