The Code specifies that the Bank of England undertakes to respect the confidentiality of all information given in confidence by data suppliers. Although the Bank of England was publishing statistics for many years before the Code was formally adopted, the Code requires the Bank to make statistics available to all in accordance with Bank and open government procedures. The data on the analytical accounts of the central bank are disseminated by the Bank of England as a service to the public. The number of people outside of the Bank of England Statistics Division who have access to the data prior to publication is kept to a minimum and is limited to Treasury Ministers, Governors and Directors of the Bank plus those in HM Treasury and the Bank directly involved in the compilation and dissemination of the data and the formulation of monetary policy. Additions to the list of recipients of the banking sector data require the approval of an Executive Director of the Bank of England.
Details are available from the contact person.
There is no ministerial commentary accompanying the release of the data. The data are considered to be final when first released and revisions are very infrequent. Any such revisions would be incorporated in the next published version of the table. Only in exceptional circumstances would revisions be highlighted, and reasons given. The published data are a slightly more detailed version of the central bank sectors contribution to the consolidated balance sheet of monetary financial institutions.