bills? . , . ,~ immediate freeze of council tax bills? . , . a , immediate freeze of council tax bills? . , . bills? he has asked his labour councillors bills? he has asked his labour councillors rightly bills? he has asked his labour councillors rightly to bills? he has asked his labour councillors rightly to focus i bills? he has asked his labour councillors rightly to focus on | bills? he has asked his labour. councillors rightly to focus on the cost of living but perhaps they could start with reducing council tax to the level of conservative run areas. we are getting on with halving energy bills and freezing fuel duty and helping them with the cost of living, so what is stopping him having a plan is that his shadow chancellor recently said she has discovered she s got a problem. she realised that she actually, this is what she said, she has to say where the money is going to come from. with a £90 billion black hole in her plans, she has got a lot of work to do. , ., , ., p
we have another set of factors that are likely to weigh on the economy coming into the summer. higher council tax bills, they are going up between five and 15% this month. higher utility bills. ijust got my sky broadband renewal and it went up broadband renewal and it went up by broadband renewal and it went up by 15%. that required a little bit of a rather tense phone call to schey about the reasons for that sky. going forward i think it will be difficult and obviously the removal of the energy price subsidy is likely to weigh on consumer spending power as we head into 02. so i think for me, it s going to be a very challenging quarter. i think we will be doing well if the economy continues in the way that it has been over the course of the past two or three months and if it does, then hopefully that will be good all around for public sector
jason says, i rang the department for work and pensions about when i was getting the warm homes discount, and the person said, why did i needed as i was getting money from the government? but that is not the point, says jason. martins is one of the biggest problems with those vouchers that we heard about in the report was, over christmas, because of the royal mail strike, and some people do not have bank statements or council tax bills, and they need them to use their vouchers, says martin, for example, with british gas. and one more here from sue and clive, sorry, this is a different story, i beg your pardon, this one says, your discussions about prepayment meters, my vulnerable aduu prepayment meters, my vulnerable adult child lives in semi supported living provision, there are smart meters to the flat, the child has
i will be live in gloucester where people have been working out what the chancellor s announcement might mean for them. and on bbc london we re with a west london business gauging reaction to the chancellor s plans. and pantomime season returns, but can families afford to go? there were many other annoucements and spending pledges made by the chancellor today. here are a few of them local authorities in england will be able to increase their council tax bills by up to 5%. the vast majority are expected to do that. the money will go towards social care. if you have an electric car, you ll have to pay road tax from 2025. at the moment, electric cars are exempt. major infrastructure projects such as northern powerhouse rail, hs2, and the nuclear power plant at sizewell c will continue to be built. the overseas aid budget will be kept at 0.5% of gdp,