:00:00. > :00:11.He says he is preparing Britain for a brighter future.
:00:12. > :00:14.Phillip Hammond said in the wake of the Brexit vote,
:00:15. > :00:15.the British economy continued to confound the commentators
:00:16. > :00:20.He told MPs that the forecast for growth for the UK economy this
:00:21. > :00:25.Too many families are still feeling the squeeze,
:00:26. > :00:40.Most pubs would be given a ?1000 discount a year as part of a help
:00:41. > :00:41.package. We'll bring you the latest
:00:42. > :00:44.on the Budget as we get it. Could our televisions
:00:45. > :00:47.be spying on us? Claims that intelligence agencies
:00:48. > :00:56.have developed new technology They are tapping into cars, they are
:00:57. > :01:00.tapping into the home TVs, tapping into every device that you would
:01:01. > :01:02.carry that has a battery in it, basically.
:01:03. > :01:04.Two people are dead and one is left critically injured
:01:05. > :01:07.after a multiple stabbing at a block of flats in Wolverhampton.
:01:08. > :01:10.And women in sport - more and more are taking part,
:01:11. > :01:16.so why is the number of sporting bosses on the decline?
:01:17. > :01:19.Arsene Wenger remains defiant, after his side were knocked out
:01:20. > :01:42.of the Champions League 10-2 on aggregate against Bayern Munich.
:01:43. > :01:45.Good afternoon and welcome to the BBC News at One.
:01:46. > :01:47.The Chancellor, Philip Hammond, is delivering his first Budget
:01:48. > :01:58.He said he was "building the foundations of a stronger,
:01:59. > :02:01.fairer, more global Britain", as the UK prepares to leave the EU.
:02:02. > :02:03.He told MPs that the UK economy had continued to confound
:02:04. > :02:06.the commentators since Brexit, with predictions of growth this year
:02:07. > :02:10.Inflation is predicted to rise to 2.4%, but then fall over
:02:11. > :02:27.And 400 35mm and is to help you to help you deal with stop
:02:28. > :02:29.But the Chancellor also underlined that there was no
:02:30. > :02:31.room for complacency, saying the Government must focus
:02:32. > :02:33.relentlessly on keeping Britain at the cutting edge
:02:34. > :02:36.We'll be getting all the latest on the Chancellor's speech,
:02:37. > :02:38.and full analysis from our political and economic correspondents.
:02:39. > :02:40.First, this report from our political correspondent,
:02:41. > :02:53.a hint of a smile. Any spare money, Chancellor? But
:02:54. > :02:57.really, there is not that much to cheer about, our cautious Chancellor
:02:58. > :03:02.has already warned there is no money for a spending spree.
:03:03. > :03:06.After an early-morning cabinets, he was off to the Commons, this is
:03:07. > :03:08.first and last spring Budget. From now on, they will become an
:03:09. > :03:13.automotive air. The Right Honourable Philip Hammond.
:03:14. > :03:16.We were promised an upbeat speech and that is how the Chancellor
:03:17. > :03:22.started. I report today on an economy that
:03:23. > :03:26.has continued to confound the commentators, with robust growth. A
:03:27. > :03:31.labour market to delivering record employment and a deficit down by
:03:32. > :03:35.over two thirds. We start our negotiations to exit the European
:03:36. > :03:38.Union, this Budget takes forward our plan to prepare Britain for a
:03:39. > :03:44.brighter future. His mission to steer the economy
:03:45. > :03:48.through Brexit, with a Budget that balances the books.
:03:49. > :03:52.It extends opportunity to all our young people. It delivers further
:03:53. > :03:55.investment in our public services and it continues the challenge of
:03:56. > :04:00.getting Britain back to living within its means. Despite positive
:04:01. > :04:05.economic forecasts, he told MPs the UK's debt and borrowing was still
:04:06. > :04:09.far too high. So the only responsible course of action, Mr
:04:10. > :04:14.Deputy Speaker, is to continue with our plan. Undeterred by any
:04:15. > :04:22.short-term fluctuations. And undistracted. Undistracted.
:04:23. > :04:28.Undistracted by the reckless policies advanced by the opposition.
