Everything You Need To Know About The Spending Review

Newscast

BBC

Politics, News

4.4 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 11 June 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Today, Chancellor Rachel Reeves set out the government spending plans until the end of the decade.

She says spending on the NHS will rise by 3% a year after inflation. And also confirmed £39bn for social and affordable housing, an end to "costly" asylum hotels by 2029, and an extension of the £3 bus fare cap in England to 2027.

You an read the Spending Review here! https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6849171796e63bce58e4e705/E03349913_HMT_Spending_Review_June_2025_Elay.pdf

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts. Hello, you're about to listen to the episode of newscast. We did
0:07.9	live on Wednesday evening at 6.30pm on BBC Sounds, where we gave you all the news and analysis we could
0:14.1	muster of the spending review, where Rachel Reeves, the Chancellor, set out her plans for government
0:18.3	spending, basically till the end of this Parliament. It is a big deal in British politics today. And if you like what you hear, then you
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0:40.4	An episode such as this.
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0:48.7	Did I say that?
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