Correspondence and documents sent or received by Mark Carney to or from George Osborne between 1 January 2015 and 9 December 2015 concerning buy to let

We publish details of a selection of requests made under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, and the information we disclose in response.

Date released:  11 January 2016

Disclosure: 

There is a reference to buy-to-let lending in the exchange of letters between the Governor and Chancellor in March 2015 regarding the remit for the Bank of England’s Financial Policy Committee.  

The topic was also discussed at a meeting between the Governor and the Chancellor on 7 September 2015 to discuss the July 2015 Financial Stability Report.  The record of the meeting can be viewed at: 

PDF Record of Meeting