:04:29. > :04:35.Because, Mr Deputy Speaker, we on this side will not saddle our
:04:36. > :04:38.children with ever increasing debt! The Chancellor has already announced
:04:39. > :04:43.there will be money for new free schools, including grammar schools,
:04:44. > :04:49.with an extra ?500 million to shake up vocational and technical training
:04:50. > :04:53.for 16-19 -year-olds in England. The science Budget is expected to get a
:04:54. > :04:57.boost, funding for Robotics, electric cars and Artificial
:04:58. > :05:00.Intelligence. The Labour Party is demanding the Government does more
:05:01. > :05:04.to deal with the rising cost of living. I think this government
:05:05. > :05:09.lives in a different world from the rest of us. People suffered at the
:05:10. > :05:13.moment, stagnating wages, prices increasing because of inflation.
:05:14. > :05:18.Insecure work, cuts in public services. He has got to address
:05:19. > :05:21.those issues, if they can just move them out of the parallel universe
:05:22. > :05:24.they seem to be living again at the moment. Economic forecasts might be
:05:25. > :05:29.looking up a bit, but austerity has not gone away. The Budget is still
:05:30. > :05:35.tight, so what the Chancellor gives away, he needs to balance with tax
:05:36. > :05:39.rises and spending cuts as well. When all the Budget detail has been
:05:40. > :05:42.unpacked and final assessments have been made, the question for the
:05:43. > :05:46.Chancellor will be, has he done enough to deal with the political
:05:47. > :05:52.difficulties, without spending too much money, as Brexit beckons? Mr
:05:53. > :05:56.Hammond might have chucked out his predecessor's timetable for dealing
:05:57. > :05:58.with the deficit, but both he and the Prime Minister still believe
:05:59. > :06:01.balancing the books is the only way to ensure a stable economy that is
:06:02. > :06:04.growing. Well, let's speak to our economics
:06:05. > :06:06.correspondent, Andy Verity, who's been listening
:06:07. > :06:15.to the Chancellor. He is still on his feet. He has
:06:16. > :06:21.taught about growth, positive forecasts, resilience, talk us
:06:22. > :06:23.through the numbers. Big surprise, a very much trailed surprise, was what
:06:24. > :06:28.the Office for Budget Responsibility about economic growth. This year is
:06:29. > :06:33.going to be 2% rather than the gloomy forecast in the November
:06:34. > :06:36.Autumn Statement of 1.4%. That does the Chancellor a big favour, the
:06:37. > :06:41.higher growth is projected to be, the more he can expect to receive in
:06:42. > :06:48.tax receipts because we pay more VAT and the Chancellor is receiving more
:06:49. > :06:51.income tax. On inflation, it was a relatively benign picture. 2.4% was
:06:52. > :06:56.the number predicted for this financial year. That is a bit
:06:57. > :07:02.controversial because the pound is weaker so we pay more for imports
:07:03. > :07:06.that is expected to push up inflation, but the Office for Budget
:07:07. > :07:10.Responsibility says it will tail off four years from now. And the barren
:07:11. > :07:14.picture has been a concern for the Government for seven years, the
:07:15. > :07:18.deficit is predicted to be 52 billion, much better than the gloomy
:07:19. > :07:22.forecast in the Autumn Statement 68 billion, reflecting a far more
:07:23. > :07:27.robust growth than anybody expected after the referendum. Talk to us
:07:28. > :07:31.about National Insurance. This is the announcement he has just made
:07:32. > :07:36.that higher paid, self-employed workers will pay more. Yes, a
:07:37. > :07:39.startling announcement, although it has been trailed. This is a
:07:40. > :07:43.Conservative Chancellor, traditionally a supporter of the
:07:44. > :07:46.self-employed, saying we think you are paying fairly little tax
:07:47. > :07:51.compared people in employment, and he wants to redress that balance by
:07:52. > :07:55.raising taxes for the self-employed. This is a substantial rise in taxes
:07:56. > :07:58.for the self-employed. National Insurance contributions for the
:07:59. > :08:04.self-employed above a certain minimum threshold currently 9%, now
:08:05. > :08:08.rising to 10% next year, and again to 11% a year after. Employees pay
:08:09. > :08:11.12%, so the Chancellor says that is only fair now, thank you.
