Budget live updates and reaction as Jeremy Hunt reveals UK government spending plans

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has announced the UK government's spring Budget 2023 and there are significant impacts for Wales with £180m of new funding for the Welsh Government.

Mr Hunt has announced an expansion of free childcare in England to include one and two year olds in England. It is not clear yet whether the Welsh Government will use any additional funds as a consequence of this to accelerate its own plans in Wales. Welsh Labour's deal with Plaid in the Senedd in 2021 had included a pledge to extend free childcare here to all two year olds but so far only small steps towards that have been taken by expanding Flying Start.

Mr Hunt also made statements on benefits and pensions, nuclear power as well as announcing that the £2,500 cap on an average home's energy bill will be continued for a further three months from April until June.

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Other announcements have included wraparound care for schools (in England) so parents can drop their children off between 8am and 6pm. You can see key points from the announcement here as well as the full updates and reaction in our live blog below: