Jeremy Hunt Autumn Statement - 22 things announced in Budget

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

61% :Social care
59% : He rejected scrapping the VAT exemption status for private schools - a policy championed by Labour.
58% : Mr Hunt there's only one way to stop being at the "mercy" of international energy prices - energy independence and efficiency.- Mr Hunt said there needs to be a "major expansion" of renewable energy.
55% :"Just under half of the £55bn consolidation coming from tax, and just over half from spending, this is a balanced plan for stability," Mr Hunt told the Commons.
55% : Mr Hunt said public spending would grow "slower than the economy" as he said that the Government would protect the increases in departmental budgets already set out in cash terms, before growing resource spending at 1% a year in real terms over the next three years.
54% : On public finances, Jeremy Hunt said: "We are going to grow public spending, but we're going to grow it slower than the economy.
53% :"So, with just under half of the £55 billion consolidation coming from tax, and just over half from spending, this is a balanced plan for stability."
52% : A proper windfall tax is now needed to support those struggling with bills, combined with a massive boost to renewable energy and home insulation, to end the fossil fuel era that is causing so much damage to both people and planet."
51% : The Chancellor said there will be a "substantial" increase in tax.
45% : But sound money has to come first because inflation eats away at the pound in people's pockets even more insidiously than taxes.
43% : But headlines rates of tax will not change.
43% : Mr Hunt told the Commons: "I have no objection to windfall taxes if they are genuinely about windfall profits caused by unexpected increases in energy prices.

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