:00:00. > :00:00.The Chancellor's Budget - he hits 2.5 million
:00:07. > :00:12.self-employed with higher National Insurance contributions.
:00:13. > :00:16.REPORTER: Any spare cash in there, Chancellor?
:00:17. > :00:19.That's despite pledging not to in the party manifesto.
:00:20. > :00:26.But Mr Hammond says his budget promises a better future.
:00:27. > :00:28.We embark on this next chapter of our history, confident in
:00:29. > :00:30.our strengths and clear in our determination
:00:31. > :00:37.to build a stronger, fairer, better Britain.
:00:38. > :00:39.It demonstrates again the appalling priorities of this Government.
:00:40. > :00:41.Another year, tax breaks for the few, public
:00:42. > :00:51.An extra ?2 billion is found for social care in England to be
:00:52. > :00:55.We'll be looking at the impact of today's budget and how
:00:56. > :01:01.The missing airman Corrie McKeague - now the police say they believe his
:01:02. > :01:10.Leaked documents apparently from the CIA suggest it could be.
:01:11. > :01:14.And coming up in Sportsday on BBC News - a five match ban.
:01:15. > :01:16.Bournemouth defender Tyrone Mings is given his punishment for stamping
:01:17. > :01:43.Good evening and welcome to the BBC News at Six.
:01:44. > :01:48.The Chancellor has delivered his last Spring Budget and announced
:01:49. > :01:52.a few surprises, if no eye-catching giveaways.
:01:53. > :01:54.The overall economic picture is little changed, giving him
:01:55. > :02:00.But Philip Hammond told a packed House of Commons he had managed
:02:01. > :02:03.to find an extra ?2 billion for social care in England to be
:02:04. > :02:07.A more controversial pledge was his decision to increase
:02:08. > :02:09.National Insurance contributions for almost 2.5 million people -
:02:10. > :02:11.despite a Conservative manifesto promise that National Insurance
:02:12. > :02:16.Mr Hammond also tackled criticism of the Government's plans
:02:17. > :02:19.to increase business rates in England and Wales by promising
:02:20. > :02:21.an emergency relief fund for those businesses hit hardest -
:02:22. > :02:27.and by capping the increase for most pubs.
:02:28. > :02:29.The Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn described it as a Budget
:02:30. > :02:32.Our deputy political editor John Pienaar has our
:02:33. > :02:44.Chancellors always hang around in the street on budget day. But
:02:45. > :02:50.Brexit, a bit like the weather, turned out nice so far than the
:02:51. > :02:53.forecasters expected. The Any spare cash in there? He had more spending
:02:54. > :02:58.power thanks to higher growth and lower borrowing. But Brexit will not
:02:59. > :03:02.be a smooth or quick journey, not that he is too worried about his
:03:03. > :03:07.Labour opponents. At Westminster, as the time came to the budget, his
:03:08. > :03:13.boss, rightly or wrongly, seemed to see Labour's labour as a bit of a
:03:14. > :03:18.joke. And more than just a bit. And the Chancellor allowed himself to
:03:19. > :03:22.keep the tone upbeat. I report today on an economy that has continued to
:03:23. > :03:26.confound the commentators with robust growth. A labour market
:03:27. > :03:33.delivering record employment and a deficit down by over two thirds. As
:03:34. > :03:36.we start our negotiations to exit the European Union, this Budget
:03:37. > :03:41.takes forward our plan to prepare Britain for a brighter future. They
:03:42. > :03:47.call him Spreadsheet Phil, businesslike, proud to be boring.
:03:48. > :03:53.So, no spending sprees. We on this side will not saddle our children
:03:54. > :03:57.with ever-increasing debt. But we would have higher bills to pay and,
:03:58. > :04:02.for millions, that meant higher taxes, on company owners, who pay
:04:03. > :04:05.themselves in share dividends, and a hike in national insurance for the
:04:06. > :04:08.self-employed, though the Tory manifesto did promise to keep
:04:09. > :04:15.national insurance down. Employed and self-employed alike use our
:04:16. > :04:18.public services in the same way. But they are not paying for them in the
:04:19. > :04:22.same way. National insurance, there is a tax hike for the self-employed.
