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These initiatives were driven by Lord Eatwell, and are more likely to reflect personal policy preferences.
Lord Eatwell has not introduced any legislation before Parliament
Lord Eatwell has not co-sponsored any Bills in the current parliamentary sitting
Most of the Government’s debt is in the form of publicly traded bonds (‘gilts’). The data most recently published on the website of the Debt Management Office (DMO) covering the distribution of gilt holdings are set out in the table below:
| UK households | The Bank of England | Overseas holdings | Banks and other financial institutions | Insurance and pension funds |
End-2017 | 0.2% | 24.4% | 27.9% | 16.0% | 31.2% |
End-2018 | 0.2% | 23.8% | 28.3% | 15.8% | 31.5% |
End-2019 | 0.2% | 23.4% | 30.1% | 13.3% | 32.8% |
End-2020 | 0.2% | 31.6% | 28.2% | 12.0% | 27.9% |
Q1 2021 | 0.2% | 32.5% | 27.6% | 11.1% | 28.4% |
Most of the Government’s debt is in the form of publicly traded bonds (‘gilts’). The average maturity of the stock of total gilts was 15.8 years at both end-December 2017 and end-December 2018, 15.9 years at end-December 2019, and 15.3 years at end-December 2020. By end-July 2021, the average maturity of the stock of total gilts had fallen to 15.2 years.