Labour achievements from July 2024 to August 2025

45,000 additional pensioners are now receiving Pension Credit which is a Gateway Benefit
worth over 4k on top of Pension Credit, Pension payment and Disability Payment. Due to Labour
Government promotion drive
In its first year in office, this government returned more than 35,000 people with no right to
be in the UK – a 28% increase in returns of failed asylum seekers and a 13% increase in overall
returns compared to the previous year.
The government also ram cracked down against illegal working, with over 9,000 raids since July
2024, resulting in 6,410 arrests – up 48% and 51% on the previous year.
The UK has formal and informal returns agreements with at least 24 countries, a number that
has been increasing since 2021
France, Afghanistan,Albania, India, Pakistan, Vietnam, Iraq, Nigeria, Georgia, Somalia/
Somaliland, Bangladesh, Serbia, and Algeria.
Enforced returns of other prominent nationalities, however, have increased, with numbers of
Romanians up 28% (1,696), Brazilians up 90% (861) and Indians having more than doubled (615)
over the same period. There has also been a substantial rise in the latest year of returns of Polish
, Malaysian, and Pakistani nationals.
FOREIGN NATIONAL OFFENDERS
There were 5,265 FNO returns in the year ending June 2025, an increase of 16% compared to the
previous year. FNO returns are almost evenly split between EU (48%) and Non-EU (52%) nationals.
Foreign criminals will be deported immediately
Sex offenders denied Asylum and deported
Sex offenders will be stripped of Refugee status who live in UK
Foreign criminals deported to their country of origin before appeals process in UK. Appeals to
take place from their country of origin.
The UK government is challenging the application of Article 8 of the Human Rights Act, which
protects the right to family life, by seeking to tighten rules and reduce the reliance on “exceptional
circumstances” for family immigration cases
FROM AUGUST 2025
Anyone who arrives by small boat and is returned to France will not be eligible for the legal route
to the UK, while anyone who tries to re-enter the UK having already been returned to France once
will be returned again as a matter of priority.
SAFE AND LEGAL ROUTES
For migrants in France wanting to come to the UK legally, they will be able to submit an
Expression of Interest application for the new legal route online and the Home Office will make
a decision. They will need to satisfactorily establish their identity and nationality and will be
subject to strict security and eligibility checks
Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill 2024-25
Research Briefing
Published Thursday, 06 February, 2025
Extended £150 Warm Home Discount for low-income households from Energy Companies
including Pensioners to 2026
Pension Credit will increase by 4.1% from April 2025:
Single person: The standard minimum guarantee will increase to £227.10 per week
Couple: The standard minimum guarantee will increase to £346
The full state pension will increase to £230.25 per week (£11,973 a year), while the basic amount
will rise to £176.45 per week (£9,175 a year) – welcome news for retirees, especially those out of
pocket due to lost winter fuel payments
Other changes to benefits in 2025 include
6.7%, was applied to pensions from 8 April 2024.
4.1 % increase of Pensions in 2025 up to £470 to the state pension in April and up to £1,900 more
over the next five years
Inflation-linked benefits and tax credits will rise by 1.7% from April 2025, in line with the
Consumer Prices Index (CPI) rate of inflation in September
Working age benefits will be uprated by 1.7% from April 2025, which will see around 5.7 million
families on Universal Credit gain £150 on average in 2025-26
Landscapes and wildlife, promote nature recovery, meet the targets in the Environment Act,
build sustainable homes that support biodiversity, and improve access to nature.
9 new National River Walks and three new National Forests in England
Expand nature-rich habitats such as wetlands, peat bogs and forests, and move towards a
circular economy, while emphasising the need for coordinated global action to address the
climate and nature crisis.
Ban trail hunting (a loophole in the Hunting Act which is used by many hunts as a front to
continue hunting foxes with dogs)
Eradicate Bovine TB so that the ineffective badger cull could be brought to an end
Introduce the long-anticipated ban on the import of hunting trophies
New actions to improve flood resilience and species abundance and important funding to
secure enhanced environmental benefits and deliver for nature recovery, including sensitive
areas such as Sites of Special Scientific Interest (SSSIs).