:04:23. > :04:27.Their national insurance contributions will go up to 11% in
:04:28. > :04:32.2019. The Chancellor says this will help raise ?145 million. Other
:04:33. > :04:37.changes raise much more. But some Tories are unhappy. Painful social
:04:38. > :04:43.care is now an urgent problem and the Chancellor had promised MPs he
:04:44. > :04:47.would find cash to buy more time. -- paying for social care. The system
:04:48. > :04:52.is clearly under pressure and this, in turn, puts pressure on our NHS.
:04:53. > :04:56.For social care, an extra ?2 billion over three years, with ?1 billion
:04:57. > :05:01.available in the next year. He said the long-term funding options would
:05:02. > :05:06.be announced, but what he called Labour's death tax on estates was
:05:07. > :05:11.ruled out. Companies, including pubs, are being hit with higher
:05:12. > :05:15.business rates. That has worried MPs and forced the Chancellor to pour
:05:16. > :05:20.out a little comfort. Small businesses are taken out of paying
:05:21. > :05:23.rates altogether. The revaluation has undoubtedly raised some hard
:05:24. > :05:28.cases, especially for those businesses coming out of small
:05:29. > :05:33.business rates relief. To ease the burden of business rates, local
:05:34. > :05:36.councils will be given ?300 million to help the worst hit. No small
:05:37. > :05:41.business losing rate relief will see their bill increased by more than
:05:42. > :05:50.?50 a month. There would be a ?1000 discount on rates for but, with a
:05:51. > :05:53.rateable value of less than ?100,000, 90% of them. There were
:05:54. > :05:57.grounds for new schools, grants for technical education and spending on
:05:58. > :06:01.technology and science. Cue another joke at the expense of Jeremy
:06:02. > :06:06.Corbyn. Now so far down a black hole that even Stephen Hawking has
:06:07. > :06:11.disowned him. He didn't see the joke at all. But the Chancellor was into
:06:12. > :06:14.his stride and feeling upbeat. We embark on this next chapter of our
:06:15. > :06:22.history, confident in our strengths and clear in our determination to
:06:23. > :06:28.build a stronger, fairer, better Britain. I commend this Budget to
:06:29. > :06:31.the house. Jeremy Corbyn had his counterattack ready. This was a
:06:32. > :06:37.Budget of utter complacency about the state of our economy. But
:06:38. > :06:44.complacency about the crisis facing our public services. Complacency
:06:45. > :06:48.about the reality of daily life for millions of people in this country.
:06:49. > :06:53.The Government was failing in its own ambitions. When she took office,
:06:54. > :06:58.the Prime Minister said, if you are one of those families, if you are
:06:59. > :07:02.just managing, I want to address you directly. This Budget does not
:07:03. > :07:06.address them. It fails them! This budget has done nothing to tackle
:07:07. > :07:10.low pay, nothing to solve the state of emergency that persists with so
:07:11. > :07:15.many people, demanding and needing health and social care now. Extra
:07:16. > :07:19.money for Wales and Scotland, meant to cement the case for the union,
:07:20. > :07:24.was never likely to head off nationalist condemnation. It wasn't
:07:25. > :07:30.awful Budget, the Brexit Budget that dare not speak its name, it barely
:07:31. > :07:35.mentioned Brexit, the biggest risk to the UK and Scottish economy. He
:07:36. > :07:39.is wedded to the welfare cuts, and appalling Budget. Taxes are at their
:07:40. > :07:44.highest rates, wages are declining, when you mask the creative
:07:45. > :07:48.accounting, that is the reality of economic policy. A strong backlash
:07:49. > :07:55.for a relatively small-scale Budget. But fierce controversy as normal
:07:56. > :07:56.now, on Britain's long march to! . -- Brexit.
:07:57. > :07:58.For the economy there's little change.
:07:59. > :08:01.It will grow faster than expected for 2017 but then fall back
:08:02. > :08:04.Government borrowing will be lower in the short term -
:08:05. > :08:07.but over the coming five years we'll still borrow over ?100 billion more
:08:08. > :08:13.All that with a huge national debt which is still climbing.
