OBR

Spring Statement: Green groups lament 'missed opportunity', as OBR halves growth forecast

Politics

Spring Statement: Green groups lament 'missed opportunity', as OBR halves growth forecast

Chancellor touts positive impact from planning reforms, but largely glosses over government's clean energy plans

clock 26 March 2025 • 7 min read
We need an Office for Budgetary Radicalism

Editor's Blog

We need an Office for Budgetary Radicalism

The latest OBR report on the UK's increasingly unsustainable deficit and the macro trends that threaten to make it worse still demands a bold response

clock 13 September 2024 • 5 min read
'Unsustainable path': Why the OBR is raising the alarm over the impact of climate change on the UK's debt mountain

Politics

'Unsustainable path': Why the OBR is raising the alarm over the impact of climate change on the UK's debt mountain

Office for Budgetary Responsibility warns climate change and an ageing population are set to deal further blows to the UK's already dire public finances

clock 12 September 2024 • 7 min read
Road and rail projects in firing line as Reeves moves to tackle budget 'black hole'

Politics

Road and rail projects in firing line as Reeves moves to tackle budget 'black hole'

Environment Secretary warns condition of flood defences 'far worse than we were led to believe', as Labour accuses Tories of leaving public finances in terrible state

clock 29 July 2024 • 6 min read
Nissan set to expand UK electric vehicle manufacturing operations

Automotive

Nissan set to expand UK electric vehicle manufacturing operations

Company to commit to making new electric Qashqai and Juke models in Sunderland, as OBR trims outlook for EV sales

clock 24 November 2023 • 3 min read
OBR: Costs of continued gas reliance more than double that of reaching net zero

Investment

OBR: Costs of continued gas reliance more than double that of reaching net zero

Remaining heavily reliant on fossil gas for power and heating poses huge fiscal and economic risk to the UK, warns the Office for Budget Responsibility

clock 14 July 2023 • 8 min read
How high gas prices could cut the cost of meeting net zero by a third

Taxation

How high gas prices could cut the cost of meeting net zero by a third

Office for Budget Responsibility estimates sustained high fossil fuel prices could make the comparative costs of net zero over a third cheaper

clock 08 July 2022 • 5 min read

Politics

PM and Chancellor 'on same page' over net zero strategy, government claims

Government denies reports of differences on Downing Street over how to fund much needed policies to deliver net zero

clock 26 July 2021 • 3 min read

Net Zero Now

How much will net zero cost the UK? The OBR tries answering the trillion-pound question

The Office for Budgetary Responsibility has offered some of the most detailed estimates to date on the costs and savings that would result from decarbonising the UK economy by 2050

clock 07 July 2021 • 8 min read

Risk

Climate risks and fiscal blind spots

The focus may have been on its Brexit projections, but as Madeleine Cuff argues the OBR's highlighting of climate risks demands attention from businesses and policymakers

clock 19 July 2019 • 4 min read