Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether a leak inquiry was carried out by his Department into the source of reports by ITV News on 25 October 2021 setting out the detail of increases in the National Minimum Wage to be announced in the Budget on 27 October 2021, including quotes about the rationale behind those increases attributed to him.

It is a long-established practice of the Treasury not to comment either on whether a leak inquiry has been established, or on its conduct or outcome.