The review said that forcing the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) to accept government policy announcements at face value means its economic forecasts are “open to gaming”. It comes amid ...

The OBR's shortcomings are understandable, but its messaging can be improved Politicians should not seek to 'game' influential economic institutions Increasingly, the media portrays the OBR’s ...

Reduced OBR projections could force the Chancellor into deeper spending cuts if she is to stick to the rules she set herself on debt and borrowing (Jordan Pettitt/PA) The Treasury will launch a ...

The Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) will face an investigation after UK forecasts became public before they were due to be published in March, the permanent secretary to the Treasury told ...

As the OBR comes up with its forecast, which will underpin the Chancellor’s decisions at the Spring Forecast, one of the concerns may be that it tells her that she is not meeting her fiscal targets.

The Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) has found that Ms Reeves is on course for a Budget deficit thanks to her decisions, something that would break a key promise by the Chancellor.