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 ...

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 ...

But the only reason Rachel Reeves, the chancellor, will address the House of Commons on Wednesday is because, by law, the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) is required to produce two ...

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 ...

The government said the sweeping cuts to welfare announced last week would save £5bn for the Treasury, but the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) is said to have rejected the estimate ...

The Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) has given its latest take on the economy, and it's full of big changes to its economic projections but also plenty of red flags about the levels of ...

The Office for Budget Responsibility has halved the UK growth forecast for 2025 from 2% to 1%, Chancellor Rachel Reeves has said. However, the fiscal watchdog said that while growth has been ...

But with grim figures expected from the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) watchdog on growth forecasts, Ms Reeves faces difficult decisions as she attempts to balance the books. Article ...

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Growth slowed in the second half of last year, and the Office for Budget Responsibility, an independent watchdog, halved its forecast for growth this year to 1 percent from 2 percent. It said a ...