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Public pensions: the billion/trillion/TBC issue for the new fiscal watchdog

 The moment of truth has come: the new government is going to outline £6 billion of spending cuts and to make sure it will stick to deficit tackling measures, it has appointed a new fiscal watchdog, the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR).

As part of its remit, the new agency will also ”have a role in making an independent assessment of the public sector balance sheet including analysing the cost of ageing, public service pensions,” the Treasury says.

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