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Strong rebound on the horizon with over £50bn extra help for businesses and households

3 March 2021

Ian Stewart, chief economist at Deloitte, comments on the Chancellor’s statement:

“More than £50 billion of extra help for businesses and households in the next year will give the economic recovery a shot in the arm. With the end of the lockdown in sight, the UK will see a strong rebound, with investment playing an outsize role.

“Even once the pandemic support schemes wind down, the public sector will be larger than it was before the crisis. To reverse the rise in the burden of public debt by the end of the parliament the government has pencilled in a rising take from business and income taxes from next spring.

“Paying down the public debt accumulated in the pandemic is likely to be the work of several governments. But the Chancellor is planning for beyond the pandemic, and the fiscal tightening that will be needed to begin to reduce levels of government debt.”

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