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1127514

	registered interest
	date	20/05/2019
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Gold and Foreign Exchange Reserves
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the UK’s official reserves are of (a) gold, (b) foreign currency and (c) other assets as at 31 March 2019.
	tabling member constituency	Stafford
	tabling member printed	Jeremy Lefroy
	uin	256257
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/05/2019 answer text <p>As at end March 2019, the market value of the UK’s official reserves was $169.5 billion. This comprised of (a) $12.9 billion gold, (b) $129.5 billion foreign currency reserves and (c) $27.1 billion other assets.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Salisbury answering member printed John Glen question first answered 23/05/2019 12:50:43 answering member 4051 label Biography information for John Glen
	tabling member	4109 label Biography information for Jeremy Lefroy

942622

	registered interest
	date	16/07/2018
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Gold and Foreign Exchange Reserves
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the gold reserves of the Bank of England were on 30 June (a) 1998, (b) 2008 and (c) 2018.
	tabling member constituency	Stafford
	tabling member printed	Jeremy Lefroy
	uin	164422
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/05/2019 answer text <p>The Bank of England does not own any gold reserves of its own, except for two bars held for display at the Bank of England Museum. However, the Bank provides safe custody for the UK's gold reserves and for other customers. It has only started recently publishing the weight of all the gold in its custody on its website, which includes data back to 2011. On 30 June 2018, it held 166,516,000 fine troy ounces of gold. There is no equivalent data available for 1998 and 2008.</p> answering member constituency Aylesbury answering member printed Mr David Lidington question first answered 15/05/2019 17:33:50 answering member 15 label Biography information for Sir David Lidington
	tabling member	4109 label Biography information for Jeremy Lefroy