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  2. Government spending in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    Pie chart of UK government spending, 2023-24. [2]The most significant area of government spending is welfare (£341 billion in financial year 2023-24), [2] with the largest single element of this being for the State Pension, which totals £124 billion.

  3. Budget of the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    The Chancellors: A History of the Chancellors of the Exchequer, 1945-90 (HarperCollins, 1997) 619pp; 17 chapters covering the terms of each Chancellor. Fairclough, Isabela, and Norman Fairclough. "Practical reasoning in political discourse: The UK government’s response to the economic crisis in the 2008 Pre-Budget Report."

  4. Welfare state in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    Welfare spending on poor people dropped by 25% under the United Kingdom government austerity programme of 2010 - 2019, cuts to benefits that disabled people receive were significant, Personal Independence Payments and Employment and Support Allowance have both dropped by 10%. Over half of families living below the breadline have at least one ...

  5. Spending Review - Wikipedia

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    As both the UK's then fiscal rules (the "Golden Rule" and the sustainable investment rule) began to bite, [vague] [citation needed] the UK government desired to halve the real rate of growth in public spending from 4% per annum over the last decade to 2% per annum over the next three years – a 0.5% below than the trend rate of growth of the ...

  6. Geddes Axe - Wikipedia

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    The Reports advocated economies totalling £87 million; the Cabinet decided on savings amounting to £52 million. [8] Total defence expenditure fell to £111 million in 1922–23 from £189.5 million in 1921–22; total social spending (education, health, housing, pensions, unemployment) fell from £205.8 million in 1920–21 to £182.1 million in 1922–23.

  7. United Kingdom government austerity programme - Wikipedia

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    The United Kingdom government austerity programme was a fiscal policy that was adopted for a period in the early 21st century following the era of the Great Recession. Coalition and Conservative governments in office from 2010 to 2019 used the term, and it was applied again by many observers to describe Conservative Party policies from 2021 to ...

  8. Government of the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    The government of the United Kingdom, officially His Majesty's Government, abbreviated to HM Government, is the central executive authority of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. [2] [3] The government is led by the prime minister (Keir Starmer since 5 July 2024) who selects all the other ministers.

  9. Category : Government spending in the United Kingdom

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