Updates
21 August 2025
New BEEDS Platform User interface
We are pleased to announce the exciting launch of a new BEEDS User Interface, potentially going LIVE at the end of Q3 2025. This is part of our continued commitment to improving the Bank of England’s Electronic Data Submission Portal with an abundance of product enhancements to the BEEDS system.
This modernised platform offers a more intuitive and efficient experience to users for submitting returns, navigating collections, and managing user profiles, as changes to the platform’s menu becomes easier to navigate and explore BEEDS current features.
One of the new interfaces main enhancements is the current menu options are prominently displayed at the top of the page, with corresponding sub-options appearing on the left-hand side upon selection. These enhancements are designed to simplify navigation and make it easier for users to access and interact with the platform’s features.
The aim of this redesign is to create a consistent and user-friendly experience that supports the submission processes more efficiently.
We will be sending more detailed communications on the look and feel of the BEEDS changes to all users soon, together with an actual LIVE migration date to the new and improved BEEDS Interface.
The updated BEEDS resources such as user guides and video tutorials, will be available on The BEEDS webpage in due course, to support the transition to the new BEEDS Interface.
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact BEEDSqueries@bankofengland.co.uk.
3 June 2025
BEEDS Customer Service Survey 2025
We are pleased to announce the launch of the 2025 BEEDS Customer Survey and would like to invite you to participate.
We would like to receive feedback on various areas such as system performance, communication with the BEEDSQueries team, the usefulness of our BEEDS User Guides and documentation. Your input will provide us with valuable insight into your satisfaction with the platform and guide future enhancements.
This year, we’ve expanded the survey to include a few new questions aimed at identifying specific areas where system usability, automation, and self-service could be improved. These include:
- Your satisfaction with uploading data, running validation checks, navigation, and integration
- Your thoughts on specifications that would make the platform easier to use
- Desired future capabilities and areas you’d prefer to handle through self-service.
In light of the results from the 2024 BEEDS External Survey and the additional functionalities users indicated they would like to see, the BEEDS team has recently implemented—or is planning to implement—a number of improvements to our processes.
These include:
- Publishing forward schedule PDF tables for specific collections
- Ensuring every team member has completed an Exceptional Customer Service Course
- Planning to automate UAT windows in the future to incorporate all collections on a quarterly basis.
Our goal remains to ensure that BEEDS continues to evolve in alignment with user needs, providing a robust and user-friendly platform for all our customers.
BEEDS customer survey
You will be directed to the survey by clicking the link, and it will only take a few minutes to complete.
We appreciate your time and effort in providing us with this valuable feedback.
31 March 2025
Bank of England Statistics Taxonomy 1.3.1 PWD release note
Following Green Notice 2024/01, the Bank of England has released a public working draft (PWD) of the updated taxonomy and data point model (DPM). The reporting requirements remain unchanged with this update, so our published definition documents should continue to be used. This release aims to address known issues in data modelling and validation rules and refine the data model to ensure alignment with these definitions.
As previously outlined in Green Notice 2024/01, the Bank’s Statistical Utility tool will be withdrawn with this update to the DPM. An alternative solution for reporting XBRL includes using one of our recognized software houses listed, who offer electronic reporting facilities.
We have provided the Data Point Model (DPM), annotated templates and data dictionary to request industry feedback on the proposed data point modelling and business validation rules.
We invite feedback from firms and software vendors on the PWD technical artefacts to uktaxonomypwdfeedback@bankofengland.co.uk by Friday 30 May 2025.
Statistics Taxonomy 1.3.1 PWD should not be used for reporting. A final version of the taxonomy and DPM will be published once the policy proposals have been finalised in due course. The Bank will update the taxonomy if any issues are identified in Statistics Taxonomy 1.3.1 PWD by the external firms and industry. The Bank will also publish the first reporting period that the new taxonomy will take effect from.
To find out more information please visit Statistical Reporting.
Entry point mapping