[Spencer]

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.

I seem to remember that Children’s BBC moving to BBC2 also meant a switch of broom cupboards to the BBC2 continuity booth which was temporarily adorned with the some of the usual viewers’ artwork. Understandably it never looked like quite as much effort had gone into the decoration as in the usual broom cupboard.