Healey pledges fiscal discipline, £150m northern fund in first major speech
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Chancellor John Healey, in his first major speech on Monday, pledged “strict fiscal discipline” and unveiled a £150 million fund to back start-ups and university spin-outs in Liverpool, Manchester, Leeds, Sheffield and Newcastle. He promised to cut 25% of regulatory burden by the end of the Parliament and tackle the “culture of consultations” and litigation that blocks infrastructure projects. Healey declined to rule out tax rises in the Budget due in late October, saying growth would provide the “pathway out of indebtedness and into prosperity.” The SNP criticised the fund as “all for England,” noting it excludes Scottish firms.
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City AM (outlet profile)
Healey launches £150m northern scale-up fund. Chancellor John Healey is to pile £150m into start-ups in the North of England as part of the government’s bid to use devolution to drive economic growth.  Healey will…
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Belfast Telegraph (outlet profile)
John Healey unveils £150m fund for northern firms in push for growth
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Evening Standard (outlet profile)
John Healey unveils £150m fund for northern firms in push for growth. The Chancellor will set out how an ‘active state’ will seek to boost investment across Britain.
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Bloomberg (outlet profile)
Healey to Pitch UK Regional Growth Paired With Fiscal Discipline. John Healey plans to put regional growth at the heart of his economic vision, while vowing fiscal discipline, in his first major speech as chancellor of…
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The Independent (outlet profile)
John Healey unveils £150m fund for northern firms in push for growth. The Chancellor will set out how an ‘active state’ will seek to boost investment across Britain.
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The Mirror (outlet profile)
John Healey vows 'next chapter of Britain's growth story' with new £150million fund for North. John Healey has vowed the 'next chapter of Britain’s growth story will be written in more places across the country' as he l…
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Malay Mail (outlet profile)
UK finance minister Healey to pitch ‘optimistic’ economic plan ahead of Burnham’s first Budget. LONDON, Sept 7 — Britain’s finance minister John Healey today will lay out his economic agenda ahead of fled...
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The Independent (outlet profile)
Chancellor John Healey to announce new £150m fund for firms in major speech
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Guido Fawkes (outlet profile)
LIVE: John Healey Delivers ‘Major’ Economic Speech
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Belfast Telegraph (outlet profile)
Healey vows to control public spending and help UK economy deliver on potential
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The Independent (outlet profile)
Healey vows to control public spending and help UK economy deliver on potential. John Healey said the Budget next month will demonstrate a commitment to fiscal discipline.
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Evening Standard (outlet profile)
Healey vows to control public spending and help UK economy deliver on potential. John Healey said the Budget next month will demonstrate a commitment to fiscal discipline.
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The Independent (outlet profile)
Five things we learned from John Healey’s first major speech as chancellor. Chancellor John Healey has given his first major speech since taking on the role – here’s what he said
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Daily Mail (outlet profile)
New Chancellor, same empty hopes for growth: Healey echoes Reeves as he desperately tries to calm market jitters by insisting Labour can control Britain's debt. In an address that had echoes of his predecessor Rachel Re…
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Guido Fawkes (outlet profile)
Healey Repeatedly Refuses to Rule Out Tax Rises at Budget. Healey, like Burnham, is refusing to rule out further tax rises at the Budget. For all the talk of growth and deregulation at his snooze-a-thon speech this morn…
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City AM (outlet profile)
Healey bats away tax questions as growth is ‘pathway out of debt’. Chancellor John Healey said he will “not speculate” on expected tax rises at his maiden Budget next month as he said growth was at the “heart of fiscal…
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iNews (outlet profile)
What the Chancellor isn’t telling you about tax rises. John Healey took a Beach Boys approach to his first keynote speech: it was all Good Vibrations
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The Mirror (outlet profile)
John Healey pledges to be 'honest' about public spending in first speech ahead of Budget. John Healey refused to be drawn on what taxes might rise or mounting calls for the government to consider scrapping the state pen…
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The National (Scotland) (outlet profile)
SNP in 'Chancellor of England' jibe as John Healey pledges £150m for English firms. ANDY Burnham’s UK Government is “all for England”, the SNP have said after the Chancellor announced a £150 million fund for firms south…
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City AM (outlet profile)
Can John Healey deliver the growth the UK needs?. The Chancellor John Healey says growth will provide the “pathway out of indebtedness and into prosperity”. But the path is a difficult one to tread, write Ma…
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The Independent (outlet profile)
Bulletin PM briefing: What we learned from Healey’s speech and who is behind Portsmouth protests?. Here are five of today’s biggest stories – in case you missed them
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Morning Star (outlet profile)
Chancellor John Healey backs growth but says Labour must ‘be honest’ on spending. CHANCELLOR John Healey was warned against pinning hopes for economic growth on deregulation following his first major speech since taking…
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Bloomberg (outlet profile)
Healey Looks Beyond the Bond Markets to a Britain of Abundance. John Healey wants “to gets things done,” Britain’s new finance minister said in his first major speech on Monday. The problem is that the country’s fiscal…
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Le Figaro (outlet profile)
«Je vais tailler à la hache» : au Royaume-Uni, le chancelier de l’Échiquier promet une «stricte discipline budgétaire». Pour rassurer les marchés, John Healey s’est engagé à maîtriser les dépenses publiques mais a refus…
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CNN Brasil (outlet profile)
Ministro reafirma compromisso fiscal e otimismo com economia britânica. Em seu primeiro discurso, John Healey prometeu cortar 25% do peso regulatório até o fim do Parlamento e sinalizou ofensiva contra a "cultura de con…
Factual core
- John Healey delivered a speech as part of the government's growth agenda.
- The £150 million fund is intended to support businesses in northern England.
- The deteriorating fiscal position leaves Healey with few major tax and spending levers.