Dispatches

For years, the royals have tried to keep details of some of their wealth secret. Now Dispatches has found what they've not wanted you to know. With exclusive analysis of documents not seen in public before, the programme reveals who is paying them, and for what.

Matt Shea goes undercover to expose the organised criminal networks behind a shoplifting epidemic. The UK's rate of shoplifting is currently at the highest level since records began. Police estimate that a quarter of these incidents are down to organised gangs, who work across the country to steal an unprecedented volume of stock from retailers.

Fraser Nelson investigates the sharp rise in working-age people on sickness benefits, up a million in just five years. Over the course of three months Fraser has been filming with people living on benefits, as well as with top experts and politicians. He finds a broken system that can drive people towards benefits rather than work, with costs that threaten to derail the government's hopes of economic growth.

Dispatches reporter Ellie Flynn investigates Britain's obsession with skinny jabs and asks whether profits are being prioritised over patient safety. Undercover filming exposes the drugs being sold by a major high street chain to an under-age patient; and exposes registered NHS nurses prescribing the jabs without proper checks on patients. With an estimated half a million Britons currently being prescribed these drugs, Ellie talks to experts, who are concerned about the lack of oversight. 'Where there are huge profits to be made, unfortunately,' says one, 'that can lead to cutting of corners'. Ellie asks why there are so many patients living with obesity who are unable to get these jabs on the NHS, and reveals for the first time entire areas of the country where the NHS is not prescribing the drugs.