All nine members of the Bank's Monetary Policy Committee.
decision to freeze rates comes amid worries about global growth and uncertainty ahead of the EU.
That uncertainty is likely to have been a significant driver of the decline in sterling."It may also delay some spending decisions and depress growth of aggregate demand in the near term.
"The OBR's downgraded UK inflation forecasts, and the fact that the bank's own 2% inflation target is unlikely to be reached until late 2017 at the earliest, mean that a rise in interest rates is now likely to remain off the table for the foreseeable future,"