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Owain Thomas retweeted
What the Chancellor did in the #AutumnStatement in one chart 👇
- Received a £59bn windfall from higher tax receipts
- Spent £32bn of this on higher welfare and debt interest (not public services)
- The rest, £25bn, spent on tax cuts
Result: total borrowing in 2027/28 unchanged
Owain Thomas retweeted
1% per year increase in resource spending is incredibly tight. If that's what happens a lot of public services will see cuts.
Here's one we prepared earlier. Another year of 1% increase means another year of cuts for many,
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NB - chancellor just announced a long term cash freeze in investment spending. That's a significant real cut of course.
We already have public sector investment well below that in most comparable countries. That is not good for growth.
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The ambition of the Consumer Duty to improve outcomes would have chimed with him, particularly in relation to improving customer understanding and support…
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Thankyou @OTJournalist and @HandPnews for the opportunity to contribute to your CI at 40 articles.
Colleagues please see this video youtu.be/BbGU1CBZsCg that Marius, my former @ScottishWidows colleagues and I made in 2007 for professional development and educational purposes.
Owain Thomas retweeted
The cost of living crisis is being compounded by a cost of money crisis, says Rachelle Earwaker, Senior Economist for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation
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Getting rid of work capability assessment for incapacity benefits is a genuinely big change. Will wait to see details.
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Last chance to have your say on IPMI provider service – vote now healthcareandprotection.com/…
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NatWest boss Alison Rose said the bank has passed on interest rate increases to savers and claimed that the bank was "helping people build regular saving habits". Rates analysis by @MoneyfactsPress suggests otherwise
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There's *A LOT* going on here from MMHPI:
An IP ME claim declined for mental health issues resulting in homelessness;
Lots of consumer research showing poor outcomes;
Appealing to FCA to investigate treatment of mental health sufferers by insurers;
IP policyholder with ME lost home after claim declined for mental health – MMHPI healthcareandprotection.com/…
Owain Thomas retweeted
Well done @Hamilton600 @ZurichInsUK @sheunolotu_oke & @Kathryn_Cura for taking this important discussion forward.
FYI @I_CAN_UK
#InclusionByDesign #CognitiveDiversity #Intersectionality #Access #ImproveOutcomes
Owain Thomas retweeted
Hospital admissions with COVID in England have fallen by 5% in-week but have perhaps now bottomed out.
Our R estimate rising towards 1.0.
Admissions rose slightly in the East, SE and SW but were still falling in other regions. Down 17% in NW.
Bed occupancy has fallen by 11%.
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‘No major restructure’ at William Russell as insurance product manager and global marketing lead also depart healthcareandprotection.com/…
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Top story in the mainstream media: 2 feuding brothers.
Not in the news at all: ~3000 more deaths than usual registered in the week to 23 December. And it will likely get even worse in the next few weeks.
Owain Thomas retweeted
Summary of last two weeks ONS deaths data from @ActuaryByDay. On a counts basis, the excess increased both weeks, and the last week was the worst of 2022 so far.
Detailed analysis of death rates follows later today from the Continuous Mortality Investigation (CMI).
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Looking forward to the Bitcoin community's measured and civil response to this
The apparent stabilisation of bitcoin’s value is likely to be an artificially induced last gasp before the crypto-asset embarks on a road to irrelevance. #TheECBblog looks at where bitcoin stands amid widespread volatility in the crypto markets.
Read more ecb.europa.eu/press/blog/dat…
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Important news for everyone who cares about free speech. The Solicitors Regulation Authority has banned solicitors from sending libel threats falsely labelled as "confidential" or "without prejudice", to bully the recipients into not publishing them.
taxpolicy.org.uk/stopsecret
