UK Government doesn’t retain £50bn of Scottish taxes
Posts on social media overcount and double count Scottish revenues while undercounting Scottish expenditure. Read
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The government’s role in the economy
Fact checks related to national economic programmes including leveling up, the New Deal and nationalisation
Health
Health secretary’s claim on health spending fact checked
Dr Thérèse Coffey said health and social care account for 40% of government day-to-day spending. That’s only true if you don’t count spending on things like pensions. Read
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Economy, Business & Finance
Labour’s £29 billion plan would not fully cover the cost of freezing the energy price cap
Freezing the price cap would require roughly £8 billion more funding, according to the IFS. Read
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Economy, Business & Finance
Labour’s energy price freeze: fact checked
There appear to be some errors in the calculations in Labour’s plan to freeze the energy price cap, which might mean that it isn’t “fully-funded” after all. Read
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Economy, Business & Finance
Ofgem said that 12 million households—not people—might end up in fuel poverty
These estimates are uncertain for several reasons, but 12 million households would amount to many more than 12 million people. Read
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Economy, Business & Finance
Was the Attorney General right to say that a single mother will be £1,600 better off?
Suella Braverman told the Question Time audience that a single mother in certain circumstances would be £1,600 better off this year compared with last year, because of government support. Read
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Economy, Business & Finance
Shadow cabinet member uses misleading £2,600 cost of living figure on BBC, ITV and Sky
The shadow justice secretary used an unreliable Labour estimate for the impact of the cost of living crisis. We have repeatedly asked Labour to stop using this number. Read
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Economy, Business & Finance
Keir Starmer’s GMB interview: fact checked
The Labour leader made claims about the UK’s economic growth and fraud during the pandemic. Read
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Economy, Business & Finance
Labour election leaflets and ads wrongly claiming families are ‘£2,620 worse off’
The claim that families are ‘£2,620 worse off’ does not account for any rises in wages or benefits, and is based on some cost estimates which are not reliable. Read
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Economy, Business & Finance
£24bn in extra defence spending will be spread over four years
The Institute for Fiscal Studies has previously described the practice of adding up multiple years of spending increases as “misleading”. Read
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