A changelog of verified official facts: UK tax and National Insurance thresholds, exam specifications, and official vehicle datasets (French RappelConso recalls, Japanese MLIT recalls and complaints), plus central-bank policy rates (Bank of England, Fed, ECB). Each entry records what changed (from → to), when it took effect, the official source, the date it was verified, and a maintainer note. Entries are generated by scripts from committed data files and annotated by the maintainer — never written from memory. Coverage starts 2026-08-31.
Also available as RSS, Atom, JSON at /api/changes?since=YYYY-MM-DD, or over MCP: the what_changed_since tool at POST /api/mcp takes a date (an agent's training cutoff) and returns the entries after it.
MPC meeting ending 17 December 2025 (decision published 18 December 2025): Bank Rate reduced by 0.25 percentage points from 4.00% to 3.75%, vote 5–4. Held at 3.75% at the June, July and September 2026 meetings (latest published 17 September 2026); next decision due 5 November 2026. Verified 2026-10-03 against the Bank Rate page and the Bank Rate history table.
Governing Council monetary policy meeting of 10 September 2026: the three key ECB interest rates raised by 25 basis points with effect from 16 September 2026 — deposit facility rate 2.25% → 2.50%, the rate through which the Council steers the monetary policy stance. The previous level had applied since 17 June 2026. Next monetary policy meeting 28–29 October 2026.
Governing Council monetary policy meeting of 10 September 2026: the three key ECB interest rates raised by 25 basis points with effect from 16 September 2026 — main refinancing operations rate 2.40% → 2.65%. The previous level had applied since 17 June 2026. Next monetary policy meeting 28–29 October 2026.
Governing Council monetary policy meeting of 10 September 2026: the three key ECB interest rates raised by 25 basis points with effect from 16 September 2026 — marginal lending facility rate 2.65% → 2.90%. The previous level had applied since 17 June 2026. Next monetary policy meeting 28–29 October 2026.
FOMC meeting of 15–16 September 2026 (statement 16 September 2026, vote 12–0): target range for the federal funds rate raised by 1/4 percentage point from 3.50–3.75% to 3.75–4.00% (lower bound), effective 17 September 2026 per the implementation note. The previous range had applied since 11 December 2025. Next meeting 27–28 October 2026.
FOMC meeting of 15–16 September 2026 (statement 16 September 2026, vote 12–0): target range for the federal funds rate raised by 1/4 percentage point from 3.50–3.75% to 3.75–4.00% (upper bound), effective 17 September 2026 per the implementation note. The previous range had applied since 11 December 2025. Next meeting 27–28 October 2026.