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...Hunt’s Budget maintained a tight grip on public spending to help finance a £10bn a year cut in national insurance contributions....
...Hunt’s Autumn Statement in November is expected to set out more details of the reborn industrial strategy, including a review of foreign inward investment by Lord Richard Harrington....
...Lord Richard Harrington, a Tory peer, has produced the report for chancellor Jeremy Hunt on how to improve Britain’s flagging levels of inward investment in the face of tough competition from the US and...
...Richard Hughes, chair of the Office for Budget Responsibility, said the body had been asked by the Treasury to “examine the costs and benefits” associated with the tax....
...Richard Hughes, chair of the Office for Budget Responsibility, said the £13bn budget headroom forecast in November was heavily exposed to changing assumptions on interest rates as well as data revisions....
...Richard Hughes, OBR chair, said this week that the £13bn estimate in November was a “tiny” amount, given the huge uncertainty around such analysis and incoming borrowing data....
...His spending plans are already deemed unrealistically tight by economists and the OBR’s head Richard Hughes described them as beyond “fiction”, because the government had not said how they could be achieved...
...Richard Hughes, chair of the OBR, last month said the government’s forecasts for public spending after 2025 were beyond “a work of fiction”, saying ministers had not written down how they could be achieved...
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...Richard Hughes, chair of the OBR — the government’s official fiscal watchdog — has said the £13bn Budget headroom forecast in Hunt’s Autumn Statement in November is heavily exposed to changing assumptions...
...mean: More investment More jobs Better public services And lower taxes . . . in a Budget for Long Term Growth Madam Deputy Speaker, I start with the updated forecasts from the OBR, for which I thank Richard...
...Richard Hughes, the chair of the OBR, has criticised the lack of detail underpinning those spending assumptions....
...Richard Hughes, head of the independent Office for Budget Responsibility, said Hunt had in effect found £20bn for tax cuts by deciding not to protect public services against the rising costs of inflation...
...There have also been tensions between the OBR and the Treasury, not least when Richard Hughes, chair of the watchdog, said in January that Hunt’s spending plans for after the election were beyond “fiction...
...Leader Richard Tice will unveil a draft election manifesto this weekend featuring around a dozen tax-cutting policies as the party applies more pressure on Sunak, amid fears that voters are abandoning the...
...Richard Hughes, OBR chair, said the peak-to-trough drop in household income over the course of the cost of living crisis would still be “the largest reduction in living standards since [Office for National...
...The multibillion-pound giveaway on personal and business taxes was achieved by deciding not to protect public services against the rising costs of inflation, Richard Hughes, head of the independent Office...
...Richard Hughes, the OBR’s chair, said these two effects “almost fully offset” each other, with the watchdog’s forecasts showing GDP just 0.1 per cent higher in 2028 than it had expected in November and per...
...Richard Maitland, partner at MHA, said: “The reductions in NI rates are broadly welcome. They will put more money in the pockets of employees and the self-employed....
...In the hunt for an informational advantage, one of Barack’s first moves was to hire a 20-strong team of weather forecasters....
...I now move on to the OBR’s economic and fiscal forecasts, and I thank Richard Hughes and his team for their sterling work in preparing them....
...Tory peer Lord Richard Harrington, head of a government review into the UK’s approach to attracting foreign investment, said Britain could no longer afford to ignore schemes such as the US’s $2tn Inflation...
...Letter in response to this column: Recalling Blair’s ‘think the unthinkable’ on pensions / From Richard Buxton, London N1, UK...
...Jeremy Hunt found £20bn for tax cuts in his Autumn Statement by failing to protect public services against the rising costs of inflation, the head of the independent Office for Budget Responsibility said...
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