LONDON, Jan 16 (Reuters) - Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey said the BoE made a profit of about 3.8 billion pounds ($4.6 billion) on its temporary programme of buying government bonds to stabilise financial markets after the "mini-budget" of former prime minister Liz Truss last year.
"The profits all go to the Treasury. It's around 3.8 billion pounds...The Bank of England does not get to keep that," Bailey said in response to a question from a lawmaker on parliament's Treasury Committee on Monday.
The BoE last week completed the sale of 19.3 billion pounds of British government bonds bought under the emergency programme that it launched after the mini-budget. ($1 = 0.8195 pounds) (Reporting by David Milliken and Suban Abdulla Writing by William Schomberg)
