MPC member sought to increase QE

The Bank of England

David Miles, one of the nine members of the Banks of England’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) voted against keeping quantitative easing (QE) at £375 billion, minutes from the 9-10 January meeting have shown.

Miles wanted to increase the size of the asset purchase programme by a further £25 billion to a total of £400 billion.

Meanwhile, the Committee voted unanimously in favour of the proposition to keep the bank rate at 0.5%.

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