• March 15 2023
  Hunt’s Budget offers £9bn business tax breaks and surprise pension boost

  Chancellor also extends free childcare to one- and two-year-olds in fiscal plan to increase workforce

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• March 15 2023
  UK energy bill support scheme extended to June

  Average household will save £160 in total, Treasury says

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• March 15 2023
  UK Budget 2023: the chancellor’s speech in full

  Jeremy Hunt’s statement to the House of Commons

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• March 15 2023
  Budget 2023: what it means for your money

  Moves to boost tax breaks on pensions, ease childcare costs and support household energy bills

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• March 15 2023
  UK economic downturn will be ‘shorter and shallower’, says OBR

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• March 14 2023
  Hunt to unveil ‘Budget for growth’ with billions pledged for business

  Big tax cuts ruled out but measures aim to tackle 1.1mn vacancies in British labour market

  
• March 14 2023
  Childcare

  Chancellor to expand free spaces in England’s nurseries

  Increase of early years entitlements part of a suite of measures aimed at making childcare more affordable

  
• March 14 2023
  Instant InsightClaer Barrett

  The Budget looks set to ease pension tension for high earners

  Expected relaxation of tax limits aims to help doctors but may create issues during a cost of living crisis

  
• March 14 2023
  Hunt to raise UK tax-free pension allowances to discourage early retirement

  Analyst warns chancellor’s Budget moves aimed at encouraging doctors back to work risks making ‘other rich people richer’

  
• March 14 2023
  Markets InsightBob Wigley

  How financial stability can be hard-wired more into the UK Budget process

  Last year’s ‘fiscal statement’ showed the need for reforms to strengthen input of the Bank of England and the OBR

  
• March 14 2023
  The Big Read

  UK Budget: why the economy has grown so slowly

  Britain’s decline relative to other rich nations is rooted in problems both old and new

  
• March 13 2023
  UK government spending

  Chancellor to offer nearly £1bn for new UK low-tax zones

  Treasury wants plan to drive economic growth but measures mark a striking scaling down of former PM’s vision

  
• March 13 2023
  UK to invest £2.5bn in quantum computing drive

  Decade-long scheme intended to boost government pledge to make Britain ‘next Silicon Valley’

  
• March 12 2023
  Hunt pledges to put Britain on the ‘hard road’ to recovery

  Chancellor will use his Budget to tackle cost of living crisis and persuade companies to invest more

  
• March 12 2023
  Explainer

  Five things to look out for in Jeremy Hunt’s Budget

  Chancellor expected to take steps to nurture economic growth as well as address cost of living crisis

  
• March 12 2023
  Hunt to lay out Budget plans to get sick and disabled back to work

  Chancellor is also expected to cut taxes on capital spending by businesses

  
• March 12 2023
  The FT ViewThe editorial board

  The UK chancellor’s fiscal conundrum

  Jeremy Hunt’s Budget must boost growth amid tight finances and political pressures

  
• March 10 2023
  Help for R&D among chancellor’s Budget pledges

  Hunt set to restore relief to companies which can prove they are spending large amounts on research

  
• March 10 2023
  Undercover EconomistTim Harford

  Most Budget-day tweaks make the tax system worse

  With each budget, the chancellor shuffles taxes and tries to pull a rabbit out of a hat. This is no way to run an economy

  
• March 8 2023
  Jeremy Hunt set to unveil Budget tax breaks for business investment

  Chancellor expected to propose new capital allowances regime to offset sharp tax rise

  
• March 7 2023
  UK politics & policy

  Plans for UK investment zones set to be scaled back in Budget

  Treasury to ‘catalyse’ limited growth clusters around research bases such as universities

  
• March 5 2023
  UK government spending

  Inflation hits UK government pledge to build 40 new hospitals

  Officials debate which projects to freeze with NHS capital budget now facing a £2bn shortfall

  
• March 4 2023
  MPs scrutinise investment tax breaks ahead of Budget

  ‘Reliefs shouldn’t just sit there forever’ says OTS tax chief

  
• March 3 2023
  Hunt to use Budget to help UK households with energy bills

  Chancellor will not have room for big giveaways on March 15 because of new forecasts of weak economic outlook

  
• February 28 2023
  UK energy

  Treasury looking at U-turn on planned cut to UK energy subsidies

  Hope for action on preventing fresh spike in household bills with room for manoeuvre in Budget