Category Archive: Briefing papers

Briefing paper No. 9: Forecasting productivity published

Briefing paper No.9: Forecasting productivity

In this paper, published alongside the November 2025 Economic and fiscal outlook, we outline our approach to forecasting UK productivity growth. It reviews the UK’s productivity performance from historical and international perspectives as well as the outlook for productivity. The paper also sets out our central forecast and alternative scenarios.

Briefing paper No. 10 Accounting for the supply-side effects of policy published

Briefing paper No.10: Accounting for the supply-side effects of policy

In this paper, published alongside the November 2025 Economic and fiscal outlook, we review our approach to accounting for the supply-side impacts of policy in our forecast. We have taken a more transparent approach to incorporating such effects over the past three years and this paper further adds to that, as recommended in our third…