The Budget 2018

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On Monday the Chancellor will deliver the 2018 Budget to the House of Commons. This will set out government spending and taxation plans for the upcoming year, as well as giving forecasts for the economy from the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR).

• Do you have any questions or concerns about the budget?
  
• Where do you think the Government should be cutting or spending money?
  
• What would be in your ideal budget?

Let us know in the comments and we'll do our best to direct you to all the most up-to-date, understandable information as it's released.

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SuperPikachu

Cut the foreign aid budget to 0 would be a good start.

Policing in BEDS is a total joke too and we keep being told it is due to their budget. I don't know if this is true or they are just incompetent but would be nice if 90% of the tax you take off of all of us here did not go towards policing Luton.

Slinky

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• Where do you think the Government should be cutting spending money?

Drop the plan for the Oxford/Cambridge expressway.

mellymoo74

Look at increasing the police budget
A woman reported a rape on my estate on Sunday and it was Wednesday before the police attended

Dizzy_Ditzy

Something that doesn't completely screw over regular working folks would be nice!

More help for first time buyers - house prices are getting more and more prohibitive and rents going up and up and up

More assistance for the police and NHS - cut foreign aid and there will be money available for our essential services. So many cities are becoming almost lawless because the gobsh*tes know full well the police can't spare the resources to deal with them. Get rid of all the unnecessary tiers of management in the NHS and put that money to more staff and beds.

System

Double spending on mental health and help people who need it, actually make it equal to physical health like the government keep saying they will do.

https://www.rethink.org/get-involved/campaigns/email-your-mp-to-double-mental-health-spending

gettingtheresometime

Slinky wrote: »

Drop the plan for the Oxford/Cambridge expressway.

Whilst you're at it abandon hs2.

Anyone who believes it won't enable London to suck the life further out of the north is deluded.

goodwithsaving

I don't want a taxation increase, as a single homeowner every rise is hard and there is no backup of another income.

Reduce (better still, scrap) foreign aid, scrap vanity projects, improve policing, reduce business rates to give the high street a hand, keep the large corporations (and their workers, and 40% tax payers) here, follow up health tourists, cap NHS sueing settlements, improve NHS recruitment / streamline purchasing / link IT systems (requiring investment) / don't fine already broke healthtrusts for missing targets - that is ridiculous logic. Make it more attractive to work and incentivise pension planning. Stop punishing second home owners (I don't own one, but well done to anyone who has saved enough to), stop punishing those in the middle who actually voted for you and pandering to those who didn't.

Rubik

More investment money for children and young adult mental health services. Currently, they are severely underfunded and oversubscribed. Too many young people are left without proper support and treatment for serious MH issues (my own daughter included, despite two almost "successful" suicide attempts).
Better funding for the Police, and financial incentives for councils to keep (or in my local council's case) re-establish CCTV.
Agree with cutting the foreign aid budget and reducing business rates.

hazyjo

Me-ternity leave! (No kids!)


More police presence - pretty much everywhere! Talking local, PLEASE sort Southend (and Westcliff, but mainly Southend) out!

Rubik

End Inheritance Tax (controversial, I know!)