Alistair Darling announced a £750m investment fund for emerging technologies and £435m of support for building offshore wind farms in a Budget that was dominated by eye-watering public borrowing figures
Photo: BBC Amid the headline debt figures – including forecast borrowing for 2009 of £175bn, up from £43bn forecast in the last Budget – the key measures for manufacturers included £405m of state funding to assist green manufacturing projects. It also included £500m of extra finance to help the construction industry build more homes and…
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