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 ...

Britain’s Office for Budget Responsibility, a slimmed-down version of the Congressional Budget Office in the US, may be just 15 years old but it’s already one of the most powerful players in the ...

New forecasts by the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) show interest rates will stay higher for the rest of the decade than previously predicted, which could make borrowing more expensive for ...

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 Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) has said they have not yet been able to take account of the Employment Rights Bill, which has been championed by the Deputy Prime Minister, in their ...

The Office for Budget Responsibility used to be king for Labour. The country’s economic forecaster offered the party the chance to cement in the minds of the British electorate that its leaders ...

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has criticised how the Office for Budget Responsibility watchdog has analysed the impact of ...

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 ...

The Chancellor has been accused of repeating the same failures she made in her first Budget as she delivered her spring budget.