Bank of England Speeches Dataset

Dec 10, 2025
Data

This page contains the dataset of speeches of Bank of England officials initially collected for Scotto di Vettimo and Koop (2025). The dataset has been compiled by scraping the Bank of England website, and manually annotating a number of relevant covariates for each speech.

Bank of England officials deliver speeches around the world and across the UK

The dataset features 1,390 speeches from Bank officials between May 1997 and June 2025.

The dataset is available from the UK Data Service free of charge for academic research and personal non-commercial use. It can be downloaded by clicking the button on top of this page.

Citation

When using this data, please cite:

  • Scotto di Vettimo, M. & Koop, C. (2025) “Technocrats, reputation, and responsiveness in policy explanation”, Governance, 39(1), e70103. DOI: 10.1111/gove.70103.

The replication package for this paper is available here.

This page is updated with data collected up to June 2025.

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Michele Scotto di Vettimo
Michele Scotto di Vettimo
Research Fellow

My research interests include comparative politics, public opinion studies and EU political system. Currently, my main project is about decision-making in the European Council.

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