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3 December 2016

9:00 AM

3 December 2016

9:00 AM

Autumn Budgets

Philip Hammond announced that in future the Budget will be held in autumn rather than spring. This is not as revolutionary as some have made out.
— In his 1992 Budget Norman Lamont announced that there would be two budgets in 1993, one in spring and one in autumn, and that from then on the date would switch to autumn for good.

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