:08:12. > :08:15.Let's speak to our assistant political editor, Norman Smith.
:08:16. > :08:25.The rising National Insurance will be controversial? That? Hugely
:08:26. > :08:31.controversial. Philip Hammond has said this will be a page Budget and
:08:32. > :08:36.the pit. As the economy is doing better and that is down, growth is
:08:37. > :08:40.up, weight is increasing, but I am not spending that money because I am
:08:41. > :08:45.worried about the deficit and extra spending has to come from savings or
:08:46. > :08:50.tax rises. And that the controversial bit, the tax rises.
:08:51. > :08:56.For the first time in many years, a Conservative government is putting
:08:57. > :08:59.up direct personal taxation on the self-employed. The self-employed,
:09:00. > :09:04.the sort of people that successive Conservative chancellors have tried
:09:05. > :09:08.to encourage. What adds to the controversy is that would appear a
:09:09. > :09:12.clear breach of the Conservative manifesto, when they said they would
:09:13. > :09:16.not put up personal taxation and they would not put up National
:09:17. > :09:20.Insurance contributions. Mr Hammond has dressed it up as suggesting he
:09:21. > :09:25.is just equalising the National Insurance contributions paid by
:09:26. > :09:28.those self-employed and employees. It is an issue of fairness.
:09:29. > :09:36.Nevertheless, the tax rise shatters the idea that this somehow a rather
:09:37. > :09:38.bland and uncontroversial Budget. From Westminster, thank you.
:09:39. > :09:41.More money to try to ease the social care crisis in England
:09:42. > :09:45.Cuts in local authority funding and rising costs have contributed
:09:46. > :09:49.to what councils say is a shortfall over more than ?2.5 billion.
:09:50. > :09:53.And the crisis in social funding has added to pressures on the NHS -
:09:54. > :09:57.as our health correspondent, Dominic Hughes, now tells us.
:09:58. > :10:09.Support for the growing number of frail, elderly people
:10:10. > :10:12.like Maureen Edwards, who we filmed last month
:10:13. > :10:15.as she was recovering from several falls.
:10:16. > :10:18.But this is a system that experts have warned is struggling to cope.
:10:19. > :10:21.In England, it's paid for by local councils,
:10:22. > :10:24.who have seen their budgets slashed following the financial
:10:25. > :10:27.Since 2010, there have been about ?5.5 billion real-terms
:10:28. > :10:39.If you accept then that there are growing numbers of people
:10:40. > :10:42.needing care and support, it's perhaps inevitable that we find
:10:43. > :10:44.social care in the crisis funding it's in today.
:10:45. > :10:47.A recent survey of councils in England shows nearly all of them
:10:48. > :10:51.are struggling with the costs of social care.
:10:52. > :10:56.There are 151 local authorities in England, 147 of them plan
:10:57. > :10:59.to raise council tax specifically to pay for social care.
:11:00. > :11:02.But councils warn that won't plug a funding gap estimated to be
:11:03. > :11:08.That could mean cuts to other council services.
:11:09. > :11:11.And a crisis in social care has had a dramatic impact
:11:12. > :11:18.Elderly hospital patients face long delays before being discharged,
:11:19. > :11:21.if there are problems in setting up care in their own homes.
:11:22. > :11:26.That's led to cancelled operations and long waits in Accident
:11:27. > :11:28.This is very important care for individuals.
:11:29. > :11:32.It helps them with their activities of daily life.
:11:33. > :11:35.These are people that have often got a lot of needs and just
:11:36. > :11:39.If they don't get that help, they either have to pay for it
:11:40. > :11:41.themselves if they can - which, it's very expensive,
:11:42. > :11:44.most of them can't - and very often, it has a knock-on
:11:45. > :11:49.Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland operate slightly different systems,
:11:50. > :11:56.But in the face of financial pressures across the UK,
:11:57. > :11:59.services are being restricted to those most in need.
