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Podcast: Beyond Currency
Episode: 15 March 2023 - Hunt promises back to work budget
Description: The year since the last budget has seen major upheavals in the economy and political landscape. There have been three Prime Ministers, while the 2022 budget was delivered by the current one.
There is always speculation about what the budget will contain, and this year is no expectation. With talks continuing over public sector pay, Jeremy Hunt has already indicated that there will be no fresh funds allocated to that sector.
It appears that the biggest additional funding will come in the area of childcare, where around an additional four billion pounds will be allocated to provide free childcare to one...