Free Breakfast Clubs for all Primary schools
Ofsted reform and curriculum review.
Recruit 6,500 new expert teachers in key shortage subjects
Create 3,000 new primary school-based nurseries
SEND and mental health
Curriculum and school improvement
Launch an “expert-led review” of the curriculum to ensure it is “rich and broad, inclusive,
and innovative”
INVESTMENTS
New investments SECURED include £6.3 billion in UK data centres as well as world class UK
university Imperial College London
Innovative investment projects announced over the last month across infrastructure, renewables
and life sciences will create close to 38,000 new jobs across the UK
Secured the future of Hitachi’s train factory in County Durham and its 750 highly-skilled workers
FirstGroup, Hitachi and Angel Trains have struck a deal to build 14 state-of-the-art trains to be
used on rail lines across the UK
£10 billion investment which will create thousands of jobs in the North East of England has
been announced by the Prime Minister
Nearly 38,000 UK jobs are set to be created across the UK after a total of £63 billion of
investment was announced around today’s International Investment Summit
RANNANS LAW
Domestic abuse specialists will be embedded in 999 control rooms after a woman was murdered
by her ex-husband despite ringing police four times on the night she died.
RONANS LAW
Labour announces ‘Ronan’s Law’ to crack down on online weapons sales
MARTYNS LAW
To ensure stronger protections against terrorism in public places
Support, guidance and training will help embed best practice and drive-up standards across the
UK.
HILLSBOROUGH LAW
The Hillsborough Law will introduce a legal duty of candour on public bodies.
Officials or organisations that mislead or obstruct investigations could potentially face criminal
sanctions.
EMPLOYMENTS RIGHTS BILL
Flexible working
Sick pay
Unfair dismissal
Protection for maternity returners
Right to disconnect
Minimum wage
The minimum wage will no longer be tapered by an individual’s age.
Bereavement leave
The bill will extend the right to parental bereavement leave to all bereaved persons.
Guaranteed hours
The bill will require school employers to offer guaranteed hours to qualifying workers.
Reasonable notice of shifts
The bill will require school employers to give zero-hours workers reasonable notice of shifts.
Skills England, a new national body tasked with driving the skills needs of the next decade. No
longer will we need to rely on international imports to address the severe skills shortage, home-
grown talent will address that need.
Increased living wage to record levels
Increased public sector pay and stopped Jnr Dr’s strike.
Increased Miners Pensions
112,000 pensioners and their families will benefit, with an average increase of £29 per week
WOMEN AND GIRLS
Stalking victims to be told perpetrator’s identity
Tougher guidance in England and Wales will also prevent convicted stalkers from contacting
victims while in prison
Hospital waiting lists fall by 2 million but A&E has busiest October on recor
£100m levy on gambling companies
PUBLIC OWNED RAIL BUSES AND TRAMS
South Western Railway will be the first train operator nationalised under the new government,
with the operators contract up in May 2025. C2C (July) and Greater Anglia (Autumn) will be the
next to follow.
GB ENERGY PUBLICLY OWNED RENEWABLE ENERGY COMPANY
HOUSING
A housing recovery plan; a blitz of planning reform to quickly boost housebuilding to buy and
rent and deliver the biggest boost to affordable housing in a generation, enhancing local voice
on ‘how’ housing is built with communities confident plans will be delivered
The next generation of ‘new towns
Package of devolution to Mayors, with stronger powers over planning and control over housing
investment.
Planning passport’ for urban brownfield development; with a fast track approval and delivery
of high-density housing on urban brownfield sites
First dibs for first time buyers
4 Million Patients off waiting list
Double the number of cancer scanners
Dentistry Rescue Plan
8,500 additional mental health staff
Return of the family doctor
Modernising the NHS
Power to the patients
At the heart of every medical decision must be patients and their families.
