Appendix 4 Voting on Interest Rates by the Monetary Policy Committee – 1997 to January 2014
| Voted to | Voted to | Voted to | ||
| increase | reduce | maintain | Meetings | |
| Current Members | ||||
| Charles Bean | 8 | 22 | 131 | 161 |
| Ben Broadbent | 0 | 0 | 32 | 32 |
| Mark Carney | 0 | 0 | 7 | 7 |
| Jon Cunliffe | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| Spencer Dale | 6 | 6 | 55 | 67 |
| Paul Fisher | 0 | 1 | 58 | 59 |
| Ian McCafferty | 0 | 0 | 17 | 17 |
| David Miles | 0 | 0 | 56 | 56 |
| Martin Weale | 7 | 0 | 35 | 42 |
| Past Members | ||||
| Christopher Allsopp | 0 | 18 | 19 | 37 |
| Kate Barker | 11 | 20 | 78 | 109 |
| Marian Bell | 4 | 6 | 26 | 36 |
| Tim Besley | 10 | 8 | 18 | 36 |
| David Blanchflower | 1 | 19 | 16 | 36 |
| Alan Budd | 5 | 6 | 7 | 18 |
| Willem Buiter | 17 | 10 | 9 | 36 |
| David Clementi | 8 | 14 | 39 | 61 |
| Howard Davies | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Eddie George | 9 | 15 | 50 | 74 |
| John Gieve | 6 | 10 | 21 | 37 |
| Charles Goodhart | 12 | 7 | 17 | 36 |
| DeAnne Julius | 2 | 18 | 25 | 45 |
| Mervyn King | 30 | 23 | 141 | 194 |
| Richard Lambert | 5 | 2 | 27 | 34 |
| Andrew Large | 12 | 1 | 27 | 40 |
| Rachel Lomax | 7 | 2 | 51 | 60 |
| Stephen Nickell | 9 | 23 | 41 | 73 |
| Ian Plenderleith | 9 | 13 | 39 | 61 |
| Adam Posen | 0 | 0 | 36 | 36 |
| Andrew Sentance | 20 | 8 | 28 | 56 |
| Paul Tucker | 13 | 10 | 114 | 137 |
| John Vickers | 10 | 7 | 11 | 28 |
| Sushil Wadhwani | 3 | 16 | 18 | 37 |
| David Walton | 2 | 2 | 8 | 12 |
| Interest Rate | ||||
| Number of times increased | ||||
| 18 | ||||
| Number of times reduced | ||||
| 26 | ||||
| Number of times maintained | ||||
| 156 |
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