Fact check: Budget 2024 claims about National Insurance, bus fares and growth

Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves leaves 11 Downing Street ahead of delivering her first Budget in the Commons (Jordan Pettitt/PA) - (PA Wire)

This roundup of claims has been compiled by Full Fact, the UK’s largest fact checking charity working to find, expose and counter the harms of bad information.

On Wednesday, the chancellor Rachel Reeves delivered Labour’s first Budget in 14 years. Full Fact has checked a number of claims made by the chancellor and outgoing Conservative leader Rishi Sunak, who responded for the Opposition.