Extend HS2 and up NHS pay: Public sent Treasury 2,400 Autumn Statement ideas

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

49% : Jonathan Simons, a former civil servant and now partner at policy consultancy Public First said that while it was great to see a high-level of interest in policy making, he suspected the "vast majority" of proposals to be "discarded almost immediately and never forwarded to ministers.""They represent less a surge of democratic engagement, and more just a cost to government in terms of officials reading them," he said.also asked HM Treasury via a Freedom of Information request how many of the policies were sent for consideration by either the Chancellor or any of the junior ministers via advice, as well as how many public policy suggestions made it into Spring's Budget - and what these policies were.

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