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In the national living wage from £8.91 per hour to £9.50, and an end to the pay freeze for public sector workers. there'll be £5.9 billion for nhs england to tackle the backlog of people waiting for tests and scans. and £2.6 billion to be spent on creating 30,000 new school places for children with special educational needs and disabilities. in all, the promises already unveiled will cost billions of pounds in extra spending. but we'll have to wait until after midday to hear how the chancellor plans to fund these policies and labour has warned the spending pledges do not go far enough to m...

The chancellor, rishi sunak, will deliver his budget and spending review shortly, and the government is now expected to make changes to universal credit, the bbc understands. it's expected the chancellor to allow in—work claimants to keep more of the money they earn, by changing the taper rate, although the treasury would not comment on any changes. a number of policies have already been announced, but the government is under pressure to do more to help people struggling with the rising cost of living. so far, we've been told there will be a rise in the national living wage from £8.91 per h...

You have said a lot of that will be even whereby tax and i and insurance increases. i'm sure viewers will be interested to know what you would do, what you propose the treasury should do differently? first do, what you propose the treasury should do differently?— should do differently? first of all, we welcome _ should do differently? first of all, we welcome an _ should do differently? first of all, we welcome an increasingly - should do differently? first of all, i we welcome an increasingly national minimum _ we welcome an increasingly national minimum wage. the liberal democrats have cam...

Millions of workers are set to get a pay boost from april with a rise in the national living wage. it's due to be announced in the budget on wednesday. the rate for those aged over 23 will go up to £9.50 per hour, from the 1st of april next year. that's up from the current rate of £8.91 per hour. the above inflation rise means a full—time worker on the national living wage would see their annual incomejump by more than £1000 before tax. minimum pay rates for younger workers and those on apprenticeships are also set to go up. the government has faced pressure to help low—paid, younger wo...

The current rate — which applies to workers aged 23 and over — is £8.91. that will rise to £9.50, which is an increase of 6.6% — double the rate of inflation. the change will affect millions of low paid workers, but labour said much of the increase will be swallowed up by tax rises and cuts to universal credit. here's our political correspondent, alex forsyth. behind the treasury's closed doors, the budget plans are being drawn up, but while the official announcement is still days away, details of spending plans have started to emerge. today, news of a wage rise for some of the lowest ...