Budget 2018 - LIVE: Hammond announces end to PFI and ploughs extra £1bn into troubled universal credit
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Your support makes all the difference.Philip Hammond has reiterated Theresa May's claim that the era of austerity is "finally coming to an end" in his last pre-Brexit Budget.
The chancellor unveiled a new "UK digital services tax" aimed at tech giants, which are profitable and generate at least £500m a year in global revenues.
Promising a Budget for "Britain's future", Mr Hammond also earmarked an extra £1bn for the Ministry of Defence and set out the government's plan for the NHS, including £2bn per year for mental health services.
In addition, he said the government would never sign another private finance initiative (PFI) deal, long criticised for locking the taxpayer into hugely expensive infrastructure contracts that enrich private firms.
He also promised an additional £1bn for the implementation of universal credit, which also faces widespread criticism for pushing vulnerable people into homelessness and food bank dependency.
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And they are on the move. Chancellor Philip Hammond holds the red box aloft as he and his team leave Number 11.
Shadow chancellor John McDonnell has now waded into reports about tensions between Theresa May and the chancellor.
Cheers for the PM and the Chancellor as they arrive in the Commons chamber.
Philip Hammond is on his feet to huge cheers. He says this is a Budget for 'hard-working families' who care little for the ins and outs of Westminster politics.
'The strivers, the grafters and the carers who are the backbone of this economy' are the focus of his Budget, he says.
He hints at Theresa May's promise to end austerity, saying it is time for the public to know their hard work has paid off.
Hammond says the tough decisions of the past few years 'were not driven by ideology' to huge jeers from Labour, who say austerity is a political choice.
He says that the 'era of austerity is finally coming to an end'.
The last Budget delivered on a Monday was in 1962, when he was six-years-old. He jokes that his parents turned to him and said, 'Philip, one day that could be you'.
He goes into some terrible banter about how having the Budget on Wednesday would have drawn headlines such as 'Hammo's Halloween horror'.
Hammond attacks Labour for 'carping on' and 'talking Britain down', then sets out a series of examples of economic success.
He turns to Brexit, saying this is a 'pivotal moment' in Britain's history. Hammond raises the prospect of a 'double deal dividend' as uncertainty will end when Britain leaves the EU.
He promises £500m extra for no-deal planning (taking it to £2bn) and says he will retain the firepower to intervene if necessary, and he will upgrade the Spring Statement to a proper Budget if necessary.
Hammond says the deficit is down from 10% under Labour to less than 1.4% next year.
The OBR - the public finances watchdog - puts growth forecasts were 1.6% in 2019, 1.4% in 2021, 1.5% in 2022.
Our Economics Editor Ben Chu has the figures.
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