The Office for Budget Responsibility’s role is not to make guesses | Letter from Robert Chote

Your editorial on the role of the Office for Budget Responsibility (9 March) completely misses the point of what parliament has asked us to do.

We have been asked to assess the outlook for the public finances on the basis of the government's tax and spending policies as it currently expresses them, not on the basis of how we think they will or should evolve.