While the Conservatives have insisted they provided all necessary information, Reeves pushed forward with the Budget Responsibility Law as part of her pledge to further strengthen the OBR to avoid ...

Britain's economy is forecast to grow by 1.0% this year, the Office for Budget Responsibility said on Wednesday, halving its estimate made in October. March 26, 2025 UK inflation to average 3.2% ...

Chancellor Rachel Reeves will acknowledge she needs to go ‘further and faster to kickstart growth’ in her spring statement .

Of all the blunders Rachel Reeves has made since becoming Chancellor, none has been greater than her empowerment of the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR). This 'independent' forecaster ...

A quick analysis by the Chair from the UK Office for Budget Responsibility, Richard Hughes, on the Budget announced to Parliament on Wednesday by Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rachel Reeves MP. The ...

The minister told the BBC the changes were prompted by the spending watchdog, the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR), taking “a slightly different number” than the Government in its ...

Why was the Office for Budget Responsibility created and what does it do? The parties' disagreement about the state of the public finances continues post-Budget. The former chancellor says the ...

The Chancellor will set out the measures as she delivers her spring statement in response to a gloomy economic assessment by the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR). The watchdog’s assessment ...

Following the Autumn Budget, Reeves was left with a £9.9bn buffer to maintain her key rule for day-to-day spending to be funded by ...

Office for Budget Responsibility, London, the United Kingdom, provides independent and authoritative analysis of the UK's public finances. Get access to the below data and more business development ...