The Committee also voted to maintain the stock of asset purchases financed by the issuance of central bank reserves at £375 billion.
The previous change in Bank Rate was a reduction of 0.5 percentage points to 0.5% on 5 March 2009.
A programme of asset purchases financed by the issuance of central bank reserves was initiated on 5 March 2009. The previous change in the size of that programme was an increase of £50 billion to a total of £375 billion on 5 July 2012.
