BBC News - Budget 2013

Budget bunner

21 March 2013 Last updated at 14:51

Row over Budget home loans plan

A political row has blown up over claims a Budget initiative aimed at helping people get on the housing ladder could be used for second home purchases.

Budget 'defers cuts until 2015-16'

The Budget allows further departmental spending cuts to be deferred until after the next election, according to the Institute for Fiscal Studies.

Features and Analysis

What the Budget numbers mean How do the chancellor's sums add up?

What does it mean for you? How Budget measures affect you

Borrowing unchanged? How chancellor has prevented borrowing going up

Out of the box Key Budget points at a glance

The Cinderella tax Why National Insurance cuts could make a huge difference

Tax changes 'benefit millions' More than 24 million people gain - but others lose

More budget headlines

Should Treasury take housing risk?

Why lend to house-buyers and not small businesses?

An 'optimal' Budget?

What did the constrained chancellor achieve?

Budget of paradoxes

No money to spend but determined to cut taxes

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Mixed messages

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Green dismay

Green campaigners angered over tax breaks for gas and oil
Gloomy forecast

Political reaction to some the Budget's key measures.
Losers and losers

Who has lost most and least from austerity?
Free money, anyone?

Radical options to rescue the economy
'Hard to bear'

Looking for work in one of the UK's poorest areas
Q&A: Benefit changes

Housing claimants to lose benefit on "spare" bedrooms