Question follow-through · 14024
Fiscal Policy
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether her Department has made as assessment of the potential impact on a) financial markets and b) borrowing rates of changing the horizon for fiscal rules from five years to ten.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 29 Jun 2026
- Target answer date
- 2 Jul 2026
- Answer
- 2 Jul 2026 · 3 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
29 Jun 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether her Department has made as assessment of the potential impact on a) financial markets and b) borrowing rates of changing the horizon for fiscal rules from five years to ten.
2 Jul 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
2 Jul 2026
Answer published
The fiscal rules require the current budget to be in surplus and net financial debt to be falling as a share of the economy by the third year of the rolling forecast period.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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