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In financial year 2018–19, debt interest was £43 billion - around 5% of total government spending [11] compared to around 10% in 2023–24. HM Treasury controls the overall budget for administration [12] in central government, which largely comprises staff costs. In 2023–24, this totalled £14 billion. [13]
The NHS budget is to increase by £20 billion a year by 2023. This is the equivalent of annual rises of just under 3.5%, but this has been widely criticized as below the historic trend of health funding, which in most developed countries has been rising at about 4% a year.
The most recent budget was presented by Rachel Reeves on 30 October 2024. The UK fiscal year ends on 5 April each year. The financial year ends on 31 March of each year. Thus, the UK budget for financial year 2021 runs from 1 April 2021 to 31 March 2022 and is often referred to as 2021–22.
Government’s Budget settlement for the NHS will not ‘drastically improve care’ this year, experts say NHS receives major Budget boost but ‘lacklustre’ social care settlement will hit ...
The NHS will potentially have a shortage of general practitioners. From 2015 to 2022, the number of GPs fell by 1,622 and some of those continuing to work have changed to work part-time. [57] In 2023, a report revealed that NHS staff had faced over incidents of 20,000 sexual misconduct from patients from 2017 to 2022 across 212 NHS Trusts.
The minimum wage rose by more than 9% per year in 2023 and 2024 against a background of high inflation in an effort to meet the previous government’s target of raising rates to two-thirds of ...
The NHS was established within the differing nations of the United Kingdom through differing legislation, and as such there has never been a singular British healthcare system, instead there are 4 health services in the United Kingdom; NHS England, the NHS Scotland, HSC Northern Ireland and NHS Wales, which were run by the respective UK government ministries for each home nation before falling ...
The date of the budget was confirmed by Hunt on 19 December 2022. At the same time he confirmed the budget would be accompanied by a full budget report from the Office for Budget Responsibility. The statement was presented as a budget for growth, with the objective of bringing about the conditions for long-term sustainable economic growth ...