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Credit Controls

Volume 307: debated on Monday 2 March 1998

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To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will list the measures available to him to manage or control credit and to regulate its expansion. [31347]

The Bank of England's official repo rate is the principal means of managing the expansion of credit. Other measures include: reserve requirements, direct quantitative controls, and certain fiscal measures.