James Murray

James Murray

Labour (Co-op) — Ealing North

Speaking in the House of Commons on 3 December 2025

Debate

OBR: Resignation of Chair

Contribution

I will admit that I was surprised to read the OBR’s report, which made it clear that any assumptions we might have had that this was a simple error were not true—more systemic issues were revealed in the report. As I understand it, there was functionality within the OBR’s IT and website systems to have greater security, but they were not configured correctly to provide that security. For me, that underscores the fact that this is not one inadvertent error by one official; it is a systemic issue with the information security, which is so important.

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