The Bank of England has said all of its policymakers voted in favour of freezing British interest rates at a record low earlier this month, but two called for extra stimulus cash.
Minutes from the bank's policy meeting on March 7-8 revealed that the nine policymakers voted to keep borrowing costs at just 0.5%, where the key rate has now stood for three years.
The BoE's Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) meanwhile voted at the same meeting 7-2 in favour of maintaining the size of the bank's asset purchasing programme at £325 billion.
Two MPC members, David Miles and Adam Posen, wanted to increase the so-called quantitative easing (QE) programme by an additional £25 billion.
Under QE, the central bank creates new cash that is used to purchase assets such as government and corporate bonds in the hope of giving a boost to lending and economic activity.
Miles and Posen thought that "a larger monetary stimulus was warranted to reduce the risk that persistently weak growth would damage the future supply capacity of the economy," the minutes read.
