This Bank of England quarterly publication presents the Bank's assessment of the latest trends in lending to the UK economy. The publication moved from a monthly to a quarterly schedule in October 2010 though key data series will continue to be updated on this website on a monthly basis. These are available in the 'Selected data sets' section below.

This report draws mainly on long-established official data sources, such as the existing monetary and financial statistics collected by the Bank that cover all monetary financial institutions. These data have been supplemented by the results of a new collection, established by the Bank in late 2008, to provide more timely data covering aspects of lending to the UK corporate and household sectors. As an article in the October 2010 edition of Bankstats set out, key elements of that data collection are to be included in the Bank's regular data collection in furture, with data drawn from a wider range of reporters