Rejected requests to reproduce banknotes

Dear Mr Jackson

We acknowledge receipt of your email dated 1 September (our ref FF
21552). We will reply in due course.

If you have any queries please contact the Bank's Public Information and
Enquiries Group on 020 7601 4878.

Public Information & Enquiries Group

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Dear Mr Jackson

Thank you for your email dated 1 September asking for access under the
Freedom of Information Act 2000 (*FoI Act*) to:

**in 2007 there were 24 requests to reproduce images of bank notes that
were rejected by the Bank of England. Can you please detail, for each
rejected request, the reason(s) why permission was not granted. If any of
these requests were resubmissions under changed circumstances as a
follow-up to a prior refusal, please note this. Please also similarly
note if any of the rejected requests were granted after a later
resubmission.*

The 24 reproduction requests received in 2007, none of which were
resubmissions, were refused as they were all requests to produce *novelty*
banknotes. As stated on the Bank*s website at:

[1]www.bankofengland.co.uk/banknotes/reproducing_banknotes.htm

The Bank of England does not give authority for any reproductions in the
form of a novelty banknote (e.g. one where a celebrity or other images are
shown on a banknote or other such changes). This is because there have
been instances of notes altered in this way being accepted as genuine
banknotes by unsuspecting members of the public.

Yours sincerely

Stuart Allen

Deputy Secretary of the Bank

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