§ Mr. Austin MitchellTo ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether the inflow of funds in response to intervention by the Bank of England in the foreign exchange market in 1987, 1988 and the current year to date have been fully sterilised; and if he will publish in theOfficial Report a list of the debt instruments issued for this purpose and their value.
§ Mr. RyderIt is not sensible to hypothecate over or underfunding to individual components of the funding rule, such as intervention.
Details of transactions in marketable Government debt are published in the Bank of England Quarterly Bulletin.