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Rachel Reeves’s Budget mishap leak was the SECOND time it happened after ‘pre existing weakness’ revealed Spring Statement early

by 01/12/2025
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The Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) has revealed last week’s Budget leak was the second time it happened.

A report written by the OBR called last week’s leak as “the worst failure in the [OBR’s] 15-year history.”

The report says: “The cause, which appears to have been pre-existing, was, in essence, configuration errors which reflected systemic issues.

“These led to a failure to ensure the protections which hide documents from public view immediately before publication were in place.”

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It also suggested that at the Spring Statement in March, there was a premature access to that forecast web address, around five minutes after the Chancellor started giving her speech in the Commons.

This was around half an hour before normal publication.

The OBR said its leadership must take “immediate steps to change completely” how it publishes twice-yearly reports containing sensitive forecasts.

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