Autumn Statement Live: Osborne U-Turns on Tax Credits
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- £10.1 billion surplus by 2020
- £12 billion of welfare savings
- GDP forecasts: 2015 – 2.4%, 2016 – 2.4%, 2017 – 2.5%, 2018 – 2.4%, 2019 – 2.3%
- OBR forecasts a £27 billion improvement in UK finances over this parliament
- MASSIVE U-TURN: Tax credit cuts scrapped entirely: “the simplest thing to do is not to phase these changes in, but to avoid them altogether”
- Government is spending £756 billion this year, rising to £857 billion in 2020/21
- Borrowing forecasts: 2015/16 – £73.5 billion, 2016/17 – £49.9 billion, 2017/18 – £24.8 billion, 2018/19 – £4.6 billion, 2019/20 – £10.1 billion surplus
- NHS budget to rise by 20% by 2020: £101 billion this year, £120 billion by 2020
- Basic state pension up to £119.35 a week
- Department of Health to cut 25% from its Whitehall budget
- Department for Energy and Climate Change budget cut by 22%
- Department for Transport budget cut by 37%
- Cabinet Office budget cut by 26%
- Business, Innovation and Skills cut by 17%
- 20% DCMS admin cut, 5% cut real terms core budget cut
- Proceeds of tampon tax to go to women’s charities
- Holloway women’s prison to close

- Doubling of housing budget: 400,000 new affordable homes by 2020
- Introduction of ‘London Help To Buy’, with a 5% deposit and zero interest rates
- Extra 3% stamp duty on buy to letters
- Defence budget rising from £24 billion to £40 billion
- No cuts in police budget at all
Good luck John McDonnell…
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