Budget 2025 substantially increases public spending. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Day-to-day departmental budgets (Resource DEL) rise from \u00a3484bn to \u00a3566bn<\/strong> over the period to 2028\u201329. <\/p>\n\n\n\n That is \u00a350bn more<\/strong> than the government had planned as recently as the Spending Review in June. <\/p>\n\n\n\n But rising budgets do not equal easier conditions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Demand across the NHS, social care, justice and local government is rising faster than funding. Inflation has pushed up costs. And the OBR is clear: nothing in the Budget is expected to raise trend growth or meaningfully improve productivity<\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n This creates the real story for bidders: potentially larger pipelines, but tighter value-for-money pressure.<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n Departments have more money on paper but must still deliver multi-billion-pound efficiencies. Procurement becomes the mechanism through which those pressures are enforced. <\/p>\n\n\n\n This article sets out what that means for suppliers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n