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Budget 2024: Key points at a glance
Key point of Rachel Reeves's budget.
Here are the main points from Chancellor Rachel Reeves' Budget:
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- The Chancellor has raised taxes by £40 billion. "Any chancellor standing here today would face this reality, and any responsible chancellor would take action," Ms Reeves said.
- Among the measures are a 1.2 percentage point increase for employers' national insurance contributions to 15 per cent in April 2025. The threshold for paying them will fall from £9,100 per year to £5,000.
- The headline rates of capital gains tax will increase, with the lower rate rising from 10 per cent to 18 per cent and the higher rate from 20 per cent to 24 per cent.
- The stamp duty land tax surcharge for second homes will increase by two percentage points to five per cent, and will come into effect from Thursday, the Chancellor added.
She also confirmed changes to inheritance tax. This includes bringing pension pots within the tax from April 2027 and reforms to agricultural and business property reliefs, raising a total of £2 billion a year.
- On personal taxes, the Government will not extend the freeze on income tax and national insurance thresholds beyond 2027/28, saying it would "hurt working people" to keep thresholds frozen.
- The Chancellor said that national insurance, VAT or income tax will not increase for working people in this Budget. "I say to working people: I will not increase your national insurance, your VAT, or your income tax," Ms Reeves said.
- The national minimum wage will rise by 6.7 per cent to £12.21 an hour after asking the Low Pay Commission to take the "cost of living" into account. The Government will move to a single level of the minimum wage, the Chancellor said, which will mean a flat rate for those 18 and above.
- A "flat rate duty" on vaping liquid will be introduced from October 2026. Taxes will also increase on tobacco. Meanwhile draught duty on alcoholic drinks will fall by 1.7 per cent, meaning "a penny off a pint in the pub".
The 5p cut to fuel duty will be kept into next year, with Ms Reeves saying it would be the "wrong choice" to increase it. She said keeping the cut and freezing it again will cost £3 billion.
- Ms Reeves reiterated the Government's commitment to the pension triple lock, telling the Commons the basic and new state pension will rise by 4.1 per cent in 2025-26.
- The weekly earnings limit for carers allowance will rise to the equivalent of 16 hours a week at the national living wage, the largest increase since the allowance was introduced.
- The Government will set aside £11.8 billion to compensate those affected by the infected blood scandal and £1.8 billion to compensate victims of the Post Office Horizon scandal.
- On public services, the Chancellor said there will be "no return to austerity".
- Ms Reeves announced a £22.6 billion increase in the day-to-day health budget as well as a £3.1 billion increase in the capital budget, which she called the "largest real-terms growth in day-to-day NHS spending outside of Covid since 2010".
- Defence spending will rise by £2.9 billion next year, and provide £3 billion of support to Ukraine each year.
- The Chancellor has announced £1.4 billion to rebuild more than 500 schools as part of a 19 per cent real-terms increase in the Department for Education's capital budget, along with £2.1 billion for school maintenance.
- The core schools budget will rise by £2.3 billion next year, with an extra £1 billion funding increase to special educational needs provision. Investment in breakfast clubs will be tripled, Ms Reeves added.
- HS2 will be brought to Euston Station in London, Ms Reeves confirmed. She said she would commit "the funding required" to begin tunnelling work.
- Rail links will be upgraded between York, Leeds, Huddersfield and Manchester.
- Local government will get an "significant real-terms funding increase", with £1.3 billion of extra grant funding next year to deliver "essential services," Ms Reeves announced.
- The Government will invest more than £5 billion in housebuilding, and £1 billion of funding to remove dangerous cladding next year.
- Ms Reeves said she is setting a "2 per cent productivity, efficiency and savings target" for all Government departments next year. #ukbudget #autumnbudget2024
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President Murmu and Prime Minister Modi lead the tributes following the death of Ratan Tata
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A coating inspector is a professional who examines the application and performance of protective coatings on various materials and structures. They ensure that structures, surfaces, and materials are correctly coated to meet manufacturing standards.
Coating inspectors use a variety of tools, including: X-ray fluorescence analyzers, Callipers, Electronic micrometers, and On-site coatings test equipment.
Coating inspectors work on a variety of structures, including: pipelines, bridges, tanks, ships, and buildings.
Coating inspectors need to be trained to understand how to apply protective coatings and ensure their longevity and efficacy. Some courses that can help people become coating inspectors include:
AMPP Basic Coatings Inspector / CIP Level 1 Certification: A 5–6 day course that provides 5.2 Continuing Education Units (CEUs)
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Germany and France call for Europe-wide deal with UK on migration
Germany and France have called for a Europe-wide deal on migration and asylum with the UK government, to capitalise on Labour’s more “constructive” approach to EU-UK relations.
In a letter to the EU home affairs commissioner, the German interior minister, Nancy Faeser, and her former French counterpart, Gérald Darmanin, said Brexit had gravely affected “the coherence of migration policies”.
“The absence of provisions governing the flow of people between the UK and the Schengen area,” they wrote, was “clearly contributing to the dynamics of irregular flows and to the danger posed to people using this route in the Channel and the North Sea.”
Darmanin and Faeser urged the European Commission to “rapidly” present “a draft negotiating mandate” for talks with the UK on asylum and migration.
“The arrival in office of a new British government, demonstrating its intention to cooperate constructively with the EU, seems to us to be conducive to concrete progress on this issue,” stated the letter, first reported by AFP.
France has long sought an EU-wide asylum pact with the UK, but Germany has never signalled such strong support until now. Darmanin, who was replaced last week during the French government reshuffle, called for a migration treaty between the EU and UK in 2021 but failed to win support from other member states.
The politics of an EU-UK migration deal could prove sensitive for Starmer’s government, which has been accused by refugee charities of adopting the Conservatives’ harsh language and policies on asylum and migration. France has wanted British officials to process asylum claims in the areas around French ports, a position rejected by previous Conservative governments, who feared this would encourage more people to seek entry to the UK.
The absence of legal routes to the UK “feeds smuggling networks”, the letter states. Ref: gardian #ukvisa #labourparty
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The corrosion of structural steel is an electrochemical process that requires the simultaneous presence of moisture and oxygen. Essentially, the iron in the steel is oxidised to produce rust, which occupies approximately six times the volume of the original material.
The coatings need to be applied correctly by trained and certificated applicators, and certificated inspectors play a vital role in ensuring the process is delivered correctly. A coating inspector's work is to confirm that coatings have been applied correctly, to prevent corrosion that can have disastrous consequences.
it becomes highly important to use best quality corrosion protection for steel materials so that you can prevent your metal from weathering and further, prevent loss of money and potential danger to public health.
Vapor blasting is uses water mixed with a beads, aluminum oxide, crushed glass
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