The UK is a priority for health and defense, as other budgets face pressure

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The areas with arduous pressure in the British state, including councils and police, face additional pressure to review spending as the government offers NHS and defense at the expense of other services.

Chancellor Rachel Reeves will determine on Wednesday the government Spending Until the following general elections, political bet that improving health service is very important to the opportunities for re -election.

The NHS Chancellor is scheduled to give a 2.8 percent increase in daily annual health spending during the three -year spending period starting from April next year, according to officials.

Although the rise is less than the long-term increase since the establishment of the service in 1948, the increase of 30 billion pounds per year in cash by 2028-29 is much better than some in the service.

Matthew Taylor, CEO of the NHS Federation, who represents health managers, said that the service leaders realized that all public services were subjected to tremendous pressure.

He added: “The government is to adhere to providing a greater percentage of funding to NHS will be very difficult for services such as housing, education and luxury, especially because it can affect the health care needs of individuals.”

The defense is also expected to witness an increase in inflation above, which reflects Britain’s changing priorities as the United States presses European countries to spend more on its armies. The government has already pledged to increase defense spending to 2.5 percent of GDP by 2027.

In the budget last year, REEVES set the parameters of the general daily spending that depicted the total growth of 1.2 percent annually in the real corridors between 2026-27 and 2028-29.

But Max Warner, an economist at the Institute of Financial Studies, said that the money that Reeves has devoted to NHS and the defense will mean pressure on other parts of the state by 0.3 percent of the annual discounts of daily spending.

“Health returns to its traditional place as a winner in reviewing spending,” Warner said. However, the 2.8 percent settlement, which was first reported by the Times, was less than the long -term historical growth rate of 3.6 percent annually with the real value.

The areas facing discounts in daily spending in the real stage are those that have already endured the candidacy of Al -Salami over the past decade of the previous governorate government, such as courts, councils and transportation.

Treasury officials confirmed that some departments will get real discounts over the three years. But one of them said: “No one can really think that every section must get a real increase.”

Security, health and economics will be the three main topics in Reeves’s speech on Wednesday. It will also highlight 113 billion pounds of the additional capital spending, which enables the government’s financial rules to be modified last fall.

The chancellor will say that new investments throughout the country will be possible only because of its “options”, a mixture of general financial discipline on daily spending as well as the action plan to borrow for investment. “This money is only available because of its decisions,” said one of the assistants.

“I have seen allegations that we are returning to austerity: there is one word for that – garbage,” Toristine Bell, Minister of Pension Bell, said on Sunday.

Among the options that Reeves will reveal on Wednesday 4.5 billion pounds annually by 2028/29 for the basic school budget, which covers students between the ages of 5 and 16.

On the annual school budget of 64 billion pounds, which involves an increase of about 7 percent over a period of three years. One of the education experts said: “It is difficult to define the meaning of this in practice until we get full details, but these numbers indicate that schools will be relatively protected.”

Reeves is likely to depict allocations for some other departments, such as exercise in certificates, even when the numbers are only placing water by inflation.

The government said on Sunday that the spending review will allocate 86 billion pounds for research and development for four years, without providing details about its distribution. The number 2025-26 of 20.4 billion pounds rises to 22.5 billion pounds by 2029-30.

Although the ministers call this “transformation”, in fact, spending on research and development Stay widespread In real terms, according to the Science and Engineering holder.

While most departments had settled with the treasury before Wednesday, officials admitted that the negotiations were not sailing. One of them said: “It is not a moment free of pain.”

Interior Minister Evit Cooper is still holding on a generous settlement of the police, on the pretext that the service needs more money to strike ambitious targets to combat crime.

The Ministry of the Interior is also struggling to reduce the amount of external aid that it spends on hotel bills for asylum seekers in the United Kingdom, with an estimate of less than 2.2 billion pounds for this year, near 2.3 billion pounds in the previous year.

Angela Rainer, the Prime Minister, bears the responsibility of housing and the local government, was imprisoned in the last minute negotiations on the fine details of the financing of the councils, although the personality of stadiums was agreed upon, according to treasury officials.

Additional reports by Laura Hughes and Clav Coxon