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Budget 2023 live today: Jeremy Hunt provides Spring declaration and says ‘UK won’t get in economic crisis’

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Spring Budget 2023: Energy cost guarantee to stay at £2,500 for next 3 months

Jeremy Hunt has said the UK will prevent economic crisis this year in his Spring Budget statement, stating the economy is “on the right track.”

The chancellor said: “We remain vigilant, and will not hesitate to take whatever steps are necessary for economic stability.

“Today the Office for Budget Responsibility forecast that because of changing international factors and the measures I take, the UK will not now enter a technical recession this year.”

He likewise verified that the energy cost guarantee will be extended for an additional 3 months from April to June at its present level, including he listened to Martin Lewis’s guidance on the matter.

The chancellor will cancel the organized £500 walking in typical energy costs which was because of enter force next month.

This relocation would see costs for the typical household remaining at around £2,500, rather of increasing to £3,000 as was formerly revealed.

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Chancellor will not rest up until UK is ‘Europe’s most vibrant enterprise economy’

The chancellor said the federal government would not rest up until the UK is “Europe’s most dynamic enterprise economy”.

He informed MPs: “We already have lower levels of business taxation than France, Germany, Italy or Japan. But I want us to have the most pro-business, pro-enterprise tax regime anywhere. Even after the corporation tax rise this April, we will have the lowest headline rate in the G7 – lower than at any period under the last Labour government.

“Only 10% of companies will pay the full 25% rate. But even at 19% our corporation tax regime did not incentivise investment as effectively as countries with higher headline rates.”

Mr Hunt likewise set out steps the Government had actually already required to motivate business financial investment, informing the Commons: “For larger businesses we have had the super deduction, introduced by the Prime Minister, which ends this month.

“For smaller businesses we have increased the Annual Investment Allowance to £1 million, meaning 99% of all businesses can deduct the full value of all their investment from that year’s taxable profits.”

Maryam Zakir-Hussain15 March 2023 13:09

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Chancellor reveals policy of ‘full expensing’ for next 3 years

Jeremy Hunt revealed a policy of “full expensing” for the next 3 years and with an intent to make it long-term.

He explained: “That means that every single pound a company invests in IT equipment, plant or machinery can be deducted in full and immediately from taxable profits. It is a corporation tax cut worth an average of £9 billion a year for every year it is in place.”

Mr Hunt said the step is anticipated to increase business financial investment.

He included: “I understand the party opposite (Labour) is reviewing business taxes. Let me save them the bother. They put them up, we cut them.”

Maryam Zakir-Hussain15 March 2023 13:06

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Hunt assigns another £200m to help neighborhoods take on holes

On holes, Jeremy Hunt said the £500 million designated would be increased by an additional £200 million next year to help neighborhoods “tackle this problem”.

Mr Hunt likewise said: “For Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland this Budget delivers not only a new investment zone but an additional £320 million for the Scottish Government, £180 million for the Welsh Government and £130 million for the Northern Ireland Executive as a result of Barnett consequentials.

“On top of which in Scotland, I can announce up to £8.6 million of targeted funding for the Edinburgh Festivals as well as £1.5 million funding to repair the Cloddach Bridge.

“I will provide £20 million of funding for the Welsh Government to restore the Holyhead Breakwater and, in Northern Ireland, I am allocating up to £3 million to extend the Tackling Paramilitarism Programme and up to £40 million to extend further and higher education participation.”

Maryam Zakir-Hussain15 March 2023 13:02

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Chancellor will invest over £200m in regional regrowth jobs in widescale levelling-up series

The chancellor revealed a series of levelling-up and regional transport-related financing pots.

Jeremy Hunt informed the Commons: “I will invest over £200m in high-quality local regeneration projects across England including the regeneration of Tipton town centre and the Marsden New Mills Redevelopment Scheme. I am also announcing a further £161m for regeneration projects in Mayoral Combined Authorities and the Greater London Authority.

