The Autumn Budget of 2024 included a significant funding boost for the NHS in order to reduce waiting lists, however, as of January 2025, the additional out-of-hours appointments had not yet been offered to patients.

On 16 September 2024, the British Medical Association's junior doctors committee accepted the Government's pay offer. 66% voted in favour of the deal, which raised the average pay across the two years of the dispute by 22.3%.

All the relevant employment data are not available, however, the Talking Therapies program has been expanded, making for a 62% increase from 2024 in the number of patients receiving employment support specifically.

A new deal was struck between the NHS and independent sector, projected to increase capacity by 1 million appointments per year.

Health Secretary Wes Streeting announced an annual funding boost of £900 million for GP practices to cover the planned financial incentives. Contractual changes designed to promote consistent doctor-patient relationships and improve outcomes for patients with chronic or complex conditions were also announced.

The schedule and "overall size and ambition of the programme" is presently under review.

Having found the original plan behind schedule, underfunded and lacking a realistic delivery timeline, the government confirmed that, with these issues addressed, all projects in the New Hospital Programme will be built.

Reports suggest that some projects may not commence until as late as 2039, leading to concerns about deteriorating infrastructure and patient safety.

The Autumn Budget of 2024 allocated £1.5 billion to fund “new surgical hubs which will help build capacity for over 30,000 additional procedures, and more than 1.25 million additional diagnostic tests (which use CT or MRI scanners)". It remains uncertain what proportion of this funding will go towards scanners in particular, or whether it will be sufficient to double their number.

Keir Starmer's Elective Reform Plan proposes to meet this goal by extending hours for Community Diagnostic Centres, expanding surgical hubs, and incentivising staff for out-of-hours work.

The target was achieved between July and November 2024, when there were nearly 2.2 million more elective care appointments compared to the same period in 2023.

Keir Starmer's Elective Reform Plan proposes to meet this goal by extending hours for Community Diagnostic Centres, expanding surgical hubs, and incentivising staff for out-of-hours work.

The British Dental Association had a plan in place already when Labour announced this promise. Material progress, however, has been lacking. Key elements of the proposed dental recovery plan are yet to be realised, e.g. deployment of mobile dental units and recruitment of dentists through financial incentives have seen minimal implementation.

Yvette Cooper launched the Border Security Command and recruitment has begun.

The partnership was suspended before the election and scrapped immediately upon Labour's election.

The number of asylum seekers housed in hotels increased by approximately 21% during Labour’s first 3 months in government.

Yvette Cooper stated that the government had moved "1,000 more staff into returns and enforcement activity, which has already led to nearly 10,000 returns since the election, with enforced returns up by 19% and voluntary returns by 14%."

The Foreign Secretary signed a new readmissions agreement with Moldova.

The Home Secretary signed a joint statement with Iraq concerning, among other things, the return of illegal immigrants.

On 29 August 2024, the New Homes Accelerator was launched by Angela Rayner to speed up the delivery of stalled housing sites. The accelerator consists of experts from Homes England and central Government. It is expected to deliver up to 300,000 homes.

Several local councils stated that this goal is unrealistic, leading to the government promising revisions to the policy by the end of 2024.

On 31 July 2024, the assembly of a New Towns Taskforce was begun with the appointment of Sir Michael Lyons as the Taskforce chair and Dame Kate Barker as Deputy Chair. The remaining appointments were made at the first meeting of the taskforce in September 2024.

The Renters' Rights Bill is currently moving through Parliament and is expected to become law by summer 2025.

Six areas were added to the Devolution Priority Programme, and four new devolved institutions were created. Mayors are to be elected by May 2026.

The PM chaired the inaugural meeting of the Council of the Nations and Regions in Edinburgh.

Funding for neighbourhood police officers was doubled to £200 million.

In the "Plan for Change", this target was revised to "at least 95% clean power".

The PM announced that "Up to £21.7bn will subsidise three projects on Teesside and Merseyside" expected to begin storing captured carbon in 2028.

The Great British Energy Bill 2024-25 was introduced to the Commons on 25 July 2024 and is presently at the committee stage in the Commons.

The Budget allocated just £100 million to renewables projects for the first two years of this parliament.

This promise seems to have been based on report by energy think tank Ember which relates to decarbonation plans which differ significantly from Labour's. The report was also based on a price cap which has since decreased but is due to increase again in 2025.

On 14 October 2024, the Terrorism (Protection of Premises) Bill had its second reading in the House of Commons.

Keir Starmer told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of a "clear and urgent need for a ceasefire, the return of hostages and an immediate increase in the volume of humanitarian aid reaching civilians".

£740 million was allocated to increase SEND capacity in mainstream schools in England.

On 14 August 2024, Angela Rayner and Business Secretary Jonathan Reynolds met with trade unions and business leaders to discuss the Employment Rights Bill and the wider Plan to "Make Work Pay".

On 3 September 2024, Louise Haigh announced that "I will be instructing the CEO of Network Rail, the Director General for Rail Services in the Department for Transport, and the CEO of DfT OLR Holdings Ltd (DOHL) to establish a Shadow Great British Railways. As the main organisations responsible for the operational railway, they will be working in closer collaboration, bringing together track and train to deliver for passengers and freight users, ahead of legislation to create Great British Railways (GBR) as an arm's length body.

The Department for Transport confirmed that South Western Railways will be renationalised in May 2025, C2C in July 2025, and Greater Anglia in autumn 2025.

On 25 July 2024, the House of Commons agreed to establish the Modernisation Committee. Among other things, this committee will consider restrictions on MPs' second jobs.

On 25 July 2024, the House of Commons agreed to remove from the Guide to MP's Code of Conduct two banned conduct exceptions: "advice on public policy and current affairs" and "advice in general terms about how Parliament works".

On 15 October 2024, the House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill had its Second Reading in the House of Commons.

Having passed through the House of Commons, this bill is now under consideration by the House of Lords.

On 15 October 2024, the government introduced a statutory instrument making the HM Armed Forces Veteran Card valid Voter ID in forthcoming elections. A wider review of Voter ID rules is also underway.

Mission Boards were announced in the List of Cabinet Committees and their membership. The promised oversight board does not seem to have been established yet.

HM Treasury is currently recruiting for a Covid Counter-Fraud Commissioner.