Departments also need to find \u201cefficiency gains\u201d averaging 4 percent by 2028\/29, a total of \u00a313.8 billion per year. HM Revenue and Customs plans to save 13.1 percent of its spending through \u201cAI and automation\u201d and basing 85 percent of staff outside London, while the Department for Work and Pensions will use artificial intelligence to review jobseekers\u2019 CVs.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Eleven central London government offices will be closed, including 102 Petty France (currently home to the Ministry of Justice) and 39 Victoria Street (used by the Department of Health), while overseas allowances for British diplomats are \u2014 hold on to your canap\u00e9s \u2014 \u201cbeing reviewed and revised.\u201d<\/p>\n
Some of the precise calculations behind these efficiency savings still lack detail, though \u2014 and officials have declined to say exactly how many civil service jobs will be lost as a result.<\/p>\n
4) The small print <\/strong>hurts: building homes<\/p>\n The chancellor rattled off big numbers (often shorn of context) to prove she is opening the spending taps. As always, the devil is in the detail.\u00a0<\/p>\n Many figures in the spending review are measured from the start of \u201cphase one,\u201d 2023\/24 \u2014 when the Conservatives were still in power. Spending becomes far tighter in \u201cphase two,\u201d which starts from next year. Real-terms increases in day-to-day spending will slow from 2.7 percent in 2024\/25 to just 1 percent a year from 2027\/28.<\/p>\n Some headline numbers are also spread over long periods. Reeves promised to deliver Labour\u2019s manifesto pledge to build 1.5 million homes by 2029 with a \u00a339 billion Affordable Homes Programme. Yet this is spread over a decade, and will only hit its stride (\u00a34 billion a year) by 2029\/30, around the time of the next election. Labour MPs will want to see houses built, and voters moving in, ASAP. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Departments also need to find \u201cefficiency gains\u201d averaging 4 percent by 2028\/29, a total of \u00a313.8 billion per…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":176797,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5018,3,4],"tags":[1942,5108,11850,33025,748,1194,28,1395,8514,2825,473,2438,2266,33,35,393,728,474,36,4884,1195,9890,6084,478,1197,5167,51100,809,384,1144,5111,617,72983,619,41909,2343,712,811,1199,6647,1200,1201,16,15,1764,771],"class_list":{"0":"post-176796","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-britain","8":"category-uk","9":"category-united-kingdom","10":"tag-artificial-intelligence","11":"tag-asylum","12":"tag-austerity","13":"tag-automation","14":"tag-britain","15":"tag-budget","16":"tag-buildings","17":"tag-china","18":"tag-customs","19":"tag-debt","20":"tag-defense","21":"tag-department","22":"tag-education","23":"tag-elections","24":"tag-energy","25":"tag-england","26":"tag-environment","27":"tag-finance","28":"tag-france","29":"tag-great-britain","30":"tag-growth","31":"tag-industrial-strategy","32":"tag-infrastructure","33":"tag-interest-rates","34":"tag-investment","35":"tag-manufacturing","36":"tag-mel-stride","37":"tag-negotiations","38":"tag-nigel-farage","39":"tag-northern-ireland","40":"tag-parliament","41":"tag-pensions","42":"tag-print","43":"tag-rachel-reeves","44":"tag-railways","45":"tag-research","46":"tag-scotland","47":"tag-security","48":"tag-services","49":"tag-stability","50":"tag-tax","51":"tag-trade","52":"tag-uk","53":"tag-united-kingdom","54":"tag-wales","55":"tag-war"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176796\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}