Category Archive: Policy costings

Policy Costings document December 2012

December 2012 The HM Treasury Autumn Statement 2012 policy costings document sets out the methodologies underpinning the cost estimates of measures announced at this fiscal event. All policy costings presented to the Office for Budget Responsibility that were included in the 2012 Autumn Statement were scrutinised and certified. The OBR has identified costings for policy measures which it deemed…

Policy costings document March 2012

March 2012 All policy costings presented to the Office for Budget Responsibility at Budget 2012 were scrutinised and certified.  The Budget 2012 policy costings document sets out the methodologies underpinning these various costings.  The OBR identified costings for policy measures which it deemed to be particularly uncertain – these are listed in annex B of…

Policy Costings document November 2011

November 2011 The Office for Budget Responsibility certified all of the costings of policy decisions announced at the Autumn Statement (and measures announced post-Budget 2011 but confirmed at the Autumn Statement).  For information about these costings see the Autumn Statement 2011 policy costings document.  Annex A of this document contains further detail about the OBR scrutiny…

Policy Costings document March 2011

March 2011 At Budget 2011 the Office for Budget Responsibility certified all but one policy costing presented to it by the government.  All Budget 2011 costings are detailed in the HMT policy costings document.  Our approach to the certification of costings is set out in annex B of the document. Read the Policy Costings document

Policy Costings document October 2010

October 2010 The Office for Budget Responsibility certified costings for some Annually Managed Expenditure measures included within the October 2010 Spending Review. The costings we scrutinised are set out in the HM Treasury Spending Review Policy Costings document. Our certification is contained in Chapter 3. Read the Policy Costings document