Question follow-through · 95729
Office for Budget Responsibility
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent assessment her Department has made of the effectiveness of the Office for Budget Responsibility.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 1 Dec 2025
- Target answer date
- 3 Dec 2025
- Answer
- 8 Dec 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
1 Dec 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent assessment her Department has made of the effectiveness of the Office for Budget Responsibility.
3 Dec 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
8 Dec 2025
Answer published
The Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) is the UK’s independent forecaster and the Government is fully committed to the OBR’s independence and its vital role as a core part of our fiscal framework. That is why one of the first Acts of this Parliament i...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Black Economy
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Building Societies: Individual Savings Accounts
3 Dec 2025 · To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has been made of the potential impact of proposed changes to the annual subscription limit of ISA savings for under-65s on the range of building society lending products.
Revenue and Customs: Telephone Services
3 Dec 2025 · To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how long has the HMRC helpline number 0300 200 3822 been out of service.
Hospitality Industry: Business Rates
4 Dec 2025 · To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment has been made of the potential impact of the lower rate of business rates retail, hospitality and leisure multipliers, revaluation, and transition arrangements on pubs, bars and restaurants.
Economic Growth
4 Dec 2025 · To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment has been made of the potential impact of coordinating place-based (a) Government funding and (b) philanthropic, institutional and private sector investment on regional growth.
Business: Loans
8 Dec 2025 · To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she plans to further regulate business lending where (a) a private residence is used as security (b) personal guarantees are required as a condition of the loan.
Banks
8 Dec 2025 · To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she has had discussions with banks on maintaining high street branches to 2030.
Regional Planning and Development: Finance
8 Dec 2025 · To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what place based funding allocations has the Government confirmed for each area in the UK for the current spending review period.
Bank Services: Young People
10 Dec 2025 · To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment has been made of trends of junior bank account openings and levels of savings for young people since 2015.
Business Rates: Tax Allowances
11 Dec 2025 · To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has been made of the potential impact, average level and trends of business rates payable by businesses in the retail, hospitality and leisure sectors since 2015.
Credit Unions
11 Dec 2025 · To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what discussions she has had with regulators on reviewing rules on credit unions offering insurance products such as income protection.
Individual Savings Accounts
2 Mar 2026 · To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps her Department is taking to prevent the use of Stocks and Shares ISAs to circumvent revised Cash ISA limits due to be introduced in April 2027.