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Type: IFS Press Releases Authors: Carl Emmerson and Christine Frayne
Related report: Updating the UK's code for fiscal stability
The Treasury today announced that the Pre-Budget Report would take place in 3 weeks' time on Thursday 2nd December. To contribute to the government's thinking in the run-up to the Budget the IFS today publishes new research, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, assessing the operation of the Government's Code for Fiscal Stability since its introduction in 1998. This code sets out the five key principles that the government should adhere to in formulating fiscal policy as responsibility, stability, transparency, fairness and efficiency. Search |
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