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Tuesday 09 February 2016 10:37 amInterest rate hike more unlikely as Bank of Englandrsquo Sir Jon Cunliffe signals lending restrictionsBy: Chris PapadopoullosShareFacebookShare on FacebookXShare on TwitterLinkedInShare on LinkedInWhatsAppShare on WhatsAppEmailShare on EmailAdd as a preferredsource on GoogleThe Bank of England is likely to tighten lending restrictions rather than raise interest ratesifthe growth rate of credit exceeds that of GDP, a Bank official has said.Sir Jon Cunliffe said: Given the vulnerability that already exists and the powerful drivers in the UK, particularly in the housing market, if credit began again to grow faster than GDP, I would want to think about action to manage the financial stability risks sooner rather than later.But Cunliffe said it was likely to be the financial policy committee FPC that takes action, as opposed to the more traditional monetary policy committee MPC that changes interest rates.He said: Should we expect ndash; or want ndash; credit to return to its pre-crisis path of growing nearly twice as fast as GDP This is an important question for the Financial Policy Committee as it assesses the level of financial stability risk in the UK economy ndash; where we are in the so-called financial cycle The fact that credit growth can now be dealt with by the
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Thursday 21 November 2013 9:12 pmHousebuilding lags as UK population swellsBy: Express KCSShareFacebookShare on FacebookXShare on TwitterLinkedInShare on LinkedInWhatsAppShare on WhatsAppEmailShare on EmailAdd as a preferre
stanley cup uk dsource on GoogleTHE UKrsquo;S population is growing at one of
owala ca the fastest rates in Europe, yet housebuilding remains too slow to keep up with expanding demand.Estate agents Haart will reveal this morning that first time buyer registrations have surged upward over the past year, rising 74.3 per cent between October 2012 and last month. In the same period London saw an 82.9 per cent upswing. And the UKrsquo fast-growing population is also adding to the pressure on a restrained housing supply: according to figures from Brussels, th
stanley uk e UK population rose by nearly 392,600 during 2012, to 63.9m. Nearly two thirds 62 per cent of the increase was due to so-called natural change, with births outnumbering deaths by 243,900. Meanwhile, builders began construction on 32,230 homes between July and September, up eight per cent on the second quarter. But this number is still far below the housebuilding activity seen in the pre-crisis period, when over 40,000 projects were commonly started each quarter.While the Department for Communities and Local Government DCLG announced yesterday that the number of housing starts between July and September was the highest for any quarter since 2008, the dramatic figures from Haart and the European Commission show the gap betwe
