By Lucy Phillips
4 February 2011
Chancellor George Osborne today launched an online portal for people to submit their ideas for the forthcoming Budget.
The online hub allows anyone to send suggestions to the Treasury ahead of the March 23 Budget.
Osborne said: ‘I want to hear about your brightest and best ideas. Because next month’s Budget will be about growth. In particular, I want to know what businesses, large and small, want from me... So go online and tell me what you think.’
He announced the Budget portal while visiting a manufacturing firm in Cheltenham this morning.
It follows the ‘spendingchallenge', launched by the coalition before the October Comprehensive Spending Review. More than 100,000 members of the public submitted suggestions on how the government could save money. One of these included scrapping National Insurance cards, which is expected to save £1m a year.
The Budget will take place on March 23.
