Claim: Fee-paying schools 'save the taxpayer £20 billion'.
Fact-check: Front-page error from the Times about how much private schools save taxpayers - Full Fact
Verdict: incorrect. a report estimated that educating privately-schooled children in state schools would cost £3.5 billion per year.
Organisation: Full Fact
Author: Abbas Panjwani
Date published: 2019-05-03T00:00:00