:08:14. > :08:15.Our economics correspondent Andy Verity has been
:08:16. > :08:22.studying the numbers - and he's with me here.
:08:23. > :08:26.The Chancellor's spring budget brought some reasons to be careful,
:08:27. > :08:29.with extra funds for those needing social care, those hit by higher
:08:30. > :08:33.business rates and a little for the NHS. Just like the daffodils at
:08:34. > :08:38.Westminster, it will not last very long.
:08:39. > :08:47.In the autumn, the outlook was gloomy. Convinced that leaving the
:08:48. > :08:49.EU would hit the economy soon, the Office for Budget Responsibility
:08:50. > :08:53.predicted a slowdown. They were wrong. It has brightened up. The
:08:54. > :08:55.Chancellor has a giant overdraft, but he is using less of it than he
:08:56. > :08:56.thought. Back in the autumn, the prediction
:08:57. > :09:01.was for weak growth this year, dropping to 1.4% but picking up
:09:02. > :09:06.again a couple of years from now. Nowthe economy's predicted to grow
:09:07. > :09:08.much faster this year But after that it's
:09:09. > :09:11.expected to slow down - with weaker growth 2-3
:09:12. > :09:22.years from now. The economy has had more momentum
:09:23. > :09:25.coming through 2016 and into the early months of this year than we
:09:26. > :09:29.expected in the autumn. But we haven't changed our view about the
:09:30. > :09:32.total growth that the economy can sustain over the next five years. If
:09:33. > :09:34.you have more good news at the beginning of the forecast, you have
:09:35. > :09:36.slightly weaker growth for the rest. That pattern - faster growth now,
:09:37. > :09:39.but a slowdown later on - is reflected in the amount
:09:40. > :09:41.the Chancellor has to borrow because, like most Chancellors,
:09:42. > :09:43.he spends a lot more In the autumn he thought he'd have
:09:44. > :09:48.to borrow ?68 billion this year. But now he'll only have to borrow
:09:49. > :09:51.?52 billion because the economy's doing better than expected -
:09:52. > :09:54.so he's collecting more in taxes. However, if you look
:09:55. > :09:56.at five years from now, he'll still be borrowing ?17 billion
:09:57. > :09:59.- the same figure And he's had to find some way
:10:00. > :10:07.to raise money so it doesn't Over the whole Parliament,
:10:08. > :10:11.the message today from the Office for Budget Responsibility
:10:12. > :10:15.is the challenge remains. Most of the deterioration
:10:16. > :10:20.in the public finances over the Parliament that they forecast
:10:21. > :10:22.before Christmas stays in place and, mostly as a result of changes
:10:23. > :10:27.associated with Brexit, we still have a really challenging
:10:28. > :10:29.Parliament to come. So here's the taxing question -
:10:30. > :10:31.will those with the biggest If you look at corporations,
:10:32. > :10:37.they're getting a tax cut five years Meanwhile, those receiving
:10:38. > :10:44.dividends, including 600,000 people who own their own companies,
:10:45. > :10:51.will pay an extra ?930 million. And 4 million self-employed people
:10:52. > :10:53.earning more than ?16,000 will pay Philip Hammond says those
:10:54. > :10:56.tax-raising measures But of course, self-employed people
:10:57. > :11:03.asked to pay more in tax The chancellor announced an extra
:11:04. > :11:13.?2 billion for social care, admitting the system
:11:14. > :11:15."is clearly under pressure". The money will be spent in England
:11:16. > :11:18.over the next three years. While the money has been widely
:11:19. > :11:20.welcomed, there's been criticism that it's still not enough money
:11:21. > :11:23.and won't fix a system that's no Our social affairs correspondent
:11:24. > :11:38.Alison Holt reports Four times a day, care workers help
:11:39. > :11:41.76-year-old Avril with such things as washing, dressing and getting to
:11:42. > :11:46.the toilet. The rest of the time, her husband looks after her in their
:11:47. > :11:49.Nottinghamshire home. A stroke left her partly paralysed. This is what
:11:50. > :11:52.the extra ?2 billion announced for social care will help pay for. The
:11:53. > :12:02.couple believe it is something the Chancellor had to do. It's not just
:12:03. > :12:06.me that needs it, it's people that can't do nothing. What would you say
:12:07. > :12:10.to the Chancellor? Get your hand in your pocket. How would he like it if
:12:11. > :12:15.he was sat at home and can't move? And of the money the Chancellor has
:12:16. > :12:19.found, councils will get ?1 billion in the coming financial year, with
:12:20. > :12:22.the rest in the following two years to ease the pressures. Care
:12:23. > :12:29.companies welcome this, but say the money must reach front line staff.
