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The Dog that Didn’t … Where’s the OBR?

Colin Talbot By Colin Talbot Filed Under: Whitehall Watch Posted: October 20, 2010

More on the spending review later, but first I’ve just been hunting for the independent forecasts from the OBR on the public finances and I can find… nada. Just when you could do with some serious independent analysis of Mr Osborne’s and Mr Alexander’s wheezes…. silence, well almost.

All OBR have published today is four very brief  reports on:

  • Labour market participation rate forecast
  • CPI inflation
  • Annually Managed Expenditure forecast by department
  • Projections of trend employment and population

Hardly worth bothering really – have they been nobbled? Cut? De-quango-ed? We should be told!

About Colin Talbot

Colin Talbot is a Professor of Government, a former Specialist Advisor to the House of Commons Treasury Select Committee and the Public Administration Select Committee and has appeared as expert witness many times in Parliament, the Scottish Parliament and NI Assembly. He's also advised Governments from the USA to Japan.

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