Reeves hands NHS £29bn extra per year and pledges to end asylum hotels

Day-to-day spending connected the NHS volition summation by £29bn a year, Rachel Reeves has announced arsenic she accepted voters are yet to consciousness an betterment nether Labour.

Delivering her spending review, the chancellor besides declared an extremity to the usage of asylum hotels this parliament by investing successful cutting the backlog and returning much radical with nary close to beryllium present - which she said would prevention the payer £1bn.

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Ms Reeves acknowledged that astir a twelvemonth connected from Labour's landslide predetermination victory, "too galore people" are yet to consciousness their committedness of nationalist renewal.

She said the intent of her spending reappraisal is "to alteration that", with full departmental budgets to turn by 2.3% a twelvemonth successful existent terms.

Key settlements include:

• NHS: The wellness work gets £29bn for day-to-day spending - a 3% emergence for each twelvemonth until the adjacent election;
• Defence: Spending volition emergence from 2.3% of GDP to 2.6% by 2027 - an £11bn uplift;
• Housing: Social and affordable lodging volition get £39bn - the biggest currency concern for 50 years;
• Science and tech: Research and improvement backing volition deed £22bn with AI plans getting £2bn;
• Transport: £15bn for caller rail, tram, and autobus networks successful the North and the West Midlands, a caller obstruction enactment betwixt Liverpool and Manchester, and a four-year colony for TfL, positive the £3 autobus fare headdress extended to 2027;
• Nations: Scotland gets £52bn, Northern Ireland £20bn, and Wales £23bn, including for ember tips;
• Education: Free schoolhouse meals extended to 500,000 children, portion the other £4.5bn per twelvemonth volition besides spell connected fixing

Ms Reeves drew a favoritism betwixt her plans and the Tories' austerity docket successful 2010, saying they chopped spending by 2.9%.

She said austerity was a "destructive prime for the cloth of our society" and "different choices" would beryllium made nether Labour.

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The chancellor besides attacked Reform UK, claiming the enactment privation an "insurance-based system" for the NHS.

She said the wealth she was announcing contiguous would money much appointments, much doctors and much scanners.

"The National Health Service: Created, by a Labour government, protected by a Labour authorities and renewed, by this Labour government," she said.

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