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The NHS, schools and defence are rumoured to be the biggest winners of Rachel Reeves’ spending review when she makes her announcement later on this week.
The Chancellor is expected to outline a £113 billion funding boost to schools, the NHS, transport, defence and the police in her upcoming spending plan.
The review is very different from the budget as Reeves won’t be announcing any changes to how the Treasury raises cash. She can only allocate the cash it has, or knows it is going to get.
The government sets out its spending plans every few years at spending reviews, with the most recent review taking place at 2021.
When is the spending review announced?
Reeves will make the spending announcement on Wednesday, June 11 at about 12.30pm from the House of Commons shortly after the weekly Prime Minister’s Questions.
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What will be in the spending review?
The NHS, the police, defence, science and tech, education, transport and local government are all said to be the topics that Reeves will outline how much cash has been allocated towards tomorrow.
Earlier today, it was report the Home Office was the last department to agree on a budget.
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It came after two senior government watchdogs wrote to the Prime Minister and urged for more funding to be allocated if the government wants to achieve its promise to cut violence against women and girls in half.
Police chiefs have put pressure on the government, saying talking about being ‘tough on crime’ is not ‘enough.’
‘There must be funding to match,’ Police Superintendents’ Association Nick Smart, and Tiff Lynch, acting national chairman for the Police Federation of England and Wales, said.
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer’s official spokesman said: ‘The spending review is settled, we will be focused on investing in Britain’s renewal so that all working people are better off.
‘The first job of the Government was to stabilise the British economy and the public finances, and now we move into a new chapter to deliver the promise and change.’
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