Assertion: debt | /r/HasProperty | paid by the government
Facets:
value: to itself
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
Source sentences:
text: Approximately a third of this debt is owned by the British government due to the Bank of England's quantitative easing programme, so approximately 1/3 of the cost of servicing the debt is paid by the government to itself, reducing the annual servicing cost to approximately £30 billion (approx 2% of GDP, approx 5% of UK government tax income).