Ensuring patient safety
Childbirth should not be something women fear or look back on with trauma.
Labour will ensure that trusts failing on maternity care are robustly supported into rapid
improvement. We will train thousands more midwives as part of the NHS Workforce Plan and set
an explicit target to close the Black and Asian maternal mortality gap
Healthcare closer to home
Men’s Health Strategy with a view to bridging the life expectancy gap between men and women
Construction has begun on HMS Sheffield – a new advanced warfare ship for the Royal Navy.
The ship is being built at BAE Systems’ Govan shipyard in Glasgow.
Historic £1.6bn deal provides thousands of air defence missiles for Ukraine and boosts UK jobs
and growth
Tree Planting Taskforce has been launched by gov to oversee the planting of millions of trees.
Removal of dangerous cladding will be ‘sped-up’. By 2029, all 18m+ (high-rise) buildings
with unsafe cladding in a government-funded scheme will have been remediated.
Covid Counter-Fraud commissioner. Hayhoe, will be tasked to look at more than £7bn of fraud
from Covid support
13,000 more frontline police officers by the end of parliament.
BORDER SECURITY
Joint work between the UK and Iraq to target people and drug-smuggling gangs.
strengthen border security co-operation and tackle serious and organised crime.
The UK’s largest ever drugs conspiracy has been uncovered after an NCA operation in
collaboration with Dutch law enforcement.
An Iraqi people-smuggling gang supplying boats for Channel crossings has been dismantled in
an international operation supported by the @NCA_UK.
13 suspects were arrested in Germany and France including senior gang members who sourced
equipment for crossings.
Clamped down on Suppliers to small boat People smuggling crossings.
Clamped down on illegal immigration.
HOMELESSNESS
Across the country, Labour is investing a record nearly £1 billion for councils to help break
the endless cycle of spiralling homelessness. Ministers are bringing the total funding for the
Homelessness Prevention Grant up to £633m – the largest investment in this grant since it began.
Labour is investing £280m directly into rough sleeping and single homelessness services
Ending no fault evictions – alongside plans to build 1.5m new homes.
The Government announced the plans after inheriting a record 123,000 households living in
temporary accommodation – including nearly 160,000 children – after 14 years of Conservative
rule.
More UK defense investment to UK-based businesses
2 billion early years funding Schools
8.6 Billion Highways Repairs including Pot Holes
Hospices in England to receive £100m funding boost
Breakfast clubs
Renters Reform
Workers Rights Bill
Saving 2 b cancelling Rwanda
FARMING
£343 million of funding benefiting more than 31,000 farmers
£5 billion to the farming budget – the largest ever increase investment in sustainable food
production in our country’s history.
Countryside Stewardship Higher Tier (CSHT) scheme will open in 2025
14 Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) endorsed actions, further improving the offer
£39 million under SFI, as part of the quarterly payments system designed to improve farmers
’ cashflow and a further £7.4 million has been paid to customers who have completed Capital
Grants works.
PROTECTION OF WOMEN AND GIRLS
Closing the Gender Pay Gap
50% Split of Ministerial Roles for Women
Two, Ministers for Women and Equalities who both attend Cabinet with other positions.
Misogyny as Hate crime
Buffer Zones at Abortion Clinics
Drink spiking to be made criminal offence
All police to have violence against women training in memory of Sarah Everard
Bringing back the family doctor and improve local services
Stop water bosses’ bonuses when their companies harm the environment
Greater support for victims of violence against women
Great British Railways
Make the minimum wage a genuine living wage
INCREASE IN CARERS ALLOWANCE
Working carers will now be able to earn £196 per week and claim Carer’s Allowance, which is an
increase of around £45 per week in comparison to the previous earnings threshold of £151. This
all means that 60,000 more carers will be able to access Carer’s Allowance as a result.
ARMED FORCES
6% per cent pay for armed forces
This pay rise marked the largest in 22 years, but has seemingly failed in its main objective,
retaining talent
13.4 per cent wage increased junior doctors.
