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✅A new directly-elected Mayor with £38million per year for 30 years for local priorities.
🏛£25m fund to support the development of a British Library North.
🚈Funding for the next stage of the railway station redevelopment.
Great to be in Leeds this morning after #Budget2020
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At the last Election we promised 20,000 police officers. We are the Party of public services and in today’s budget, we deliver on this promise. #Budget2020
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We’ve already provided the NHS with a record funding increase, today I went a step further.
New NHS funding will deliver 50,000 more nurses, 50 million GP appointments and start work on 40 new hospitals. #Budget2020
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Nearly £650m of funding to help rough sleepers into permanent accommodation. That will buy up to 6,000 new places for people to live.
Funded by our manifesto promise to introduce a new stamp duty surcharge for non-UK residents. #Budget2020
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Hardback or e-book, fiction or factual, we’re axing the tax on reading.
I’m pleased to announce a zero rate of VAT on e-publications from 1 December 2020. #Budget2020
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Today I pledged £500m every single year to tackle potholes.
That’s enough to fill 50 million potholes by the end of the Parliament. #Budget2020
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I will increase investment in research and development to £22bn a year.
That is the fastest and the largest increase in R&D ever💡#Budget2020
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We just cancelled the planned rise in beer duty. #Budget2020
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The real workers Party. #Budget2020 twitter.com/hmtreasury/sta…
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1/ The government is taking action that is coordinated, coherent and comprehensive on COVID-19.
This thread outlines some of the support in #Budget2020.
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Responding to COVID19, levelling up and delivering on our promises to the British people.
#Budget2020 🔹 11.03.20
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I'm investing £8million in the Parklife scheme to build proper football pitches for over 300,000 young people to play on.
Here's to finding the Le Tissiers of tomorrow. #Budget2020
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The UK owes all ex-servicewomen and men a tremendous debt.
In my budget on Wednesday I’ll announce that employers will no longer pay National Insurance Contributions for ex-forces personnel for the first year of their work.
They do a job we help them get a job #Budget2020
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2020 will be the last year that women are taxed on sanitary products.
About time. #Budget2020
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In 5 days time we will lay the foundations for a decade of growth. #Budget2020
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.@HKDemocrats lawmaker Helena Wong says even though there’s more money planned for the Hospital Authority in the #Budget2020, the HA also issued letters to staff who took part in the #HAEA strike at the start of this month demanding border seal. “Is this settling score or what?”
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Great to catch up with colleagues this morning to discuss all things #Budget2020 with a cup of (unbranded) tea.
