Possible Clues:

• Fact is, mother smuggled you in from France
• Piece of information union contributed to barrier
• Backed commercial corporation in fact
• Single bit of info
• Looking back, slander getting cheers in fact
• Information from mother about time at university
• Singular of 47-Across
• Time short? Then there's little hesitation to provide bit of information
• Unit of info
• It's true