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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.

At a press conference this afternoon, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson said: "The UK, since 2015, has been the most generous of all European countries in settling vulnerable people."

He made the same claim last week in Parliament.

His office told us he was referring to resettled refugees only, which is people who were admitted from another country where they had initially sought refuge.

The UK has resettled 25,000 people from refugee camps in other countries since 2015, the majority of whom were Syrians.

That figure is indeed ahead of France, which admitted 16,345 under this scheme, and Germany with 12,500.

But that does not include the people who applied for asylum after arriving in the country.

As an indication of how much difference that makes, between 2015 and 2020 there were a total of 185,000 asylum applications in the UK, and 1.9 million in Germany.