Spending Review Winners And Losers
Rachel Reeves will set out her costs strategies for the coming years this afternoon in a Costs Review anticipated to lay the course for significant tax increases.
But it is likewise most likely to include squeezes for other departments as the Chancellor looks for to keep within the straight jacket of fiscal rules she has set for herself.
Her room for manoeuvre has actually likewise been further constrained by the Government's U-turn on winter fuel payments, which will see the benefit paid to pensioners getting up to ₤ 35,000 annually at an expense of around ₤ 1.25 billion to the Treasury.
Among the anticipated losers are the cops, with Yvette Cooper's pleas for more cash to assist with decreasing criminal activity thought to have fallen on deaf ears, despite warning it might lead to less bobbies on the beat.
Chancellor Rachel Reeves is prepared to reveal real-terms boosts for the service every year, however there are fears that it may not suffice.
However the Home Secretary is apparently to be soothed with more than half-a-billion pounds to plough into strengthening the UK's borders - consisting of drones to find migrants in the Channel.
The full information will be exposed in the Commons, but a number of announcements have actually already been made.
They consist of:
₤ 15.6 billion for public transport jobs in England's city regions;
₤ 16.7 billion for nuclear power tasks, consisting of ₤ 14.2 billion for the new Sizewell C power plant in Suffolk;
₤ 39 billion over the next ten years to develop affordable and social housing;
An extension of the ₤ 3 bus fare cap until March 2027;
₤ 445 million for upgrades to Welsh railways.
Rachel Reeves will set out her costs strategies for the coming years this afternoon in a Costs Review anticipated to lay the course for significant tax increases.
But it is likewise most likely to include squeezes for other departments as the Chancellor looks for to keep within the straight jacket of fiscal rules she has set for herself.
Her room for manoeuvre has actually likewise been further constrained by the Government's U-turn on winter fuel payments, which will see the benefit paid to pensioners getting up to ₤ 35,000 annually at an expense of around ₤ 1.25 billion to the Treasury.
Among the anticipated losers are the cops, with Yvette Cooper's pleas for more cash to assist with decreasing criminal activity thought to have fallen on deaf ears, despite warning it might lead to less bobbies on the beat.
Chancellor Rachel Reeves is prepared to reveal real-terms boosts for the service every year, however there are fears that it may not suffice.
However the Home Secretary is apparently to be soothed with more than half-a-billion pounds to plough into strengthening the UK's borders - consisting of drones to find migrants in the Channel.
The full information will be exposed in the Commons, but a number of announcements have actually already been made.
They consist of:
₤ 15.6 billion for public transport jobs in England's city regions;
₤ 16.7 billion for nuclear power tasks, consisting of ₤ 14.2 billion for the new Sizewell C power plant in Suffolk;
₤ 39 billion over the next ten years to develop affordable and social housing;
An extension of the ₤ 3 bus fare cap until March 2027;
₤ 445 million for upgrades to Welsh railways.