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Budget 2011: As it happens

23 March 2011 •

We run down all the green announcements from Osborne's address as it happens

Just a few minutes to go until George Osborne's second budget and the expectations are that news on the Green Investment Bank (GIB) will be the main green announcement. The latest whispers are that...

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