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The Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee has voted to maintain the key UK interest rate unchanged at 4.5%.

UK interest rates would have to roughly double for the country's personal debt levels to cause an early 1990s-style financial crisis, says lender Alliance & Leicester.

The Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committe (MPC) has once again voted to maintain interest rates at 4.5%.

Consumer confidence has fallen again according to the latest figures from Nationwide published just ahead of tomorrows meeting of the Bank of England's, Monetary Policy Committee (MPC).

Bank of England January figures suggest total net lending to individuals increased £10.5bn on December, although the annualised growth rate remained unchanged at 10.3%.

Anyone hoping the Bank of England (BoE) will cut interest rates in the next couple of months should probably avoid holding their breath, according to the Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML).

Net lending to individuals was £9.6bn in December, in line with the figure for November and £0.8bn higher than the previous six-month average, according to the latest figures from the Bank of England.

SALES OF tax-efficient individual savings accounts (ISAs) fell by 10% during 2005, despite net retail sales of funds outside the tax wrapper rising by 73% over the same period, reports The Scotsman .

The Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) voted eight to one to maintain interest rates at their current level of 4.5% when it last met at the beginning of this month.