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LONDON (Reuters) – Britain should consider changing the Bank of England’s policy of paying interest to banks on the reserves they hold there, former BoE deputy governor Charlie Bean said on Tuesday. Bean’s comments follow a proposal from another ex-BoE deputy governor, Paul Tucker, who said the government could save 30-45 billion pounds ($34-$52 billion) a year by moving to a system where banks would receive interest on a fraction of their deposits at the BoE. British banks hold around 950 billion pounds of reserves at the BoE, largely as a result of more than 800 billion pounds of reserves cr…