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Bank of England

Policy rate: Bank Rate

Single policy rate set by the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC). The MPC meeting ends the day before; the decision is published with the Monetary Policy Summary and minutes on the announcement day, and the Official Bank Rate history dates each change to that day.

Rate in force

3.75%

since 18 Dec 2025 · bankofengland.co.uk/boeapps/database/Bank-Rate.asp

Last observed decision

hold

Date
Rate
3.75%=3.75%
Statement
bankofengland.co.uk/monetary-policy-summary-and-m…

Next meeting

Announced
12:00 London time
Status
on the calendar
Source
bankofengland.co.uk/monetary-policy/upcoming-mpc-…

Sources

The kinds of page this bank publishes. URLs are copied from the bank's own index, feed or sitemap, never built from the pattern. A source settles a question only once its reads total at least 5 right and 0 wrong.

SourceFound atPatternExampleReads (right / wrong / void)Status
Decision statementbankofengland.co.uk/_api/sitemap/getsitemaphttps://www.bankofengland.co.uk/monetary-policy-summary-and-minutes/<YYYY>/<month>-<YYYY>bankofengland.co.uk/monetary-policy-summary-and-m…no reads yetnot resolvable yet
Calendarbankofengland.co.uk/_api/sitemap/getsitemaphttps://www.bankofengland.co.uk/monetary-policy/upcoming-mpc-dates (current and next year); yearly releases under https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/news/<YYYY>/<month>/... (e.g. mpc-dates-for-<year>, monetary-policy-committee-dates-for-<year>)bankofengland.co.uk/monetary-policy/upcoming-mpc-…no reads yetnot resolvable yet
Rate historybankofengland.co.uk/boeapps/database/https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/boeapps/database/Bank-Rate.asp (table "Date Changed / Rate", one row per change back to the 1970s, newest first, dates as DD Mon YY)bankofengland.co.uk/boeapps/database/Bank-Rate.asp0 / 0 / 57 Oct 2026: 0 / 0 / 5not resolvable yet
Press feedbankofengland.co.uk/rssRSS 2.0 of Bank news, last 50 items, pubDate with UK offset (+0100 in summer); MPC statements appear at 12:00 local.bankofengland.co.uk/rss/newsno reads yetnot resolvable yet

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