The budget faces 19 amendments, some of which P&R describe as welcome, others damaging.

The Policy and Resources Committee has arranged to meet with the proposers of the numerous budget amendments this Friday (1 November).

Committee Head Deputy Lyndon Trott says they hope "to see where a consensus exists", ahead of debate.

"There will be some that we can be neutral on, others that we can support, and a few that we will need to oppose quite strenuously." 

Deputies are looking to tackle a debt that will total around £43M.

Deputy Trott expects the debate to last four days from Tuesday 5 November. 

"It's healthy to see this number of amendments, some of them I think are potentially quite damaging, but others are welcome, it is after all an important budget with some significant decisions that need to be made, and of course it is the budget immediately before the budget next June.

Some of the debate is likely to involved tedious repetition, but in a democracy these sorts of issues need to be debated, and debated properly."

Deputy Trott announced his plan to temporarily increase income tax to 22% earlier this month.