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The Chancellor has approved the appointment of Baroness Hogg and Dame Susan Rice as non-executive members of the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR).

• Updated: 21 June 2023

The Chancellor today (5 June) announced Richard Hughes as his preferred candidate for the Chair of the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR).

• Updated: 5 June 2020

The Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) provides independent analysis of the UK’s public finances.

• Updated: 8 June 2018

Chancellor Philip Hammond nominates Sir Charles Bean for appointment to the OBR's Budget Responsibility Committee.

• Updated: 11 August 2016

Updated framework document has been published setting out the broad governance and management rules within which the OBR operates.

• Updated: 28 May 2014

First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

The Chancellor has proposed the re-appointment of two members of the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR).

• Updated: 19 March 2014

First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

Exchange of letters between HM Treasury and the OBR on the Welfare Cap

• Updated: 5 December 2013

First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

The Chancellor has appointed Kate Barker and Lord Burns as non-executive members of the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR).

• Updated: 21 June 2011

First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government