Bank to publish key forecast information Responding to three reviews into its operations last year, the Bank pledged "to provide quantified information about the key central judgements underlying the forecasts." The new information is expected to be disclosed for the first time when the Bank updates its outlook in the August Inflation Report. Despite its commitment to more clarity, the Bank is not expected to go as far as David Stockton, a former US Federal Reserve economist, recommended. He suggested publishing "the output gap or unemployment rate, the household saving rate, productivity, and profit margins," but the Bank plans to disclose only those judgements and figures that help tell the story it wants heard. The Bank's position will disappoint economists, who hoped to use the data to get a better grasp of how the Bank reads \the economy, and will be at odds with the Office for Budget Responsibility, which publishes all its underlying assumptions. Mr Stockton said last year he expected greater clarity "would go a long way toward satisfying the desires of outside observers" and that releasing the data would be straightforward because the information "is already produced by staff as part of the forecast process." The Bank also revealed that it will publish the figures that inform the forecasts alongside the Inflation Report, rowing back on a long held belief by Sir Mervyn King, the Governor, that delaying the data by a week helped communicate the Bank's broader view of the economy.