Lending plans help BoE to lift low rates
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The Bank of England has some leeway to raise record low interest rates without hitting borrowers buying homes with the help of government lending schemes, BoE policymaker Ben Broadbent said yesterday.
The government launched a flagship loan guarantee plan earlier this month to help people buy houses, prompting criticism it could fuel a property bubble and burden buyers with unsustainable debt once rates return to normal levels.
Asked on Sky News whether he worried how borrowers will cope with higher rates, Broadbent said: “The numbers entering the scheme are relatively low. And although interest rates will at some point start to rise, you’ve got to remember quite how low a level we are starting from. I think there is a fair amount they could go up before borrowers got into great difficulties.”
The central bank has kept interest rates at a record low of 0.5 percent since 2009 and has pumped 375 billion pounds (US$600 billion) of new money into the UK economy since the financial crisis.
A cross-party committee of lawmakers has warned that the government housing schemes risk raising prices rather than supply.
In August the BoE committed to keeping rates on hold until unemployment falls to 7 percent — something it forecast would take at least three years — unless inflation threatens to get out of control.
Broadbent said that guidance could be reconsidered if inflation becomes a problem, although the central bank would only raise rates once the economy is on a secure footing.
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