NHS engineer Ajay Kumar said he is disappointed with the Budget as it offers very little for workers.

The 39-year-old lives in Newton Mearns, East Renfrewshire, with his wife Kavi and their two children. And he thinks Philip Hammond has missed an opportunity to help stimulate the economy by encouraging people to spend.

The Kumars both work in the NHS and have been subjected to a 10-year public sector pay freeze that will not be eased by the raising of the tax-free personal allowance top £11,850 in April next year.

He said: “After the General Election I thought this would be different and they would have listened to how much people are worse off than they were 10 years ago, but I was wrong.

“The increase in personal allowance is welcome but equates to around £1,000 a year which does nothing to make up for the pay freeze we have had for the past 10 years.

“I think the Budget does nothing for people like us or any working person really. We are all worse off and he had a chance to give us something which would encourage us to spend again and stimulate growth but he missed the opportunity.

“He managed to find £2billion for Brexit and other things but I am very disappointed that he could not find anything for the working population.

“I know there are measures to help the under-30s, which are to be welcomed, but people in their forties are struggling as we are now worse off than we were in our thirties.”

Mr Kumar also thinks measures to cut stamp duty south of the Border would do nothing to help stimulate the housing market and allow families like theirs to move into bigger homes.

He added: “I don’t that raising the stamp duty threshold will do very much to help as the problem is not expensive homes or more tax. It is poor wages that mean people cannot move.”