Treasury written question – answered on 24th November 2010.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what estimate he has made of the level of economic growth for each (a) region and (b) country in the UK for each year of the comprehensive spending review period.
The Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) is responsible for producing the official economic and fiscal forecasts. The OBR's Budget forecast does not include a sub-national forecast.
The current forecast, published on
http://budgetresponsibility.independent.gov.uk/index.html
The OBR will publish a new forecast on
While forecasts for economic growth are not made at a sub-national level, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) annually publishes data on GVA for the English regions and the devolved countries. This is available at:
http://www.statistics.gov.uk/statbase/Product.asp?vlnk=14650 and the next publication is expected in December 2010.
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