questionText: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, in which financial year the current budget was last in surplus.
answerText: The last financial year for which the current budget was in surplus was 2018-19, when there was a surplus of £0.8 billion. This was the only surplus since 2001-02, when the current budget was in surplus by £6.9 billion. The OBR has today forecast that the...
heading: Public Expenditure