:12:30. > :12:32.Staff need to be paid a salary which represents the work that they
:12:33. > :12:37.undertake in the community, travelling around, visiting people
:12:38. > :12:40.like Mrs Smith, day in, day out, sometimes four times a day, to give
:12:41. > :12:46.them the care that they need. We need to be to support that in terms
:12:47. > :12:49.of a proper living wage. At Nottinghamshire County Council, they
:12:50. > :12:55.started doing their son the moment the budget speech was finished. They
:12:56. > :12:59.say they currently have a funding shortfall of about ?70 million. --
:13:00. > :13:04.doing their sums. They calculate that today's announcement will use
:13:05. > :13:08.those pressures to the tune of ?70 million. The Labour leader of the
:13:09. > :13:11.council had written to the Chancellor warning that the system
:13:12. > :13:15.was at breaking point after years of cuts to local authorities. His
:13:16. > :13:20.welcome today is cautious. We have still got a temporary money in the
:13:21. > :13:23.system, and there still needs to be a longer-term solution because, one
:13:24. > :13:31.thing is for sure, we can't carry on the way that we are, treating this
:13:32. > :13:35.almost as crisis management. And with more younger adults with
:13:36. > :13:39.disabilities needing support, the demand for different types of care
:13:40. > :13:41.is also increasing. The Government has promised there will be a Green
:13:42. > :13:49.paper which looks at the funding of social care for the future.
:13:50. > :13:53.Well, among the most eye catching announcements today,
:13:54. > :13:55.are the changes to National Insurance for almost
:13:56. > :13:58.2.5 million self-employed - and the cut to the tax
:13:59. > :14:01.The number of self-employed people has been rising steadily over recent
:14:02. > :14:04.Reeta Chakrabarti has been talking to families
:14:05. > :14:14.No need to worry about the sums when you are small, that is what your mum
:14:15. > :14:17.is for. Charlotte and Sarah are self-employed, starting separate
:14:18. > :14:21.businesses after having children. Charlotte says the Chancellor's hike
:14:22. > :14:26.for national insurance contribution is for people like her is bad news.
:14:27. > :14:32.I think it is affecting kitchen table businesses, you know, mums
:14:33. > :14:37.starting up after maternity leave. You don't get the same benefits as
:14:38. > :14:42.an employed person, if we are sick, we are working through, there is
:14:43. > :14:45.nobody to take over. The Chancellor says it is fair and bring you to
:14:46. > :14:49.levels that other people have to pay? I guess so, if I was working, I
:14:50. > :14:54.would be paying that level anyway. I can't feel too bad about it. Ruth
:14:55. > :14:59.also started out as self-employed, but she now runs a larger business
:15:00. > :15:03.selling bidding pools, and the national insurance increase will
:15:04. > :15:09.affect her. But it should be offset by cuts in corporation tax. The
:15:10. > :15:15.Chancellor is taxing business people on eight personal level more. But he
:15:16. > :15:20.is sneaking in the corporation tax going down. Overall, the question is
:15:21. > :15:28.where the balance lies. Overall, it sounds like you will be roughly...
