Question follow-through · 6920

Premium Bonds

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many and what proportion of all purchases of premium bonds made in the last financial year were under the value of (a) £100, (b) £1000 and (c) £10,000.

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Answering body
Treasury
Tabled
4 Oct 2024
Target answer date
8 Oct 2024
Answer
14 Oct 2024 · 10 calendar days after tabling

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  1. 4 Oct 2024

    Question tabled

    To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many and what proportion of all purchases of premium bonds made in the last financial year were under the value of (a) £100, (b) £1000 and (c) £10,000.

  2. 8 Oct 2024

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 14 Oct 2024

    Answer published

    According to National Savings and Investments (NS&I), in the 2023/24 there were: 4,520,011 Premium Bonds sales under the value of £100, which equates to 32.3% of all Premium Bonds sales.10,344,803 Premium Bonds sales under the value of £1,000, which e...

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