Treasury Committee

15 juillet 2026

The Committee opens the pre‑appointment hearing, tests the transparency and independence of the candidate’s application, and probes his views on the OBR’s remit, media role, digital and data capabilities, and resilience to political pressure and funding constraints, including reliance on HMRC and DWP modelling.

Treasury Committee

19:32 - 20:32

Intervenant 1

Order. Welcome to the Treasury Select Committee on Wednesday the 15th of July 2026. Today, we are in our second session this day, meeting Jonathan Haskel to discuss his nomination as the prospective chair of the Office for Budget Responsibility. So for those who follow this, the last chair of the Office for Budget Responsibility, Richard Hughes, resigned just before Christmas. It's taken a while to get the recruitment through in the Treasury.

So we do appreciate, Professor Haskel, that you filled out the questionnaire at pace for us. And normally we would give you a little bit more time, so we do appreciate you being flexible because we wanted, as I think you and the OBR and the Treasury, to try and get this appointment sorted one way or another as soon as possible before the summer. So thank you very much for doing that. And so Jonathan Haskel is our sole witness because it's about his position. I just wanted to check about the questionnaire.

You've, I'm pretty sure you filled it in yourself because we've had those conversations with you. Can you just confirm for the record?

20:32 - 20:34

Intervenant 2

Yeah, I confirm I did, yes.

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