From village halls to outer area… 17 Budget wins

Budget wins: Chancellor Jeremy Hunt

Last week’s Budget included 17 measures you could have missed – from spruced-up village halls to shorter passport ready instances:

1) Travelling overseas this Easter? Holidaymakers ought to wait simply three weeks for his or her passports to be renewed as enhancements ought to make ten-week ready instances a factor of the previous.

2) Pensioners are set for an additional revenue enhance because the Government once more pledged to guard the triple lock. In 2024-25, the complete annual primary state pension can be £3,700 greater in money phrases than in 2010, at £11,502 a 12 months.

3) All NHS Trusts may have Electronic Patient Records by March 2026, ending their reliance on paper information and making certain sufferers can simply entry information throughout all NHS programs.

4) D-Day veterans can be honoured at an occasion to mark the eightieth anniversary of the landings, which the Government has promised to fund.

5) Although we packed away the bunting and polished off the final of the cucumber sandwiches way back, the Queen’s legacy lives on by means of an additional £5 million for the Platinum Jubilee Village Halls Fund, to assist village halls throughout England stay on the coronary heart of their communities.

6) Common circumstances could quickly be handled with out the necessity for a GP appointment or prescription because the Government unveils Pharmacy First, a service to present sufferers therapy for seven frequent circumstances straight from a pharmacy.

7) The Government will fund initiatives to develop rising expertise within the British movie trade. It will help the National Film and Television School’s plan for an growth to its instructing area so it could actually supply as much as 200 extra apprenticeship locations a 12 months, new cutting-edge programs together with using synthetic intelligence, and improved services for disabled college students.

8) £16 million can be invested in jail workshops to spice up employability and rehabilitate inmates.

9) Maggie Smith, Michael Gambon and Laurence Olivier are only a few of the well-known actors to have tread the boards on the National Theatre. Now these boards are set to get replaced because the Government pledged £26.4 million to renovate the theatre’s stage and infrastructure.

10) Is your little one or grandchild off to high school this September? Additional funding for faculties will symbolize a money enhance in common funding per pupil to £7,690 in 2024-25.

11) All NHS workers can be given digital passports and entry to a brand new workers app to cut back the paperwork in transferring between totally different elements of the NHS, and eradicate the necessity to redo coaching programs, which means extra time may be spent on affected person care.

12) Get prepared for RoboCop! The Government is committing £230 million to pilot schemes of policing know-how, comparable to deploying drones as first responders, facial recognition and automating the triage of 101 calls to allow officers to spend extra time on the frontline.

13) Ministers are additionally piloting using synthetic intelligence to assist planning authorities streamline their processes, so plans take 30 months reasonably than the seven-year common.

14) A cyber prison crackdown is on the best way because the Government pledged £34 million to develop the Public Sector Fraud Authority through the use of synthetic intelligence to fight fraud throughout the general public sector. This ought to make it simpler to identify, cease and catch fraudsters, saving £100 million for the general public purse.

15) Do you might have an aspiring astronaut within the household? The Government has pledged £10 million to SaxaVord Spaceport within the Shetland Islands, to help orbital launch in 2024.

16) Known as the house of massive banks, Canary Wharf is also known as dwelling by a whole lot of households, because the Government pledged to ship as much as 750 properties within the East London space.

17) An additional 24,000 nursing and midwifery coaching locations can be accessible by 2031 because the NHS Long Term Workforce Plan invests within the largest ever growth in recruitment and coaching of NHS workers.