:15:29. > :15:30.Where we were, absolutely. Today's reforms to national insurance
:15:31. > :15:34.contributions and previously announced changes means that there
:15:35. > :15:39.are winners and losers. Somebody that are self-employed with average
:15:40. > :15:44.earnings of ?12,700 will be ?70 per year better off in 2019-20. For a
:15:45. > :15:49.self-employed person earning an average of ?17,300, they will be ?20
:15:50. > :15:55.worse off. A self-employed management consultant on an average
:15:56. > :16:01.of over ?51,000 would be ?620 worse off per year. There is not much
:16:02. > :16:06.sympathy down the road in Keighley, as a family business that is three
:16:07. > :16:09.generations old. They are all classed as employees and all taxed
:16:10. > :16:13.as pay as you earn. They say it is quite right, to the Chancellor's
:16:14. > :16:17.changes. At the moment, they are paying a lot less for very similar
:16:18. > :16:22.amounts of cover and help from the Government. They get the same state
:16:23. > :16:25.pension now and they have a lot more flexible at the in their own
:16:26. > :16:29.lifestyle. You think it is right and fair that the Chancellor has done
:16:30. > :16:32.this? Absolutely, it is the way forward. Blue sky over Yorkshire
:16:33. > :16:37.today. As always on budget day, only for some.
:16:38. > :16:39.Other measures from today's Budget - there were no new announcements
:16:40. > :16:42.for tobacco but increases announced previously mean that from tonight,
:16:43. > :16:49.the price of a packet of cigarettes will go up by 35p.
:16:50. > :16:52.And from Monday, a pint of beer will go up by 2p,
:16:53. > :16:55.a bottle of whisky by 36p and a bottle of wine by 10p.
:16:56. > :16:58.There will be ?100 million to fund more GPs in accident and emergency
:16:59. > :17:06.And there will be ?270 million for science and innovation,
:17:07. > :17:11.which includes research into robots and driverless cars.
:17:12. > :17:13.There will be ?90 million for transport in the north
:17:14. > :17:15.of England and ?23 million for the Midlands, to ease
:17:16. > :17:19.And the Scottish Government will be ?350 million better off ,
:17:20. > :17:21.there will be ?200 million for the Welsh Government
:17:22. > :17:31.and ?120 million for the Northern Ireland Executive.
:17:32. > :17:34.Let's take a moment to look at the Budget overall
:17:35. > :17:35.with our political editor Laura Kuenssberg, who's
:17:36. > :17:39.This was a very cautious budget with no showy giveaways -
:17:40. > :17:43.a reflection of the Prime Minister's vision as much as the Chancellor's.
:17:44. > :17:49.I think very much a reflection of the Chancellor's style. Philip
:17:50. > :17:53.Hammond has been a senior Cabinet minister for a long time but this
:17:54. > :17:57.was his first budget. That is a red letter day in number 11. He was
:17:58. > :18:03.relaxed and confident enough to be cracking jokes practically all the
:18:04. > :18:10.way through. But the overall picture is not necessarily happy. Slightly
:18:11. > :18:18.better. More cuts to come and tough times ahead for families. Millions
:18:19. > :18:26.of voters feeling it is pretty tough to make ends meet. Politically,
:18:27. > :18:29.there is a row brewing. We heard about the rises in national
:18:30. > :18:34.insurance payments for some people who are self-employed. That is
:18:35. > :18:39.damaging, potentially, not just because the people affected, it
:18:40. > :18:45.might not be too much money but they might not be pleased about paying
:18:46. > :18:48.more attacks, but also in the Tory manifesto in 2015 the Conservatives
:18:49. > :18:53.made a clear promise not to raise national insurance contributions.
:18:54. > :18:57.The dispute, on a technicality, exactly whether they've broken a
:18:58. > :19:01.promise, but Tory backbenchers are worried about this not just because
:19:02. > :19:06.of the image of breaking a promise but also there are fears that it
:19:07. > :19:12.goes after the Tory tribe, so for a budget that was supposed to be
:19:13. > :19:16.safety first, I don't think the government is going to escape
:19:17. > :19:22.unscathed. It is far too early to say that this budget is going to
:19:23. > :19:24.unravel in the way that some dramatically have.
:19:25. > :19:27.More on the budget later in the programme -
:19:28. > :19:33.All the details of the Chancellors' announcements are there -
:19:34. > :19:35.with updates and analysis from our editors and
:19:36. > :19:47.The Chancellor's Budget - he hits 2.5 million
:19:48. > :19:50.self-employed with higher national insurance contributions.
:19:51. > :19:53.An extra ?2 billion is found for social care in England to be
:19:54. > :20:01.Jose Mourinho says the Rostov pitch isn't
:20:02. > :20:05.good enough to play on, but UEFA says Manchester United's
:20:06. > :20:18.Europa League tie will go ahead as scheduled tomorrow.
