Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 29 October 2021 to Questions 63715-9 on Budgets: Disclosure of Information, what supplementary guidance he or the Permanent Secretary of his Department has produced or authorised, such that the 2013 Macpherson review wording of section 5.3 on the pre-release of the core of the Budget may be understood as only applying to tax changes with immediate effect; on what date such guidance was circulated to civil servants; by which Minister it was authorized; and whether he will place a copy in the Library.

HM Treasury takes the recommendations of the Macpherson review seriously, and has followed these in full.

Security and integrity of the Budget and the Spending review process is of the upmost importance to the department and is reiterated regularly to all staff.