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Spring Statement 2025 live: Latest UK inflation figures to be released ahead of Rachel Reeves statement in Commons

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Number 11 Downing Street, home to the British Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves, in London, Britain, 25 March 2025Image source, EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock

Here’s a look at what’s to come (all timings below are in GMT):

Early doors - at 07:00 - the Office for National Statistics (ONS) will publish the latest inflation figures, which will tell us how prices are rising across the UK.

Come 08:30,the prime minister will hold his weekly cabinet meeting, moved this week from Tuesday to Wednesday to account for the Spring Statement.

At around 11:20, Rachel Reeves, the chancellor, will depart No 11 Downing Street and head for the House of Commons.

She’ll take her place on the government benches at 12:00, at which point Prime Minister’s Questions gets going.

After that finishes - at approximately 12:30 - Reeves will deliver her Spring Statement (we’ll take you through the specific choreo shortly).

At 13:30, the OBR will publish its latest economic and fiscal outlook. Its chair, Richard Hughes, will follow this up with a news conference at 14:30.And at some point today - timing TBC - the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) will publish an impact assessment into the government’s welfare reforms.

We’ve got a packed day ahead of us. Settle in.

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