Public Finance

(asked on 4th September 2017) - View Source

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, in what year he plans to eliminate the deficit; and if he will make a statement.


Answered by
Steve Barclay Portrait
Steve Barclay
Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
This question was answered on 12th September 2017

The government remains committed to the fiscal rules set out at the 2016 Autumn Statement which will guide us, via interim targets in 2020-21, back to balance by the middle of the next decade.

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