Supplementary written evidence submitted
by the Office for Budget Responsibility
We were very glad to have had the opportunity
of appearing before your Committee yesterday. I greatly appreciated
your forbearance in allowing me to make an opening statement,
although I recognise this was certainly not a precedent. We were
also grateful for the courteous approach of you and all the members.
In the course of questioning you asked me about the
timing of the release of our whole economy employment forecasts
on 30 June. I have consulted our records and can confirm that
the information was released on our website at 11 am.
You also asked me when on 30 June the House
of Commons was notified of the release of the employment forecasts.
I can confirm that as you said in the Committee meeting the House
was not notified until 1.50 pm. This was an oversight on our part
and I apologise for this delay.
For the future, it will be a strict principle
that any information that is released by the Office for Budget
Responsibility (OBR) must be made available to Parliament either
prior to or simultaneously with its publication on our website,
with copies of published material placed in the Library of the
House. I hope this reassures you that the regrettable delay in
notifying Parliament in this instance will not occur in the future.
14 July 2010
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