article_snippet: 5.3% Expected unemployment rate this year –nearly half the eurozone’s average of 9.8 per cent .
article_snippet: 0.2% Projected inflation rate this year .
article_snippet: £35bn Cut in Government interest payments on the national debt thanks to low inflation rate .
article_snippet: £5.2bn Projected size of budget surplus in 2018/19 .
article_snippet: 71.6% Debt as a share of GDP in 2019/20, down from 80.3% last year .
article_snippet: £13bn Expected proceeds from the sale of Government assets in Northern Rock and Bradford & Bingley .
article_snippet: Official figures suggest around £2billion could be paid out in bonuses between now and 2020.