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Review of scope and performance of Office for Budget Responsibility

Inquiry

After initial reluctance from the Budget Responsibility Committee's Chairman, Lord Burns, to provide it, Treasury Committee staff have now reviewed the e-mail exchange between the Treasury and the OBR in the 'pre-release access period' leading up to the publication of the OBR's December 2014 Economic and Fiscal Outlook.

The correspondence shows that, during this period, a number of non-factual requests for changes to the OBR's Economic and Fiscal Outlook were made by Treasury officials. Some were taken on board by the OBR. While these changes made no material difference to the content of the publication, they raise concerns about the terms of engagement between the OBR and Government officials. These should now be clarified.

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Wednesday 14 October 2015
2:15pm Public
Review of scope and performance of Office for Budget Responsibility - Oral evidence 14 October 2015
The Wilson Room, Portcullis House

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