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Economic Situation

Question for HM Treasury

UIN 3067, tabled on 18 June 2015

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent estimate his Department has made of the level of spare capacity in the economy; and on what analysis that estimate is based.

Answered on

23 June 2015

The Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) produces the UK’s official economic forecasts. The Bank of England Inflation Reports also publish an estimate of spare capacity in the UK economy.

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Treasury
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