The Warm Home Discount will be expanded meaning 6 million households will receive £150 off their energy bills this winter.
This major expansion of support for working families is the latest in a raft of cost of living support made possible because the government has stabilised the economy, fixed the foundations and repaired the public finances – deliberate choices which are helping provide security and more money in the pockets of working families through the Plan for Change.
Additional protections for millions of vulnerable people on benefits are set to be written into law, under new measures introduced to Parliament.
This government inherited a broken social security system, with costs spiralling at an unsustainable rate and millions of people trapped out of work. The case for change is stark.
Safer hospitals, modernised schools, and renovated courts to replace crumbling public sector buildings, as Strategy pledges at least £9 billion per year over next decade for renewal of Health, Education and Justice estates.
These plans are backed by at least £725 billion of government funding over the coming decade, from which at least £9 billion will be allocated in 2025-26 to address the critical maintenance needs of health, education and justice estates, rising to over £10 billion per year by 2034-35.
This will increase access to quality, modern public services, following years of underinvestment, and deliver significant real-world benefits for patients, students, staff, and communities.
The new funding will support the NHS to build on progress made to date to reducing the longest waits for planned treatment, and provide more outpatient appointments,
more diagnostic tests and more treatments (including more than 20,000 cataract operations) to the people of Wales.
