Correspondence
Open letters between HM Treasury and Bank of England, June 2020
CPI inflation was 0.8% in April 2020, prompting an open letter from the Governor of the Bank of England to the Chancellor on 18 June 2020. The Chancellor replied to the Governor on 18 June 2020.
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The remit for the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) requires an exchange of open letters between the Governor of the Bank of England and the Chancellor of the Exchequer if inflation moves away from the target by more than 1 percentage point in either direction.
As set out in the remit, the open letters are published alongside the first routine publication after the meeting of the MPC that follows the release of the CPI data.
Published 18 June 2020