Spending Review 2025 speech as delivered by Chancellor Rachel Reeves

Chancellor backs Midlands Rail Hub in latest spending review

THE MIDLANDS Rail Hub is a step closer to reality after receiving confirmation of financial backing in the Chancellor’s recent spending review. Chancellor Rachel Reeves, delivering her Comprehensive Spending Review, announced she is funding the rail upgrade. Speaking at the dispatch box this week, Rachel Reeves said: “I am providing funding for the Midlands Rail Hub, the region’s biggest and most ambitious rail improvement scheme for generations…

Spending Review 2025 speech as delivered by Chancellor Rachel Reeves

My driving purpose since I became Chancellor is to make working people, in all parts of our country, better off. To rebuild our schools and our hospitals ...to invest in our economy so that everyone has the opportunity to succeed, …culminating in a £22bn black hole in the public finances.