What the Budget Means for You

Today we prioritised making the right decisions for working people.

This is what the Budget will mean for Britain and for you👇

✅ No increase on National Insurance, VAT, or Income Tax

✅ No return to austerity

✅ National living wage increase of 6.7% rising to £12.21 per hour

✅ Compensation schemes for victims of the infected blood and post office horizon scandals

✅ Funding to commemorate the 80th anniversary of VE and VJ Day

✅ Households on the lowest incomes benefitting the most from policy decisions

✅ £1bn for the Household Support Fund

✅ £3.4bn for the Warm Homes Plan

✅ Biggest increase to the Carers Allowance since its creation in 1976

✅ 2 million extra NHS operations, scans, and appointments every year

✅ £1.4bn to rebuild 500 schools

✅ £30m for free breakfast clubs

✅ Significant investment into our railways and bus networks

✅ £500m to fix local roads and fill in potholes

✅ Investing up to £2.3bn in prison expansion

✅ Cheaper pints in pubs

✅ The largest settlements in the history of devolution

Stability over chaos.

Published by JimfromOldham

Labour and Co-operative MP for Oldham West & Royton

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