Office for Budget Responsibility: Forecasts — Written Question

Question

Neil O'Brien

Conservative — Harborough, Oadby and Wigston

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what discussions she had with the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) on the risk that OBR productivity growth forecasts would be revised down before the (a) Autumn Budget 2024 and (b) Spring Statement 2025.

Answer

Lucy Rigby

The Chancellor engages regularly with the OBR including in preparation for fiscal events. As the Government’s independent official forecaster, the OBR has full discretion over the judgements underpinning its forecasts. In the OBR's March Economic and Fisc...

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