The BBC Scotland election debate fact-checked

The BBC Scotland election debate fact-checked1 hour agoShareSaveAdd as preferred on GoogleGetty ImagesThe leaders of six political parties took part in a special BBC debate ahead of the Scottish Parliament election.The 90-minute programme saw the politicians make claims on the cost of living, immigration and the NHS among other issues.BBC Verify has examined some of the claims made. Will energy bills be £700 higher than promised?SNP leader John Swinney said: "Labour came in, promised to reduce energy costs by £300, and by the summer energy costs for every household will be £700 higher than Labour promised they would be."The £300 he is referring to was a prediction for how much bills could be lowered in 2030 if Labour managed, as promised, to generate almost all electricity from low carbon sources by that date - so it was not a promise for current prices.When Labour came to power, the energy price cap for a typical family in Scotland, England and Wales paying by direct debit and on a dual fuel contract was £1,568 a year.The current rate running up to the end of June is £1,641, so that's gone up by £73 a year.Swinney referred to what is going to happen in the summer and we do not currently know what will happen to the price cap in July. Much will depend on what happens in Iran and the Strait of Hormuz.Analysts at Cornwall Insight are currently predicting that the cap will go up to £1,861 in July, but of course that is highly uncertain.If that happens then the cap will have gone up £293 since Labour came to office.Swinney appears to have been referring to a previous Cornwall Insight prediction of an even higher energy price cap. Are 1,000 jobs a month being lost in the North Sea?Scottish Conservative leader Russell Findlay made this claim as he made the case for more drilling for oil and gas in the North Sea. The figure comes from a forecast made by the Energy Transition Institute (ETI) - a think-tank based at Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen.It has...