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Lord Kinnock to ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the remarks made by the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union on 30 January (HC Deb, col 687) that civil service economic forecasts “are always wrong, and wrong for good reasons”, whether arrangements have been made for an alternative modelling and analysis of possible trade conditions after the UK’s departure from the EU; and if so, what changes in forecasting methods are to be made.  HL5633

Question HL5633: tabled on 20 February 2018 and due for answer by 6 March 2018

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Lord Kinnock to ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the remarks made by the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union on 30 January (HC Deb, col 687) that civil service economic forecasts “are always wrong, and wrong for good reasons”, whether arrangements have been made for an alternative modelling and analysis of possible trade conditions after the UK’s departure from the EU; and if so, what changes in forecasting methods are to be made.  HL5633
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Lord Kinnock
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