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Budget dates and Chancellors since 1900

Year Chancellor Day Date
1900 Hicks Beach Monday 5 March
1901 Hicks Beach Thursday 18 April
1902 Hicks Beach Monday 14 April
1903 Ritchie Thursday 23 April
1904 Austen Chamberlain Tuesday 19 April
1905 Austen Chamberlain Monday 10 April
1906 Asquith Monday 30 April
1907 Asquith Thursday 18 April
1908 Asquith Thursday 7 May
1909 Lloyd George Thursday 29 April
1910 Lloyd George Thursday 30 June
1911 Lloyd George Thursday 16 May
1912 Lloyd George Tuesday 2 April
1913 Lloyd George Tuesday 22 April
1914 Lloyd George Monday 4 May
1915 Lloyd George Tuesday 4 May
1915 McKenna Tuesday 21 September
1916 McKenna Tuesday 4 April
1917 Bonar Law Wednesday 2 May
1918 Bonar Law Wednesday 22 April
1919 Austen Chamberlain Wednesday 30 April
1919 Austen Chamberlain Wednesday 29 October
1920 Austen Chamberlain Monday 19 Apr
1921 Austen Chamberlain Monday 25 April
1922 Horne Monday 1 May
1923 Baldwin Monday 16 April
1924 Snowden Tuesday 29 April
1925 Churchill Tuesday 28 April
1926 Churchill Monday 26 April
1927 Churchill Monday 11 April
1928 Churchill Tuesday 24 April
1929 Churchill Monday 15 April
1930 Snowden Monday 14 April
1931 Snowden Monday 27 April
1931 Snowden Thursday 10 September
1932 Neville Chamberlain Tuesday 19 April
1933 Neville Chamberlain Tuesday 25 April
1934 Neville Chamberlain Tuesday 17 April
1935 Neville Chamberlain Monday 15 April
1936 Neville Chamberlain Tuesday 21 April
1937 Neville Chamberlain Tuesday 20 April
1938 Simon Tuesday 26 April
1939 Simon Tuesday 25 April
1939 Simon Wed 27 September
1940 Simon Tuesday 23 April
1940 Wood Tuesday 23 July
1941 Wood Monday 7 April
1942 Wood Tuesday 14 April
1943 Wood Monday 12 April
1944 Anderson Tuesday 25 April
1945 Anderson Tuesday 24 April
1945 Dalton Tuesday 23 October
1946 Dalton Tuesday 9 April
1947 Dalton Tuesday 15 April
1947 Dalton Wednesday 12 November
1948 Cripps Tuesday 6 April
1949 Cripps Wednesday 6 April
1950 Cripps Tuesday 18 April
1951 Gaitskell Tuesday 10 April
1952 Butler Tuesday 11 March
1953 Butler Tuesday 14 April
1954 Butler Tuesday 6 April
1955 Butler Tuesday 19 April
1955 Butler Wednesday 26 October
1956 Macmillan Tuesday 17 April
1957 Thorneycroft Tuesday 9 April
1958 Heathcoat-Amory Tuesday 15 April
1959 Heathcoat-Amory Tuesday 7 April
1960 Heathcoat-Amory Monday 4 April
1961 Selwyn Lloyd Monday 17 April
1962 Selwyn Lloyd Monday 9 April
1963 Maudling Wednesday 3 April
1964 Maudling Tuesday 14 April
1965 Callaghan Tuesday 6 April
1966 Callaghan Tuesday 3 May
1967 Callaghan Tuesday 11 April
1968 Jenkins Tuesday 19 March
1969 Jenkins Tuesday 15 April
1970 Jenkins Tuesday 14 April
1971 Barber Tuesday 30 March
1972 Barber Tuesday 21 March
1973 Barber Tuesday 6 March
1974 Healey Tuesday 26 March
1974 Healey Tuesday 12 November
1975 Healey Tuesday 15 April
1976 Healey Tuesday 6 April
1976 Healey Wednesday 15 December
1977 Healey Tuesday 29 March
1978 Healey Tuesday 11 April
1979 Howe Tuesday 12 June
1980 Howe Wednesday 26 March
1981 Howe Tuesday 10 March
1982 Howe Tuesday 9 March
1983 Howe Tuesday 15 March
1984 Lawson Tuesday 13 March
1985 Lawson Tuesday 19 March
1986 Lawson Tuesday 18 March
1987 Lawson Tuesday 17 March
1988 Lawson Tuesday 15 March
1989 Lawson Tuesday 14 March
1990 Major Tuesday 20 March
1991 Lamont Tuesday 19 March
1992 Lamont Tuesday 10 March
1993 Lamont Tues day 16 March
1993 Clarke Tuesday 30 November
1994 Clarke Tuesday 29 November
1995 Clarke Tuesday 28 November
1996 Clarke Tuesday 26 November
1997 Brown Wednesday 2 July
1998 Brown Tuesday 17 March
1999 Brown Tuesday 9 March
2000 Brown Tuesday 21 March
2001 Brown Wednesday 7 March
2002 Brown Wednesday 17 April
2003 Brown Wednesday 9 April
2004 Brown Wednesday 17 March
2005 Brown Wednesday 16 March
2006 Brown Wednesday 22 March
2007 Brown Wednesday 21 March
2008 Darling Wednesday 12 March

* In some years, (e.g. 1947, 1955, 1964, 1974 and 1976), an extra budget was delivered to adjust details of taxation because of changing economic circumstances.

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