In today’s Spring Budget (15th March), chancellor of the exchequer Jeremy Hunt outlined the government's economic plans.
The statement — which was devised to deliver “long-term, sustainable growth” — focused on four pillars of industrial strategy: ‘enterprise’, ‘employment’, ‘education’, and ‘everwhere’.
Despite specialist finance experts’ hopes of some level of intervention to help the property and housebuilding sectors, no major reforms were announced today.
The announcements made by Jeremy Hunt include:
