Updates
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As previously outlined in Green Notice 2024/01, the Bank’s Statistical Utility tool will be withdrawn with this update to the DPM.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.
5 February 2025
BEEDS Reporting Schedules 2025
In light of the recent results from The BEEDS External Survey and the additional functionalities users would like to see on the platform in the future. A number of BEEDS users expressed a need for forward schedules within BEEDS.
Unfortunately, as we do not currently have the functionality to generate forward schedules within BEEDS, The BEEDS team have produced a PDF table for your specific collections (Branch Returns, Buy-to-Let Mortgage data, Capital+, Credit Unions, Form MC, CSDR, Leverage Ratio, MREL and Solvency UK) reporting schedule for 2025 on our external BEEDS web page as part of your individual collections documentation to view.
We hope you find this additional information useful.
8 January 2025
See the December 2024 edition of the BEEDS Newsletter. This issue includes updates on the BEEDS Customer Satisfaction Survey results, improvements to the platform and resources, and an overview of our plans for the new data collection platform.
We greatly value your feedback and encourage you to reach out to us at BEEDSQueries@bankofengland.co.uk if you have any questions, suggestions, or comments regarding the newsletter or BEEDS in general.
Entry point mapping