Question follow-through · 95901

Budgets

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will publish copies of the redacted statements provided to opposition MPs each budget day in advance of the Chancellor’s statement to the House of Commons in each year since 1997.

answeredTreasury

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Answering body
Treasury
Tabled
1 Dec 2025
Target answer date
3 Dec 2025
Answer
9 Dec 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 1 Dec 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will publish copies of the redacted statements provided to opposition MPs each budget day in advance of the Chancellor’s statement to the House of Commons in each year since 1997.

  2. 3 Dec 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 9 Dec 2025

    Answer published

    Redactions to documents shared in confidence are made for reasons of market sensitivity. The full Budget documentation and the Chancellor’s speech are shared with all MPs as soon as the Chancellor finishes delivering the Budget speech.

Open official record

Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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