Premium Bonds: Correspondence
(asked on 10th December 2020) - View Source
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many paper prize warrants were sent out to winners of Premium Bond prizes in each of the last ten years; and if he will make a statement.
Table: Prizes won each year between 2010-2020 by prize payment type
Prize winning year | Auto Prize Investment | Prize by Warrant | Prize by BACS | Other | Total | % of prizes that were warrants |
2010 | 4,155,504 | 16,406,467 | 6 | 48,992 | 20,561,977 | 80% |
2011 | 4,323,678 | 16,610,306 | 284,312 | 47,026 | 21,218,296 | 78% |
2012 | 4,484,871 | 16,170,837 | 1,143,668 | 55,670 | 21,799,376 | 74% |
2013 | 4,520,633 | 15,612,451 | 1,856,448 | 56,874 | 21,989,532 | 71% |
2014 | 5,518,122 | 13,971,588 | 2,998,525 | 63,893 | 22,488,235 | 62% |
2015 | 6,974,548 | 14,074,705 | 4,279,531 | 78,658 | 25,328,784 | 56% |
2016 | 7,104,185 | 13,457,970 | 5,571,947 | 87,799 | 26,134,102 | 51% |
2017 | 7,314,839 | 12,900,783 | 7,858,434 | 111,635 | 28,074,056 | 46% |
2018 | 9,322,849 | 14,802,366 | 12,540,401 | 174,215 | 36,665,616 | 40% |
2019 | 10,021,102 | 14,133,249 | 15,492,951 | 200,340 | 39,647,302 | 36% |
2020 | 10,917,668 | 11,680,178 | 20,359,390 | 356,003 | 42,957,236 | 27% |
*Other prize payment type includes, death claim forms, high value prize claim forms, prize queries etc.