{"id":800699,"date":"2026-10-13T00:22:23","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T00:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/800699\/"},"modified":"2026-10-13T00:22:23","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T00:22:23","slug":"uk-spent-more-than-1-trillion-more-on-welfare-than-infrastructure-in-past-20-years-london-evening-standard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/800699\/","title":{"rendered":"UK spent more than \u00a31 trillion more on welfare than infrastructure in past 20 years &#8211; London Evening Standard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMizgFBVV95cUxNRzBnV1VXX2RDRzRZZm5lVWdJNTl4MHFYc2NXMXhtY1ZlNURfQnl2cjY1ZnNDT2JCSHdzc2RYbV9CeG9aVFpHOEJ2aDU0NE5raFgxXzAxQVRITGtUMGxrNHVDcnRUd0FFbERPeUF6WVFzNWVSMmwyb0VvWE16andHS3lVcDQ5VC1fRXFzLXNlVkFQWDUxNUE5MDYzRzkyVG9paUVlOWEwQmhZeWJ2dGhlRjIxanNBSnVvUFQteXNVWnVpSDA3Y3JjWlFZUTRodw?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">UK spent more than \u00a31 trillion more on welfare than infrastructure in past 20 years<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;London Evening Standard<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMihgFBVV95cUxOOTY0eFRVYXktQzc5bUF0MTl6STNxdVFUUmJDalNYdFpnY0pXNWRaQ3JCaE54RmhMM09NOFlxeWtVQVVVVGxSQWExMUhfbnJvOVpiYW95eDRtRkFzLU1FbTVZXzBsZGpJeXZPRE9MSEl4ZEotQ3lJZW85QmNWV3FubXpjQU5GZw?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Welfare State Is Crushing Britain<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;WSJ<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMipAFBVV95cUxNalBXYWZGT2pzMFlYUWRTMTU3QkNuTzJ0VUdRVElsRnlaY18tOU1NQzNfVVBHelQ5Ni1RYXdHTmd5ZzNoaE42VVZfaDhENzZxSXBfVVM1OW9zTW9kOV9GYXdOZ3RhZU9UYUNEd0ZmMFJQcE1MeS1CTEoyTUZjWWxSUDlTaG9YbEl3MHZ6RWpoT1dPMVY4bThRYnBxX3cxN2Z3bGNCZA?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Benefits Streets: The neighbourhoods where majority of adults are on welfare<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;The Telegraph<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiqwFBVV95cUxQV3RUN0RzRjJfX1pCV0dZUkJfSy0zUGYwZG5aOUJMWjkwcFRSRnBvUEJfUmlNdThmNTNZSEZ1a243clpaRkg4bVVSQVc2QW9nZ0lJQUN4dC1QSlVsclF0OXRRUmJyS0NGSWZXLW5rRGUyYldtWWFWZEpfTmF5ZU5IcnpKTlV1UTR6ZXAyR0d2WkVJcWRmR0tFTnM2aW1rdnVrcDZBYk03UEhXbEE?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">UK spent \u00a31.1 trillion more on benefits than transport, homes and technology<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;The Independent<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiwAFBVV95cUxPUnY2cndqOW9CMWYydU1RS012T3ZQTm0wSEpUazBURHNHNzU0Yk4xaHFkYVNFb3lHWVNNbUVmS2dxQVJYQXliSzc4VmtRZG02TTg1R2hJLWFDSUs4U3RNcmg5UXE2QUI3Q2s0YTFtVm9iRWhvYUNNOFdCai1fZ0xOVzFRSjBJcFlJb3ZnU3NHY2VNVXdiNzR1OGg0VEY4NUhDWU5Pc2VlckFBV0pBVkJ6VTVaTlJzcGhVaDZva0tLMWk?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The 3,000 areas with over half of working-age adults on benefits<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;The Centre for Social Justice<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UK spent more than \u00a31 trillion more on welfare than infrastructure in past 20 years&nbsp;&nbsp;London Evening StandardThe Welfare&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":800700,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[19306,84,31506,1294,2184,464,1805,2053,56,54,55,7160,476],"class_list":["post-800699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-andy-burnham","tag-business","tag-centre-for-social-justice","tag-economy","tag-gdp","tag-infrastructure","tag-john-healey","tag-labour-party","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-universal-credit","tag-welfare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=800699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800699\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/800700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=800699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=800699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=800699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}