:20:19. > :20:21.Are you being spied on as you're watching the news tonight?
:20:22. > :20:23.Is your television hacked into - so that the intelligence agencies
:20:24. > :20:27.That's the extraordinary suggestion in documents -
:20:28. > :20:28.apparently from the CIA - released last night
:20:29. > :20:33.Today the companies which make the devices say they're urgently
:20:34. > :20:41.Here's our Security Correspondent Gordon Corera.
:20:42. > :20:53.If you've got an internet connected TV, that might be possible.
:20:54. > :20:55.Secret documents show how the CIA have turned TVs
:20:56. > :20:57.into bugging devices, giving the capability a codename,
:20:58. > :21:01.Weeping Angel, named it seems after characters
:21:02. > :21:10.A team of security researchers showed me how they've replicated
:21:11. > :21:14.So how is it possible to turn a TV like this into a bugging device?
:21:15. > :21:16.Modern TVs are basically powerful computers.
:21:17. > :21:17.They've got lots of processes on there.
:21:18. > :21:19.But most importantly they have microphones and interanet access.
:21:20. > :21:22.So we have written an application here, the screen is almost blank,
:21:23. > :21:24.it listens to everything we are saying.
:21:25. > :21:30.Once the app's installed, it makes it look like your TV is off
:21:31. > :21:36.We have infected it with malware and now we have a microphone here
:21:37. > :21:48.It is possible that your TV is being used as a spy, as a Big Brother
:21:49. > :21:55.The leaked documents show the CIA worked with Britain's MI5
:21:56. > :22:07.to develop this capability, to target specific individuals.
:22:08. > :22:09.MI5 will not comment but surveillance is a key tool
:22:10. > :22:13.Bugging buildings and cars is something it has
:22:14. > :22:16.The latest digital technology simply offers new ways to do that.
:22:17. > :22:24.For the CIA the leak of hundreds of pages of documents
:22:25. > :22:26.Highlighting its failure to keep its own secrets.
:22:27. > :22:29.And a former head of the agency told the BBC the leak
:22:30. > :22:33.This seems to be an incredibly damaging leak in terms
:22:34. > :22:34.of the tactics, techniques, procedures and tools
:22:35. > :22:37.that we were used by the Central Intelligence agency
:22:38. > :22:41.to conduct legitimate foreign intelligence.
:22:42. > :22:44.In other words it has made my country and my
:22:45. > :22:48.The latest technology has turned on new ways to monitor people.
:22:49. > :22:51.But the debate over what that means for all our privacy is not one
:22:52. > :23:06.More than 30 people have been killed, and dozens wounded,
:23:07. > :23:09.in an attack by Islamic State militants, at a hospital in the
:23:10. > :23:12.Local officials say the three gunmen were dressed as doctors.
:23:13. > :23:19.The security forces killed them after several hours of fighting.
:23:20. > :23:23.Two people - a man and a woman - have died and a second woman has
:23:24. > :23:25.been critically injured after a stabbing at
:23:26. > :23:29.West Midlands Police used stun grenades to break into the flat.
:23:30. > :23:32.Another woman, believed to be the mother, is in hospital.
:23:33. > :23:35.A senior executive at Toyota has suggested the Japanese carmaker may
:23:36. > :23:38.delay deciding whether to build the next Auris model in the UK.
:23:39. > :23:40.He said the decision would be made when more is known
:23:41. > :23:42.about the outcome of Britain's negotiations to leave
:23:43. > :23:45.Toyota currently builds the Auris hatchback at its Burnaston
:23:46. > :23:53.What happened to 23 year old Corrie McKeague?
:23:54. > :23:56.He was working as an RAF airman when he simply
:23:57. > :23:59.vanished during a night out in Bury St Edmunds last September.
:24:00. > :24:02.Now new evidence has come to light linking the signals from his mobile
:24:03. > :24:05.phone to a bin lorry - and the police say they are now
:24:06. > :24:07.confident his body will be found in a local landfill.
:24:08. > :24:15.Our Correspondent Ben Ando sent this report.
