Mohammad Jamei, CBI Director of Economic Policy, breaks down what the 2025 Spending Review means for UK business

The government is eager to shout about its investment in transport infrastructure and nuclear projects in this review. Reeves has committed £113 billion in extra capital spending, including £15 billion on transport outside London and £14.2 billion on the Sizewell C nuclear power plant, part of an £86 billion fund to "boost science and technology".

Following the Comprehensive Spending Review, Siva Anandaciva unpacks the numbers to explore what they mean for health and care.

The notion that the health service has emerged as a “winner” from the chancellor’s spending review is a bit like congratulating someone who has just won back the face value of a scratch card. It certainly could have been worse,

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Shadow Chancellor Sir Mel Stride said: "Before the election Labour promised "growth, growth, growth" but today’s fall in GDP lays bare the disappointing consequences of Rachel Reeves ’ economic vandalism. Yesterday, the Chancellor should have taken corrective action to fix the problems she has caused.

Rachel Reeves announced cash injections in the NHS, schools and social housing, while vowing to end the use of asylum hotels by the end of the current Parliament

The DfE’s overall budget, including capital, will increase by an average 0.8 per cent a year in real terms by the end of the spending review period, from £100.9 billion in 2025-26 to £109.2 billion in 2028-29. Ofsted will get a £20 million funding boost to help staff inspections under its new report card plans.

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