BBC News Reality Check

During PMQs, the prime minister explained why he did not want to work with Labour on housing, saying: “In London, the former Conservative mayor in five years built 60,000 affordable homes. The current Labour mayor half of that amount.”

The Greater London Authority publishes figures for affordable housing in the capital running from April to March each year.

In Boris Johnson’s last five years as mayor (2011-2016), there were 56,326 homes classified as affordable completed.

In the last five years, under Labour's Sadiq Khan, 37,999 were completed, so that is about two thirds as many.

Health Secretary Steve Barclay told BBC Breakfast this morning: “If everyone in the public sector had a pay rise in line with inflation, it would cost an extra £28bn, an extra £1,000 per household.”

That figure looks a bit high. The public sector pay bill for all 5.7 million employees was around £233bn last year.

Inflation is expected to be about 10% this year, so you could assume that an inflationary pay rise would cost about £23bn.

There are about 28 million households in the UK, so that’s about £820 per household.

But Ben Zaranko from the Institute for Fiscal Studies points out that it isn’t really the figure that matters because the government was already budgeting for a 3% average pay rise for the public sector, so increasing that to match inflation would cost about £18bn, or about £640 per household.

We have contacted the Treasury to ask if they know where the £28bn figure comes from.

Transport Secretary Mark Harper said nurses were getting "at least a £1,400 pay rise this year".

The government said this in July with increases backdated to April 2022.

However, nurses' pay has not kept up with rising prices since 2010. They have had a real terms pay cut of more than 10%.

Their pay has also failed to keep up with average earnings, both in the private sector and the public sector, according to the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS).

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At PMQs, Labour leader Keir Starmer told MPs: “Britain faces the lowest growth of any OECD nation over the next two years.”

He was referring to economic forecasts from the OECD, which is a club of 38 member countries.

Its latest report on Tuesday predicted that the UK economy would shrink by 0.4% in 2023 and grow 0.2% in 2024, which is the lowest in the OECD.

The prime minister responded by saying the UK had: “This year the fastest growth in the G7.”

The G7 is a smaller group of big economies.

The OECD expects the UK to grow 4.4% in 2022, which is indeed the fastest in the G7, although the UK had further to recover, having still not reached the level of economic output it had before the pandemic.

So, they were both right with these claims, but were looking at different periods and different economic forecasts.