:12:00. > :12:03.And given the growing number of older people,
:12:04. > :12:05.whatever help the Chancellor offers today is likely to have
:12:06. > :12:22.The Chancellor has announced money to help small businesses deal with
:12:23. > :12:24.their recent business rates. The charges on some commercial
:12:25. > :12:28.properties are going off and other bones will see their payments fall.
:12:29. > :12:31.Our business correspondent, Emma Simpson, is in Whitstable.
:12:32. > :12:39.Is this extra money enough to reassure small businesses? There has
:12:40. > :12:42.been a real outcry over business rates, which new changes are content
:12:43. > :12:48.to next month, and the pressure really has been building on Philip
:12:49. > :12:52.Hammond is to help the hardest hit. As you say, more will benefit than
:12:53. > :12:56.lose out, but for the losers, some of them will be facing some very big
:12:57. > :13:02.rises indeed just because of what has happened to property values. In
:13:03. > :13:08.Whitstable, it is full of quirky, independent shops, and some like
:13:09. > :13:11.that children's shot behind me, face and watering rises, and that is the
:13:12. > :13:15.sort of business Philip Hammond wanted to help today. He has
:13:16. > :13:20.announced three big changes, for small businesses facing a cliff edge
:13:21. > :13:24.coming out of small business rate relief, he is saying that no one
:13:25. > :13:30.will face an increase of more than ?50 a month. So that should help a
:13:31. > :13:35.business like that one. And the pub sector, a sector hard hit, nine out
:13:36. > :13:41.of ten in England will get ?1000 in discount on their bills. And a ?300
:13:42. > :13:45.million discretionary fund for local authorities in England to help the
:13:46. > :13:49.hardest hit. So overall, this package was much bigger than
:13:50. > :13:53.expected and he has also said, we will take a closer look at this
:13:54. > :13:56.system of taxation to make sure it is bit for the digital age,
:13:57. > :14:02.including more frequent re-evaluations.
:14:03. > :14:03.From Whitstable, thank you. The Chancellor is still on his feet in
:14:04. > :14:04.the Commons. And we'll have the very
:14:05. > :14:06.latest on the Budget And there's much more
:14:07. > :14:09.news, live updates, Lord Heseltine says he's not
:14:10. > :14:15.surprised that he's been sacked as a government adviser
:14:16. > :14:17.after rebelling over Brexit Last night, he backed an amendment
:14:18. > :14:23.calling for a parliamentary vote on a final Brexit deal to be
:14:24. > :14:26.made into law. But he said he didn't
:14:27. > :14:29.regret what he'd done. In the end, Europe is
:14:30. > :14:32.the transcending issue of our time and you have always to decide
:14:33. > :14:34.in public life - if you have a vote in Parliament -
:14:35. > :14:43.where that national interest lies. And, to me, it lies in
:14:44. > :14:45.the sovereignty of Parliament, and I therefore must vote in order
:14:46. > :14:48.to preserve the sovereignty The Chancellor has
:14:49. > :15:05.delivered his first Budget, with predictions of higher growth,
:15:06. > :15:06.and lower inflation. But he said there was no
:15:07. > :15:16.room for complacency. Too many families are still
:15:17. > :15:18.feeling the squeeze almost In sport - the fixtures for this
:15:19. > :15:28.summer's Women's cricket World Cup were released this morning -
:15:29. > :15:30.England will begin their home tournament in Derby -
:15:31. > :15:44.facing India on June the 24th. Is the CIA hacking into
:15:45. > :15:46.people's computers, phones, The Wikileaks website has published
:15:47. > :15:51.what it says are leaked files which show the American security
:15:52. > :15:53.agency has been listening into people's conversations
:15:54. > :16:00.through their household internet devices, using software developed
:16:01. > :16:02.with the help of MI6. Our correspondent
:16:03. > :16:08.Jonny Dymond reports. Who is listening
:16:09. > :16:11.when we're watching? If the leaks are genuine,
