Five formal audit questions researched from official sources — Parliament, NAO, ONS, OBR, DHSC, Homes England, House of Commons Library. Every number is sourced. Every calculation is shown. These are not opinions.
The hospital building programme was launched without a funding plan (Wes Streeting, Jan 2025). £900 million of the capital budget ring-fenced for construction was transferred to cover day-to-day costs in 2023/24. The NHS spent more on agency staff in a single year than the entire 5-year hospital building budget. Budget increased by £75.7bn over 9 years. Maintenance backlog: £13.8bn.
Government build cost for an affordable home: ~£160,000. £30.5bn ÷ £160k = 190,625 homes per year. Actual 2024/25 social homes built: 12,198. The break-even point between building a home once and paying benefit forever is 17.5 years. After that, a built home costs nothing — benefit continues indefinitely. 1.3 million households wait on the social housing register. 165,000 children in temporary accommodation.
Legal — drawn from Treasury Reserve, ratified retrospectively by Parliament via Supplementary Estimates. But no election manifesto specified this commitment. No public vote was held before £3bn/year to 2030 was announced at a NATO summit. The public was informed of commitments already made, not consulted before.
A person paying PMI + dental + critical illness + private GP pays £2,400–£6,100/year on top of full NI contributions. They reduce NHS demand (private insurers absorbed 163,680 procedures in Q2 2025 alone) and receive zero tax recognition. Compare: pension contributions receive both income tax and NI relief. Private healthcare receives neither.
The £350m/week claim was ruled a "clear misuse of official statistics" by the UK Statistics Authority before the vote. No Brexit dividend ever reached the NHS. UK goods exports to EU: 18% below 2019 levels. Net migration rose to 906,000 (2023) vs promised "tens of thousands." £40bn of the 2019–2024 parliament's tax rises estimated to result from Brexit productivity loss.
When we reach 10,000 Voice-Keepers, Britain Needs Us will publish Britain's first independent people's response to a Budget — built from the votes of registered citizens. We are preparing a formal open letter containing the evidence of broken promises, the data behind them, and twelve questions that demand answers. Nothing has been sent yet. This is Day One.
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Submitted on behalf of [X,XXX] registered citizen auditors by Britain Needs Us — Britain's independent People's Audit. Submitted simultaneously to HM Treasury, the Public Accounts Committee, and all 650 Members of Parliament.
Dear Chancellor of the Exchequer,
The average UK household paid £40,392 in tax in 2024/25 — £3,366 every single month. This is the highest tax burden in 76 years. At the same time, the government missed its own deficit target by £47 billion, the national debt stands at £2.8 trillion with no published repayment plan, and housing received £32 per household per month while debt interest consumed £246.
Britain Needs Us is a non-partisan citizen transparency initiative. We are not a political party. We do not campaign for any party or candidate. We are applying the same standard of accountability that any company shareholder is legally entitled to apply to a board of directors.
Before presenting our ten questions, we set out the evidence that makes them necessary. What follows is a record of what was promised, and what actually happened — sourced entirely from the government's own published data.
| Line Item | 2023/24 | 2024/25 | Change | Per HH/Month |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Per Household Tax (year) | £26,293 | £40,392 | +£3,554 | £3,366/month |
| Net Deficit | −£127bn | −£122bn | vs −£75bn target | — |
| Debt Interest | £82.9bn | £84.8bn | +2.3% | £246/month |
| NHS Spend | £177bn | £197bn | +11.3% | £572/month |
| Defence | £48bn | £54bn | +12.5% | £157/month |
| Housing | £10bn | £11bn | +10% | £32/month |
| Tax Burden % GDP | 38.9% | 39.4% | 76-yr high | — |
Five pledges. Five outturns. All sourced from the government's own publications. This is why we are asking the questions below.
The gap between announcement and outturn is not a political point — it is a measurement problem. No mechanism exists to hold government to what it promises. These ten questions are that mechanism.
The 2024/25 deficit target was −£75bn. The actual outturn was approximately −£122bn. Which minister is accountable? What corrective measures are in place? When will Parliament receive a full written explanation?
The debt stands at £2.8 trillion — £102,000 per household. There is no published debt reduction plan. When will the government publish a legally-binding strategy with annual milestones?
£30.5bn housing budget. £26.8bn (88%) paid to private landlords as benefit — building zero homes. Build cost: £160,000/home = 190,625 possible. Built: 12,198. Break-even: 17.5 years. 1.3 million families waiting. Has Treasury modelled this? Why does 88p in every housing pound go to landlords?
£16bn+ to Ukraine since 2022 — £575/household total. £3bn/year pledged to 2030/31 (£108/household/year). Committed via Treasury Reserve, ratified retrospectively. No manifesto commitment. No parliamentary vote before announcement at NATO summit. What is the statutory basis? Does the government believe £108/household/year for a foreign military commitment requires public consent?
The Budget is presented in aggregate billions inaccessible to most citizens. Will the government commit to a per-household, per-month breakdown in all future Budget documents?
DHSC budget rose £75.7bn in a decade. 40 hospitals pledged by 2030 — 1 genuinely built. Programme launched without a funding plan. £900m capital transferred to salaries. NHS spent £8.3bn on agency staff — more than the entire 5-year Affordable Homes Programme. Maintenance backlog: £13.8bn. Where did the extra £75.7bn go?
The tax burden is at its highest in 76 years. Public sector productivity has fallen 4.6% since 2019. Will the government publish an annual productivity-per-pound report for every major department?
Freezing income tax thresholds has raised approximately £25bn in extra revenue as wages rose into higher bands. This was never called a tax rise. No parliamentary debate was held. Will the government subject future threshold freezes to the same parliamentary process as explicit rate changes?
1 in 4 adults experience a mental health condition annually. Mental health receives approximately 8% of NHS funding while debt interest receives £246 per household per month. When will mental health funding reach a proportion commensurate with its burden of disease?
Citizens vote every five years but have no formal mechanism to participate in how £3,366 of their monthly income is spent. Will the government commit to quarterly citizen-facing financial accounts — in plain English, per household — as a permanent standard?
7.6 million UK adults hold private medical insurance. Each pays full National Insurance and additionally pays £499–£4,500+/year in private premiums. Private insurers absorbed 163,680 NHS procedures in Q2 2025 alone — demand the NHS did not have to meet. Zero tax relief. Pension savers receive double relief. Is it the government's position that citizens who voluntarily remove themselves from NHS demand should pay full NHS tax with zero recognition?
The £350m/week NHS claim was ruled "a clear misuse of official statistics" before the vote. No Brexit dividend reached the NHS. OBR (March 2025) forecasts Brexit reduces long-run UK productivity by 4% — £100bn/year, £1.92bn/week. The net saving: £136m/week. For every £1 saved, £14 lost annually. Exports to EU: 18% below 2019. Net migration rose. What formal assessment of Brexit promises vs outturns has been published for citizens?
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