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Freedom of Information
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2015
- Details of declared gifts, hospitality and other disclosable interests for the Market Intelligence team in 2013
- Cost to the Bank of England for producing coins and banknotes and number in circulation
- Details of the securities purchased by the Bank of England under the quantitative easing programme
- The company registration number for Leeds Building Society and where they are registered
- Cost of producing and disposing of currency i.e. pennies, 5p coins, 10p coins, £5 notes etc
- Copy of the original Bank of England Act 1694
- The number of Change in Control requests received by the PRA and the average time taken to approve for the period 1 April 2013 - 31 March 2015
- Risk weighting in relation to the Basel Accord applied in the UK
- Estimated cost of the Banknote character selection process for the £20 banknote
- Processing employment references and average number of leavers & joiners per month
- Other than Threadneedle Street, where can Bank of England withdrawn banknotes be exchanged?
- Details of donations to charity made by the Bank
- Details of property reported lost or stolen from Threadneedle Street belonging to Bank staff since 1 July 2013 to 28 January 2015
- Details of the donations to academic research by the Bank between 1 March 2014 and 28 February 2015 including the amount donated, the date of donation and the title and summary of the research
- Does the Bank of England have outsourced general ICT services such as Service Desk, Infrastructure Support and Service Management?
- Information on the use of recruitment agencies by the Bank
- Cost of conducting Lord Grabiner's inquiry into the liquidity auctions during the financial crises in 2007 and 2008
- The number of new credit union applications received from 1 January 2010 to 29 May 2015, how many were successful and the average time between application and approval
- Amount paid to the Confederation of British Industry from 1 January 2009 - 5 August 2015
- Information on Bank employees who took maternity or paternity leave in 2012, 2013 and 2014
- Department organisational charts (as at August 2015) for offices of the Chief Operating Officer, Chief Information Officer and the Chief Information Security Officer
- The date of Governors’ day in 2015 and whether all FCA employees (formerly FSA were invited
- Sensitivity guidelines document for Bank of England employees on blogging for Bank Underground
- Viewpoint Survey 2015 results presented to Court and the Bank-wide response
- Organisation charts as at May 2015 for departments that report to the Chief Operating Officer
- Questions in relation to Information Services and Technology Department training and structure from 1 March 2011 to 28 February 2015
- Approved Persons applications for 2014 and 2013
- Information regarding claims for losses received by the Bank of England in relation to the failure of the Real Time Gross Settlement system on 20 October 2014
- The face value of counterfeit Bank of England notes taken out of circulation in 2014
- Questions re ICT technical training budget from 1 April 2015 to 31 March 2016
- The number of hours billed to the Bank by Lord Grabiner in relation to his report into the foreign exchange markets
- Skilled persons reviews commissioned for insurance companies between 1 April 2013 and 31 March 2015
- Number of graduates recruited for IT graduate scheme from 2010-2015 including number with computer science degrees, technology degrees and number from Russell Group
- Bonuses given to Bank employees between 1 March 2008 - 28 February 2015
- Securities which backed the original £1.2 million loan to the Government in 1694
- Questions relating to note on page 77 of the Bank's Annual Report about taxable expenses
- Weekly return
- Personal interests declared by Monetary Policy Committee members when deciding base rates
- People employed by the Bank on zero hours contracts
- The Bank of England's Entertainment and Gifts policy
- List of suppliers who responded to PQQ & ITT in relation to the tender for the framework agreement contract for printed matter and related products 2012/S 39-063359
- Monetary Policy Committee remit letters 1997 - 2002
- Bank of England staff sick leave and resignations citing stress for the calendar years for the calendar years for 2012 - 2014
- Stress testing templates and associated documents for the 2015 Stress Test
- Exchanging banknotes for gold
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2016
- Stress testing ALM templates for the 2016 Concurrent Stress Test
- Correspondence and documents sent or received by Mark Carney to or from George Osborne between 1 January 2015 and 9 December 2015 concerning buy to let
- Counterparties are encouraged to hold a range of collateral with the Bank of England, what type of collateral is acceptable?
- When the Bank of England buys or sells government gilts, what effect does this have on commercial money, and the money supply?
- Data templates for the 2017 Concurrent Stress Testing and data dictionary.
