Daily Mirror (Northern Ireland)
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Triple lock rises also under threat
said he would be concerned by any changes to the pensions triple lock after Prime Minister Boris Johnson pledged at last year’s general election not to touch it.
It sees state pensions rise in line with wages, inflation or by 2.5%, depending on which is highest.
Mr Green said: “I would be very wary of the Government going down that route. It was a manifesto
and clubs in the area on particular dates, giving details on its website.
Dr Richard Harling, the council’s Director of Health and Care, said: “What we are seeing from test and trace activity is a widening network commitment to keep it. Clearly, the Chancellor faces some unpalatable options because he has rightly spent many billions of pounds supporting the economy.”
But Mr Green said he would also be opposed to any further reduction in spending on foreign aid.
It has already been cut by £2.9billion from £15.8bn this year.
But the Government says it still
from the original bingo event as people met friends and family, and went out socialising.
“We need everyone who was at any of the venues on the given dates to get tested. This is vital.” meets its obligation to provide 0.7% of gross national income to international development.
The head of the British Chambers of Commerce, Adam Marshall, said he hoped suggestions of tax rises were simply the Treasury testing public reaction.
He warned: “We’ve got to give the recovery space to build and grow. If the Treasury snaps back to orthodoxy immediately it will be a really damaging mistake.”