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The recently published independent Policing Productivity Review has made a series of recommendations to improve police productivity. These proposals range from building on recently introduced measures that cut unnecessary bureaucracy to driving greater productivity through the adoption of new and improved technology. If all of these were implemented, they could save up to 38 million hours of police officer time per year, the equivalent of an additional 20,000 police officers. [footnote 50]

Reforming the UK’s planning system is crucial to ensuring there is investment in the essential infrastructure and commercial development needed for growth. The government will progress the National Infrastructure Commission’s (NIC) April recommendations on planning by delivering reforms to return the Nationally Significant Infrastructure Project regime to the two and a half year average consenting time achieved in 2012. [footnote 126] [footnote 127] As set out in ‘Getting Great Britain building again: speeding up infrastructure delivery’ policy paper, the government’s active reform agenda to deliver this ambition includes publishing spatial data on major infrastructure projects for the first time and ensuring a more reliable process for updating National Policy Statements, further to the updates to the National Networks and Energy National Policy Statements that will be designated in the coming months. [footnote 128] The UK already has one of the most competitive business tax regimes of any major economy, with the lowest headline rate of corporation tax in the G7. In 2021, the government introduced the super deduction to incentivise business investment. Since then, investment growth has been faster in the UK than any other country in the G7. At Spring Budget 2023 the government went further, replacing this with full expensing for three years from 1 April 2023, allowing businesses to write off the full cost of qualifying plant and machinery investment. In October 2023, the Prime Minister announced a strong action plan to ensure every student has the literacy and numeracy skills they need to thrive through the introduction of the Advanced British Standard. This new Baccalaureate-style qualification will bring the best of A-Levels and T-Levels together, creating a unified structure that puts technical and academic education on equal footing. This reform will ensure every student in England studies some form of maths and English to age 18, boosting basic skills and bringing the UK in line with international peers. It will increase the number of taught hours by 15% for most students aged 16 to 19 and will broaden the number of subjects students take. The NHS Long Term Workforce Plan will help deliver a more productive NHS and is underpinned by an assumption of 1.5-2% per annum growth in labour productivity over the next 15 years. This includes a more preventative model of care being provided further upstream and closer to home. Over the period of the Plan the total community workforce will nearly double in size to enable more care to be delivered outside of hospital settings. The Plan will also mean NHS staff working and training in different ways, building broader teams with flexible skills, as well as having the right skills to make full use of new technology that reduces the time for administrative tasks and gives clinicians more time to care. The NHS will also take advantage of opportunities that innovation and technology can offer, including identifying where AI can be used to automate administrative tasks, as well as improving the accuracy and efficiency of diagnostic tools.The government is taking significant steps to support the long-term sustainability of the health service. The Prime Minister announced in October plans to create the first smoke-free generation, including a historic new law with the potential to prevent up to 115,000 cases of strokes, heart disease, lung cancer and other lung diseases. [footnote 44] In January 2023 the Prime Minister set out three economic priorities: to halve inflation, grow the economy and reduce debt. The latest Office for National Statistics (ONS) data and forecasts from the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) show: [footnote 1] ISA: Removing the requirement to reapply for an existing ISA annually – The government will remove the requirement to reapply for an existing dormant ISA from April 2024. Creative industries tax relief: extend the 5% uplift for animated TV to animated films from 1 January 2024

To date, the government has facilitated flights carrying almost 1,000 people to the UK. [footnote 47] The safety of British nationals remains our top priority and the government will continue to look at how it can support those who remain in Israel and Gaza. The government is committed to delivering the landmark G20/OECD two-pillar reform to the international tax system in response to the challenges posed by the digitalisation of the economy, which was brokered by the Prime Minister as part of the UK’s G7 presidency in 2021.Building homes in the right places, where people want to live and work, will support economic growth across the UK and make home ownership a reality for more people. Housing Revenue Account rate: extend the preferential Public Works Loan Board rate for housebuilding to June 2025 Note: This table uses the convention that a negative figure means a reduction in PSNB i.e. an increase in receipts or a reduction in spending will have a negative effect on PSNB.