National and Labour campaign claims, checked against primary sources. Clear ratings, the missing context and a record of what changed.
The reported nursing workforce rose by 53.8 full-time equivalents between March 2024 and March 2026, rounding to 54. That is net staffing capacity; the employee count rose by 279, and neither figure counts all new hires.
The 54 figure is a net change in full-time-equivalent staffing, not a recruitment count. Calling it the number hired misrepresents what the workforce snapshots establish.
National explicitly says these jobs are expected by 2030. A forecast of future employment cannot be rated as jobs already created.
The $15 billion matches reductions in forecast gross bond issuance against the earlier Budget forecast. It describes four future years, not $15 billion of debt already repaid.
The claim fits broad personal-income tax scale relief since 2010, but “tax relief” without that qualification is too broad. Working for Families and Best Start tax credits changed in 2018.
The two annual rates are supported, but this compares a 2023 peak with a 2026 reading, not whole-term averages. Positive 1.9% inflation still means food prices rose over the preceding year.
The published plan’s health allowances sum to $15.3523 billion; the remaining operating envelope sums to $7.5493 billion. These are future planned allocations, not health services already delivered.
The requirement exists for Years 0–8, but the official rule allows a weekly average and integrated learning. It is not three inflexible, separate 60-minute lessons on every school day.
National’s arithmetic reproduces $2,263 by splitting its estimated funding gap equally across households and four years. It is not an established tax bill for an actual household, and the underlying gap is not independently confirmed here.
A national rule required state-school boards to prohibit student phone use and access during the school day by 29 April 2024. Health, disability and learning-support exceptions apply.
Both percentages match the Ministry’s revised series, but the low comparison year was affected by COVID-19 and illness. The ad omits the recovery already underway before National took office and cannot establish policy causation.
Structured literacy approaches were made mandatory in the relevant state and state-integrated primary-school curriculum. The requirement does not establish universal perfect delivery or prove the size of its effects.
Treasury’s PREFU forecasts a 2028/29 operating surplus. That future result depends on revenue and spending assumptions; it is not an achieved surplus or immediate repayment of debt.
Income-tax threshold changes were enacted from July 2024. The 3.5 million figure is the Government’s package estimate; this check did not independently measure the final number of beneficiaries.
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