All Facts Flashcards
Welfare spending reductions
2010-2017 - £30bn reduction to welfare payments, social services, and housing subsidies
Local authority cuts
2010-2015/16 = 27% reduction in real terms of spending
Defecit in 2012
10% of GDP
Defecit in 2017
3% of GDP
Cuts to bus services
reduced by over 50% since 2010
Homelessness
Homelessness doubled between 2010 and 2017
Food bank usage
over half a million people using food banks
How has social care spending in real terms changed in the most deprived areas (bottom 20%)
reduced by 14%
How has social care spending in real terms changed in the least deprived areas (top 20%)
fallen 8% in real terms
What are local councils saying according to a survey by the New Local Government Network
70% said that local governments would not be able to provide non-statutory services by 2023
how many people use libraries
half of people in each jurisdiction
how many people are frequent users
50% of people who use libraries say they are frequent users
how many people think libraries are important to the community
75%
library source?
Carnegie Trust
how many library jobs were lost?
8,000
how many libraries have shut since 2010?
over 473
How many single parents are there in the UK?
1.7 million
How many people are in precarious work?
7 million
Evidence that support for welfare has decreased.
BSA
- level of agreement for spending more on welfare benefits for the poor fell from 61% in 1989 to 30% in 2014
How many families who receive welfare are working poor?
50% - JRF
Stat showing large media usage.
Over 80% of adults in the UK watch the news everyday (Jigsaw research)
Citizen estimate for % of fraudulent benefit payments?
25%
Evidence that working is better than benefits.
66% more in work than on benefits average
What percentage of families in the UK receive some form of benefits?
64%
Stat for lack of social housing
4.5 million people are on housing waiting lists
Stat for overcrowding
600,000 families are living in overcrowded homes
Stat for falling home ownership
there are over 200,000 fewer homeowners since 2010
How many 20-30 year olds move back in with there parents
1 in 4
Stat for unaffordable homes
Key public sector workers cannot afford to buy homes in nearly 80% of towns, despite falling prices in some areas
Bedroom Tax
a 14% reduction in housing benefit if you were living in a house with one spare bedroom and 25% for one or more.
Example of inefficiency of universal credit.
Supposed to be rolled out by 2017, now aiming for 2023
Cost of London tube strike to the economy
10 million per day
