UK Spent More than £1 Trillion More on Welfare than Infrastructure in Past 20 Years

UK spent more than £1 trillion more on welfare than infrastructure in past 20 years

The report comes as Chancellor John Healey faces pressure to reduce welfare spending at his Budget later this month

UK spent £1.1 trillion more on benefits than transport, homes and technology

The Centre for Social Justice said welfare had acted as an ‘anaesthetic that has kept areas of the country numbed during two decades of economic failure’

'Anaesthetic' of welfare spending dwarfed capital investment by £1.1 trillion

Spending on benefits for working-age people dwarfed investment in key infrastructure such as schools and trains by £1.1 trillion between 2006 and 2025, new research has found.  The Centre for Social Justice said that spending on disability support and other forms of welfare racked up to £1.1 trillion more than capital expenditure in the same [...]