Spring Statement 2022
Money Box
BBC
4.2 • 825 Ratings
🗓️ 20 April 2022
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
The chancellor, Rishi Sunak, gives an update on the health of the UK economy. What will it mean for your household finances?
A panel of experts will analyse what he says and we want to hear your thoughts too. Are you cheered or concerned by the state of the nation's finances? And how will it affect the way you spend or save your hard-earned cash? Also, looking ahead to the new tax year, we'll discuss the tax rises which begin in April and the outlook for our personal finances over the next twelve months.
Guests:
Heather Self, Corporate Tax Partner, Blick Rothenberg
Mike Brewer, Chief Economist, The Resolution Foundation
Laura Suter, Head of Personal Finance, A J Bell
Presenter: Paul Lewis
Producer: Drew Hyndman
Editor: Emma Rippon
Transcript
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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. |
| 0:22.1 | It's honestly one of the most powerful stories of my lifetime. |
| 0:26.0 | I'm Alex Fontunzelman. |
| 0:27.4 | This is The Lucan Obsession. |
| 0:29.2 | Listen on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:32.7 | BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:37.0 | Hello, welcome to this Moneybox Live podcast on the Spring Statement, the Chancellor's |
| 0:42.4 | mini-budget on March the 23rd. |
| 0:44.6 | One big tax cut, one smaller one, and another one promised for 2024-25. |
| 0:50.6 | We'll be looking into the small print of the dozens, well, possibly hundreds of pages of the Spring Statement details with a panel of experts. We'll be looking into the small print of the dozens, well, possibly hundreds of pages of the spring statement details with a panel of experts. |
| 0:58.0 | We'll be answering your questions and your comments, so please email Moneybox at bbc.co.uk with those. |
| 1:06.4 | And we'll also be hearing quite soon from our listener, Melanie, who's got her own thoughts |
| 1:11.9 | about what's been going on. |
| 1:13.1 | But I'm going to introduce it to the panel first, who's here. |
| 1:15.8 | First, we have Laura Souter. |
| 1:17.7 | She's head of personal finance at the investment firm A.J. Bell. |
| 1:22.0 | Laura Souter, just tell us your standout revelation from the statement. |
| 1:32.5 | I think the biggest surprise perhaps was the fact that Rishi Sunak adjusted national insurance levels by far more than the government had previously leaked. So that |
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