Review Rachel’s Costs Reeves in Focus

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This is largely referred to as the current state of the UK policy that today’s expenses review has acquired this value.

What should be a relatively simple event in which Rachel Reves, Chancellor Cash, teaches government expenses for the next three financial years, even if some commentators bill as a defining moment of this parliament.

This is because, little less than a year after the UK government handed over the majority of landslides, the Prime Minister Keira Stirmer Prime Minister is deeply unpopular and peeling in ways to soothe the dominated and covered public.

It is important, at the very beginning to understand what will not happen today. This is not a financial event – Reivz is striving only one of this year, but the next will be its autumn budget.

Thus, there will be no forecasts from the budget responsibility office and no details about how the government plans to raise money for the next financial year. There will also be no changes in tax policy; Neither, if there is something wonderful, there will be changes in the general rhights that the government expects to spend.

Precisely because these figures are already publicly available: the jerk is laid out in October last year “The envelope for holding“Over the next three financial years, with daily costs (for example, salaries for public sector workers), which increased by an average of 1.2% in real terms over the next three years, and capital expenses (such as transport infrastructure) increased by an average of 1.3% over the next four years.

This costs envelope, the most violent over the years, has been dictated by the very women’s financial rules of the Riviz-What daily costs should be covered by tax ratings rather than borrowing, and debt as GDP’s share should be falling to the end of this parliament. Most economists believe that it has a strong danger to violate these rules, however, setting itself in the premises of only 9.9 billion pounds (13.4 billion) in the last budget-from the time when the economic forecast has deteriorated and gives Gilts (UK government bonds).

All this adds the importance of today’s expense review, which, according to the Independent Institute of Fiscal Studies (IFS), “the first long review of costs from 2021 and the first to take place outside the pandemic since 2015.”

And despite the fact that it is not a financial event, bond markets will observe the hints about what to expect regarding taxation and borrowing in the fall.

We received one such hint when the Treasury announced on Monday a degrading on one of the first large government decisions. Shortly after his election in July last year, Reivz announced that helping the winter-fuel band for pensioners either 200 or 300 pounds a year, introduced in 1997. One of her predecessors Gordon Brown would be checked, effectively depriving it of 10 million hostels. However, after the political reaction, the Treasury said on Monday that the benefit would be resumed by all but the richest 2 million pensioners during the 1.5 billion pound government annually. No signs were given where this money came from.

There were also many other leaks regarding cost consideration. The Times reported on Saturday that the National Health Service (NHS) will receive 2.8% in real conditions before its daily budget for the three -year period, approximately equivalent to an additional 30 billion pounds by 2028. The question (with the leaders of the union of doctors who already arise in the field of industrial action) is how much it will go to the improvement of patients and how much will be presented.

The second great winner looks like a defense that, as IFS noted,, it seems, has been identified all increased costs for the cost period.

The government is already there Outlined plans To increase the cost of protection against current 2.3% GDP up to 2.5% GDP up to 2027 and up to 3% by the beginning of the 2030s – and it is under pressure to go on. Trump administration has made it clear what NATO members should waste 5% Defense GDP And, in the speech on Monday, Mark Ruthte, NATO Secretary General, said the same thing. Rivs would need to find an extra £ 24 billion to take up to 3% GDP protection costs.

These are great obligations for the NHS costs that already consume 2 pounds for every 5 pounds of public spending-they will mean real cuts in other departments. Many of them have already been stretched out of the brutal savings after the global financial crisis, from which the UK came out of the 10%deficit deficit.

The UK justice system, from the courts to the prisons, is under high pressure. Similarly, local self -government, which during the cost of costs from the aging of the population must pick up a tab for great social assistance. The country’s schools are also facing compression; While some new money was allocated, Schools said To finance about a quarter with the 4% of the payment that was awarded to the teacher this year from existing budgets. The anecdotional stories have a lot of teaching assistants-I work part-time-bearing or reduced their hours.

Elsewhere, the newspaper’s reports were markedly covered by lines in the office. Ed Miliband, Minister of Energy, is facing a reduction in his department to protect his cherished home isolation program, while Deputy Prime Minister and Housing Secretary Angela Raine faced Treasury officials when she sought to defend her plan to build more affordable houses. The biggest arguments are said to have been between the Treasury and the Cooper Ivet, an experienced interior minister and veterans of the last government work.

Problems with performance

In the center of all this is the urgent need for large side powers to make more with the smaller ones.

As Sanjay raja, Senior UK Economist at Deutsche Bank, Said in A Note to Clients Last Week: “Markets Will Be Keeping Any On Any Fallout From The Spenting Review, While We Will Also Be Looking Spending Policy Do We MeanBity Specting, Via Ambitious, Susting, Susting, Susting, Susting. By reducing the stock rates increase, potential decreases to productivity growth, world trade tensions and a more free labor market. “

And this is the basis of the UK problem: the terrible performance of its public sector and especially NHS. As an example, the weekend appeared that NHS spent at least £ 102 million, sending letters last year – causing countless missed meetings with slow supplies – despite the prospect to go into the digital era where almost every patient has access to email.

Poor NHS performance is not a new phenomenon. Long ago, as in March 2010, during the dying of the Brown Government, the National Statistics Office reports that from 1995 to 2008 the NHS performance decreased by an average of 0.3% a year, a decrease in acceleration after 2001, when Brown, as the Chancellor, unleashed a huge increase in the service.

In the absence of improving productivity or economic growth, increasing the future costs will need to be achieved by increasing borrowing or taxation. Given the devotion to Riva its financial rules, it is unlikely to choose the first. It is amazing that during the interview on Monday to discuss the climb on winter fuel, it noticeably ruled out taxes for the fall.

Many economists now think that is almost insevitable, among them raja, who wrote: “Perhaps even more different decisions lie ahead for the chancellore. EMERGING OF THE AUTUMN Budget.

Another reason for expecting a tax increase in the fall is the seemingly impossibility of the government to make even modest costs, as shown on winter fuel turn.

As Simon French, The Chief Economist and Head of Research at Stockbroker Panmure Liberum, Put It: “Whilst Not Macroeconomically Significant, IT Speaks To A Problem That IF ChancellorS/ Intolerable to find a saving of £ 1.5 billion (1% of this year’s psbr) then bond markets are going to be unconvinced on the decisions (regarding the cost of aging, supply-question reforms). sector on a steady way. “

This is a political event, the shije is obliged to try to produce at least one rabbit from their hat, although most expenses have already been announced or traced. Labor deputies would like to cancel a hat that limits the child’s first two children in the family – a step that would cost £ 3.5 billion.

The biggest surprise of all will be the increase in the overall costs, perhaps justified by the fact that the economic forecast was changed by unforeseen events, mainly US President Donald Trump tariffs.

But the proclamation of this type – unaccompanied how to pay additional costs – would probably cause a rigid reaction not only in gilding, but also by government critics.

– Jan King