• The structural current deficit should be in balance in the final year of the five - year forecast period — 2015 - 16. (theguardian.com)
In other words, we have a better than 50pc chance of eliminating the structural current deficit in five years» time — that part of our borrowing that doesn't recover automatically as the economy grows. (politics.co.uk)
In Autumn Statement 2011 Osborne abandoned his plan of eliminating the structural current deficit over one Parliament, and since then there has been no progress on the deficit whatever, except via accounting wheezes involving Royal Mail and QE. (conservativehome.blogs.com)