OBR: We know Budget leak was 'hugely disruptive'

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Tom Josephs, a member of the OBR's Budget Responsibility Committee, apologies to MPs, the Chancellor, and the Prime Minister for the leak of its report into the 2025 Budget. Josephs also tells the Treasury Select Committee that the OBR understands that the leak was "hugely disruptive" and commits to implementing the recommendations of the report into the leak. Report by Ketchs. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00We would like to apologise to this committee, to all members of Parliament and to the Chancellor

00:06and the Prime Minister about the early release of the document on 26th November.

00:13We do know that this was hugely disruptive to two hugely important parliamentary events,

00:18Prime Minister's questions and the Chancellor's budget statement.

00:22We completely understand the importance of those events for parliamentarians and for

00:26the public.

00:28We also really understand the work and the care that goes in across government from

00:33the Chancellor down into the presentation of the budget statement.

00:38So everyone at the OBR deeply regrets that this happened.

00:42As you say, you have the report of the investigation into this, into what happened and how we can

00:48make sure it never happens again.

00:49And we would also like to thank Baroness Hogg, Dame Susan Rice, Professor Kieran Martin and

00:55the whole team for producing that report.

00:58And you can just be clear that David and I are fully committed to implementing all of

01:04the recommendations in the report to ensure this never happens again.

01:06This never happens again.

01:07This never happens again.

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