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NS&I today published its provisional Q3 (October-December 2013) results for the financial year 2013-14. Net Financing for the quarter was £0.4 billion, bringing the year-to-date total to £2.9 billion.

March’s Premium Bonds millionaire A male living in Avon Bond number: 163EA927547 Winning Bond bought in December 2009 Total holdings £26,662 For the March 2014 draw ERNIE paid out over 1.8 million prizes, together amounting to over £51 million in value. There were 47,389,711,882 eligible Bond numbers in the draw.  In Avon there are over 400,000 Premium Bonds holdings worth more than £990 million.

NS&I’s latest Quarterly Savings Survey shows how Britain’s savings behaviour has changed over the last decade. Britons are now saving 7.76% of their incomes each month, (£98).

For the February 2014 draw ERNIE paid out over 1.8 million prizes, together amounting to over £51 million in value. There were 47,100,896,572 eligible Bond numbers in the draw.  In Hertfordshire there are over 400,000 Premium Bonds holdings worth more than £1.2 billion.

In Suffolk there are over 300,000 Premium Bonds holdings worth more than £755 million.

NS&I’s Agent Million, who delivers the good news to the Premium Bonds £1 million jackpot winner each month, has travelled over 2,500 miles up and down the country in 2013, almost three times the distance from Land’s End to John O’ Groats!

NS&I today announced that it was reducing the interest rate on its Direct ISA by 0.25% to 1.50% tax-free/AER. This change will come into effect from 27 February 2014.

In today’s Autumn Statement, the Chancellor announced that NS&I’s Net Financing target for 2013-14 is to be revised. NS&I’s original target for 2013-14 was £0 (in a range of £2 billion either side of this, from -£2 billion to £2 billion).

For the December 2013 draw ERNIE paid out over 1.7 million prizes, together amounting to over £50 million in value. There were 46,776,231,900 eligible Bond numbers in the draw.

The latest NS&I Quarterly Savings Survey out today reveals that over one in four Britons (27%) with an emergency fund have broken into it when they didn’t have to.