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<p style="color:#333333;font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:30px;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;hyphens:auto;text-align:justify;" data-flag="normal">The Bank of England yesterday quietly replaced a dataset linked to one of its most closely watched business surveys, adding to uncertainty about the quality of UK economic figures.</p><p style="color:#333333;font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:30px;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;hyphens:auto;text-align:justify;" data-flag="normal">According to data published by the BoE at 9.31am, businesses expected UK inflation for the year ahead to be 3.5 per cent, the highest since 2023.</p><p style="color:#333333;font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:30px;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;hyphens:auto;text-align:justify;" data-flag="normal">But the BoE then swapped the spreadsheet with the underlying results of its survey of chief financial officers on its website.</p><p style="col...