From the Chancellor’s perspective, March’s public finances data delivered some good news, with underlying borrowing for 2012/13 coming in below 2011/12’s level. But the big picture is that the Government still ran an underlying deficit of almost 8% of GDP. And given the economy’s continued weakness, public borrowing is unlikely to see any significant decline this year.
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