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Press releaseNOVEMBER’S £1 MILLION PREMIUM BONDS JACKPOT WINNING NUMBERS01 November 2007Nearly 1.7 million other tax free prizes worth over £117m also awarded.
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Prize Value |
Number of prizes |
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£1,000,000 |
2 |
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£100,000 |
20 |
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£50,000 |
39 |
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£25,000 |
80 |
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£10,000 |
200 |
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£5,000 |
397 |
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£1,000 |
4,772 |
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£500 |
14,316 |
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£100 |
224,386 |
In November’s draw ERNIE distributed 1,704,651 prizes worth £119,325,550.
Premium Bond Facts
The Premium Bonds prize fund rate is 4.00% tax-free. The odds of winning any prize are 21,000 to 1, with average luck, an investor with £30,000 in Premium Bonds can expect to win 17 tax-free2 prizes a year.
23 million people have more than £36 billion invested in Premium Bonds.
Premium Bonds can be bought online at www.nsandi.com, by telephone on 0500 007 007*, by post and over the counter at Post Office® branches.
Like all NS&I products, Premium Bonds offer investors 100% capital security, backed by HM Treasury, as well as the sense of fun that comes from winning tax-free2 prizes.
Since the first Premium Bonds prize draw in 1957, over 162.43 million tax-free2 prizes worth £10.4 billion have been paid out. Prizes range from £50 to £1 million.
There is over £29 million in unclaimed prizes. There is no time limit on claiming prizes. Premium Bonds investors can check to see if they have won by logging on to www.nsandi.com and using the Premium Bonds prize checker.
ENDS
Notes to Editors
*Call charges from a BT landline are free. Charges from other service providers will vary. For your security and to maintain the highest levels of service calls may be recorded.
1. The lucky jackpot winners become ERNIE’s 197th and 198th Premium Bond millionaires
2. All Premium Bonds prizes are free of UK income tax and capital gains tax.
3. Pictures of ERNIE (including the new ERNIE 4 machine), Agent Million and buying Premium Bonds online are available in high-resolution jpeg format from the NS&I media team.
4. Further information on NS&I (National Savings & Investments) including press releases and product information, is available on the website at www.nsandi.com.
5. Subscribe to the NS&I RSS newsfeed. Simply copy and paste this link www.nsandi.com/mediacentre.xml into your RSS reader to receive regular news alerts from NS&I.
6. NS&I has a number of spokespeople available for interviews and our radio team is available via our ISDN line: 020 7602 4522.
Media team
NS&I has a number of spokespeople available for interviews and our experienced radio team is available via our ISDN line: 020 7602 4522.
The numbers below are for media use only. Customers wishing to contact NS&I can find details here.
| Gareth Headon | 020 7348 9494 | |
| gareth.headon@nsandi.com | ||
| Gill Stephens | 020 7348 9449 | |
| gill.stephens@nsandi.com | ||
| Iman Asante | 020 7348 9301 | |
| iman.asante@nsandi.com | ||
| Monica Del-Villar | 020 7348 9654 | |
| monica.del-villar@nsandi.com | ||
ISDN for interviews |
020 7602 4522 |
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