Rachel Reeves, the chancellor, will on Wednesday have to respond to the OBR’s forecast for taxes, spending and borrowing ...

Former Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has criticised the Office of Budget Responsibility (OBR) for making “overly exaggerated” claims about Brexit’s impact on the economy. The OBR released a series ...

Sir Keir Starmer has taken a swipe at the independent Office for Budget Responsibility, criticising the UK fiscal watchdog’s decision not to “score” the job creation impact of the government’s welfare ...

The Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) downgraded growth for 2025 but upgraded it for every year after for the rest of ...

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 is ...

A decades-long trend of outsourcing democratic decisions to unaccountable institutions like the OBR is leading Britain towards ruin, argues ...

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 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 Government spent £296.3 billion on welfare in 2023/24, according to the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR). This is the equivalent of 10.9% of UK GDP (gross domestic product, or the total ...