Helen Miller
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436 appearances
4 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 3 Sep
Helen Miller’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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So on the VAT cut and the free bus travel, the government think it will cost around 300 million.
That's the equivalent of about 10 pounds per household.
Now, obviously, it can be skewed towards households with kids, maybe a bit more for them, but it's not a huge saving.
And of course, it depends on the extent to which businesses do pass it on to consumers.
I suspect some will, not least because it comes with this big packaging and people will be expecting to see the savings.
But if you're running an attraction where you've already got more people who want to come than you can accommodate, you haven't got a great incentive to be cutting prices.
And of course, some places already run discount schemes for families and kids in summer.
So it's not clear how much additionality this will bring.
So the big picture, it is pretty small.
It's clearly kind of a retail offer.
It's not going to solve the cost of living crisis.
But I don't think we should expect government to be shoving money at families in order to fix the cost of living crisis.
Why not?
Why not?
Well, because I actually wish we could relabel it.
I don't think it's so much a cost of living crisis as a low income growth crisis.
The fundamental problem we've got is that prices have been high in the past.
It's not really that prices are high, it's that incomes are low relative to those prices.
What's going to make us really feel better in a few years time is if income growth was going to be picking up.
You can't just shove money.
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