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UK to avoid recession and inflation to drop to 2.9% by end of 2023 – OBR

Falling wholesale energy prices and cooling inflation has helped to boost the position of the Treasury in recent months.

Jack Peat by Jack Peat
2023-03-15 13:30
in Business and Economics
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The UK economy is set to avoid a recession and inflation is on track to fall to 2.9 per cent by the end of the year, according to the fiscal watchdog.

The Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) has forecast an “improved outlook” for public finances, the Chancellor told MPs in the House of Commons during his Budget announcement.

It comes after the OBR originally laid out a bleak outlook in November, which predicted ballooning debt and shrinking GDP in 2023.

However, falling wholesale energy prices and cooling inflation has helped to boost the position of the Treasury in recent months.

Our March 2023 GDP forecast. Full forecast published after the Chancellor’s #SpringBudget speech pic.twitter.com/LarSBvUcmD

— Office for Budget Responsibility (@OBR_UK) March 15, 2023

On Wednesday, the OBR indicated that inflation would reach 2.9 per cent by the final quarter of 2023.

It comes after rocketing energy prices saw inflation strike 10.7 per cent in the final quarter of last year.

Original forecasts had also indicated the economy would enter recession in 2022 and shrink by 1.4 per cent in 2023.

However, the fresh projections show that the economy is set to avoid a technical recession – which means two consecutive quarters of decline – and shrink by 0.2 per cent this year as whole.

It is then due to grow by 1.8 per cent in 2024 and 2.5 per cent in the following year before growth cools.

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Chancellor Jeremy Hunt said: “Today the Office for Budget Responsibility forecast that because of changing international factors and the measures I take, the UK will not now enter a technical recession this year.

“They forecast we will meet the Prime Minister’s priorities to halve inflation, reduce debt and get the economy growing.”

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