In a letter addressed to the OBR on Friday (25 October) and printed at this time (28 October), Hunt acknowledged he was “not knowledgeable prematurely” of the contents of the spending assessment regardless of it masking his time in workplace as chancellor.
“In your letter to the Treasury Choose Committee saying the assessment on the 29 July, you acknowledged that the assessment would cowl ‘the adequacy of the data and assurances offered to the OBR by the Treasury relating to departmental spending,'” Hunt wrote within the letter.
“As this covers my time as chancellor, as a matter of procedural equity I’d have expec…