The Armed Forces Commissioner Bill 2024-25 was introduced in the House of Commons
£3.5m on support for military veterans facing homelessness.
£10m of funding to protect rough sleepers from cold weather this winter.
Extra £233m of spending next year to prevent homelessness, bringing the total to £1bn.
Councils will have to prioritise veterans for social housing and waive rules requiring applicants
show a connection to the local area for veterans’ families, under new guideline
SMALL AND MEDIUM BUSINESSES
Reduce the amount paid in NICs as an employer, you can claim the employment allowance
It’s currently set at £5,000 for the 2024-25 tax year, but will be increased to £10,000 for the 20
25-26 tax year.
More funding for the NHS, including GBP1.5 billion for new surgical hubs and scanners and GBP
70 million for radiotherapy machines.
240 million in funding for local services will be spent on helping people get back to work,
Bus fares capped across England to £3
Liverpool City Region Mayor unveils ground-breaking new ‘zero bills’ home that will
revolutionise housebuilding
House will showcase Liverpool City Region’s (LCR) ambitions to be the UK’s centre of
excellence for offsite construction of new homes.
The low-energy, zero-carbon house has been built on the ACC Liverpool waterfront events
campus using innovative construction methods.
More rough sleepers will be helped off the streets and provided warm beds this winter thanks
to new emergency funding given to local councils by the Labour government. New funding will
also continue supporting specialist programmes for vulnerable groups sleeping rough, including
veterans, care leavers and victims of domestic abuse. This is alongside giving life-changing
support to people who have slept rough long-term, with critical outreach staff helping to address
substance abuse and provide employment opportunities
Keir Starmer has made several international trips to fifteen countries and British Overseas
Territory during his premiership improving relationship with world.
Coalition of the willing for Ukraine
Homelessness Prevention Grant up to £633m – the largest investment in this grant since it
began. At the same time Labour is investing £280m directly into rough sleeping and single
homelessness services
Ending no fault evictions Build 1.5m new homes.
The Government announced the plans after inheriting a record 123,000 households living in
temporary accommodation – including nearly 160,000 children – after 14 years of Conservative
rule
Secured £400m investment to boost clinical trials, improving NHS services and driving growth.
1,000 more GPs will be recruited this year, supporting NHS services.
Set out his long-term plan to rebuild our NHS for good and transform services over the next 1
0 years
Transport
Ended train strikes, delivering for passengers.
Launched new legislation to bring the UK’s railways back into public ownership which will
improve rail services.
Given communities more power over their local bus services.
Housing
Banned no-fault evictions and introduced new protections for renters
Delivered planning reform to build the homes we need.
Announced ‘Homes for Heroes’ – a programme to ensure all UK Armed Forces Veterans as
well as domestic abuse survivors and care leavers have a roof over their head.
Crime and Border Security
Kickstarted a plan to restore neighbourhood policing.
Scrapped the wasteful Rwanda scheme and launched a Border Security Command
Education
Launched a Curriculum and Assessment Review to help improve schools.
Started the drive to recruit 6,500 teachers nationally, improving the education system
Launched Skills England to transform opportunities and drive growth.
Overhauled apprenticeships through a new Growth and Skills Levy.
Supported parents by announcing the first stage of the government’s plan to deliver 3,000
school-based nurseries.
Announced the Children’s Wellbeing bill which will remove barriers to opportunity and make
sure the school system is fair for every child.
Kickstarted the rollout of free breakfast clubs for all primary school children through an early
adopters scheme.
Economy and employment
Unveiled new measures to support small businesses impacted by late payments.
Scrapped the ban on onshore wind and unblocked solar schemes to deliver lower bills and
good jobs
Announced improved employment rights for workers,
Ending exploitative zero hour contracts, providing statutory sick pay from day one
Ending fire and rehire.
131 new green infrastructure projects which will create jobs and drive growth.
Announced a new National Wealth Fund to unlock private investment
Introduced a new Fiscal Lock Law to deliver economic stability and protect family finances
Announced new Covid Corruption Commissioner