Budget purdah

Budget purdah, in the United Kingdom, is the period after plans have been prepared but before the Chancellor of the Exchequer's annual budget is announced, when they refrain from discussing any matters which have relevance to the forthcoming budget.[1]

Traditionally, the non-disclosure of any budget information being available before the Chancellor of the Exchequer delivered the budget speech was highly enforced in government. For example, Hugh Dalton had to resign after he made "an off-the-cuff remark to a journalist, telling him of some of the tax changes" in the autumn 1947 budget speech.[2] However, during the 21st century the practice has substantially been reduced with government routinely preannouncing budget policy before official publication.[3][4]

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References

  1. ↑ Rutter, Jill (12 March 2012). "The strange death of Budget purdah". Institute for Government. Retrieved 24 March 2021.
  2. ↑ Pimlott, Ben (1986). Hugh Dalton. London: Papermac. ISBN 0-333-41251-6. OCLC 13095434.
  3. ↑ rutter, Jill; Tetlow, Gemma (19 March 2024). "The Treasury needs to engage earlier and more widely on tax reform". Institute for Government.
  4. ↑ Elliott, Larry (25 October 2021). "Budget purdah has been replaced with news management and spin". The Guardian.


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