Should the OBR publish only one forecast a year? Or are there better ways to discourage Chancellors from excessive policy ...

DWP has been warned the state pension triple lock could become unsustainble after a recent report from the Office for Budget ...

Britain borrowed more than expected in June as high inflation pushed up the government's debt costs, according to data that ...

Reeves' fiscal rules have left space for longer term investments in infrastructure, although the planning reforms will take ...

Within public sector borrowing in the FY to June 2025, the current budget deficit was £44.5 billion, £6.5 billion more than in FY to June 2024. Public sector net investment increased by £1.0 billion ...

Britain borrowed more than expected in June as a jump in inflation pushed up the government's debt costs, adding to ...

This week the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR), a fiscal watchdog, warned that, as Britain becomes less able to deal ...

Keir Starmer and Kemi Badenoch earlier faced off in the last Prime Minister's Questions before MPs' summer break. Following ...

Sin tax rises are forecast by analysts in the autumn, as government spending rose higher than tax takes due to high borrowing ...

The Office for Budget Responsibility said in an annual assessment of its forecasting that its projections had overestimated annual economic growth by an average of 0.7 percentage points when ...

The IFS has said Rachel Reeves should refrain from changing the number of times the OBR, the fiscal watchdog, produces a central forecast.

The Office for National Statistics has revealed that prices rose by more than expected to 3.6% in the year to June ...