- Universities which the Bank currently recruits from and intends to recruit from in the future. A list of those universities at which the Bank's 2013 intake into the Graduate Development Programme studied
- The name of the committee which produces and approves the minutes of the meetings of the Monetary Policy Committee
- Senior Managers Regime and Approved Persons designated as senior managers in banks as at 14 March 2016
- Mean and median salaries by gender at the Bank of England - March 2015 and March 2016
- Details of the recipients of the low numbered new £5 polymer banknotes
- Details of the number of workers who have contacted the Bank of England and the Prudential Regulation Authority in relation to whistleblowing between 1 April 2013 and 17 February 2016
- (a) Can specific serial numbered new five pound notes be ordered? (b) What is the highest serial number to be printed for the new five pound notes? (c) Can serial numbers be ordered for old five pound notes?
- How Sterling can be used to express the value contained in the commodities it is exchanged for if, in itself it has minimal value?
- When did the PRA first learn that the FCA was considering discontinuing their thematic review of 'culture'
- Does the new £5 polymer Bank of England banknote have RFID technology?
- Whether consultations were carried out for the design of the £5 polymer banknote
- Questions relating to the Bank of England funds and functions
- The total cost to the Bank of England of the Graduate Development Programme
- What is the value of the sterling currency?
- The number and face value of notes to be removed and introduced into circulation as the Bank of England replaces paper banknotes, recycling of paper banknotes and cost of printing the launch stock of polymer banknotes
- Details of gifts, dinners and parties for Martin Weale's departure from the Bank in August 2016 and salary details
- Stress testing projections templates and associated documents for the 2016 Concurrent Stress Test
- The number of UK registered firms operating under the Solvency II regime
- Is there gold stored in the Bank of England vaults that was recovered from Nazi Germany between 1945 and 1948 by the Tripartite Gold Commission?
- Stress testing data validation rules and reconciliation control records for the 2016 Stress Test
- Information regarding the appearance, dimensions and specifications of the Series D 10 shilling/50 pence note
- How do capital requirements (as defined by the Basel Accord (Bank for International Settlements) and the European Central Bank requirements) coexist with Bank Reserves at the Bank of England?
- Decisions on applications to become a bank from 1 April 2013 to 3 October 2016
- Governors' Day 2016
- Is the PRA a law enforcement agency? How is the jurisdiction of the PRA applied and/or separated between the FCA and Serious Fraud Office?
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2017
- List of firms required to submit forms FSA001 and FSA002 in Q1 (January to March) 2017 to the PRA
- How many people work in the New Bank Start-up Unit and how many potential new banks has it dealt with?
- Part VII banking business transfer schemes for the periods 1 January to 31 December 2015 and 1 January to 31 December 2016
- Questions about the Bank of England procurement team
- Details of the Bank of England's telephone exchange maintenance and support contract
- Capital Requirement Regulation permissions and waivers under Articles 28 and 29 issued to UK building societies during the period from 1 January 2014 to 30 November 2016
- How many banks have voluntarily given up their banking licences (a) over the past 5 years and (b) since January 2016?
- List of UK building societies granted Capital Requirement Regulations waivers or permissions by the Prudential Regulation Authority between 1 April 2013 and 30 November 2016
- Organisation structure of Technology, Procurement, Finance and HR services within the Bank of England as at 21 December 2016
- Part VII insurance business transfer schemes for the periods 1 January to 31 December 2015 and 1 January to 31 December 2016
- Details of leaving receptions and gifts for Stephen Collins, Andrew Bailey, Paul Fisher and Martin Weale and details of any other leaving receptions hosted by the Bank of England in 2016
- Yearly breakdown of the number of sick days Bank of England staff have taken from 2010 to 2016
- Receipts relating to the credit card transactions for Mark Carney and Lyndon Nelson in 2015
- Questions about the receipts relating to the Governor's credit card transactions in 2015
- Details of the leaving reception to mark the departure of Bank of England Deputy Governor Minouche Shafik
- Who were the original owners of the Bank of England? Who are the current owners of the Bank...
- Amount spent on the 2016 Christmas end of year drinks and wine/beer purchased in 2015-2017
- Firm Data Submission Framework templates used in 2016 and 2017 stress testing exercises
- Gross written premiums submitted by UK insurance firms as at their 2016 year end
- Information about levies charged by the Prudential Regulation Authority
- Information about the contract for the supply of MultiFunction Devices to the Bank of England
- The number of paper £5 banknotes returned or exchanged for polymer banknotes as at 5 May 2017
- Questions about the manufacture and circulation of polymer banknotes
- Disclosure Log
- Requirements for members of the Monetary Policy Committee to declare financial interests
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2018
- Amount spent by the Bank of England on its Christmas parties 2015-2017 and amount allocated for 2018
- Bank of England contracts awarded to Huawei
- Bank of England travel and expenses policy
- Bullying and harassment cases formally investigated by the Bank of England
- ET1 forms sent to the PRA in its capacity as a Prescribed Person under the Public Interest Disclosure Act 1998
- Governors’ Day 2018
- Gross Written Premiums submitted by UK general insurance firms and UK life insurance firms
- How much money was not handed back when £20, £10 and £5 banknotes were changed?
