Andy Burnham's first week pledges – how much do they add up to?
New UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham has announced £1.5 billion in spending commitments during his first week, focusing on cost-of-living measures and homelessness. The funding strategy involves reallocating existing budgets and canceling previous government projects.
Why it matters
The analysis provides transparency into the fiscal feasibility of the new administration's early policy promises.
By Ben Chu , BBC Verify and Tom Edgington , BBC Verify Published 10 minutes ago Andy Burnham is ending his first week as prime minister by working out of Manchester in the new No 10 North for the first time.
He spent this week making a series of spending announcements mostly aimed at tackling the cost of living, including capping bus fares.
BBC Verify has looked at Burnham's first week of spending commitments, how much they cost and how the government says they will be paid for, which comes to about £1.5bn.
Here's how that breaks down and what could later be coming down the line.
In his speech outside Downing Street , external on Monday, Burnham said his "first instruction" would be "to end rough sleeping in our country".
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