FT.com - Budget 2006http://www.ft.com/indepth/budget2006http://www.ft.com/rss/indepth/budget2006FT.com - Budget 2006en© Copyright The Financial Times Ltd 2012. "FT" and "Financial Times" are trademarks of the Financial Times. See http://www.ft.com/servicestools/help/terms#legal1 for the terms and conditions of reuse.client.support@ft.com (Client Support)Thu, 23 Mar 2006 19:47:33 +0000Wed, 15 Feb 2012 00:45:21 +0000Newspapers60http://news.ft.com/cms/d1f3ce1a-6bbe-11da-bb53-0000779e2340.gifFT.com - Budget 2006http://www.ft.com/indepth/budget2006(PICS-1.1 "http://www.classify.org/safesurf/" L gen true for "http://www.ft.com/" r (SS~~000 1))Chancellor's schools pledge could cost £17bnhttp://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/3dabf6f2-baa0-11da-980d-0000779e2340.html?ftcamp=rsshttp://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/3dabf6f2-baa0-11da-980d-0000779e2340.html?ftcamp=rssGordon Brown's Budget pledge to close the funding gap between state and private schools could cost £17bn and take 16 years to complete, the Institute for Fiscal Studies said.Thu, 23 Mar 2006 19:34:53 +00003dabf6f2-baa0-11da-980d-0000779e2340NHS hit by higher education spendinghttp://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/5e769a90-baa0-11da-980d-0000779e2340.html?ftcamp=rsshttp://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/5e769a90-baa0-11da-980d-0000779e2340.html?ftcamp=rssThe projections for public expenditure after 2008 are so tight, the Institute for Fiscal Studies calculated, that if Gordon Brown maintained the recent growth of education spending, the NHS would be squeezed. Thu, 23 Mar 2006 19:39:21 +00005e769a90-baa0-11da-980d-0000779e2340Video: Martin Wolf - Brown is trying to establish his domestic agenda http://news.ft.com/cms/5a0eb5d2-ba73-11da-980d-0000779e2340.html?ftcamp=rsshttp://news.ft.com/cms/5a0eb5d2-ba73-11da-980d-0000779e2340.html?ftcamp=rssThis was not a Budget in any useful sense. It was a plan for Labour's domestic programme built around spending on the Public Services with the priority set very clearly on education.Thu, 16 Mar 2006 20:03:56 +0000329ef024-ba74-11da-980d-0000779e2340PM fights to hold job and restore probityhttp://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/4cebb04e-baa0-11da-980d-0000779e2340.html?ftcamp=rsshttp://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/4cebb04e-baa0-11da-980d-0000779e2340.html?ftcamp=rssWhen will Tony Blair quit Downing Street? At the end of a tumultuous week in politics, the question looms larger than ever. Thu, 23 Mar 2006 19:47:33 +00004cebb04e-baa0-11da-980d-0000779e2340Video: Philip Stephens on Brown's most political Budget yet http://news.ft.com/cms/ba855d7c-ba4f-11da-980d-0000779e2340.html?ftcamp=rsshttp://news.ft.com/cms/ba855d7c-ba4f-11da-980d-0000779e2340.html?ftcamp=rssThe Budget was rather like a chinese meal: once you'd eaten it, you wondered what was there. What will be remembered is the political message. This was Gordon Brown's final bid for the leadership.Thu, 16 Mar 2006 20:03:56 +00003d0a86e0-ba74-11da-980d-0000779e2340Plans to boost low income access to bank serviceshttp://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/cbf231b8-b9b2-11da-9d02-0000779e2340.html?ftcamp=rsshttp://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/cbf231b8-b9b2-11da-9d02-0000779e2340.html?ftcamp=rssThe government announced further plans to help people on low incomes to access mainstream financial services and said it wanted them to be able to get affordable forms of credit.Wed, 22 Mar 2006 15:13:00 +0000cbf231b8-b9b2-11da-9d02-0000779e2340Road tax rise seen as no obstacle to 4x4 saleshttp://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/45174bb2-baa0-11da-980d-0000779e2340.html?ftcamp=rsshttp://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/45174bb2-baa0-11da-980d-0000779e2340.html?ftcamp=rssLand Rover's Solihull factory is running at full capacity, churning out big 4x4s as fast as it can to meet record global demand, while in Manchester.Thu, 23 Mar 2006 19:37:48 +000045174bb2-baa0-11da-980d-0000779e2340