As part of her spending review, chancellor Rachel Reeves will set out plans to almost double annual investment in affordable homes to £4 billion by 2029/30, compared to £2.3 billion a year ...

Spending Review 2025 LIVE: Rachel Reeves pledges billions more for NHS and social housing... but Met police cash row looms - Chancellor announces extra £29 billion per year for the NHS and vows ...

In short, this spending review is actually only about a fraction - about 41p in every pound - of government spending. You can break it down further, by the way.

She’ll announce the Government’s day-to-day spending commitments up to 2028-29, and investment spending plans to 2029-30 – but there have been varying reports of what we can expect.

Chancellor Rachel Reeves unveiled the government ’s 2025 spending review, laying out government and departmental spending over the next four years. Overall, budgets will grow by 2.3 per cent a year - ...

Only a few hours to go now until Rachel Reeves’ spending review, when the Chancellor will reveal how £600 billion of annual government expenditure will be split between departments over the ...

Ms Reeves’ spending review has taken place in two parts, with phase one set out in her October Budget - which included £40 billion of tax hikes and set out departmental spending until 2026.

The spending review is the process the Government uses to set all departmental budgets for future years, covering services from the NHS to schools and transport.

Research into drug treatments and longer-lasting batteries will receive new funding as part of an £86 billion package for science and technology set to be announced in next week's spending review.

At the time of the 1998 Comprehensive Spending Review (CSR), for example, one close observer at the time described the process thus: “The CSR was a triumph for a strong prime minister and a ...