Written Question·Treasury·UIN 57968

Office for Budget Responsibility

Tabled: 5 June 2025
Answered: 12 June 2025
Named Day

Question

Mr Peter Bedford

ConservativeMid Leicestershire

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of abolishing the Office for Budget Responsibility.

Answer

Emma Reynolds
The Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) is the government’s official independent forecaster. The OBR’s independent scrutiny, via its economic and fiscal forecasts, underpins the credibility of the government’s fiscal policy. That is why on coming into ...

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