Checking claims about air travel, alcohol taxes, debt and low pay.
Chancellor Rishi Sunak made a number of claims both in his Budget speech and in his round of interviews afterwards.'The independent watchdog said that our plans in the round will reduce carbon emissions and move us further along the path to net zero'
The OBR also said that the government had not yet quantified the emissions effects of its Budget measures.Public debt is measured in different ways. With "headline" debt, in the year to the end of March 2021,That was also an increase in debt as a proportion of GDP, which is a measure of the value of everything produced by the economy, from 83% to 104%.
Underlying debt is predicted to be 85.2% of GDP this year, 85.4% in 2022-23 and 85.7% in 2023-24, before falling in the following three years. But countries in the EU are allowed to set their own rates of duty and the UK has set some of the highest in Europe. The chancellor's reforms to alcohol duty will not apply in Northern Ireland, which remains subject to elements of EU law.There was some discussion on the Today Programme about this claim, because it was based on the idea that reducing the "taper rate" is a tax cut.
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