MPs raise concerns about leak of hike in living wage in last budget

Rishi Sunak asked to investigate escape of market sensitive information and warned his policies are inflationary

MPs have expressed deep concern" over the leaking of price-sensitive information before Rishi Sunak's budget last year and warned the chancellor his package of measures risked adding to Britain's already surging inflation rate.

The influential all-party Treasury committee called for Sunak to investigate how details of a planned increase in the national living wage to 9.50 an hour were disclosed in the runup to the budget in late October.