Question follow-through · 74758
Government Securities: Costs
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she has had discussions with the International Monetary Fund on the impact of the rising cost of bond yields.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 3 Sept 2025
- Target answer date
- 8 Sept 2025
- Answer
- 11 Sept 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
3 Sept 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she has had discussions with the International Monetary Fund on the impact of the rising cost of bond yields.
8 Sept 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
11 Sept 2025
Answer published
The government does not comment on specific market moves. As the Governor of the Bank of England recently noted, the underlying driver of recent moves in yield curves is global. This means it is more important than ever to have fiscal rules that provide s...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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