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Spending review 2010
— presented to Parliament by the Chancellor of the Exchequer | | Corporate Author | HM Treasury |
| Publisher | TSO, London, October 2010 |
| Pages | 106 pp (Cm 7942) |
| Source | Download: http://cdn.hm-treasury.gov.uk/sr2010_completerepor... |
| Keywords | Public expenditure ; Social policy ; Government publications. |
| Annotation | The Spending Review confirms key components of the Coalition Agreement setting out the Government's objectives and priorities for the Parliament. It includes commitments to: provide an NHS that is free at the point of use and available to everyone based on need not the ability to pay; and uprate the basic State Pension by a triple guarantee of earnings, prices or 2.5%, whichever is highest, from 2011, while bringing forward the date at which the State Pension Age (SPA) will start to rise to 66 to 2018 in order to ensure this is fiscally sustainable. Total NHS spending is to increase in real terms in each year of the Parliament. These priorities are underpinned by radical reform of public services to build the Big Society where everyone plays their part, shifting power away from central government to the local level as well as getting the best possible value for taxpayers' money. Section 1.63 notes that the Government is preserving key benefits for older and vulnerable people, including Winter Fuel Payments, free eye tests, prescriptions and TV licences. The Government will also allocate £2 billion of additional funding a year by 2014-15 to social care to support some of the most vulnerable people in society; make permanent the temporary increases to Cold Weather Payments provided in the past two winters, at a cost of £50 million a year, so that eligible households receive £25 for each seven day cold spell recorded or forecast where they live; and protect the statutory entitlement for concessionary bus travel, ensuring that older people can maintain greater freedom and independence. A section on equalities (Box 1.4) comments that "the protection of the health budget will benefit people with disabilities. Those groups more likely to need social care such as elderly women or those with disabilities will also benefit from the £2 billion a year of additional resources given to social care by 2014-15 within the health and local government budgets. There are also likely to be benefits for these groups as a result of the reforms being made to these services, such as increased personalisation in social care." The HM Treasury website has links to further information and related documents about the Spending Review (see http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/spend_index.htm). (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-101020001 E |
| Classmark | WN8: TM2: 6OA |
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