Office for Budget Responsibility

Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves took to the House of Commons to deliver the Spring Statement on the economy...

Fiscal rules should help us make good decisions not trap us in a cycle of speculation. We must shift from narrow short-term metrics towards long-term economic health.

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With relations between the government and the Office for Budget Responsibility at an all-time low, what might be next for the organisation?

Rachel Reeves seems to have made a u turn on her budget planning. What does this mean and why do we even know anything yet?

Parmjit Dhanda and Jeremy Mindell argue that the OBR’s powers have exceeded reasonable limits, resulting in perverse decisions that have undermined growth and jeopardised democratic accountability.

Rachel Reeves will say she is “proud” of what Labour has delivered “in just nine months”, listing achievements including lower interest rates, and increasing NHS funding and the national living wage.

Backlash from unions and activists has begun following a BBC report that the Treasury is eyeing billions of pounds in welfare and other departmental cuts amid expectations that the Chancellor's fiscal headroom has been wiped out. Insiders…

Rachel Reeves will set out the state of Labour's spending inheritance from the Tories as the Treasury finishes its assessment of the public finances.

The legislative programme of an incoming government is often packed with large and dramatic measures, and Labour's first King’s Speech was no exception.

In Truss, we do not trust Merry mini-Budget eve to all who celebrate! It will be a year tomorrow since Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng’s disastrous fiscal statement that “crashed the economy” as Labour likes to put it. And with the short-lived…

In the wake of the disastrous Liz Truss/Kwasi Kwarteng mini-Budget, a strange new object has come to dominate discussion of the economy: an alleged “black hole”, perhaps as big as £50bn, that has now apparently opened up in the public…