The OBR has just published the terms of reference for the investigation into the Budget forecast leak. It will:
- Establish the events that made it possible to access the EFO early.
- Determine the actions needed to assure the Oversight Board, the Chancellor, the
Treasury and the Commons Treasury Committee that no future breaches of forecast
security will take place. - Set a timeline for implementing those actions.
- Make other recommendations to the OBR in light of its findings, as it sees fit.
Ciaran Martin, currently a professor at Oxford University and former CEO of the National Cyber Security Centre has been drafted in to “act as an expert adviser.” Opens the possibility of foul play…
The current thinking is that journalists replaced “march” with “november” in the link to see the unlisted document. “The investigation’s report should be published no later than Monday 1 December.” Martin and OBR chairman Richard Hughes may be acquainted with each other from their time at HMT in the noughties, when Hughes was in the special advisers’ office and Martin the Perm Sec’s office. Getting the band back together…
