Revisions at the Spring Statement and Main Estimates from the Treasury has meant that the Scottish government will now receive £50 billion, an uplift from the previously-agreed £47.7 billion

New aviation laws set out today (2nd June 2025) will redesign flight paths to be more efficient, allow for quicker flights and fewer delays, alongside residents living near airport benefitting from quieter take-offs.

A County Councils Network (CCN) and Society of County Treasurers (SCT) survey asked 38 county and rural councils about their finances ahead of the chancellor’s Spending Review, with six in ten not being confident on balancing their budget next year.

The government has announced more than £1.5 billion extra support for accommodation for UK Armed Forces, which will be part of the upcoming Strategic Defence Review (SDR), and bring military accommodation funding up to £7 billion this Parliament.

The government has announced that the almost 60,000 workers paid under the minimum wage will be repaid over £7.4 million by their employers, which the government has named.

The Welsh government have made progress on providing more social homes for Swansea, having agreed the sale of plots of land.

In a bid to speed up the delivery of new reservoirs, Environment Secretary Steve Reed has seized control of the planning process to build two major reservoirs for the first time since the 1990s.
The government has a commitment to build nine new reservoirs, and deliver 1.5 million homes by the end of this parliament.
No new reservoirs have been delivered since 1992 and it is estimated that the UK could run out of clean drinking water by the middle of the next decade without a major infrastructure overhaul.

The Regulator of Social Housing (RSH) has published three regulatory judgements on the London Borough of Brent.
The Borough has failed to meet the outcomes in the consumer standards and has been given a C3 grading from the Regulator of Social Housing.
The council made a self-referral in April concerning the quality and accuracy of its fire safety data.
After a spot check, the council found that although actions from fire risk assessments had been closed, evidence of completion was not available in all instances and that some actions had not been completed.

New electric vehicle (EV) chargepoints are set to come online across Portsmouth, thanks to Portsmouth City Council’s new partnership with chargepoint operator Zest.

Smaller and medium-sized housebuilders will benefit from loosening government regulations, to speed up development on smaller sites across the UK.