Recommendation 8

The Bank is right to work on a new backstop facility to reduce the chance of having to resort to gilt purchases in future, and given that QT is ongoing, it should work on this as a priority. In the meantime, it should consider whether a fully developed and transparent contingency is needed should it have to go further and suspend QT and/ or resort to gilt purchases, as it had to on an improvised basis in September 2022.