- Instances when time with the Governor was won or secured through charitable events during his tenure
- Is the Bank of England a Trust?
- Members of the Court of Directors of the Bank of England over the past 10 years
- Number of contingency plans for the UK’s withdrawal from the EU received from PRA Regulated firms
- Number of new bank applications from 1 April 2013 to 31 July 2018
- Number of visitors to the Bank of England’s website
- Number of whistleblowing reports received by the PRA from 1 April 2013 to 31 March 2018
- Official receptions hosted by the Bank of England between 1 November 2017 and 31 January 2018
- Part VII business transfer schemes from insurers between 1 June 2016 and 17 May 2018
- Part VII transfers for banks and insurers approved by the Court from 1 April 2013 to 31 March 2018
- PRA response in May 2017 to the Ministry of Justice consultation on setting the personal injury discount rate
- Receipts submitted by Don Kohn and Anil Kashyap
- Research and Development costs for £5 and £10 polymer banknotes
- SMF 24 (Chief Operations Function) applications and approvals 12 November 2017 to 10 April 2018
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2019
- 2018/19 recruitment cycle of the Bank of England Graduate Development Programme
- Amount spent on the 2018 Governors and Directors Christmas drinks reception
- Bullying and harassment cases formally investigated by the Bank of England during 1 June 2009 to 17 January 2019
- Careers Fairs attended by the Bank of England between 1 July 2018 and 31 July 2019
- Data Protection Impact Assessment Template and number of templates completed since May 2018
- Decisions on applications to become a bank from 1 April 2013 to 28 February 2019
- Decisions on applications to become a bank from 1 April 2013 to 9 November 2019
- Governor meeting with Mark Zuckerberg
- Governors’ Day 2019
- Hong Kong monetary crisis 1983
- Information about banknote serial numbers and the number of banknotes printed per sheet
- Injuries at work reported by Bank of England employees during 1 January to 31 December 2018
- Instances of counterfeits of the new polymer £5 and £10 banknotes
- List of firms authorised as at 30 June 2019 which fall under the Solvency II Directive
- New UK start-up banks authorised since 2010 as at 1 June 2019
- Number of Bank employees under and over 18
- Number of paper Bank of England £5 and £10 banknotes returned or still in circulation as at 26 July 2019
- Number of withdrawn banknotes by series exchanged or destroyed between 1 July 2009 and 31 July 2019
- Numbers of genuine polymer banknotes received by the Bank of England which were misidentified as counterfeit by the public
- Part VII transfers for banks and insurers approved by the Court from 1 April 2013 to 31 March 2019
- Questions about banknotes to be printed and recycled plastic used in polymer banknotes
- Questions on damaged polymer and paper £10 and £5 Bank of England banknotes
- SMF7 (Group Entity Senior Manager Function) applications and approvals 7 March 2016 to 26 April 2019
- Statistics about insurance and reinsurance firms in the UK between 1 April 2013 and 25 October 2018
- Total figures for Gross Written Premiums submitted by UK life insurance firms in 2016, 2017 and 2018
- Total figures for Gross Written Premiums submitted by UK non-life insurance firms in 2016 and 2017
- Universities that the Bank of England has recruited from for the Graduate Development Programme since 201515
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2020
- Amount spent on implementing changes in response to the Bank’s COVID-19 Risk Assessment
- Average Effective Rate (‘AER’) series for August 2020
- Average Effective Rate (‘AER’) series for June and July 2020
- Average Effective Rate (‘AER’) series for September 2020
- Bank of England guidance on Reasonable Adjustments
- Bank of England staff working arrangements during the Covid-19 pandemic
- Bank of England shareholders issued government stock at the time of nationalisation in 1946
- Data for Gross Written Premiums submitted in 2018
- Details of leaving gifts and events to mark the departure of Bank of England Governor Mark Carney
- Details of the Bank of England loan to the government in 1694
- Do Bank of England Banknotes have RFID or other tracking technology?
