Budget archive

Please find below the links to our coverage of previous Budget Reports, Pre-Budget Reports, and Autumn Statements:

23 March 2011 Budget

Last year the spending cuts and the tax rises; this year renewal and recovery. That had long been the message offered by the Government in the approach to its second Budget, and the Chancellor, George Osborne was quick to assert the positive outlook of his statement.

22 June 2010 Emergency Budget Report

The new Government’s emergency Budget was presented to Parliament on 22 June 2010. The Chancellor focussed on spending cuts and increases in VAT and reductions in corporation tax rates.

Comprehensive Spending Review : 20 October 2010

The cuts revealed in their full extent.

The Finance Bill 2011

The coalition government has taken the new and welcome step of publishing draft clauses for the 2011 Finance Act.