Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether the next review and report on the work of the OBR be commissioned before the end of this Parliament.

The Budget Responsibility and National Audit Act 2011 states that the Office for Budget Responsibility’s (OBR) Non-executive committee must appoint a person or body at least once in every 5-year period to review and report on the OBR.

The Chair of the OBR Oversight Board formally commissioned the third external review on 24 May 2024 which was published on 10 February 2025.

The OBR’s external reviews are published on the OBR’s website. https://obr.uk/about-the-obr/external-reviews/