Autumn Statement Special
Money Box
BBC
4.2 • 825 Ratings
🗓️ 17 December 2022
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
In this special Money Box we will delve into Jeremy Hunt's Autumn Statement and see what lies in the small print. How will changes to the support you’ll be getting to pay for your energy bills affect you? Paul Lewis and Nimesh Shah, the Chief Executive of Blick Rothenberg on why tax changes matter for you. What do announcements on benefits and getting back into work mean for those on welfare? And our reporter Dan Whitworth is live from Stafford Indoor Market to get reaction to this week’s inflation figures and the planned rise to the National Living Wage. Presenter: Paul Lewis Reporter: Dan Whitworth Researcher: Sandra Hardial Editor: Jess Quayle
(First broadcast 12pm Saturday 19th November, 2022)
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| 0:00.0 | On a winter's night in 1974, a crime took place that would obsess the nation. |
| 0:07.0 | It was an extraordinary news story. |
| 0:09.0 | The story of an aristocrat, Lord Lucan, who's said to have killed the family Nanny, |
| 0:14.0 | mistaking her for his wife, then somehow just disappeared. |
| 0:18.0 | One of the great mysteries in English criminal history. We're still looking for Lucan. It's honestly one of the most powerful stories of my lifetime. |
| 0:25.6 | I'm Alex von Tundselman. This is The Lucan Obsession. Listen on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:33.6 | Hello, Tim Harford here. I'm the undercover economist, the presenter of Radio 4's more or less, |
| 0:39.0 | and more pertinately right now, the host of a new Radio 4 podcast, Understand the Economy. |
| 0:47.5 | Each episode I'll help cut through the fog of financial jargon to bring you to the crisp, bright |
| 0:53.0 | daylight of understanding the world around |
| 0:55.3 | us. |
| 0:56.6 | If you don't really understand what inflation is, why mortgage rates have shot up, or what that |
| 1:01.7 | GDP thing stands for, this is the podcast for you. |
| 1:06.3 | That's Understand the Economy. |
| 1:08.4 | Available now on BBC Sounds. |
| 1:13.6 | BBC Sounds. BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts. |
| 1:17.5 | Hello, welcome to this Moneybox podcast where we will delve into Jeremy Hunt's autumn statement |
| 1:23.5 | to find the joys or horrors for your money. It came in a week when inflation hit 11.1%, so last year's tenor is now worth just £9. |
| 1:34.1 | It introduced the longest tax freeze for 50 years, which will cost us all billions of pounds in extra tax. |
| 1:41.4 | There was no mention of fuel duty, but without action by the Chancellor, it will rise |
| 1:45.9 | by 12 pencilet plus VAT next April. There was a 10% rise in benefits and the state pension, |
| 1:52.8 | but a cut in the help with energy bills. Our reporter Dan Whitworth is in the West Midlands, |
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