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Grant Robertson announces 2021 Budget date

10:35 am on 24 March 2021

Finance Minister Grant Robertson announces this year's budget will be delivered on 20 May.

Finance Minister Grant Robertson. Photo: RNZ / Samuel Rillstone

Robertson said the budget would focus on the government's objectives of continuing to keep New Zealand safe from Covid-19, accelerating the recovery and rebuild and addressing key issues like climate change, housing affordability and child poverty.