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The Latest Breaking News from Jeremy Hunt

Budget branded ‘missed opportunity’ by Swinney despite £320m for Scotland

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has unveiled his latest spending plans.

The Independent UK

Tory Budget 'attack on most vulnerable' that won't tackle cost of living crisis

While Hunt touted the Budget as a “plan for growth” and big business celebrated, smaller firms and those on benefits and low incomes were left…

The National (Scotland)

Freezing fuel duty is a ‘political choice’ by Hunt, says IFS

The Institute for Fiscal Studies said the £6 billion could have funded an inflation-matching pay offer to public sector workers.

The Independent UK

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Jeremy Hunt accused of ‘£20bn gamble’ on nuclear energy and carbon capture

Campaigners say chancellor is in the grip of the fossil fuel and nuclear lobbies and is ‘squandering taxpayers’ money’

The Guardian - UK

Budget 2023: Scottish businesses react

FSB says firms 'short changed' while tourism sector reaction is mixed

Insider UK

Jeremy Hunt blasted for ignoring public sector pay demands in 'betrayal' Budget

Nurses, teachers and paramedics have responded with fury at the Chancellor's failure to hike public sector pay, with one union claiming he had 'stuck up two fingers to workers with this Budget'

Daily Mirror

Budget 2023: Money experts give their verdict on childcare, energy and pension changes

Dubbed the "Back to Work" budget, the Chancellor set out a number of major plans to help parents, older people and those off work with disabilities to return to work as well as announcements on benefits, pensions, petrol and pubs

Daily Mirror

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Budget to provide extra £130m for public spending in N Ireland, says Government

Minister Steve Baker said all public services in Northern Ireland would suffer without the return of Stormont.

The Independent UK

Hunt’s budget shows Britain is doing less badly – that’s not the same as doing well

Chancellor delivers ‘budget for growth’ but UK is battling rising interest rates, rising taxes and a cost of living crisis

The Guardian - UK

SNP and Greens condemn Jeremy Hunt's 'Great British Nuclear' scheme

NUCLEAR power is to be reclassified as “environmentally sustainable” to give it access to the same investment incentives as renewable energy.

The National (Scotland)

Billions spent to stop 15,000 workers retiring is ‘huge giveaway to wealthiest’

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer criticised Chancellor Jeremy Hunt’s pensions move as a boost for the ‘richest 1%’.

The Independent UK

Budget could add extra £30 cost to holidays as flight taxes set to rise

The impact of an in-line-with-inflation rise in Air Passenger Duty announced during Jeremy Hunt's budget will be felt most by those who can afford to fly long-haul to far away destinations

Daily Mirror

North East gives mixed reaction to Chancellor Jeremy Hunt's Budget

Investment zone for North East announced earlier this week is broadly welcomed

Chronicle Live

Price of cigarettes and tobacco to increase at 6pm today

The Chancellor has confirmed a huge hike in tobacco duty

Liverpool Echo

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The Independent UK

‘Near-automatic sign off’ – Hunt pledges £10m to speed up access to new drugs

The Chancellor said that £10 million would be awarded to help streamline approvals for new medical products.

Chronicle Live

Childcare and tax breaks for businesses lead Jeremy Hunt's Budget

Chancellor said the UK would avoid a recession this year but Labour said the Budget was "as bare as the salad aisle in our supermarket"

Daily Record

Jeremy Hunt accused of 'shafting Scotland' by failing to fund north east carbon capture scheme

The SNP said the Acorn Scottish cluster project in Peterhead had faced a decade of broken funding pledges from Westminster governments.

Daily Mirror

'Free childcare promise is life-changing as I'm in survival mode - but it's a Catch-22'

Lucie Driver, 26, has sleepless nights over paying bills and affording childcare when her mat leave comes to an end. While she says the new package announced today by Jeremy Hunt is 'life-changing', she raises concern about the toll on nurseries and their staff

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The Independent UK

What are Jeremy Hunt’s benefits changes and when do they start?

The chancellor aimed the Budget at boosting employment by getting people back into work

Daily Record

The Budget: 5 things Scots need to know from Jeremy Hunt's statement

Hunt announced measures which will benefit the wealthy while also targetting some of the poorest people in society.

Wales Online

The Welsh Government responds to England's massive expansion of free childcare

England's changes will transform the economics of work for new parents by giving working parents 30-hours free childcare from the end of their maternity or paternity leave

Evening Standard

Price of a packet of cigarettes to rise from 6pm tonight, after Spring Budget changes

Jeremy Hunt’s tax rise in the spring statement will mean smokers fork out about another pound for a packet of 20

The Independent UK

Chancellor accused of delivering ‘historic blow’ to Scotch whisky industry

The Scotch Whisky Association said the rise in alcohol duty from Jeremy Hunt was the ‘largest tax increase for decades’ for the sector.

The Guardian - UK

‘This won’t stop nurseries going bust’ – mothers and staff react to extra childcare support

Nursery providers question the funding while parents wonder why they have to wait years to access help

Evening Standard

What is the potholes fund, as Jeremy Hunt pledges extra £200m in budget?

The Chancellor said the Government’s potholes fund – which previously provided £500 million a year to councils – will be increased to £700 million in the 2023/24 financial year.

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