- The number of EU firms who have notified the PRA for the Temporary Permissions Regime as at 21 January 2020
- First Aid and Mental Health Training for Bank of England employees
- Gross Written Premiums submitted by UK general insurance firms and UK life insurance firms for the years 1995 - 2019
- Gross Written Premiums submitted by UK insurance firms for the years 1995-2018
- Historical time series for last 3 years for Average Effective Rate (AER) series provided to the ONS
- Membership of the Bank of England Pension Scheme as at February 2020
- Minutes of the meetings of London Foreign Exchange Joint Standing Committee and Chief Dealers’ Sub-Group held in 2006
- New UK Start-Up Banks authorised between 1 April 2013 and 11 November 2019
- Number of members of staff at the Prudential Regulation Authority as at end-March 2020
- Number of paper Bank of England £5, £10 and £20 banknotes returned or still in circulation as at 1 July 2020
- Number of whistleblowing reports received by the Prudential Regulation Authority by quarter for the past 5 years
- Prudential Regulation Authority enforcement activity between 1 January 2015 and 1 January 2020
- Questions about banknote production
- Questions about guidelines for handling of old and mutilated banknotes during the Covid-19 pandemic
- Questions about recruitment of new staff during the COVID-19 pandemic
- Questions about the cost of the launch of the new £20 banknote
- Questions on paper Bank of England £5 and £10 notes returned or still in circulation, and £20 paper notes in circulation
- The Bank of England’s relationship with the Bank for International Settlements based in Basel, Switzerland
- What happens to old bank notes when they are replaced with a new design and the old notes are taken out of circulation?
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2021
- Aggregated data for Gross Written Premiums submitted by UK general insurance firms in 2019
- Aggregated data for Gross Written Premiums submitted by UK general insurance firms in 2020
- Applications to become a bank from 1 April 2013 to 7 April 2021
- Average Effective Rate (‘AER’) series for January, February, March and April 2021
- Average Effective Rate (‘AER’) series for May, June and July 2021
- Average Effective Rate (‘AER’) series for October, November and December 2020
- The Bank of England’s membership with Stonewall during 2019-2021
- Communications between David Cameron and senior Bank Officials about Greensill Capital and the Covid Corporate Financing Facility (CCFF)
- Decisions on applications to become a bank from 1 April 2013 to 31 December 2020
- Details of the recipients of the low numbered new £50 banknotes
- Flexible working at the Bank of England as at end March 2021
- New UK start-up banks authorised since 2010 as at 16 February 2021
- Number of First Year Internship applications and offers between 1 January 2016 to 13 February 2021
- Number of paper Bank of England £5, £10, £20 and £50 banknotes returned or still in circulation as at 2 July 2021
- Organisation structure of the Bank of England’s Technology Leadership team as at 1 March 2021
- Questions about bail-in and customer deposits
- Questions about Bank of England and digital currencies since 1 January 2010
- Recruitment process for the Chief Economist role
- Senior Management Function applications, refusals and withdrawals 1 March 2016 to 31 March 2021
- The Bank of England’s policies to support transgender employees
- Use of capitalised text on Bank of England banknotes
- Ways and Means advances to the National Loans Fund
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2022
- Average Effective Rate (‘AER’) series for August, September, October, November, December 2021 and January 2022
- Average Effective Rate (‘AER’) series for January, February, March, April, May, June, July and August 2022
- Cost of reversing the damage to the Bank of England by the Just Stop Oil protests
- Cost of the investigations into HBOS Senior Managers
- External events held for all Bank of England staff in 2022
- History of the use of the single crossbar pound sign on Bank of England’s banknotes
- Information relating to the costs of the Bank's visual identity launched on 3 March
- List of banks/lending institutions and new banks authorised in 2022
- Number of "dawn raids" conducted by the Prudential Regulation Authority between 1 January 2018 and 12 August 2022
- Number of paper Bank of England £20 and £50 banknotes returned or still in circulation as at 30 September 2022
- Number of paper Bank of England £5, £10, £20 and £50 banknotes returned or still in circulation as at 25 February 2022
- Questions about performance awards given to Bank of England staff from 1 Mar 2019 to – 28 February 2022
- Questions about the Governor’s pay
- Questions on damaged polymer £5, £10 and £20 Bank of England banknotes
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2023
- Buy-to-Let Phase 3 data
- Governors’ Day event 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024
