Hugo Gye at The i Paper posts on X: "No10 has just confirmed that the Budget won't be before mid-November at the earliest. Treasury has not yet given the OBR the ten-week notice period that it needs to prepare an updated economic and fiscal forecast."
- MNI noted on 28 August, "As we have moved into a November / December Budget looking probable, there will be no further constraints from CPI (September figures used to uprate benefits), party conferences or parliamentary recesses etc. We still assume that the Budget will take place on a Wednesday which would make 12 November the earliest potential date ...This means that it would be later than the November MPC meeting and MPR release - and in our view keeps a potential December cut on the table." (see 'UK FISCAL: November (or December) Budget?", 28 August)