Question 4: Although the ________ is responsible for setting interest rates, the Chancellor also plays an important part in the monetary policy structure.
Question 5: Traditionally the budget speech was delivered on ________, a Tuesday (although not always) in March, as Britain's tax year follows the Julian Calendar.
Question 6: The Chancellor of the Exchequer is the title held by the British Cabinetminister who is responsible for all ________ and financial matters.
Question 8: In the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries it was common for the Prime Minister to also serve as Chancellor of the Exchequer if he sat in the Commons; the last Chancellor who was simultaneously Prime Minister & ________ was Stanley Baldwin in 1923.
Question 9: The Chancellor controlled monetary policy as well as fiscal policy until 1997, when the ________ was granted independent control of its interest rates.
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