Home
Investment
News & Views
Company News
news storage
Brown sets 24 March date for budget
Mon, 06 Sep, 2010
INVESTMENT NEWS
Company Search
Search QCK.COM
Investment Home
News & Views
Top Stories
Charting
Company Search
Watchlist
Market Reports
Market Buzz
Company News
Economic News
New Issues
Other News
Brown sets 24 March date for budget
Wed, 10 Mar 2010, 12:32:00
Prime Minister Gordon Brown has confirmed that the 2010 Budget will be delivered on 24 March, six weeks before the anticipated general election date of 6 May. In a speech at Thomson Reuters in Canary Wharf, Brown said the Budget would take place in "two weeks' time." Brown also said that the government had guided Britain through an economic "storm" and declared: "We will do whatever it takes." Chancellor Alistair Darling later gave official confirmation of the exact date, Wednesday 24 March, in a written statement to Parliament. Darling will have to convince voters that the government can tackle Britain's record deficit. He previously promised to more than halve the deficit in four years. The deficit is forecast to hit around 12.7% of gross domestic product in the current financial year. Revised figures published in February showed that the fourth quarter gross domestic product (GDP) figure rose more than expected. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) revised its initial estimate of a 0.1% increase in GDP in the fourth quarter to a rise of 0.3%. However, the revised figure still lagged behind the 0.4% increase in GDP that economists were expecting prior to the initial estimate released in January. New GDP figures are expected in late April, less than a fortnight before the likely general election date.
©2004-2009 QCK.com
