BOE: Instant Answer questions for Sept meeting

BOE Instant Answer questions for the September meeting. The answers will be published at midday Thursday.

1. Was the Bank Rate changed, and if so by how much?

2. Number of members voting for greater than 25bp cut?

3. Number of members voting for 25bp cut?

4. Number of members voting for unchanged rate?

5. Number of members voting for a hike?
NB: On questions 2-4 we will name the dissenters (and the magnitude of dissent)

6. What is the MPC’s stated total size of UK government bond stock reduction for 2024/25 (sales and maturities)?

7. Did the Minutes / Statement note that the decision was “finely balanced” for some members?

8. Did the MPC (or the majority of the MPC) say the November forecast round would directly reflect MPC perceptions on ‘risks from inflation persistence’?

9. Did the MPC say that “the risks from inflation persistence are receding”?

10. Did the MPC again say Bank Rate is likely to “remain restrictive for sufficiently long”?

11. Did the MPC (or the majority of the MPC) again say that it may be “appropriate to reduce slightly the degree of policy restrictiveness”?

12. Did the MPC leave its guidance paragraph materially unchanged versus the August policy statement?

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