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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.
The Treasury first published a scoping study for WGA in July 1998. WGA are prepared under Sections 9 to 11 of the Government Resources and Accounts Act 2000 and cover the whole of the UK public sector (central government, local government, health, and public corporations). [2]
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.
The UK government announces a scheme that will freeze wholesale gas and electricity prices for businesses for six months from 1 October. [175] 22 September – The UK government reverses the ban on fracking in the UK. [176] UK interest rates rise from 1.75 to 2.25%, the biggest increase in 27 years, as the Bank of England attempts to curb ...
17 July – The UK government confirms that every state school in England will have a defibrillator by summer 2023. [353] Weather warnings in the UK on 18 July 2022; 18 July 2022 United Kingdom heatwaves: The hottest day of the year is recorded by the Met Office, with a temperature of 38.1 °C (100.6 °F) in Santon Downham. [354]
On 23 September 2022, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Kwasi Kwarteng, delivered a Ministerial Statement entitled "The Growth Plan" to the House of Commons. [1] [2] Widely referred to in the media as a mini-budget (it not being an official budget statement), it contained a set of economic policies and tax cuts such as bringing forward the planned 1% cut in the basic rate of income tax to 19% ...
The government pledged to develop full UK Environmental Accounts by 2020. In December 2012, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) in partnership with the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) published a 'roadmap' that set out the timeline for the project to incorporate natural capital into the national accounts.
The Companies (Strategic Report) (Climate-related Financial Disclosure) Regulations 2022 32: The Whole of Government Accounts (Designation of Bodies) Order 2022 33: The Protection of Animals at the Time of Killing (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2022 34: The Consumer Scotland Act 2020 (Consequential Provisions and Modifications) Order 2022 35 ...