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It's a rare good news day for Chancellor
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Rachel Reeves today because the Office
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for National Statistics has recorded a
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fiscal surplus in January of more than
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30 billion pounds. Uh this is
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significant because it's the highest
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ever fiscal surplus in a single month
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recorded by the Office for National
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Statistics since records began in the
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early 1990s. So we can see the surplus
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in January of uh30 billion pounds almost
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double that of the previous January uh
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of around 15 billion.