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the cliff edge three months into the summer. and under the terms of action on child poverty that will always be welcome, but the government s target, notjust doubling the child payment but increasing it to £40 by april 2023. and as we consider the prospect of new restrictions, every parent is wondering whether this winter will bring more disruption to their schooling. recovery means implementing the same ventilation systems and standards we demand in our offices, and our children s classrooms. notjust open the window and hope for the best. over recent weeks, the cabinet secretary and has been repeated today, dampened expectations claiming she has no money but this is not true, the block grant will increase by £3.9 billion, 7.7% in real terms, that is the largest increase in block grant
money over the past 18 months to get us through coronavirus. and so is that today the chancellor said we can t help everyone every time. prices rise so unfortunately there was not much more help for pensioners in the budget today. aha, pensioners in the budget today. a new subject, william asks are there any grants or anyhow proposed to make electric only gas boiler replacement because of the chancellor said today the government will provide £3.9 billion to determine as buildings. but the main policy associated with that is as our question asked this replacement of gas boilers and heat pumps and the chancellor did not give much more detail on this each of today. what he did say is that households and consumers can reduce their carbon emissions through transport and reduction of carbon emissions
like a rainy day fund. not day-to-day money for the afghan government. the question is what will happen to the billions in foreign aids flowing in for years to afghanistan and how the government has been able to run itself. since 2002 the united states provided billions of military assistance. 36 billion spent on civilian assistance. 3.9 billion on humanitarian assistance. what happens there? military side congress appropriated over $3 billion for this year and the president s budget request another $3 billion plus for next year. but now if you think about it there is no afghan army to support. we reached out to see if the president will push for changes there. even though that defense bill is passed changes could still be made in conference. then you have the foreign aid, $300 million civilian assistance for this year and the next year the president s budget pushing for $364 million. much of that comes from u.s. aid.
you look at what the united states has invested in the people of afghanistan, not only in recent days, but of course, over the past 20 years. on june 4th, we announced more than $266 million in new humanitarian assistance for afghanistan, and that sum total brought the total u.s. humanitarian aid to afghanistan to nearly $3.9 billion over the course of our involvement in afghanistan. that will not change. even given the more difficult security environment, we can continue to provide humanitarian support, and continue to provide humanitarian assistance, and importantly, we will continue to press forward in every way we can with the diplomacy to have an effort to bring about a just