:16:12. > :16:16.then the CIA can use some television voice command technology
:16:17. > :16:19.to send our conversations The convenience technology
:16:20. > :16:31.we surround ourselves with can They are tapping into cars,
:16:32. > :16:38.they're tapping into home TVs, they're tapping into every device
:16:39. > :16:40.that you carry that has Because of that, it is so prevalent,
:16:41. > :16:45.there are just so many holes. If you are really sincere
:16:46. > :16:48.about your security and value it, you're going to have to use
:16:49. > :16:54.a to protect it. The leaks are double whammy
:16:55. > :16:58.for America's Central They let its enemies and critics
:16:59. > :17:09.know what the agency can spy on, and they details with millions of
:17:10. > :17:13.lines of computer code how to do it. It is a treasure trove for hackers
:17:14. > :17:16.and a betrayal of America's The damage is being compared
:17:17. > :17:26.to the leaks by Edward Snowden which revealed the hoovering up
:17:27. > :17:29.of data by the US This is the CIA's Edward
:17:30. > :17:34.Snowden, this is huge. In terms of what it will tell
:17:35. > :17:38.the adversaries, then we will have to essentially start over
:17:39. > :17:41.in building tools to get information These leaks, if real,
:17:42. > :17:49.are a stunning blow to the CIA and an embarrassment
:17:50. > :17:53.to their British counterparts. The spies are where
:17:54. > :17:55.they don't want to be. Let's speak to our correspondent
:17:56. > :18:13.in Washington, Gary O'Donoghue. What has been the reaction there?
:18:14. > :18:21.They getting I think sick of this on this side of the Atlantic. They have
:18:22. > :18:24.had a series of other leaks, Chelsea Manning, Edward Snowden, then the
:18:25. > :18:33.arrest of another man facing charges for a huge quantity of classified
:18:34. > :18:37.material that he was holding in his house in Maryland. That came last
:18:38. > :18:41.autumn. I think the reaction especially from government is trying
:18:42. > :18:46.to play it down in some sense because they do not want to deliver
:18:47. > :18:50.a victory to the people releasing this material. At the same time
:18:51. > :18:53.there is a lot of concern about the tools they're using being
:18:54. > :18:59.effectively blunted by being made so public. The technology are also
:19:00. > :19:08.questioning as to whether or not enough is being done to preserve
:19:09. > :19:14.their users' privacy and legislators on Capitol Hill, saying they may
:19:15. > :19:18.have to look into the business of leaking. And of course the FBI will
:19:19. > :19:24.take an interest in this as well because they can't afford to have
:19:25. > :19:27.people sort of spreading around this kind of material because really it
:19:28. > :19:29.would undermine national security and the ability of those services
:19:30. > :19:36.started to do their job. Gunmen, dressed as doctors have
:19:37. > :19:38.stormed the largest military hospital in the Afghan capital,
:19:39. > :19:42.Kabul. The so-called Islamic State group
:19:43. > :19:47.says it carried out the attack. Our correspondent
:19:48. > :19:48.Richard Lister reports. Smoke billows from Afghanistan's
:19:49. > :19:50.largest military hospital. Inside, a small group armed
:19:51. > :19:52.with guns and grenades This helicopter is carrying
:19:53. > :19:58.a team of elite forces to repel the assault,
:19:59. > :20:00.amid reports that the attackers have fought their way to the upper floors
:20:01. > :20:03.of the hospital and are making The battle continues and some
:20:04. > :20:08.trapped in the hospital take cover on window ledges high
:20:09. > :20:12.above the ground. A hospital worker sends a message
:20:13. > :20:17.on social media, "pray for us". TRANSLATION: I was in the operating
:20:18. > :20:20.theatre when a suicide bomber wearing a white doctor's uniform
:20:21. > :20:24.came in and opened fire on me. When he fired on me I fell
:20:25. > :20:26.down on the ground. Somehow I escaped
:20:27. > :20:34.using the back exit. This assault is the latest
