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Bank of England spends £2,149 on mental health initiatives for staff in pandemic year

The Bank has continued support schemes, but has spent £150 less on them in the last 12 months

Bank spending on workshops continues, but edges down during pandemic
Bank spending on workshops continues, but edges down during pandemic Photo: Getty Images

The UK's central bank spent just over £2,000 on three bank-wide initiatives to support its employees' wellbeing in the first year of a pandemic which has prompted a spike in mental ill-health amongst City workers.

In the year to April 2021, the Bank of England, which includes the UK’s top banking watchdog the Prudential Regulation Authority, spent £2,149 on the mental health programmes for its roughly 4,000-strong workforce, according to a Freedom of Information Act request by Financial News.

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