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Productivity

Commons · Question 44609 · Tabled 7 Apr 2025 · Department for Business and Trade · Official record

Answered 22 Apr 2025

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Asked by Matt Vickers

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment he has made of the potential implications for his policies of the productivity forecast in the Office for Budget Responsibility’s report entitled Economic and Fiscal Outlook, published

Answer

Answered by Sarah Jones, 22 Apr 2025

The Office for Budget Responsibility is an independent macroeconomic forecasting body. As such it would not be appropriate for us to comment on the specifics of its forecasts.The Government’s forthcoming Industrial Strategy White Paper has an explicit amb...