:20:35. > :20:37.in a series in the Afghan Medical facilities have been
:20:38. > :20:42.targeted by all sides in the past, but President Ashraf Ghani said this
:20:43. > :20:48.attack trampled human values. TRANSLATION: A hospital
:20:49. > :20:51.is a protected place under any law, An attack on a hospital is an attack
:20:52. > :20:58.on all Afghan people. The dead and injured
:20:59. > :21:01.were still being retrieved as news came through that the battle
:21:02. > :21:04.was over, the gunmen dead. But with insecurity growing
:21:05. > :21:06.and peace efforts failing, Afghanistan is braced
:21:07. > :21:08.for a grim year ahead. Two people have died
:21:09. > :21:21.in a stabbing in Wolverhampton. Police were called, and had
:21:22. > :21:24.to break into the apartment One of the women, and
:21:25. > :21:30.the attacker, were killed. Let's speak to our
:21:31. > :21:42.correspondent, at the scene. This happened at a quarter to ten
:21:43. > :21:47.this morning at this block of flats in Penn in Wolverhampton. A woman in
:21:48. > :21:50.her 50s suffered stab wounds and at one stage we had three air
:21:51. > :21:54.ambulances and three land ambulances. When I arrived there
:21:55. > :21:58.were still plenty of paramedics but as you can see police officers in
:21:59. > :22:03.forensic suits as well as ordinary police officers are also here and a
:22:04. > :22:08.great deal of activity. What the police have said is this was a
:22:09. > :22:12.domestic stabbing incident and they had to use stun grenades to storm
:22:13. > :22:18.the flat where the knifeman was apparently attacking two women this
:22:19. > :22:23.morning. What police also said, they describe that particular man as a
:22:24. > :22:27.suspect and of course they called it a domestic stabbing incident. We
:22:28. > :22:31.expect more from West Midlands Police very shortly. And we will
:22:32. > :22:32.bring that news to you later in the day.
:22:33. > :22:35.The mother of the missing RAF airman, Corrie Mckeague,
:22:36. > :22:37.has said she is praying his body is found quickly -
:22:38. > :22:39.as police continue their search of a landfill site outside
:22:40. > :22:45.A rubbish lorry was spotted close to where Mr Mckeague
:22:46. > :22:49.vanished on a night out in Suffolk in September.
:22:50. > :22:55.His mobile phone was tracked following the course of a bin lorry
:22:56. > :22:58.making its rounds soon afterwards. It's international women's day today
:22:59. > :23:00.and one focus has been More and more women are competing
:23:01. > :23:04.and getting involved - yet the number of women in top jobs
:23:05. > :23:07.at the organisations that run UK A survey found that just under half
:23:08. > :23:12.of Britain's 68 sporting bodies don't meet guidelines on the number
:23:13. > :23:14.of women on governing boards. The group that carried
:23:15. > :23:16.out the survey, Women in Sport, said they found
:23:17. > :23:18.that "extremely concerning". Here's our sports
:23:19. > :23:23.correspondent, Katie Gornall. The profile of women playing sport
:23:24. > :23:26.has never been higher. But step off the pitch
:23:27. > :23:29.and into the boardroom, Today, the charity Women in Sport
:23:30. > :23:35.released an audit of 68 national governing bodies
:23:36. > :23:38.receiving public money. They found that nearly half didn't
:23:39. > :23:41.meet the new target of 30% gender diversity on their boards including
:23:42. > :23:45.those in football, cricket, Nine had no women at all
:23:46. > :23:53.in senior leadership roles, while one organisation,
:23:54. > :24:19.the British Tae Kwon Do Council, has For many it is more than numbers. It
:24:20. > :24:24.is about finding the right people, you need women in those roles and it
:24:25. > :24:30.gives others role models to aspire to. And women being decision-makers.
:24:31. > :24:35.But I think diversity is what will make real changes in the boardroom
:24:36. > :24:38.and help sport in general. Earlier this week the Football Association
:24:39. > :24:43.put forward new plans to appoint more women to its board by 2018.
