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Commentary and UK Policy Implications

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 March 2020

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Copyright © 1998 National Institute of Economic and Social Research

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(1) This is because the budget includes an increase in government consumption, which offsets the tax rises on consumption. The extent to which the budget reduces consumption would be higher if this element- carry-over of the underspend were not regarded as a budget measure. See The 1998 Budget, The Treasury Committee, pp. 22 and 40.

(2) HM Treasury argues that since the ERM now has bands much wider than when the Maastricht Treaty was signed there is no requirement to reach this rate two years in advance of membership. The European Commission seem to disagree.