(Reuters) -Bank of England Chief Economist Huw Pill said on Tuesday that he voted last week against a slowdown in the pace of the central bank's reduction of its government bond stockpile in part
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Bank of England's Approach to Bond Sales
(Reuters) -Bank of England Chief Economist Huw Pill said on Tuesday that he voted last week against a slowdown in the pace of the central bank's reduction of its government bond stockpile in part because the BoE has other tools to address problems in financial markets.
Pill's Voting Stance
"I was essentially a dissenter in summary because I put a higher weight on the need to get out of the QE portfolio a little bit quicker, and I have greater faith that market functioning is perhaps a bit more strong than others," Pill said in a discussion organised by the Pictet Research Institute.
Concerns About Market Functioning
"I do think we have other tools in order to address concerns about market functioning."
Pill last week voted with the majority of BoE policymakers to keep interest rates at 4% but he cast a lone vote against a decision to slow the pace of quantitative tightening.
(Reporting by William Schomberg; Editing by Kate Holton)
