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Spending Review expected around 12:30GMT

UK

Chancellor Sunak will present the Spending Review (i.e. mini-budget) this afternoon after PMQs (roughly 12:30GMT).

  • The scope for this has been scaled back from a multiyear review to something that might leave a lot of the harder decisions on how to raise extra revenue to plug the gaps from the Covid-induced deficit until the March Budget. Extra money for the NHS is expected, a national infrastructure bank based in the North of England and possibly reforms to how pension contributions are taxed to make them less generous to higher rate taxpayers are among the measures expected to be announced today.
  • The Spending Review will contain the OBR's updated forecasts for the economy and with it updated expectations for issuance.
  • The DMO will release its new remit alongside the Spending Review and the agenda for the consultation for the investor/GEMMs meetings which will likely contain a broad overview of the gilts expected to be issued alongside a provisional calendar for January-March issuance.
  • The outcome of the RPI review will also be announced, something that will be watched particularly closely by the linker market.

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