Autumn Statement 2010
29 November 2010
Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, made a statement to the House of Commons on Monday 29 November on the Autumn Statement.
The Chancellor updated MPs on the Office for Budget Responsibility's (OBR) growth forecasts for the UK economy.
- Video and Audio: Autumn Forecast
- Commons Hansard: Autumn Forecast
- Briefing papers: The 2010 Autumn Statement (PDF 124KB)
- Office for Budget Responsibility: Economic and fiscal outlook - November 2010 (external website)
Autumn Statement
The Government is legally required to publish a financial report on the state of the economy twice a year. From December 1976 until November 1992, the Chancellor of the Exchequer made an Autumn Statement to the House of Commons in addition to the annual Budget Statement in the Spring.
The Spring Budget and the Autumn Statement were merged and a "unified-Budget" was presented to Parliament in November 1993. The unified-Budget was then replaced in 1997 with the traditional Spring Budget and the publication of a new Pre-Budget Report in the autumn.
The coalition government announced in September 2010 that it would replace the Pre-Budget Report with an Autumn Statement. The new Autumn Statement included UK economic growth forecasts produced by the newly-created Office for Budget Responsibility.
Further information:
- HM Treasury (external website)