:24:44. > :24:49.Those reforms still need to be approved by the FA Council. But the
:24:50. > :24:52.group is notoriously resistant to change was up that adversity target
:24:53. > :24:56.for the FA and other sporting organisations is included in a new
:24:57. > :25:00.code of governance coming into effect in April. Each sport will be
:25:01. > :25:04.given their own deadlines to comply with the criteria and those who fail
:25:05. > :25:09.face losing millions of pounds of public money. England hockey also
:25:10. > :25:11.needs to diversify although there is CEO told me they would have no
:25:12. > :25:17.problem meeting new government targets. We will over time as board
:25:18. > :25:24.members leave, look at recruiting people that still meet the skills
:25:25. > :25:28.sets but enable us to meet the recommendations within the
:25:29. > :25:31.guidelines. Many sports have reaped the benefits of public investment
:25:32. > :25:34.and now they're being told to better reflect the people who fund them.
:25:35. > :25:36.Now imagine turning on your tap and seeing this.
:25:37. > :25:41.Residents in a town in Canada were stunned to see the colour
:25:42. > :25:44.of their water when they turned the taps on Monday.
:25:45. > :25:47.Despite the vivid colour - they've been reassured that there's
:25:48. > :25:51.Apparently it is a side affect of a common water
:25:52. > :26:00.The Chancellor, Philip Hammond, has delivered his first budget.
:26:01. > :26:15.He is predicting growth to rise from 1.4%, up until 2% this year.
:26:16. > :26:20.Inflation is expected to rise to 2.4% but self-employed workers are
:26:21. > :26:21.to pay an extra 60p a week in national insurance contributions.
:26:22. > :26:26.Our Assistant Political Editor Norman Smith is in Westminster.
:26:27. > :26:33.The headline since we have been on air? In the past few minutes Philip
:26:34. > :26:39.Hammond is to provide a whopping ?2 billion more for social care over
:26:40. > :26:45.the next three years. That is a significant increase in money. It
:26:46. > :26:47.comes on top of the additional 900 million that the government made
:26:48. > :26:51.available by allowing local councils to bring forward some of their
:26:52. > :26:56.spending and so in total you're getting to around ?3 billion of
:26:57. > :27:01.extra cash to ease some of the pressure on social care. That is a
:27:02. > :27:05.big move by the Chancellor. What we do not know is where the money has
:27:06. > :27:10.come from because Philip Hammond has been clear that he will not make any
:27:11. > :27:15.unfunded spending commitments. So that extra 2 billion has got to come
:27:16. > :27:19.from somewhere and there will be many people looking to see who is
:27:20. > :27:22.having to pick up the tab and I expect local councils in particular
:27:23. > :27:27.will be looking to make sure they're not having to make some sort of
:27:28. > :27:31.savings to provide that extra money for social care. But it is a big
:27:32. > :27:35.move to ease the damaging headlines, the mounting pressure, the growing
:27:36. > :27:40.concern about what is happening in the social care sector. That will be
:27:41. > :27:46.one big headline and also these tax rises for higher paid self employed
:27:47. > :27:51.people, and national insurance rise. This is significant, it seems to be
:27:52. > :27:54.a clear breach of the Conservative election manifesto pledge, not to
:27:55. > :27:58.put up national insurance contributions. What Philip Hammond
:27:59. > :28:02.has announced is that some self-employed will face a 2% rise in
:28:03. > :28:07.national insurance contributions over the next two years, Philip
:28:08. > :28:11.Hammond says to legalise the amount they pay. So those who are
:28:12. > :28:16.self-employed and those who are employees both pay the same. It may
:28:17. > :28:20.not be a huge amount of money but it is hugely politically significant.
:28:21. > :28:24.As I say it is an apparent breach of the election manifesto, it is a tax
:28:25. > :28:28.rise and more than that it would be a hit on the self-employed,
:28:29. > :28:32.precisely the group of people successive Conservative chancellors
:28:33. > :28:39.have sought to help and reward. And let's speak to our health editor
:28:40. > :28:43.Hugh Pym about this extra ?2 billion to be spent on social care in
:28:44. > :28:48.England over the next three years. A huge amount of money. On the face of
:28:49. > :28:52.it, yes, ?2 billion in three years is a lot of money. But it is over
:28:53. > :28:57.three years, what local authorities in England had warned was that next
:28:58. > :29:01.year, the financial year beginning in April, just a short time away,
:29:02. > :29:05.there is a real squeeze and they need money. So for that year is ?1
:29:06. > :29:09.billion and then another billion pounds over the next couple of
:29:10. > :29:13.years. It is a significant increase on what local authorities expected
:29:14. > :29:17.before now but they will say it does not go far enough and actually the
:29:18. > :29:22.gap between expected demand for social care in England and what was
:29:23. > :29:26.available was more like ?2 billion. So yes, quite a significant
:29:27. > :29:30.investment but some will say it does not go far enough. Of course the
:29:31. > :29:34.social care issue affects the NHS because of difficulties in
:29:35. > :29:35.discharging patients back into the community.
