Graeme Chaplin, Agent, Bank of England, West Midlands & Oxfordshire Agency Graeme is the Bank’s Regional Agent for the West Midlands & Oxfordshire. The role of the Bank’s regional Agencies is to act as information gatherers for the Bank’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) and Financial Policy Committee (FPC). To this end, the Agents meet regularly with contacts from across the business community to assess the current state of the economic environment. This information plays an important role in the policy…