Lloyds Banking Group

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Wednesday 26th March 2014

(10 years, 8 months ago)

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Sajid Javid Portrait The Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Sajid Javid)
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Today the Government have successfully completed the sale of a second tranche of shares in Lloyds Banking Group.

The Chancellor received advice from UK Financial Investments Ltd (UKFI) yesterday that it would be appropriate to begin the process to sell a second part of the Government’s shareholding in Lloyds.

Overnight the Government were able to place 7.78% of Lloyds shares with investors at a price of 75.5p. The proceeds from that sale total approximately £4.2 billion.

The Treasury estimates that the second sale has reduced the national debt by £788 million and that in total the programme of sales of Lloyds shares to date has reduced the national debt by just under £1.4 billion.

Future sales will always be subject to value-for-money considerations and market conditions.