Office for Budget Responsibility

(asked on 14th September 2017) - View Source

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what plans the Government has to allow HM Opposition access to the Office for Budget Responsibility.


Answered by
Steve Barclay Portrait
Steve Barclay
Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
This question was answered on 9th October 2017

The Office for Budget Responsibility’s (OBR) remit is set out in the Budget Responsibility and National Audit Act 2011 which prevents it from assessing alternatives to stated government policy. Extending the OBR’s remit to cover alternative policies risks drawing the OBR into political controversy and diverting it from an already difficult task. The Government’s approach is in line with the recommendations of the Page review and the Ramsden review of the OBR.

HM Opposition, along with other interested parties, have access to the reports and analysis of the OBR when published.

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