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Office for Budget Responsibility

Asked by Simon HoareConservativeTreasuryTabled Answered 12 December 2025UIN 96740

The question

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much the OBR has cost the public purse for each year since it was established.

Answered by James Murray

The Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) was established by the Budget Responsibility and National Audit Act 2011. Its annual report and accounts, which are laid before Parliament and published on its website, set out in detail the OBR’s expenditure and funding for each year since its establishment.

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