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Almost eight in ten people surveyed by National Savings and Investments (NS&I) admitted to spending more money than they might otherwise have done because of being tempted by the prospect of saving money.

NS&I today published its un-audited quarterly results for the second quarter (July-September 2014) of the financial year 2014-15.

This month – for the first time ever – NS&I has paid out over two million prizes, worth more than £58 million.

Across the UK over 928,000 Premium Bonds prizes worth over £41 million remain unclaimed.

This month a Premium Bond bought in September 2014 won one of the two £1 million jackpot prizes, in its first eligible draw.

Almost half a million pounds worth of Premium Bonds prizes – including one for £100,000 – remain unclaimed from NS&I customers based in Australia.

Over three million pounds of Premium Bonds prizes –including one for £100,000 – remain unclaimed from NS&I customers based overseas.

NS&I’s latest Quarterly Savings Survey has revealed that the steady rise in savings levels seen over the last year, from 7.42% of income saved in summer 2013 to 8.21% in spring 2014, came to an end in the summer. Britons are now saving 7.63% of their income each month.

NS&I will be discussing how Britons are changing the way they save at the Personal Finance Society’s regional conference being held at the Ivy Hill Hotel, Furze Hill, Chelmsford, on Wednesday 1 October. The event is open to members of the Personal Finance Society based in their Essex Region.

Recently, NS&I took the opportunity to pull the best of 150 years of history from our archive into a short series of five minute videos.