“The Authorities that I’ve had the privilege to steer has targeted relentlessly on supply. This assertion updates the Home on what we now have achieved since I used to be invited by Her Majesty The Queen to kind a authorities in July 2019, and places on document why the hundreds of thousands of people that voted Conservative in 2019, many for the primary time, have been proper to put their belief in me and on this Conservative Authorities.
First, after the nation had endured three years of indecision and uncertainty with a deadlocked Parliament and a paralysed authorities, we bought Brexit executed. We delivered on the choice the folks of the UK made in 2016, and took our nation out of the European Union, negotiating a brand new Commerce and Cooperation Settlement that preserves zero tariff, zero quota commerce. Since our exit, we now have been seizing the alternatives that include this new freedom. Now we have signed three main new commerce offers with Australia, New Zealand and Singapore, supporting meals, drink and manufacturing exports in addition to digital commerce, and taking our complete variety of FTAs to over 70, with negotiations underway on many extra. Now we have chosen eight places for freeports, with two already operational and the others approaching stream later this yr. Now we have handed the Agriculture Act and the Fisheries Act, reforming what have been wasteful and bureaucratic European schemes to the advantage of our farming and fishing communities and the atmosphere. Now we have put in place a points-based immigration system that provides the folks of this nation management over our personal borders. It’s as a result of we now have this management that we now have been in a position to react swiftly and generously to occasions in Afghanistan, Hong Kong and Ukraine, and strike the Migration and Financial Growth Partnership with Rwanda in response to the shared worldwide problem of unlawful migration, breaking the enterprise mannequin of individuals smuggling gangs.
Second, due to the fortitude and spirit of the British public, we guided the nation by way of its biggest problem for the reason that Second World Struggle. A pandemic is the form of disaster that no administration needs to face, however which it’s the Authorities’s solemn obligation to deal with. We supported the NHS and the unimaginable medical doctors, nurses and carers who acted so valiantly to deal with and look after the unwell, and to whom I owe my very own life. We constructed an enormous testing regime, distributing greater than two billion lateral movement assessments throughout the UK, and on the peak delivering greater than seven million assessments to households each 24 hours. We invested in antivirals, including extra highly effective new medication to our armoury than any of our neighbours. Within the face of predictions of 12 per cent unemployment, we deployed the furlough scheme, which supported the roles of 11.7 million folks by way of lockdown. Most significantly, we guess early and guess large on vaccines earlier than success was assured, turning into the primary nation on the earth to manage one exterior of medical trials and the quickest in Europe to roll them out at scale – over 70 per cent of the complete UK inhabitants aged 12 or above acquired at the very least one dose inside the first six months, and the overall variety of jabs now stands at over 150 million. Thanks to those efforts, we have been in a position to emerge from lockdown early and set out our plan for dwelling with COVID, getting our lives again on monitor.
Third, once I turned Prime Minister I stood on the steps of Downing Road and mentioned it was my job to degree up the nation, as a result of whereas potential is evenly distributed all through the inhabitants, alternative shouldn’t be. This meant bringing down crime, strengthening our well being system, checking out social care and enhancing our faculties – and the Authorities acted on each entrance.
Our streets are safer. Now we have recruited greater than 13,500 extra cops, over midway to delivering our pledge to place an additional 20,000 officers on the streets by 2023. Now we have taken over 50,000 knives and offensive weapons off the streets, and introduced knife crime and thefts down final yr in comparison with 2019. Now we have backed the police with the help they want, offering the biggest funding enhance in a decade, and equipping them with new powers to deal with disruptive protests and use cease and search. Now we have rolled up over 1,500 county strains, going for the gangs that peddled them and defending the younger folks exploited by them. Now we have modified the regulation to ensure critical violent and sexual criminals spend extra time behind bars.
Our NHS is on a surer footing. Now we have extra medical doctors and round 30,000 extra nurses than in March 2019, properly over midway to assembly our dedication of fifty,000 extra nurses by 2024. Now we have recruited one other 18,000 main care employees, corresponding to physiotherapists and pharmacists, placing us on monitor to succeed in 26,000 by 2024. Now we have launched the most important catchup programme within the NHS’s historical past to deal with the legacy of the pandemic, aiming to ship round 30 per cent extra elective exercise by 2024-25 than earlier than the pandemic hit, underpinned by a £39 billion funding. Now we have opened nearly 100 Neighborhood Diagnostic Centres, serving to hundreds of thousands of sufferers to entry earlier diagnostic assessments nearer to dwelling. Now we have begun the most important hospital-building programme for a technology. Now we have printed England’s first girls’s well being technique to enhance the well being and well-being of ladies and ladies, and widened entry to life saving medication.