:24:16. > :24:26.It's a dirty job but could provide the answers to a mystery that has
:24:27. > :24:32.baffled police for months. The search is focused on this landfill
:24:33. > :24:37.site. He was serving at RAF Waddington. He went on a night with
:24:38. > :24:45.friends in Bury St Edmunds and said he would walk home. He never made
:24:46. > :24:51.it. Corrie was last seen entering a service area at 3am behind some
:24:52. > :24:56.bins. Bin lorry called and then travelled, where his phone pinged.
:24:57. > :25:04.It ended the journey at the landfill site. The please know that they will
:25:05. > :25:07.be criticised for not starting this sooner they said originally they
:25:08. > :25:14.were told the bin lorry was only carrying waste of 11 kilograms. When
:25:15. > :25:22.they learned it was nearer 100 kilograms, that changed everything.
:25:23. > :25:25.That was a sobering moment. We've been committed to this investigation
:25:26. > :25:33.for nearly six months. And the investigating officer. I cannot
:25:34. > :25:36.imagine what it feels like. His family admit they've been frustrated
:25:37. > :25:42.by the investigation but all that matters is finding him. It is not
:25:43. > :25:59.the agony of not knowing. You can still believe that they are alive.
:26:00. > :26:00.We just got to find him first. As the search continues, so does the
:26:01. > :26:05.waiting. More now on our main news:
:26:06. > :26:07.the Budget announced Philip Hammond said
:26:08. > :26:10.there would be more money for social care in England -
:26:11. > :26:13.and he announced increases to National Insurance
:26:14. > :26:14.contributions for millions Our Economics Editor Kamal Ahmed has
:26:15. > :26:18.been tracking every detail - and he's with me here -
:26:19. > :26:30.what's the big message There are a couple of big things to
:26:31. > :26:36.think about as we look back on today's event. Firstly, economic
:26:37. > :26:41.growth is better, but that is short-term. This was actually a very
:26:42. > :26:47.small budget. 28 measures compared to 77 this time last year. Let's
:26:48. > :26:55.expect a lot more for the Autumn budget. It raised two huge issues.
:26:56. > :26:59.This issue about the taxing of work. The world of work as more people are
:27:00. > :27:05.self-employed. Digital companies operate in different ways. I think
:27:06. > :27:10.the setup as well as the chains today on that issue will be a huge
:27:11. > :27:17.debating point over the next few years of this government. The second
:27:18. > :27:23.big issue was social care. The tax increases are almost equal to the
:27:24. > :27:29.amount of new money to be spent. The Treasury knows it is a temporary
:27:30. > :27:38.fix. There will need to be a huge debate about how we pay for an
:27:39. > :27:46.ageing population. Two things announced on how we tax ourselves.
:27:47. > :27:57.Those big issues will come back to us when we talk about this and we
:27:58. > :28:04.have more substantial things to say. Let's take a look at the weather.
:28:05. > :28:11.Sunshine across England and Northern Ireland with temperatures heading up
:28:12. > :28:19.to 13 Celsius. We've been topped and tailed by cloud and it has produced
:28:20. > :28:24.showers. Strong Gale force winds may clip the north of Northern Ireland.
:28:25. > :28:32.We see outbreaks of light rain for southern England and Wales. Still
:28:33. > :28:37.around, during the first part of the day, tomorrow, those showers are
:28:38. > :28:47.confined to the far north. You see the extent of the fine weather. You
:28:48. > :28:52.can see this risk of patchy light rain. We could see 16 Celsius in
:28:53. > :28:56.parts of England. Wherever you are it will feel very pleasant indeed
:28:57. > :29:06.with temperatures getting into double figures. For Scotland, good
:29:07. > :29:12.sunshine. I have to say, it will turn chilly down the east of the UK
:29:13. > :29:18.whereas in the West we have thicker cloud. Heavier for a time in order
:29:19. > :29:30.Northern Ireland. Even though Friday is mild, it will look good. For the
:29:31. > :29:37.weekend, it will be changeable. There will be sunshine and bands of
:29:38. > :29:46.wet weather. Not a wash-out but by Sunday it will turn called. Back to
:29:47. > :29:48.you. That