Robert Cuffe Head of statistics, BBC News Getty Images “Deep seated” issues must be addressed before the UK’s official statistics agency can “rebuild its reputation”, according to a highly critical government review. Repeated problems with Office for National Statistics (ONS) data, which are used to make decisions affecting millions of people, led the government to...
The new members of US Health Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr’s panel of vaccine advisers will review long-approved immunisation schedules for children and teens. The seven members of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (Acip) met for the first time on Wednesday, weeks after Kennedy ousted all 17 of their predecessors. The Acip recommends who...
Temba Bavuma avoids being dismissed lbw by Josh Hazlewood after a review shows a surprising spike on the Ultra-edge, with South Africa 66-4 in their first innings in the Test Championship final against Australia at Lord’s. FOLLOW LIVE: ICC Test Championship final – South Africa vs Australia day two Available to UK users only. Read...
The US has launched a review of its multi-billion dollar submarine deal with the UK and Australia, saying the security pact must fit its “America First” agenda. Under the trilateral pact, widely seen as a response to the growing power of China, Australia is to get its first nuclear-powered subs from the US, before the...
The hours, days, weeks and even months after a Spending Review can feel like peeling away the layers of an onion. First, there is the speech from the chancellor in the Commons: the political rhetoric and the numbers often designed to sound big but which are often incomprehensible. Then there are accompanying documents – in...
Reaction to the chancellor’s Spending Review dominates the headlines on Thursday morning. The Daily Express warns to “brace for tax pain” after Rachel Reeves dedicated an extra £29bn a year to the NHS. Critics say the plans are “fantasy spending”. The NHS and defence are the “big winners” of the chancellor’s Spending Review, says the...
Cameron Weldon & Jack Silver BBC News, South West BBC No transport projects in Devon and Cornwall featured in the chancellor’s speech Steve Keable accused the Chancellor, Rachel Reeves of “playing into her Labour heartland” by prioritising other parts of the country Mid-Devon district councillor Steve Keable said the “political reality” was that Reeves was...
Kevin Peachey Cost of living correspondent Getty Images All the talk of departmental budgets and fiscal rules may feel somewhat distant from the cost of groceries and the rest of the family finances. The Spending Review is not a Budget in which taxes are changed or a host of new policies announced. But, don’t be...
The Spending Review will reveal the choices the government has made about where to allocate cash over the next three years. And some Whitehall departments are expected to do better than others. Ben Chu from BBC Verify explains. He looks at what we know about where the government might choose to allocate cash. Produced by...
Lewis Eager Lucy Hooker, Kris Bramwell & Shakira Abdi BBC News This week the government will set out how much it is going to spend over the next four years on the public services that millions of people use every day. That includes the NHS, schools and public transport as well as welfare benefits, armed...
The government’s latest spending plans are settled, the prime minister’s official spokesman has said. Chancellor Rachel Reeves is expected to announce funding increases for the NHS, schools and defence, along with a number of infrastructure projects, when she sets out her day-to-say spending and investment plans for each department in Wednesday’s Spending Review. Home Secretary...
Jane Douglas Senior Journalist BBC Campaigners outside Tavistock Town Hall, showing support for the reinstatement of the Tavistock to Plymouth rail link Rail campaigners are battling for £1.5m government cash in the upcoming Spending Review to make a business case for a railway link in Devon. TavyRail campaign group would like to see a five-mile...
Home Secretary Yvette Cooper is the last minister yet to agree a funding deal with the Treasury ahead of Wednesday’s Spending Review, BBC News understands. Ministers have been locked in talks with Chancellor Rachel Reeves and her team ahead of the major financial statement, which sets budgets for government departments covering the next few years....
The home secretary and deputy prime minister argue for cash. Read full article at source...
Marc Ashdown Business correspondent Getty Images Areas like Newport in Wales, home to the UK’s biggest semiconductor manufacturing facility, will be allowed to decide how investment is targeted in their communities. An £86bn package for the science and technology sector will help fund research into drug treatments and longer-lasting batteries, the government has said ahead...