WASHINGTON, April 19 (Reuters) - Bank of England Deputy

Governor Dave Ramsden said on Friday that inflation could hold

around the central bank's 2% target for the next three years

rather than rise higher as set out in the BoE's most recent

forecasts.

    "For me the balance of domestic risks to the outlook for UK

inflation, relative to the February ... forecasts, is now tilted

to the downside, with a scenario where inflation stays close to

the 2% target over the whole forecast period at least as

likely," Ramsden said in comments prepared for a conference

organised by the Peterson Institute for International Economics.

(Reporting by William Schomberg and David Milliken in London)

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