| Heading: |
Public Expenditure |
| Question ID: |
1787144 |
| UIN: |
40157 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-03-21 |
| Asking Member ID: |
3935 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Mel Stride
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| Asking Member handle: |
meljstride
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
@meljstride
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, in which financial year the current budget was last in surplus. |
| Is named day: |
true |
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| Date answered: |
2025-03-26 |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
4077 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Emma Reynolds
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| Answering Member handle: |
emmaforwycombe
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@emmaforwycombe
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| Answer text: |
The last financial year for which the current budget was in surplus was 2018-19, when there was a surplus of £0.8 billion. This was the only surplus since 2001-02, when the current budget was in surplus by £6.9 billion. The OBR has today forecast that the... |
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| Answering body ID: |
14 |
| Answering body name: |
Treasury |
| Tweeted: |
true |