Labour has committed to ‘no return to austerity’

Real change in day-to-day spending, 2009-10 to 2023-24

-50

-25

0%

25

50

Home Office

Health & social care

Treasury/Revenue & Customs

Transport

Education

Environment & food*

Defence

Justice

Law officers’ departments

Foreign & development**

Work & pensions

Housing & communities

Source: IFS Green Budget 2024. Note: *Including rural

affairs. **Including commonwealth

-50

-25

0%

25

50

Home Office

Health & social care

Treasury/Revenue and Customs

Transport

Education

Environment, food & rural affairs

Defence

Justice

Law officers’ departments

Foreign, commonwealth & development

Work & pensions

Housing & communities

Source: IFS Green Budget 2024