Question follow-through · 35234
Central Bank Digital Currencies
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, If she will make an assessment of the potential merits of establishing a central bank digital currency.
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 4 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 6 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 11 Mar 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
4 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, If she will make an assessment of the potential merits of establishing a central bank digital currency.
6 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
11 Mar 2025
Answer published
At Mansion House, the government committed that HM Treasury and the Bank of England will continue to explore a potential retail central bank digital currency, the digital pound. No decision has been taken on whether to launch a digital pound. This work wi...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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