Question follow-through · 21944
Monetary Policy
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of (a) expanding the base money supply and (b) other alternative monetary policy.
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 3 Jan 2025
- Target answer date
- 7 Jan 2025
- Answer
- 9 Jan 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
3 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of (a) expanding the base money supply and (b) other alternative monetary policy.
7 Jan 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
9 Jan 2025
Answer published
Monetary policy is the responsibility of the independent Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the Bank of England. This includes decisions on Bank Rate and the stock of UK government bonds held in the Asset Purchase Facility. It is for the MPC to judge how ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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