Question follow-through · 85865
Office for Budget Responsibility: Forecasts
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what discussions she had with the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) on the risk that OBR productivity growth forecasts would be revised down before the (a) Autumn Budget 2024 and (b) Spring Statement 2025.
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 28 Oct 2025
- Target answer date
- 3 Nov 2025
- Answer
- 3 Nov 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
28 Oct 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what discussions she had with the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) on the risk that OBR productivity growth forecasts would be revised down before the (a) Autumn Budget 2024 and (b) Spring Statement 2025.
3 Nov 2025
Target answer date
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3 Nov 2025
Answer published
The Chancellor engages regularly with the OBR including in preparation for fiscal events. As the Government’s independent official forecaster, the OBR has full discretion over the judgements underpinning its forecasts. In the OBR's March Economic and Fisc...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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