Former housing minister Mark Prisk and EG’s Piers Wehner unpick the Autumn Statement
From planning to FDI to investment zones, what has the chancellor laid out?
The 6.7% rise for larger businesses will be a “massive hit to the high street”
Autumn Statement promises “a prompt service or your money back”
The £9bn-a-year tax break will be made permanent, while planning rules may be streamlined
The PM has laid out the ground he wants to fight the election on
The chancellor is also looking at cuts to inheritance tax and stamp duty
NIESR says UK needs £15bn of public investment a year to escape another “decade in the doldrums”
Planning reform, freezing business rates and clarity on net zero top the agenda
COMMENT A squeeze on local authority spending is a squeeze on growth, argues Landsec’s Mark Allan
Investment zones are dead. Long live investment zones!
Revaluation and a £13.6bn package of support, but fundamental reform is still needed