In his farewell speech, Boris Johnson listed a number of commitments he insisted the federal government was “delivering”.
Here the PA information company seems to be at them intimately.
– Delivering Brexit
The previous prime minister claimed in his farewell speech that he had succeeded in “delivering Brexit”, however the Northern Eire Protocol Invoice remains to be going by Parliament which is able to permit ministers to successfully tear up components of the Brexit settlement he signed with Brussels.
The plan has strained relations with Brussels and led to authorized motion from the European Union in retaliation.
– Constructing 40 hospitals by 2030
The plan to construct 40 extra hospitals by the top of the last decade was within the 2019 Conservative election manifesto and has been repeated many instances by Boris Johnson.
When the pledge was first made, it was assumed that it referred to model new hospitals, however in August 2021, the Division of Well being and Social Care (DHSC) despatched out steerage to NHS trusts on “key media traces” to make use of when responding to questions on it.
It outlined a “new” hospital in 3 ways; a complete new hospital on a brand new web site or present NHS land, a serious new scientific constructing on an present web site or a brand new wing of an present hospital, and a serious refurbishment and alteration of all however the constructing body or principal construction.
An NHS Suppliers’ survey of the 35 trusts concerned within the new hospital programme, printed in July, discovered that half weren't assured that they had been allotted sufficient money to ship their mission.
Of the 26 trusts that responded, 39% stated their completion date was not on time, and practically two-thirds of those (62%) stated the delays affected their belief’s skill to ship secure and efficient affected person care.
In response to a Sky Information investigation in August, 80% of the 40 new hospitals promised by the Conservatives in 2019 both should not have a completion date or are “unlikely to be completed by the subsequent common election.”
– 50,000 extra nurses by the top of this parliament
In late 2019, Boris Johnson pledged to have 50,000 extra nurses by the top of this parliament.
The newest NHS Digital workforce figures present there have been 356,703 nurses and well being guests working within the NHS in England on the finish of Could this yr.
That is up about 25,000 from the 331,517 reported in December 2019 when Boris Johnson gained his landslide election victory.
However as a result of the figures don't differentiate between nurses and well being guests it's exhausting to know precisely what number of nursing workers have been recruited.
Well being specialists have additionally identified that even when the Authorities hits its goal of fifty,000 extra nurses it nonetheless will not be sufficient to plug the gaps in companies, with nursing vacancies rising to 46,828 on the finish of June.
– Vaccine rollout
Mr Johnson stated in his farewell speech that “70% of all the inhabitants received a dose inside six months,” however that is solely true for these within the inhabitants over 12 years outdated.
The vaccine rollout started on 8 December 2020 and by 8 June 2021, 40,710,319 individuals within the UK had obtained a primary dose, in keeping with Authorities figures.
That is the equal of 61% of all the UK inhabitants. By that time 71% of individuals aged 12 and over had obtained a primary dose.
– Broadband for each residence and enterprise
As a part of his 2019 manifesto, Boris Johnson had pledged to deliver connectivity to “each residence and enterprise throughout the UK” by 2025.
After allocating £5bn of funding behind the scheme, a latest press launch from the Division for Digital, Tradition, Media and Sport (DCMS) quoted the narrower intention of 85%.
However in a report in January, Authorities spending watchdog the Public Accounts Committee printed a report which stated “regardless of the DCMS repeated guarantees, we're apparently little nearer to closing ‘the nice digital divide’ growing throughout the UK nor addressing the social and financial inequality it brings with it.”
– Neighbourhood crime down and extra police on the streets
Mr Johnson claimed that in his tenure he has put 13,790 extra police on the streets, however the present recruitment drive is changing officers that have been minimize by the earlier coalition and Conservative governments throughout austerity.
He additionally claimed that neighbourhood crime was down 38% within the final three years.
Whereas some crime varieties did lower during times of lockdown because of the pandemic, fraud and laptop misuse noticed a 37% surge.
In response to figures from the Crime Survey for England and Wales for the yr ending March 2022 in comparison with the yr ending March 2020 there was no statistically vital change in complete crime.
– Constructing one nuclear vitality plant per yr
Successive governments have introduced ambitions for a collection of recent nuclear reactors to exchange Britain’s ageing fleet, however thus far, solely Hinkley Level C in Somerset is in development, and with delays and rising prices, will not be on account of begin producing energy till 2027, greater than a decade after the mission was given the go-ahead in 2016.
The Authorities has additionally given the go-ahead, and a promise of funding to assist the event, of Sizewell C in Suffolk, with a remaining funding resolution on the mission due shortly, however plans for brand spanking new reactors at different websites aren't at the moment progressing.
– Supplying half of the nation’s electrical energy wants by offshore wind by 2030
With 12.7 gigawatts (GW) of offshore wind energy put in, the business says 5GW of recent generators must be put in within the seas yearly between now and 2030 to satisfy the 50GW goal.
Within the final 12 months, three main offshore wind farms went absolutely operational, including 2.3GW of recent capability onto the system, so the UK should double present ranges of set up to remain on monitor.
– Promise to ‘repair’ social care
The Care and Help Alliance CSA, which is made up of greater than 60 charities, stated reforms introduced by Boris Johnson’s Authorities “won't and can't” fulfil the promise he made to “repair” social care.
It's because they won't enhance the standard or availability of care, and as an alternative are centered on subsidising the quantity individuals pay, it stated.
Because the nation faces a difficult winter, ready lists for social care and assessments are at document ranges, household carers are taking over elevated duty, with some being pressured to surrender work to allow them to take care of their liked one, and social care emptiness charges are rising.