FILE PHOTO: British Pound Sterling banknotes are seen in a box at the Money Service Austria company’s headquarters in Vienna, Austria, November 16, 2017.REUTERS/Leonhard Foeger
October 21, 2021
LONDON (Reuters) – British public borrowing totalled 21.778 billion pounds ($30.1 billion) in September, the Office for National Statistics said on Thursday, slightly below the 22.6 billion pounds forecast by economists in a Reuters poll.
Public sector borrowing for the first half of the financial year fell to 108.1 billion pounds, down by 101.2 billion pounds from April-September 2020 when the public finances faced the full force of the COVID-19 pandemic.
($1 = 0.7239 pounds)
(Reporting by David Milliken)
