Office for Budget Responsibility: Questions for Sir Alan Budd

1) Why did you release key employment figures to government ministers just before prime minister's questions? 2) Did you make any effort to inform the official opposition? 3) Why do you think your decision was not politically motivated? 4) When and why did you agree to last-minute changes to cut the prediction for public sector job losses by 175,000? 5) Why did you prepare forecasts for job losses on the basis of ministerial intentions when there is no evidence the savings will be made? 6) Why did you adopt the narrower definition of the public sector workforce, excluding more than 500,000 workers? Do you agree the effect of the decision was to omit 50,000 job losses from your calculations? 7) Were you asked to take charge of the OBR beyond the three-month contract? 8) You predicted growth of 2.3% for the UK next year, which other commentators have called "heroic" in light of the government's drastic spending cuts. How do you justify your growth forecasts?