Fact-check in aisle three

Today's Tellytorial checks the numbers, and this corner graphs them.

Here are the total number of spending announcements counted by the Tellytorialist for each week of August, for each year, under WilliamsGovernment (light blue) and Dunderdale2011 (dark blue):

For the record, the "late" budget in 2011, the ostensible reason for the flurry of (re-)announcements in August, was on an earlier date than the budgets of both 2007 and 2008.