Analysis of lending to UK residents (AL) return

Details on the additional industrial lending breakdown (form AL) return including deadlines, instructions, and contact details.

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Key facts

Data to be reported:

Additional breakdowns of claims on lending (including claims under sale and repurchase agreements), other than  (MFIs) and including disaggregated by industry

Funds placed with UK MFIs (banks and building societies) or non-residents, or facilities related to them, should not be included in this return. Lending for special schemes for exports (regarded as lending to non-residents) is also excluded
Who has to report:

Firms with private sector holdings (BT items £2H + £3H or £29D) in excess of £1 billion

Check who needs to submit returns
Data uses:

Multiple, including:
Frequency:

Monthly
Coverage: Go to reporting criteria to find detailed calculations used to determine eligibility

Deadlines

Firms need to report figures as at the last calendar day of the reporting period.

Go to reporting criteria to download deadlines for all returns for all available years.

Reporting period Reporters impacted Deadline
(5pm UK time)		 Concessionary deadline
(5pm UK time)

*If concessionary deadlines are applicable to your firm submission this will have been communicated directly by the Bank of England. If you have not received any such communication please adhere to the standard deadlines.

Deadlines for 2026 will be released in October 2025.

 

Instructions

Overview of reported data

This return captures reporting institutions’ balance sheets assets related to UK residents other than monetary financial institutions and including the public sector. It includes breakdowns by:

  • assets, including loans and advances (including claims made under sale and repurchase agreements), financial leases, and facilities

It also captures:

  • currency breakdowns – sterling, euro, other – with foreign currencies to be reported in sterling
  • the broad economic industry UK sectors of counterparties – including manufacturing, fund managers, pensions funds, real estate etc

In every return firms also need to include:

  • their company name
  • their legal entity identifier (LEI) or firm reference number (FRN)
  • the first day of the reporting period
  • the last day of the reporting period

Core documents

You can find detailed instructions in the documents below.

Analysis of lending to UK residents (AL) specific documents

Document Notes for AL reporters Last updated
Form AL presentation (PPSX)
 Includes a high level overview of AL with tips for common reporting issues
 4 May 2018
BoE statistics data point model (DPM) 1.3.0 (ZIP)
 A folder containing two documents for defining all statistical reporting: annotated templates and a data dictionary

The Table of Contents worksheet in the annotated templates shows reporting templates relating to form AL		 24 Oct 2022
AL definitions (PDF) Includes details of what’s in scope and definitions of AL-specific terms 1 Jan 2019
BoE statistics validations 1.3.0 (XLSX)

Business validations for cross-checking data points within form AL and the suite of other statistical returns

View column O for a clearly worded description

 24 Oct 2022
Further details about industrial analysis of monetary financial institutions deposits and lending data
 These data collate information from UK MFIs on deposits from and lending to UK residents other than MFIs and are separated into 18 broad industrial categories, based upon the SIC classification system 31 Jan 2023

All statistical returns

Document Notes for all reporters Last updated
Classification of accounts guide (PDF)
 Includes detailed guidance on how to classify counterparties plus country lists 24 Apr 2024
General notes and definitions (PDF) Includes an introduction to preparing returns and definitions of common terms 24 Apr 2024

Box codes and related documents

These documents were used as part of a previous reporting method (XML) and are no longer applicable to XBRL reporting. They are still available to help firms as we transition to the new ways of working.

Contact us

For help with AL instructions: dsd_ms@bankofengland.co.uk

For help with BEEDS: beedsqueries@bankofengland.co.uk

We aim to reply to emails within 2 working days.

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This page was last updated 25 November 2024