Reality Check

Energy Minister Andrea Leadsom says 60% of our rules and regulations come from the EU.

Claims about how much UK law comes from the EU vary massively, with some estimates much lower at 13%. It's difficult to get a definitive answer, although if you're counting both rules and regulations it makes the figure higher. 

But in many ways, simply totting them up isn't very helpful anyway. 

For example, there are lots of EU laws on growing olives and tobacco. Not hugely impactful in the UK. Fishing laws, on the other hand, have quite a big impact on the UK. 

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Energy Minister Andrea Leadsom says: “We - Britain - have voted against Europe 70 times and 70 times we have been outvoted.”

Professor Simon Hix from the London School of Economics says: "We've been outvoted you could argue 70 times, but on the winning side over several thousand times. That's the sort of order of magnitude that we are talking about."

"So you can see here the 2004-9 period, 98% of the time we are on the winning side. 2010-15, 90% of the time we were in the winning majority."

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Former Mayor of London Boris Johnson refers to 27 other countries having done better than the UK at exporting to the EU since 1992.

In terms of volume of sales the UK is doing better than they are, but Mr Johnson is referring to percentage increases in the volume of exports.

So, for example, top of the list is Vietnam, which achieved a 544% increase in exports. But it started at a pretty low level, increasing from $73m (£50m) a month to $400m a month over the period.  

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Scottish Conservative leader Ruth Davidson says: “You will now have to pay in for four years before you can take out full benefits. If you don’t find a job within the first six months you can be asked to leave.”

The February deal that David Cameron agreed with the EU, will limit the access of newly arriving EU workers to in-work benefits for “a total period of up to four years from the commencement of employment”. The benefits will be “graduated, from an initial complete exclusion but gradually increasing access to such benefits to take account of the growing connection of the work with the labour market.”

The part about having to leave after six months is not something that was negotiated in February, but was already in place. New EU migrants cannot claim benefits for the first three months, they can then claim for three months only. They can continue claiming for longer if they can demonstrate they are actively looking and have a realistic chance of getting a job. 

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Labour MP Gisela Stuart says: “We are spending £1.9bn of your money to accelerate the accession of Turkey.”  

This is not true. Between 2014 and 2020, £1.2bn of the UK's contributions to the EU Budget will go to seven candidate states: Albania, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, Turkey, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo, to help them make political and economic reforms.

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Energy Minister Andrea Leadsom says: “We’re already one of the biggest contributors to the EU.”

Germany is currently the biggest contributor in absolute terms. In 2014 France was the second biggest, followed closely by the UK. 

If you look at the contribution per head of the population, than the Netherlands is the biggest contributor and the UK is at number eight.

You can find the full figures in the European Commission's financial report., external

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Mayor of London Sadiq Khan says: “Australia has double our immigration, bearing in mind their population.”

The OECD says, external Australia’s foreign-born population is 27.6% while the UK’s is 13.3%.

We've looked at whether an Australian-style points-based system would work for the UK here.

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Mayor of London Sadiq Khan says that the eurozone is growing faster than the UK or the US.

In the first quarter of this year, GDP in the eurozone grew 0.5% compared with 0.4% in the UK and the US grew at an annual pace of 0.5%, so he's right about the first three months of this year.

But the eurozone was not growing as fast in 2015 - in the whole of 2015, the eurozone grew 1.5%, the UK grew 2.2% and the US grew 2.4%.

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Energy Minister Andrea Leadsom says: “Free movement does not even allow us to ask people if they have a criminal record.”

Free movement of people means there are no visas for those coming to the country, so it is not possible to check whether a person has a criminal record or not.

But if people are believed to pose a current threat to the country they may be on a watch list that would prevent them entering the country.

Read more about it here.

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Scottish Conservative leader Ruth Davidson says we have the highest level of employment in our history.

The ONS says:, external “The employment rate (the proportion of people aged from 16 to 64 who were in work) was 74.2%, the joint highest since comparable records began in 1971.” 

There were 23.10 million people working full-time, according to the latest figures.

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Former Mayor of London Boris Johnson refers to "the EU commission, where only 3.6% of the officials actually come from our country".

He’s a bit teeny bit out. The latest figures, external from the Commission on the breakdown of employees by nationality show that Brits made up 3.8% of total staffing figures.

But the key players are the commissioners - and you get one of those from each EU country.

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Labour MP Gisela Stuart says: “You are going to pay out of your taxes - one bail-out after another.”

The UK won’t pay for future eurozone bailouts. 

This has already been agreed by EU leaders and the Prime Minister's deal, which will be implemented if the UK votes to stay in the EU, reinforces this and states that the UK would be reimbursed if the general EU budget was to be used for the cost of the eurozone crisis.

You can read more about it here.