Our damaged social care system is lastly being fastened. Now we have ended the merciless lottery of social care prices with a plan which means nobody can pay greater than £86,000 over their lifetime, when beforehand many needed to pay six determine sums. Now we have lifted the earlier restrict for monetary help by greater than 400 per cent, in order that anybody with belongings of underneath £100,000 might be eligible for assist, and people with underneath £20,000 can pay nothing in any respect. Now we have designed a approach to make the general system fairer, in order that those that fund themselves don’t pay greater than state-funded people for the equal normal of care. Now we have dedicated to offering our sensible social care workforce with new coaching and qualification alternatives, in order that they’ll progress and enhance whereas offering a fair higher normal of care.
Our faculties are higher. Now we have supported youngsters to get well from the influence of the pandemic with over two million tutoring programs and a programme to succeed in six million by 2024. Now we have supported lecturers too, with over 80,000 benefitting from extra coaching and help, whereas bringing beginning salaries as much as £30,000, attracting extra vibrant and ready graduates to encourage the following technology. Now we have injected the most important funding enhance in a decade, taking core funding to £56.8 billion by 2024-25. Now we have pushed up faculty requirements, with 87 per cent of colleges now rated Good or Excellent, up from 68 per cent in 2010. Now we have set an ambition for 90 per cent of kids to depart main faculty on the anticipated normal in studying, writing and maths by 2030.
Fourth, despite the challenges posed by COVID and the next headwinds within the world economic system, we secured the quickest financial development within the G7 final yr. Now we have helped folks into jobs by partnering with employers, together with 500,000 since January this yr by way of the Solution to Work programme, and we now have the bottom unemployment charge in nearly 50 years. Now we have targeted on getting younger folks into work, an space the place versus different OECD nations we all know we are able to do higher, with 163,000 supported by the Kickstart Scheme to start out their profession and achieve very important work expertise. Now we have redressed Britain’s historic underinvestment in infrastructure, creating a five-year, £600 billion pipeline of infrastructure tasks to enhance connectivity and drive financial development, together with a £96 billion funding by way of the Built-in Rail Plan – constructing three new high-speed strains in Northern Powerhouse Rail, HS2 East and HS2 West, and reopening strains to industrial and nation cities lower off underneath Beeching. Now we have dedicated £5 billion to spice up buses and biking and an additional £5.7 billion to degree up native transport programs within the mayoral mixed authority areas. Now we have accelerated the deployment of wind, new nuclear, photo voltaic and hydrogen energy technology, with the Ten Level Plan for a Inexperienced Industrial Revolution and our broader internet zero agenda already yielding £22 billion in non-public sector funding and 68,000 clear jobs – and an ambition to unlock £100 billion of funding and 480,000 such jobs by the top of the last decade. Now we have continued to help the manufacturing of home oil and fuel within the nearer time period, which should underpin our transition to cleaner and cheaper energy, working to retain the abilities and trade in Aberdeen and elsewhere by placing almost £2 billion into applied sciences corresponding to carbon seize, utilization and storage. Now we have raised the proportion of properties in a position to entry the quickest gigabit-capable broadband from 9 per cent when my administration took workplace to 68 per cent now. Now we have set an formidable 2030 date for ending gross sales of latest petrol and diesel automobiles, with over half of all new automobiles offered now electrical or hybrid, and we now have bolstered our strategic highway community by way of a £27.4 billion Highway Funding Technique that features constructing the primary new trans-Pennine twin carriageway since 1971.
Now we have awarded 101 Cities Offers throughout the nation to deal with excessive ranges of deprivation and open up new alternatives by fostering financial regeneration, stimulating funding and delivering very important infrastructure. Now we have made it simpler to personal a house, with over 400,000 first time patrons final yr marking the best quantity since 2006, and housebuilding rebounding strongly after the challenges posed by the beginning of the pandemic. Now we have set out plans for renters reform that can present renting households extra safety similtaneously supporting landlords. Now we have cemented the UK’s standing as a science superpower, recognising that the flexibility to advance and exploit science and expertise might be an more and more necessary aggressive edge over the approaching decade, rising analysis and growth spending by 33 per cent over this Parliament, the quickest ever charge. Now we have attracted extra enterprise capital funding in tech startups this yr than any nation bar the US, placing us forward of China, Japan and Germany. We’re levelling up abilities, as a result of stronger abilities result in higher, larger paid jobs – with over 20,000 folks already benefiting from Abilities Bootcamps, and 175 schools on account of supply T-Ranges from this September. Now we have introduced a Lifelong Mortgage Entitlement in order that from 2025 everybody can entry funding to help as much as 4 years of post-18 examine, be that modular or full time – serving to folks achieve abilities at any stage of their life. Now we have elevated the Nationwide Dwelling Wage by the biggest ever money quantity, and diminished the Common Credit score taper charge to ensure work pays.