“And I will make over £400m available for new Levelling Up Partnerships in areas that include Redcar and Cleveland, Blackburn, Oldham, Rochdale, Mansfield, South Tyneside, and Bassetlaw.

“Having listened to the case for better local transport infrastructure from many Members, I can announce a second round of the City Region Sustainable Transport Settlements, allocating £8.8 billion over the next five-year funding period.”

Maryam Zakir-Hussain15 March 2023 12:59

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Tax on beer frozen as part of Jeremy Hunt’s ‘Brexit pubs guarantee’

Delivering his Spring Budget on Wednesday, Mr Hunt said he would “significantly increase the generosity of draught relief” which he said might not have actually been done inside the EU.

Mr Hunt informed MPs: “From August 1 the duty on draught products in pubs will be up to 11p lower than the duty in supermarkets, a differential we will maintain as part of a new Brexit pubs guarantee. British ale may be warm, but the duty on a pint is frozen.”

Mr Hunt said the modification will use to “every pub in Northern Ireland” due to the Windsor Framework.

Maryam Zakir-Hussain15 March 2023 12:56

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OBR projection says UK will not get in economic crisis this year, Hunt says

Jeremy Hunt set out the financial projection for the next 5 years, declaring the UK would not now get in an economic crisis.

He said: “Let’s turn now to what the OBR say about our growth prospects. In November, they expected that the UK economy would enter recession in 2022 and contract by 1.4% in 2023. That left many families feeling concerned about the future.

“But today, the OBR forecast we will not enter a recession at all this year with a contraction of just 0.2%. And after this year the UK economy will grow in every single year of the forecast period: by 1.8% in 2024; 2.5% in 2025; 2.1% in 2026; and 1.9% in 2027.”

Maryam Zakir-Hussain15 March 2023 12:55

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Government will include £11bn to the defence spending plan over next 5 years

The Chancellor likewise verified the federal government would include £11bn to the defence spending plan over the next 5 years.

Jeremy Hunt said: “Today, following representations from our persuasive Defence Secretary, I confirm that we will add a total of £11bn to our defence budget over the next five years and it will be nearly 2.25% of GDP by 2025.

“We were the first large European country to commit to 2% of GDP for defence and will raise that to 2.5% as soon as fiscal and economic circumstances allow.”

Maryam Zakir-Hussain15 March 2023 12:53

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Hunt highlights UK’s ‘innovation industries’

Jeremy Hunt said “declinists are wrong” about the future of the country as he highlighted the country’s “innovation industries”.

He included: “Our film and TV industry has become Europe’s largest, with our creative industries growing at twice the rate of the economy. Our advanced manufacturing industries produce around half the world’s large civil aircraft wings. And thanks to a clean energy miracle we have become a world leader in offshore wind.

“Other parties talk about a green energy revolution, so I gently remind them that nearly 90% of our solar power was installed in the last 13 years – showing it’s the Conservatives who fix the roof while the sun is shining.”

(PA Wire)

Maryam Zakir-Hussain15 March 2023 12:52

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Paul Johnson, the director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS), tweeted: “Rather odd that the chancellor just claimed that simply uprating benefits in line with inflation is part of a £94bn support package.

“It doesn’t even maintain real value of benefits and (should) happen automatically.

“Inflation projected to be down to 2.9% by end of this year. That would be good news.

“It is not true, though, that giving public sector workers a bit more would significantly raise inflation.”

Maryam Zakir-Hussain15 March 2023 12:49

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Chancellor will not uprate fuel task with inflation

On fuel task, Jeremy Hunt said: “Because inflation remains high, I have decided now is not the right time to uprate fuel duty with inflation or increase the duty.

“So here’s what I am going to do: for a further 12 months I’m going to maintain the 5p cut and I’m going to freeze fuel duty too. That saves the average driver £100 next year and around £200 since the 5p cut was introduced.”

Maryam Zakir-Hussain15 March 2023 12:47

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