#budget-leak

#budget-leak

OBR chairman Richard Hughes called in a leading cyber-security expert to investigate how the crucial document was put on its website too early. At the time, Mr Hughes said he was "personally mortified" by the mistake and acknowledged the "deep disruption" it caused. On Monday its report into the mishap concluded it had "inflicted heavy damage on the OBR's reputation".

The documents weren't published on our webpage itself. It appears there was a link that someone was able to access an external person. We need to get to the bottom of what exactly happened. We're going to do a full investigation. There'll be a full report to parliament. We're going to do that work quickly so people can have assurance in our systems and that can be restored.