11/06/2025
🌹 Spending Review: Full Announcements - Resource!
👮♀ Crime
• 13,000 new Police Community Support Officers (PCSOs) to improve neighbourhood policing.
• Investment in youth services and community regeneration to prevent crime.
• New funding to help councils crack down on fly-tipping and graffiti, restoring pride in local areas.
💷 Cost of Living
• Free school meals are being expanded to help families with everyday costs.
• £39 billion for social and affordable housing — the biggest investment in 50 years.
• A new Warm Homes Plan to upgrade insulation and heating — cutting energy bills by up to £600 a year.
• New action to strengthen workers’ rights, including fair pay, ban on zero hour contracts, and protections against unfair dismissal.
🥼Science & Tech
• £22 billion a year in research and development — the highest R&D budget in UK history.
• £2 billion for the AI Action Plan, backing breakthroughs in medicine, climate, and innovation.
• £2.5 billion invested in nuclear fusion research, placing Britain at the forefront of clean energy technology.
• A 50% boost to NHS technology, including improvements to the NHS App to cut waiting times and free up staff.
🚗 Transport
• £15.6 billion is being invested to upgrade local buses, trains and metro systems across towns and cities.
• Bus fares are capped at £3 to keep everyday travel affordable.
• Major new funding for rail projects like the Transpennine Route Upgrade, East-West Rail, and the Midlands Rail Hub to better connect cities.
🏥 NHS
• A record cash investment in the NHS — with £29 billion extra per year for day-to-day running and £4 billion more for investment by the end of the spending review.
• A 50% increase in the NHS tech budget, including £10 billion to upgrade digital systems and expand the NHS App for prescriptions, test results and appointments.
• More community care — including training thousands more GPs to deliver millions of extra appointments closer to home.
• Mental health support in every school in England by the end of the Parliament, as part of a shift towards prevention.
🚌 Children & Education
• New investment to expand and improve nurseries, so more parents can access childcare.
• Free school meals are being extended to help families with the cost of living and free breakfast clubs for all primary school children.
• £1.2 billion a year to support over a million young people into training and apprenticeships — including 65,000 new places.
• Mental health support in every school in England by the end of the Parliament, as part of a shift towards prevention.
☀ Climate
• New build homes will have solar panels as standard.
• Billions for clean energy technologies like carbon capture, offshore wind, and a £2.5 billion investment in nuclear fusion to cut emissions and create green jobs.
• Creation of Great British Energy, a new publicly owned energy company, headquartered in Scotland, to lead the UK's clean energy transition and keep profits in Britain.
👷Jobs
• New action to strengthen workers’ rights — including fair pay, secure contracts, and protections against unfair dismissal.
• £1.2 billion a year to support over a million young people into training and apprenticeships, including 65,000 new places and 60,000 more construction workers.
• Major investment in British industry — including saving British Steel, boosting nuclear, defence, and clean energy — creating thousands of new skilled jobs across the UK.
Defence
• Defence spending will rise to 2.6% of GDP by 2027, including a £20 billion uplift — reversing years of underfunding.
• Investment in military technology and manufacturing, including £4.5 billion for munitions and over £6 billion to upgrade nuclear submarine production.
• Thousands of jobs are being created across the UK — from Barrow to Rosyth, Glasgow to Stevenage — as part of Britain’s plan to become a defence industrial superpower.
🏠Housing
• £39 billion for a new Affordable Homes Plan — the biggest investment in social and affordable housing in 50 years.
• Planning reforms already underway to speed up housebuilding — with forecasts showing the UK is on track for a 40-year high in housing delivery.
👥 Immigration
• £280 million more each year for a new Border Security Command.
• Decisions on asylum claims will be sped up to cut costs and reduce the backlog.
