The profession reacts to the spring statement 2025

Delivered in the House of Commons, the chancellor set out the government’s plans to focus on security and economic growth.

The statement followed a reduction in the Office for Budget Responsibility’s (OBR) economic forecast for 2025 from two per cent to one per cent. This comes as the government’s official spending watchdog disapproved its forecast for the amount its welfare cuts would save.

‘Short on good news for dentists’

Reacting the to the spring statement, Iain Stevenson, head of dental at Wesleyan Financial Services, said, “The spring statement was short on good news for dentists.

“Many practices will still be absorbing the measures announced in the autumn budget, including hikes to employers’ National Insurance and the National Living Wage. These measures begin next month and will heap extra pressure on practices’ finances. While there will have been some relief that no new employer taxes were announced, nothing was introduced to ease the burden either.