Spending review 2025: winners and losers

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UK Chancellor Rachel Reeves set daily spending in departments until 2029 and capital budgets until 2030, in the first comprehensive spending for 16 years.

She said on Wednesday: “Britain’s renewal should feel everywhere,” she said on Wednesday. Below are the winners and losers from the spending review.

Winners

healthNHS in England received a 3 % increase in daily annual spending, over the expectations of health leaders, but less than a long -term growth rate of 3.6 percent annually.

However, the capital budget of the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare will be flat in real terms between 2025-26 and 2029-30.

An increase of 2.8 percent in the DHSC daily budget, which is funding NHS, will take more than half of the cash increase in the total expenses of the government.

DefenseDefense spending will rise to 2.6 percent of GDP by April 2027, including intelligence, from 2.3 percent now, with more money for military spending and security and intelligence agencies.

Between 2025-26 and 2029-30, the capital budget at the Ministry of Defense will increase 7.3 percent.

This month, the long -awaited strategic review of Britain urged the move to “preparing to combat war” in light of the increasing threats, while US President Donald Trump called on European countries to enhance military spending.

SchoolsThe basic school budget in England will grow at a rate of 0.4 percent annually between 2025-26 and 2028-29. Residents of the volatile school age will lead to a rise in spending in Bourl by the end of the current parliament.

All children with parents who receive global credit will be qualified to obtain free school meals under the expansion of the plan, at an estimated cost of about 410 million pounds annually by 2028-29.

Consultants: The ministers delayed plans to spend half on consulting consultations for a period of three years.

The government said on Wednesday that it expects to provide 700 million pounds annually by 2028-29 for consultants. Last year, she pledged to spend half of 2025-26.

Housing: Reeves announced a batch of 39 billion pounds for the affordable housing over a period of 10 years, to help finance housing construction for people who cannot buy or rent market prices.

She also said that the government will provide an additional 10 billion pounds for the financial investments that England will make, a arm body.

Industry numbers have expressed doubts about whether the additional investment will help the government achieve its goal to build 1.5 million homes by the end of this parliament.

Losers

Home office: The average daily annual spending in the Ministry of Interior will decrease by 1.7 percent between 2025-26 and 2028-29, according to spending documents. With the exception of the expected costs of the asylum system, spending on household offices will increase by 0.4 percent during the same period.

The ministers have so far failed to reduce the asylum budget, with a record number of irregular immigrants crossing the English channel in one day last month.

The administration is responsible for the police, border security and immigration, and the Interior Minister, Eftte Cooper, was the last minister of more money earlier this week.

Ministry of Foreign AffairsThe average daily annual spending in the Commonwealth and Development Office will decrease by 6.9 per cent between 2025-26 and 2028-29, making it the largest loser among the White Hitol departments.

FCDO’s foreign aid budget was reduced to finance higher military spending, and the Vinancial Times times last month that senior managers were facing a major exemption as part of the efficiency campaign.

environmentThe average daily annual spending in the Ministry of Environment, Food and Wind will decrease by 2.7 percent. Defra’s capital budget will decrease by 1.8 percent in real terms of up to 2029-30.

The independent government adviser warned in April that the UK’s preparations for floods are “insufficient”. However, officials pointed to an investment of 4.2 billion pounds over three years in flood defenses throughout the country and more than 2.7 billion pounds annually towards “agriculture and natural recovery”.

Transfer: Daily spending every year by the Ministry of Transport will decrease by 5 percent on average.

Meanwhile, spending on the leading HS2 project will decrease by 9.3 percent annually between 2025-26 and 2028-29.

The high -speed rail project was suffering from delay and costs and has been reduced by the previous conservative government, which means that it will now be operated between London and Bringham only.

Taxi in the council: The public is scheduled to pay the Supreme Council tax bills for the planned increase in the “Police spending authority”, which will rise by 2.3 percent annually by the real value during the spending period.

Paul Johnson, director of the Institute of Financial Studies, said at X: “Drafting notes on police financing. An increase in” spending force “. It means that the graduate principles of local taxes will play their role.

This article was modified to clarify the details about the Ministry of Interior’s daily spending between 2025-26 and 2028-29