English announces Budget 2014 delivery date

Finance Minister Bill English viewing a copy of the 2013 Budget. Photo / File / Mark Mitchell

Finance Minister Bill English will deliver Budget 2014 on Thursday, May 15 he said today.

The National-led Government's sixth Budget would "remain focused on delivering sensible policies that support a more competitive and faster-growing economy, more jobs, higher incomes and opportunities for New Zealand families," he said in a statement.

"The Government remains on track to surplus next year and we will then have choices that we simply don't have while we are running deficits.

"Budget 2014 will be about building on that success and ensuring the benefits of a stronger economy are locked in for New Zealanders and their families."