BREAKING: The Treasury have confirmed a rule change will allow councils to push up rates by 5% without asking voters for permission.
‘If you are starving the NHS, our education and skills system, of funding that has an impact on the economy because we need a healthy workforce, we need educated, skilled and trained workers.
The Government will introduce additional cost-of-living payments for the 'most vulnerable', with £900 for those on benefits, £300 for pensioners and £150 for those on a disability benefit. Mr Hunt said he would protect the increases in departmental budgets already set out in cash terms, before growing resource spending at 1% a year in real terms over the next three years. He said public spending would grow 'slower than the economy'.
On business taxes, the Chancellor said he had decided to freeze the Employers National Insurance Contributions threshold until April 2028.Mr Hunt said he will increase the NHS budget by an extra £3.3 billion in each of the next two years. It will 'not be possible' to return to the 0.7% overseas aid target 'until the fiscal situation allows', Mr Hunt said.Mr Hunt said he would move back the managed transition of people from employment and support allowance onto Universal Credit to 2028.
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