Economic Affairs - First Report

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Here you can browse the report which was ordered by the House of Lords to be printed 12 December 2006.

CONTENTS

Terms of Reference

The current state of monetary policy

Introduction

The current state of inflation

Inflation and the labour market

Inflation and money growth

Figure 1: UK Inflation and Money Growth 19852006

Inflation and asset prices

Monetary and fiscal policy

External appointments to the MPC

Conclusions

Appendix 1: Economic Affairs Committee

Appendix 2: List of Witnesses

Appendix 3: Call for Evidence

List of Evidence

Oral evidence, 31 October 2006

Mr Mervyn King, Governor of the Bank of England

Ms Rachel Lomax, Deputy Governor of the Bank of England

Sir John Gieve, Deputy Governor of the Bank of England

Ms Kate Barker, External Member of the Monetary Policy Committee

Professor David Blanchflower, External Member of the Monetary Policy Committee

Written Evidence

Professor Ray Barrell and Ms Rebecca Riley    

Professor Jagjit Chadha    

Professor Tim Congdon    

Professor Charles Goodhart    

Mr E J A Haygarth    

NOTE: References in the text of the report are as follows:

(Q) refers to a question in oral evidence

(p) refers to a page of written evidence

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