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The UK fiscal year ends on 5 April each year. The financial year ends on 31 March of each year. Thus, the UK budget for financial year 2021 runs from 1 April 2021 to 31 March 2022 and is often referred to as 2021–22. Historically, the budget was usually released in March, less than one month before the beginning of the new fiscal year.
Economic growth was forecast to be 2% for 2026, 1.8% for 2027 and 1.7% for 2028, while the UK's rate of inflation was estimated to fall below the Bank of England's 2% target by the end of June 2024, and would then fall to 1.5% in 2025. Public debt, excluding Bank of England debt, was forecast to be 91.7% of GDP in 2024, rising to 92.8% in 2025 ...
While predicting an overall growth of 4.2% for 2022, the OBR forecast the economy would shrink by around 1.4% during 2023. After that, however, it predicted growth for the years 2024–2026, with 1.3% in 2024, 2.6% in 2025, and 2.7% in 2026. The rate of inflation was predicted to be 9.1% in 2022 and 7.4% in 2023.
For the financial year 2023–24, total government spending is expected to be £1,189 billion. [ 2 ] The UK government has spent more than it has raised in taxation since financial year 2001–02, [ 3 ] creating a budget deficit and leading to growing debt interest payments.
In Australia, a fiscal year is commonly called a "financial year" (FY) and starts on 1 July and ends on the next 30 June. Financial years are designated by the calendar year of the second half of the period. For example, financial year 2025 is the 12-month period ending on 30 June 2025 and can be referred to as FY2024/25.
The October 2024 United Kingdom budget was delivered to the House of Commons by Rachel Reeves, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, on 30 October 2024. She is the inaugural female to present a UK Budget, marking the Labour Party's first Budget in over 14 years.
Brexit: Physical checks begin on meat and dairy products, plants, seeds, and a number of other goods imported from the European Union, which are expected to cost British firms about £330m per year. [381] 2024 Hainault sword attack: A 14-year-old boy is killed and four other people are wounded by a man wielding a sword in Hainault, northeast ...
An Act to authorise the use of resources for the year ending with 31 March 2025; to authorise both the issue of sums out of the Consolidated Fund and the application of income for that year; and to appropriate the supply authorised for that year by this Act and by the Supply and Appropriation (Anticipation and Adjustments) Act 2024. [i]