Economic Growth

Part of Treasury – in the House of Commons at on 21 January 2025.

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Photo of Rachel Reeves Rachel Reeves The Chancellor of the Exchequer

I recognise the strength of feeling about this issue. We were left a terrible situation by the previous Government, with a £22 billion black hole in the public finances and the promise of things for which absolutely no money had been put aside. We have now done the responsible thing by reviewing the programmes that we inherited from the previous Government. That means that the timetable for some projects has had to be pushed back, but it is because the previous Government made promises knowing that the cheque would bounce.