questionText: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to her speech of 8 July 2024, whether estimates of growth were based on assumptions made by (a) special advisers and (b) Ministers; and if she will publish assumptions provided to officials to underta
answerText: The Chancellor said that, had the UK economy grown at the average rate of OECD economies over the fourteen years from 2010, it would be £143.3 billion larger. This is a comparison based on outturn data, not requiring assumptions. A methodological note set...
heading: Economic Growth