ben chu's been taking a look. are to be achieved by 2029, which the pm says voters can use to judge the performance of this labour government. they are growing household incomes, building more houses, delivering more neighbourhood police, improving early years education, decarbonising power and getting hospital waiting times down. of these targets, it's the ones on housing, power and hospitals which most expertsjudge will be the hardest to meet. the pm pledged 1.5 million new homes over the course of the parliament — that's defined as net additional dwellings in england. that 1.5 million would equate to around 300,000 per year. 0nly around 221,000 were delivered in 2023—2024, down on the previous year. it's been decades since this number of new houses was delivered in any year. 0n hospital waiting times, the pm said he will hit the official target that 92% of patients in england waiting for elective treatment should be seen within 18 weeks. in september 2024, only around 59% of treatments people were waiting for h

ben chu from bbc verify has looked into what we can expect.rime minister is expected to set out some new measurable milestones today, by which voters can judge the performance of this labour government across a range of areas. we don't know exactly what they all are but some existing pages give us some clues. first, hospitalwaiting times. the nhs for england has an official target that 90% of patients reporting for elective treatment should be seen within 18 weeks of being referred. the government is expected to commit to meet this by 2029. in september 2024, only around 59% had been wasting less than 18 weeks. the last time the 92% target was achieved was back in 2015. second, the economy. the prime minister is expected to announce a pledge to boost people's incomes by 2029. the government because official forecaster is projecting a measure called real household disposable income per person will rise by about 0.5% per year over this parliament, slightly better than in the last parliament, but that would still be worse than every other parliam

ben chu from bbc verify is here to tell us. ben. yes, sophie.ich the pm says voters can use to judge the performance of this labour government. they are growing household incomes, building more houses, delivering more neighbourhood police, improving early years education, decarbonising power and getting hospital waiting times down. of these targets, its the ones on housing, hospitals and power which most expertsjudge will be the hardest to meet. target that 92% of patients in england waiting for elective sophie. ben, thank you. hospitals are busier than ever at this time of year with the nhs facing what�*s being called a "quad—demic" — flu cases are four times higher than at this point last year — more than 1,000 patients in hospital beds with flu every day this week in england compared tojust under 250 at the same time last year. and there are also rising numbers of cases of covid, norovirus and another respiratory virus called rsv. hugh pym is outside a hospital in south london. so hospital bosses are sounding a warning? yes, they are, sophie.

here's ben chu.applications for pension credit in recent months. it follows the chancellor, rachel reeves, announcing on the 29th ofjuly that winter fuel payments would be means tested by limiting the benefit mainly to those also in receipt of pension credit. before the announcement, the average number of weekly applications was around 3800. since then, it's been averaging around 91100. the pensions minister has told parliament that in mid—november, there were around 91,000 pension credit applications that had not yet been processed. of all the pension credit applications sincejuly, around 45% of them have been successful, and if successful, those individuals are then eligible for the £200—300 winter fuel payment. here's another relevant bit of context. in the week of the 18th of november, the average processing time for a pension credit application was 65 working days, or 13 weeks. that was up from nine weeks at the end ofjuly. so if you put in the claim in mid—november, the average applicant at tha

our bbc verify correspondent, ben chu, has been looking at the details. in 2015. second, the economy. the prime minister is expected to announce a pledge to boost people's incomes by 2029. the government's official forecaster is projecting a measure called real household disposable income per person will rise by around 0.5% per year over this parliament, slightly better than in the last parliament. but that would still be worse than every other parliament going back for decades. be aware, though, that these are only forecasts and these ones are especially uncertain. they might well prove to be wrong. third, police. the government is recommitting to the labour manifesto pledge to deliver 13,000 additional neighbourhood police officers, police community support officers and special constables. a challenge here is the fact that the police federation of england and wales last survey of its members suggested around a fifth of existing officers were planning to leave the force, with many citing low morale. fourth, housing. labour's manifesto pledged to build 1.

studio: that was ben chu. we were focusing on one of those promises, on policing.edicated to helping victims of crime and traumatic incidents, and it's ceo katie kempen is here with me now. from what you heard of sir keir starmer on putting more police on the beat, on the stamping out anti—social behaviour in every community, what did you think of that? was that welcome news to you? there will certainly be some victims who we are looking after who welcomed the announcement of more bobbies on the beat, particular victims of anti—social behaviour he may struggle to get that access to a named officer and get the transparency of food to contact to get support. however, the safer streets mission is more important than bobbies on the beat, and includes halving violence against women and girls and having serious violence, and that is it within the context where police morale is low, and the wait to get to court is longer than it's ever been. so, the criminaljustice longer than it's ever been. so, the criminal justice system longer than it's ever been. so, the criminaljust

attempt by the government to show how it will make improvements in a range of areas. 0ur correspondent, ben chut to recruit round 1200 new police officerings as part of that but officerings as part of that but of course we will be building this, year after year, as we go through the parliament, and thatis through the parliament, and that is the point today, of saying this is a commitment for the parliament to get those neighbourhood police back in our community, where we can see them, because they have gone, and that is why we have seen orring is shoplifting, street crime, that is why too often people say they don't feel safe in town centres any more, we need to turn that round, getting neighbourhood policing into the community will be a crucial part of that. shadow home seceretary chris philp says the announcement is a desperate attempted re—launch for a government that has broken promises on tax. what i understand of their announcement coming later is that they're going to announce 13,000 officers. but when you look at it, that is again unsurprisingly for this labour government completely dis