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The chancellor has announced a 5p per litre cut in fuel duty in his Spring Statement, as motorists struggle with rising prices.

Bear in mind the tax take from petrol and diesel increases as prices rise.

The average price of a litre of petrol has risen more than 40p a litre since last year’s Spring Statement, which means the government is getting an extra 7p per litre in VAT, which is the other tax the government imposes on fuel.

Diesel prices are up by nearly 50p a litre, almost 9p of which is VAT.

So the chancellor can afford to cut fuel duty by 5p and still be making more per litre in tax than he did a year ago.

You can read more about fuel taxes here.

UK Foreign Secretary Liz Truss this morning told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: “We’ve frozen the assets of 10 major Russian banks. So far the EU has only frozen three and we encourage them to do more.”

She is correct that the UK has frozen the assets of 10 banks and the EU has managed three.

But the difference could be explained by there being more Russian assets in London.

"London is, by a very long distance, the preeminent global financial centre for international money (and more so for Russian money) and so inevitably this means that the UK must lead the way because there is more money here than anywhere else," Tom Keatinge, director of the centre for financial crime and security studies at the think-tank RUSI, told Reality Check.

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Well-known actor and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) member, Hema Malini, has said that the safety of women improved in Uttar Pradesh after Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath took charge in 2017.

“Yogiji has given security to women. Security was in bad shape previously,” she told the Indian news channel, NDTV.

This claim also came up during election rallies and campaigns in the state, but it is not really borne out by the available data.

According to the National Crime Records Bureau, the total number of recorded crimes against women was 156,634 for the period from 2013 to 2016 inclusive.

If you look at the years after the BJP’s took charge - from 2017 to 2020 inclusive, the figure for the total number of crimes against women goes up to 224,694 - a rise of 43%.

But the number of rape cases reported in that period did fall by 2.3% compared with the previous four years.

However, a report by the National Commission for Women (NCW) showed that of the 31,000 complaints about abuse or harassment received by them nationally in 2021, over half came from Uttar Pradesh state.

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UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said in Parliament: “We’ve done more to resettle vulnerable people than any other European country since 2015."

He’s made this claim before, and the government says it refers to “resettled refugees” - people who were admitted to the UK from another country where they had initially sought refuge.

The UK has resettled 25,530 of them since 2015 – the majority of them were Syrians. This is ahead of France, which admitted 16,345 under this scheme, and Germany with 14,540.

But this figure ignores hundreds of thousands of refugees who were granted asylum outside of this scheme.

If you add up the number of resettled refugees and those who were granted asylum, some European countries have allowed far more people in.

The UK granted refuge to a total of 92,232 people from around the world from 2015 to 2020.

By comparison, Germany granted refuge to 1,060,000 people in the same period.