- Last banknotes featuring the image of HM Queen Elizabeth II
- Last banknotes featuring the image of HM Queen Elizabeth II which have been issued by the Bank
- Number of paper Bank of England £5, £10, £20 and £50 banknotes returned or still in circulation as at 28 April 2023
- Bank of England employees annual performance awards 2022/23
- Register of interests for members of the Monetary Policy Committee and Financial Policy Committee since 2017
- The number of Part VII transfers of insurance businesses for each year since 2015-2016, with a year-end date of 30 June
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2024
- Cost of Dr Bernanke’s review of the Bank of England’s forecasting
- Number of paper Bank of England £5, £10, £20 and £50 banknotes returned or still in circulation as at 7 June 2024
- The number of Part VII transfers of insurance businesses for 2022
- Years that the Chancellor of the Exchequer worked at the Bank of England and job titles held
- Freedom of Information Compliance Statistics 2019
- Freedom of Information Compliance Statistics 2020
- Freedom of Information Compliance Statistics 2021
- Freedom of Information Compliance Statistics 2022
- Freedom of Information Compliance Statistics 2023
- Freedom of Information Compliance Statistics 2024
- Expenses, diary engagements, and entertainment and gifts
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2015
Documents
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freedom-of-information
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2015
- Leeds Building Society - Mutual Public Register (pdf 0.1MB)
- List of charity donations (pdf 1.2MB)
- Details of donations given to individuals, institutions, the amounts and date paid (pdf 0.2MB)
- Details of corporate memberships the Bank has with research institutions (pdf 0.1MB)
- Organisation chart as at 22 May 2015 (pdf 0.6MB)
- For FOI request of 21/8/15 Organisation charts (as at August 2015) (pdf 0.1MB)
- ISTD Organisation Chart (pdf 0.1MB)
- List of received hospitality and gifts (pdf 0.6MB)
- Sensitivity guidelines document for Bank of England employees on blogging for Bank Underground (pdf 0.1MB)
- Stress testing templates and associated documents for the 2015 Stress Test (zip 9.6MB)
- Viewpoint Survey 2015 results (pdf 8.2MB)
- Viewpoint Survey Bank Wide response (pdf 1.4MB)
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2016
- Reconciliation control records (pdf 16.1MB)
- Data validation rules (pdf 4.3MB)
- ALM actuals template (pdf 1.5MB)
- ALM projections template (pdf 0.8MB)
- Old Lady article on Nazi Gold (pdf 3.3MB)
- Press notice on Nazi Gold (pdf 0.1MB)
- Data dictionary (zip 3.6MB)
- Sterling Monetary Framework June 2015 (pdf 0.3MB)
- Stress Testing documents 29 April 2016 (zip 4.2MB)
- The New Fiver (pdf 4MB)
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2017
- List of firms required to submit forms FSA001 and FSA002 in Q1 2017 to the PRA (pdf 0.1MB)
- Market Risk Data FDSF template (xlsx 0.2MB)
- Organisation structure of Technology, Procurement, Finance and HR services within the Bank of England (pdf 0.1MB)
- Questions about the receipts relating to the Governor’s credit card transactions in 2015 (pdf 0.6MB)
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2018
- Receipts for Anil Kashyap - 2017 Q2 (pdf 7.5MB)
- Receipts for Anil Kashyap - 2017 Q3 (pdf 7.7MB)
- Receipts for Anil Kashyap - 2017 Q4 (pdf 1.4MB)
- Receipt for Donald Kohn - 2016 Q2 domestic travel (pdf 0.9MB)
- Receipt for Donald Kohn - 2016 Q3 domestic travel (pdf 1.2MB)
- Receipt for Donald Kohn - 2017 Q2 foreign travel (pdf 5.4MB)
- Receipt for Donald Kohn - 2017 Q3 foreign travel (pdf 1.6MB)
- Receipt for Donald Kohn - 2017 Q4 foreign travel (pdf 0.3MB)
- PRA response to ‘The Personal Injury Discount Rate: How it should be set in future’ (pdf 0.2MB)
- Travel and expenses policy effective until 1 March 2019 (pdf 0.7MB)
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2019
- Number of withdrawn banknotes by series exchanged or destroyed between 1 July 2009 and 31 July 2019 (pdf 0.1MB)
- Hong Kong Monetary Crisis documentation1 (pdf 1.6MB)
- Hong Kong Monetary Crisis documentation2 (pdf 2.4MB)
- List of companies that fall under the Solvency II Directive as at 30 June 2019 (pdf 0.1MB)
- Data Protection Impact Assessment Template (pdf 1MB)
- 2020
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2021
- Communications between David Cameron and senior Bank Officials about Greensill Capital and the Covid Corporate Financing Facility (CCFF) (pdf 4.1MB)
- Organisation structure of the Bank of England’s Technology Leadership team as at 1 March 2021 (pdf 0.2MB)
- Trans equality policy (pdf 0.6MB)
- Transitioning at work (pdf 0.6MB)
- Working Level Agreement between the Financial Conduct Authority and the Bank of England in respect of certain Freedom of Information Act 2000 (‘FOIA’) requests (pdf 0.6MB)
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2015