Fifth, embracing the liberty we now need to chart our personal course, we led on the worldwide stage. We used our G7 Presidency to launch the $600 billion Partnership for World Infrastructure and Funding – closing the infrastructure hole in creating nations whereas enhancing our financial and nationwide safety – and to agree a minimal company tax charge to crack down on avoidance. Now we have pushed motion on local weather change, marshalling almost 200 nations at COP26 to treble world internet zero agreements in order that they now cowl 90 per cent of the world economic system, committing to succeed in internet zero within the UK by 2050, and driving down emissions on the quickest charge within the G7. Now we have stepped up the place our assist was wanted, be it in evacuating over 15,000 folks from Afghanistan in simply 16 days by way of Operation Pitting, providing a path to the UK for holders of British Nationwide (Abroad) passports and their members of the family in Hong Kong, standing up the Houses for Ukraine scheme, or offering £548 million to COVAX to get 1.3 billion vaccine doses into 87 creating nations.
Throughout these 5 fronts – Brexit, COVID, public companies, the economic system, and the world stage – this Authorities has delivered. As we put together for a change in administration, there are two additional fronts on which we’re already taking decisive motion, and on which the dedication of the following Conservative Prime Minister is not going to waver.
At dwelling, we’re standing by the aspect of the British public as we address pressures on the price of dwelling – simply as we did within the darkest hours of the COVID disaster. Now we have set out a £37 billion bundle which is able to see probably the most susceptible eight million households get help value £1,200. Qualifying low earnings households will get £650, with the primary half being paid into financial institution accounts this month, and the rest following within the autumn. Each family within the nation will get £400 in the direction of their vitality prices. Most will get a £150 council tax rebate. Pensioners in receipt of winter gasoline funds will get a separate cost of £300, and disabled folks an additional £150. Each I, and my successor, will proceed to focus help on those that want it probably the most.
Overseas, we’re standing up for Ukraine – as we all the time have when our elementary values are threatened. Now we have introduced the G7 and NATO collectively in help of the Ukrainian folks in order that the free West speaks with one voice and brings its collective would possibly to bear. Now we have supplied vital quantities of deadly support, together with 2,000 anti-tank missiles in January earlier than the invasion began. Now we have dedicated army, humanitarian and financial help totalling almost £4 billion, greater than every other nation other than the US. Now we have donated over 11 million medical objects, 856 cellular mills and 20 NHS ambulances, and despatched the biggest hearth deployment to ever go away the UK. Now we have acted decisively with our allies to sanction over 1,000 people and 100 entities, freeze the belongings of banks, and isolate Russia from worldwide commerce. Now we have launched the quickest and largest visa scheme in our historical past to welcome Ukrainians who want to discover security elsewhere, with over 95,000 arriving within the UK up to now. Now we have stepped up our NATO commitments to strengthen the alliance, greater than doubling our presence in Estonia, offering the SkySabre air defence system to Poland, and delivering enhanced air policing missions. For so long as it takes, the UK will proceed to again Ukraine’s combat for freedom.
Lastly, in every part this Authorities has executed, we now have striven to ship for the entire of our United Kingdom – for England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Eire. From the vaccination programme, the place we have been ready to make sure everybody throughout our islands may benefit from swift entry to jabs, to the furlough scheme, which relied on the monetary firepower of the UK Treasury, to our Levelling Up Fund, supporting city centre and excessive road regeneration, native transport tasks, and cultural and heritage belongings throughout the UK, the advantages of our nice union have by no means been extra evident.
I’m happy with our document in workplace since 2019. I stay decided that we proceed to ship in our remaining weeks. And I do know that the Conservative Authorities that follows after us will do what its predecessors have all the time executed and meet the challenges of the day by serving the British folks.”
