FT complaint on Treasury raid on QE proceeds upheld


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Wednesday June 12 2013

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FT complaint on Treasury raid on QE proceeds upheld
George Osborne's attempt to flatter the official headline measures of the public finances came unstuck on Wednesday after the UK Statistics Authority reprimanded the Office for National Statistics for treating the Treasury's raid on the Bank of England as equivalent to tax revenues.

Upholding a complaint from the Financial Times about the ONS decision, the statistics watchdog called for a review of the headline measures of public borrowing and debt.
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