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General election 2024 live: Cleverly quizzed on Conservative Party's national service plan - BBC News General election 2024 live: Cleverly quizzed on Conservative Party's national service plan - BBC News
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We're about midway through the day, and so it's worth revisiting our questions from earlier that we were going to try and answer about the national service plan. Dharshini David
The Tories haven't set out how it will work. Instead, they say they will establish a public inquiry tasked with coming up with the details of how the scheme would function. Chief economics correspondent
Here's a summary of some of the finer points we do already know: The shadow chancellor has laid out pledges of spending injections
The number of military placements under the scheme would be 30,000. At any given time, there are roughly three quarters of a million over-18s in the UK for some services and tax changes. But how soon might a budget happen if
The number of volunteering days needed to complete national service requirements will be 25 over the course of a year Labour won?
The military placements will be "selective" and reserved for "brightest and best" During her appearance on Laura Kuenssberg's programme, Rachel Reeves repeated that there’d be a “fiscal lock”.
They will cover logistics, cyber security, procurement and civil response This means any
operations significant and permanent tax and spending changes would require a full
While the Tories say a pilot for the scheme would be in place by 2025, the full programme could take four or five years after the election to enact accompanying forecast from the independent Office for Budget
Responsibility, the OBR.
For that, normally, the OBR needs ten weeks notice.
And it is not allowed
to scrutinise the plans of a party while it’s in opposition.
So even if the OBR
started an initial broader evaluation of the economy now, it would still likely
need many weeks after the election to comprehensively incorporate and
evaluate those policies, if Labour is to follow through on its commitment for a
full process.
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