What Labour’s delivered in the last two weeks: 29 August 2025

Here’s 8 things Labour’s Plan For Change has delivered over the past two weeks:

🩺 100 Local Health Centres across the country now offer out of hours services, 12 hours a day seven days a week.

✂️£500 million of funding has been announced to unblock the planning system which will help get the homes we need built faster.

🛑 Our new UK-Iraq agreement will bolster efforts to further deter small boat arrivals. This builds on Labour’s groundbreaking returns agreement with France.

❌Criminals will face being barred from pubs, concerts and sports matches under new sentencing powers. Judges will be able to curtail offenders’ freedoms with driving limits; travel bans and restriction zones.

🏠Nearly 100,000 new homes have been progressed in the past year thanks to the New Homes Accelerator, as part of this Labour government’s plans to tackle Britain’s housing crisis.

👔We’re reducing uniform costs by capping the number of branded items schools can ask parents to buy. This will save parents around £50 per year.

💉A free chickenpox vaccination will be offered for the first time to children across England on the NHS from January 2026.

🪖£70 million investment to support ambition to increase the Cadet Force by 30% by 2030, deepening opportunities for young people to have a career in the Armed Forces.