OBR must ‘change completely’ how sensitive reports published after Budget leak

Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves poses outside 11 Downing Street, London, with her ministerial red box (Frank Augstein/PA) - (PA Wire)

The Office for Budget Responsibility has said its leadership must take “immediate steps to change completely” how it publishes reports containing sensitive forecasts after it mistakenly released an analysis of the Budget early last week.

This could either be by moving publishing arrangements for the OBR to the Government’s independent subdomain or by passing the publication of the two annual forecasts to the Treasury, the watchdog said after probing the incident.