Question follow-through · 26840
Gold and Foreign Exchange Reserves
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment his Department has made of the potential role of gold in reducing currency concentration risk within the UK’s official reserves.
About this written question
A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.
- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 2 Sept 2026
- Target answer date
- 4 Sept 2026
- Answer
- 10 Sept 2026 · 8 calendar days after tabling
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
Recorded timeline
2 Sept 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment his Department has made of the potential role of gold in reducing currency concentration risk within the UK’s official reserves.
4 Sept 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
10 Sept 2026
Answer published
The government does not comment on market movements. Assets in the Exchange Equalisation Account (EEA) are held to meet the EEA’s core policy objectives as defined in the EEA Act 1979. All EEA investment decisions, including the currency and asset composi...
Official data retrieved 1 Oct 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
Strong links require the same MP, department and exact heading. Other same-department questions are shown as unreviewed candidates, not as confirmed follow-ups. No debate link is asserted unless a stable source relationship exists.
No later same-department questions indexed.
This is an absence in covered public data, not evidence that no follow-up occurred elsewhere.