Public finance watchdog chief Robert Chote has insisted that his Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) resisted attempts from Treasury officials to change the wording of reports. OBR chairman Mr ...

Rishi Sunak and Sir Keir Starmer have been warned by a watchdog not to mislead voters with dodgy statistics. UK Statistics Authority chairman Sir Robert Chote said misusing official data in the ...

Sir Robert Chote has resigned as chairman of the UK Statistics Authority, which oversees official data published by a range of bodies including the Office for National Statistics. The UK Statistics ...

The UK’s statistics watchdog investigated an official’s claim in May that the economy was “going gangbusters”, which was later repeated by Rishi Sunak. Sir Robert Chote, chairman of the UK Statistics ...

ECONOMIST Robert Chote is set to become the new head of the Government’s tax and spending watchdog. ECONOMIST Robert Chote is set to become the new head of the Government’s tax and spending watchdog.

Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne said Robert Chote, director of a research group that criticized Osborne’s first budget as “regressive,” will head the U.K.’s independent fiscal watchdog.