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UK Budget 2009

Budget briefing

By Steve Bernard, Helen Warrell, Valentina Romei, Jeremy Lemer and Cleve Jones

Published: April 15 2009 19:26 | Last updated: April 15 2009 19:26

With less than a week before the UK Treasury presents its 2009 budget, see how the economy has fared in a turbulent year of rising public debt and unemployment, declining manufacturing output and interest rates falling to a record low.

Click on each tab to see the indicator’s three-year history and expand the red shaded panel to see the past year in detail.

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