2009 Premium Bond FOI Requests

September

• “…randomness of number selection….how secure the selection process is…?
• “Total amount of Premium Bonds held by the people of Suffolk and the Total..."

August

• “…won by Bond holders in Scotland in the July and August draws …?”
• “…how much finance has been taken by the Exchequer during the past 3 months..."
• "...how are prize values associated with the winning premium bond numbers?......."
• "...total number of premium bonds held by persons residing overseas... the number of prizes posted to overseas holders...Is there just the one "ERNIE"?"
• "...in this months (July) £1000.00 listed prize winners well over 95% were purchased from year 2000 onwards...why is this so?"
• "...when you get the interest each month for the holders and when its taxed, is it from nsandi interest gets taxed? Or from my individual tax account...?"
• "...percentage paid out in prizes... in relation to the total investment in Premium Bonds......?"
• "...percentage of currently valid premium bonds were bought before 2000. What percentage of last month's (July) prizes went to these bonds......?"

July

• "...% of total investment are you now paying out in prizes and how does..."
• "...clarify how many prizes have been issued for each 'draw' over the past three years..."

June

• "... winners in the three areas that I have mentioned [Denbighshire, Flintshire and Wrexham]..."

May

• "...who you polled recently regarding their satisfaction with this product and the recent changes?....."

April

• "...how many bonds from 1987 have won a prize in the last 5 years...?"
• "...if anyone in North Yorkshire has won an amount over £25,000...?"

March

• "...can you advise the last time a bond, purchased in the 1950's or even in the 60's last won a prize of £ 5000 or more...?"
• "...average number of bonds in the draw for each of the last 12 months...?"
• "...how safe realistically is the Premium Bond...?"
• "...how often do people win with bonds purchased in the 1950s or 1960s ...?"
• "...will you be cutting the number of one million pound prizes down to one... never once be asked any customer research...?"
• "...how many people in Humberside have won a major prize in the last three years...?"
• "...what percentage of the total bonds issued are held in the County (Lancashire)...?"
• "...In view of the current circumstances it would be better to scrap the million pound prizes and limit them to 100k...?"

February

• "Statistically would you say that bonds bought 50 years go appear less often than say bonds bought in the last 20 years?"
• "...I would like to know the percentage of winners in the Bedfordshire area over the last couple of years...?"

January

• "...could you please tell me which organisation audits the Premium Bond prize process...?"

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