:29:36. > :29:51.Three very different days of weather out there. In the South it has been
:29:52. > :29:55.pretty gloomy. But further north in Belfast, a beautiful scene, blue
:29:56. > :29:58.skies and sunshine. Then further north again into the Scottish
:29:59. > :30:05.Highlands, some sunshine but also some pretty heavy showers. This
:30:06. > :30:12.beautiful girl of Cloud is low pressure. Some pretty strong and
:30:13. > :30:17.blustery wind. Further south there is quite a lot of cloud and some
:30:18. > :30:20.patchy rain. These three areas of weather do not really shift this
:30:21. > :30:26.afternoon. Other areas keeping that cloud with outbreaks of patchy rain.
:30:27. > :30:30.Northern England, Northern Ireland, some sunshine, blustery in the North
:30:31. > :30:33.of Scotland and feeling cool but towards the south-east in spite of
:30:34. > :30:38.that cloud, it will be mild with temperatures around 14 degrees. The
:30:39. > :30:41.cloud and rain in the South comes courtesy of this weather front which
:30:42. > :30:48.becomes a bit of a pest over the next couple of days. It hangs
:30:49. > :30:54.around, and continues to show some cloud and outbreaks of rain tonight.
:30:55. > :30:57.Some further showers moving across Scotland, elsewhere a fair amount of
:30:58. > :31:04.dry weather and although we could get some frost across North eastern
:31:05. > :31:10.parts of Scotland, for most it is holding up. The weather front still
:31:11. > :31:13.hanging around tomorrow towards the. Generally a fair amount of cloud in
:31:14. > :31:24.the south. Showers across Scotland become confined to just some areas.
:31:25. > :31:27.Some very mild air making it is felt by Thursday. We could get up to 16
:31:28. > :31:30.degrees. The weather front still with us for the end of the week and
:31:31. > :31:33.into Friday but running into the area of high pressure and that is
:31:34. > :31:36.going to squeeze the life out of it. So some cloud and patchy rain
:31:37. > :31:42.running in from the West during Friday, used in areas actually
:31:43. > :31:46.getting away with a largely dry day. On the cool side towards the North
:31:47. > :31:50.East, but still mild in Cardiff thanks to these southerly winds.
:31:51. > :31:55.Into the weekend things change a little, some rain and dry weather
:31:56. > :31:58.and sunshine in between but we lose the southerly wind and pick up more
:31:59. > :32:02.of a westerly wind which brings in some slightly cooler air in our
:32:03. > :32:05.direction. If you are planning for the weekend it looks like this, some
:32:06. > :32:09.spells of sunshine and also some rain at times. But you notice things
:32:10. > :32:16.turning a little bit cooler especially as we get into Sunday.
:32:17. > :32:17.That is all the news from me. Good afternoon.
:32:18. > :32:21.A reminder of our main story this lunchtime.
:32:22. > :32:27.The Chancellor has delivered his first budget, he has announced a tax
:32:28. > :32:31.rise, higher national insurance payments for the better off
:32:32. > :32:36.self-employed. Employed and self-employed alike, use public
:32:37. > :32:41.services in the same way. But they're not paying for them in the
:32:42. > :32:45.same way. And in the last few minutes the Chancellor announced a
:32:46. > :32:49.?2 billion of extra funding for social care in England over the next
:32:50. > :32:53.three years. The Chancellor has just sat down, you could follow the
:32:54. > :32:56.analysis from Westminster on BBC Two on to the BBC News Channel right out
:32:57. > :32:57.and plenty more on the