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🗓️ 9 June 2025
⏱️ 33 minutes
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How much of government spending goes on health? How big a slice of the pie does defence get? To get a feel for what takes up most of the spending, Sean Farrington looks at each government department in turn, dividing up the programme using the same proportions as the spending budget itself.
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0:00.0 | Before this BBC podcast kicks off, I'd like to tell you about some others you might enjoy. |
0:05.1 | My name's Will Wilkin and I Commission Music Podcast for the BBC. |
0:08.7 | It's a really cool job, but every day we get to tell the incredible stories behind songs, |
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0:21.7 | means we can tell those stories like no one else. |
0:24.5 | We were, are and always will be right there at the centre of the narrative. |
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0:45.1 | Wake Up to Money from BBC 5 Live. |
0:48.5 | Hello, welcome. It is Wake Up to Money. We have the government spending review this wednesday we have been |
0:55.6 | collecting all of your questions about how the chancellor might try to divide up the pie so on today's |
1:01.7 | show to get a feel for what takes up most of the spending we're going to be divvying up our time on |
1:07.3 | each area with the same proportions as the spending budget itself. |
1:11.6 | Wake up to money with Sean Farrington. |
1:14.4 | So that spending review in a couple of days. |
1:17.2 | We've been asking for your questions over the last several days of what you might have. |
1:21.8 | We're going to be going through each department of government spending |
1:24.1 | and answering some of those questions with the help of our experts. |
1:27.6 | To give you an idea about how much of the overall budget each department represents, |
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