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英国财政大臣George·Osborne在英国议会公布政府2013年预算案（Budget 2013）时表示，英国经济将在2013年增长0.6%。这个数字是他四个月前发布秋季财政报告时预期的1.2%的一半。

-Look at this!-Wow, it's beautiful.
-It's ... and entertain your friends, a glass of wine...

For first-time buyer, Katherine, it's budget gift. With just 10,000 pounds saved, she can now afford to buy a 150,000-pound home in this barren department block in Hemel Hempstead.
-Well, it's a great news for frist-time buyers, like myself. I've been saving for over a year now to get onto a property ladder, and I've got myself about 10,000 pounds. So that should mean I'll get on the property ladder sooner rather than later. I'm using 5% deposit.

Under the scheme, borrowers will need to raise deposit 5% to the value of the property they want to buy, but can borrow first 20% on an interest-free basis for 5 years. After the 5 years, repayments will attract to a fee of 1.75%, which will rise annually by 1% above inflation. This scheme is available for homes worth up to 60,000 pounds and is relevant of income.

-The British people like buying their own houses. If you look at all the consumer research that is done, it demonstrates a deep-felt desire by British citizens to own their home. This will facilitate some people getting their home earlier.

Well, the property market has improved over the last year here in Hemel Hamstead, and it is possible to get a mortage with 5% deposit at a rate that wouldn't seem reasonable 5 years ago. So the critics of this scheme are warning that the government shouldn't make it too easy for people to be able to buy their own homes. So the critics of this scheme say the government shouldn't make it too easy for people to buy homes.

-We don't have enough homes in the economy, so if more people are trying to buy the already restricted supply of homes we've got, there's a real danger that we'll see another short-term price bubble which may make housing more unaffordable again and create a kind of circumstances that helps to cause the recession in the first place.

The chancellor was at the building site in Greenwich this morning and perhaps he should have kept his heart heard for the barrage he received later in the comments by his opposite number, accusing him of creating a scheme subsidizes the second homes for the rich.

-Is the tax-payer's subsidy available for second homes to people with incomes over 100,000 or for buy ** property, yes or no, yes or no, yes or no? Clear up, or the confusion and chaos will contine. Do you want to clarify it?

The governement insists the scheme is for family homes not second homes, and the funding can be switched off after 3 years if there are concerns over a causing a housing boom. But is the cnancellor laying the foundations for growth or building structures that won't stand up.

Jason Farrel, Sky News.