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The latest edition of NS&I’s Quarterly Savings Survey reveals that Britons have recorded the highest saving level of the year. People are now saving 8.04% of their incomes each month, £101 in monetary terms.

For the April 2014 draw ERNIE paid out over 1.8 million prizes, together amounting to over £51 million in value. There were 47,485,235,758 eligible Bond numbers in the draw. In the County of Durham there are over 190,000 Premium Bonds holdings worth more than £300 million.

The government has announced plans for National Savings and Investments (NS&I) to help support savers.

NS&I today announced that Matrix Capital has been awarded the contract to provide financial advisory services to winners of the monthly Premium Bonds £1 million jackpot prize.

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!