article_snippet: George Osborne George Osborne said official predictions also saw the national debt starting to fall earlier than had previously been thought.
article_snippet: National debt as a proportion of GDP will start to fall next year, not 2016/17 as previously thought.
article_snippet: Meanwhile, debt as a proportion of GDP is expected to fall in the next fiscal year to 80.2 per cent.
article_snippet: Because the national debt share is falling a year earlier than forecast at the Autumn Statement, the squeeze on public spending ends a year earlier too. '
article_snippet: We can do that while still running a healthy surplus to bear down on We debt.'