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<p>The gilt market is deep and liquid and is supported by a generally well-diversified
investor base, including domestic and foreign investors.</p><p> </p><p>The Office
for National Statistics (ONS) publishes data on the broad breakdowns of the underlying
owners of UK government debt as part of the UK Economic Accounts, published quarterly.
The ONS, however, does not provide a domicile breakdown of where UK debt is held overseas,
so it is not possible to observe the specific amount of gilt holdings by sub-groups
of overseas investors.</p><p> </p><p>The latest available ONS data can be found here:</p><p><a
href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ons.gov.uk%2Feconomy%2Fnationalaccounts%2Fuksectoraccounts%2Fdatasets%2Funitedkingdomeconomicaccountssectorgeneralgovernment&data=05%7C01%7CSanjana.Gopy%40hmtreasury.gov.uk%7Ca7c8cf8c57f04689616908db199bd80a%7Ced1644c505e049e6bc39fcf7ac51c18c%7C0%7C0%7C638131929348550591%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=pDVpSN%2BhH3uExuwhtFNPag%2Fon8vsEFY7zxgBeBhgRSA%3D&reserved=0"
target="_blank">https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/nationalaccounts/uksectoraccounts/datasets/unitedkingdomeconomicaccountssectorgeneralgovernment</a>.</p><p>
</p><p>More generally, gilts are largely held in nominee accounts and holdings of
underlying beneficial owners are therefore not identifiable.</p>
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