OBR apologises for leaking Budget due to “technical error”

Evening Standard

The Office for Budget Responsibility has apologised and launched an investigation after its economic and fiscal outlook document was published early ahead of the Budget, describing it as a “technical error”.The OBR said in a statement: “A link to our economic and fiscal outlook document went live on our website too early this morning. It has been removed.“We apologise for this technical error and have initiated an investigation into how this happened."

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00:00Welcome to that special, I'm going to take the bullet.

00:07How could you start to be charged with that?

00:10Are you coming back to the floor next year?

00:18It's charged with how could you go to the university?

00:21We're going to bring you back special.

00:25This report contains market sensitive information.

00:35It is utterly outrageous that this has happened.

00:40This report contains market sensitive information.

00:47It is utterly outrageous that this has happened.

00:53And this leak may indeed constitute a criminal act.

00:59It is my understanding that the Office of Budget Responsibility's Economic and Financial Outlook

01:04was released on their website before this statement.

01:07This is deeply disappointing and a serious error on their part.

01:12The Office of Budget Responsibility have already made a statement taking full responsibility for their breach.

01:22Practical breach .

01:24Practical breach .

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