Burnham says long-awaited 10-year plan may be delayed until January – UK politics live

Yvette Cooper, the health secretary, has said her officials are “extremely excited” about one of the more obscure, but potentially most significant, changes in last week’s budget – the creation of a new category of “preventative” spending.

Internal government spending negotiations are all about DEL (departmental expenditure limits), and standard government accounting differentiates between resource DEL (day-to-day spending) and capital DEL.

Last week John Healey, the chancellor, announced that he would create a new category of ringfenced spending in the spending review next year – preventative DEL, or PDEL. This will ensure that budgets are protected for measures involving early intervention to create savings in the long term.