Autumn Financial Statement Round Up

Here are the links to all our autumn financial statement stories.

In the elegant language used in the Upper Chamber the Liberal Democrats economics spokesperson Baroness Susan Kramer responds to the Chancellor's Autumn Statement http://www.libdemvoice.org/susan-kramer-responds-to-the-autumn-statement-in-the-lords-48416.html .

Whilst the Lords have stopped an immediate cut in the payment of tax credits to working people these cuts will still take place as Universal Credit is rolled out - for an expert analysis see the Institute for Fiscal Studies' report here http://www.ifs.org.uk/publications/8074 .

Government plans are likely to leave local authorities' social services departments desperately short of the money they need to provide care for the vulnerable older people see http://rugby.lib.dm/a210Sn .

On Housing there is some good news for young people who can afford a quarter of a million pounds for a "starter" home - see http://rugby.lib.dm/a610QQ and http://rugby.lib.dm/a710RK . However a recent speech by Tim Farron http://rugby.lib.dm/a310vS and an article by Polly Toynbee http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/nov/10/housing-target-david-cameron-dismantling-welfare-state?CMP=share_btn_fb show how difficult matters are for the one third or so of our citizens who are unlikely to ever be able to buy their own homes.

Lots of changes to government policy are reversing climate change initiatives brought in by the coalition government including funding changes announced in the Autumn Statement - see http://rugby.lib.dm/a510RK .

Nurses will now have to pay for their own training - see http://rugby.lib.dm/a210QQ .

And local authorities will no longer have a role in running our schools - see http://rugby.lib.dm/a410QQ.