[AndyB2008]

I do remember Children's BBC being shunted over to BBC 2 for the afternoon for the budget (and Children's ITV being dropped entirely, I'm pretty sure). A quick look at Genome shows that it was on BBC 1 throughout the 1980s, even though there were no pictures to show, often billed as a Newsnight special. The first televised Budget in 1990 was the first on BBC 2 and it has stayed on there since.

At one point when the Budget overran, they stuck with it until the 5.40pm news and the repeat edition of Home And Away was moved to 6.30pm, replacing the non-news regional stuff.

Yep, no Children's ITV aired on Budget Day.