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Asked by Laura TrottConservativeTreasuryTabled Answered 4 September 2024UIN 3116

The question

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 29 July 2024 to Question 1370 on Public Finances, if she will publish assumptions made by the Government's (a) special advisers and (b) Ministers used as the basis for financial estimates on the last Administration's policies and spending decisions, set out in the Command Paper entitled Fixing the foundations.

Answered by Darren Jones

On 29th July, the Chancellor set out the £21.9bn pressure on departmental budgets in the 2024-25 financial year. This was accompanied by the ‘Fixing the Foundations’ paper you refer to, which sets out the detail of the pressures on the public finances that the government inherited.

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