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Chancellor Rachel Reeves anticipated to announce additional welfare cuts in spring assertion

By Editorial Board Published March 25, 2025 6 Min Read
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Chancellor Rachel Reeves anticipated to announce additional welfare cuts in spring assertion

The Workplace for Price range Duty (OBR) has rejected the federal government’s evaluation that the bundle of measures, together with narrowing the eligibility standards for private independence funds (PIP), will save £5bn.

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The fiscal watchdog put the worth of the cuts at £3.4bn, leaving ministers scrambling to search out additional financial savings.

Ms Reeves is now anticipated to announce that common credit score (UC) incapacity advantages for brand new claimants, which have been halved beneath the unique plan, will even be frozen till 2030 relatively than rising according to inflation

As initially reported by The Occasions, there will even be a small discount within the fundamental fee of UC in 2029, with the brand new measures anticipated to lift £500m.

A Whitehall supply advised Sky’s political editor Beth Rigby that it’s “hard to tell how MPs will react”, as whereas the OBR’s evaluation means fewer individuals will probably be affected by the PIP modifications than thought, they “might be unhappy about the chaotic nature of it all”.

The federal government didn’t publish an affect evaluation of the crackdown on advantages it introduced final week, saying that might come alongside the spring assertion on Wednesday.

A number of Labour MPs criticised the measures as pushing extra sick and disabled individuals into poverty, whereas former Labour chief Jeremy Corbyn known as the bundle a “disgrace” on Tuesday and accused the federal government of imposing austerity on the nation.

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Spending cuts anticipated

Ms Reeves is anticipated to announce a big bundle of departmental spending cuts when she provides an replace on the financial system on Wednesday, doubtlessly placing her on an extra collision course along with her personal MPs.

Having solely dedicated to doing one correct finances every year within the autumn, the spring assertion was meant to be a low-key affair.

Nevertheless, a turbulent financial local weather since October means the OBR is extensively anticipated to downgrade its progress forecasts for the UK whereas the federal government has borrowed greater than beforehand anticipated.

This has worn out the £9.9bn hole in her fiscal headroom Ms Reeves left herself at her finances final 12 months – cash she must make up if she needs to stay to her self-imposed fiscal rule that day-to-day spending have to be funded by way of tax receipts, not debt, by 2029-30.

Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves during a visit to Bury College in Greater Manchester. Picture date: Thursday March 20, 2025. Anthony Devlin/PA Wire

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Chancellor Rachel Reeves. Pic: PA

The chancellor has sought guilty world elements however the Conservatives blame measures just like the nationwide insurance coverage tax hike on employers, saying that is choking enterprise.

Shadow chancellor Mel Stride urged Ms Reeves to “use the emergency budget” to “fix her own mistakes and end Labour’s war on enterprise”.

Ms Reeves will defend her report within the spring assertion, saying she is “proud” of what Labour has achieved in its first 9 months in workplace.

Nevertheless, on the eve of the assertion, polling confirmed the general public is pessimistic about what’s to come back.

In keeping with Extra in Frequent, half assume the price of residing disaster won’t ever finish, whereas YouGov discovered three-quarters of individuals wish to see a tax on the richest over spending cuts.

Ms Reeves shouldn’t be anticipated to announce any tax hikes, having mentioned her tax-raising finances in October was a once-in-a-parliament occasion.

Defence enhance to ‘ship safety’

In a bid to fend off criticism, she will even announce an additional £2.2bn will probably be spent on defence over the following 12 months to “deliver security for working people”.

The cash is a part of the federal government’s intention to hike defence spending to 2.5% of the UK’s financial output by 2027 – up from the two.3% the place it stands now.

Ms Reeves will insist this plan, set out by the prime minister in February, was the “right decision” in opposition to the backdrop of world instability, saying it would put “an extra 6.4bn into the defence budget by 2027”.

“This increase in investment is not just about increasing our national security but increasing our economic security, too,” she is going to say.

The cash is coming from reductions to the worldwide assist finances and Treasury reserves, and will probably be used to put money into new expertise, refurbish houses for navy households and improve HM Naval Base Portsmouth.

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