Issue of Debt

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	Eastcheap Court 11 Philpot Lane London EC3M 8UD	Tel [phone]     www.dmo.gov.uk     15 October 2020
PRESS NOTICE

AUCTION OF BRITISH GOVERNMENT STOCK

Auction Details
Auction Date	Thursday, 22 October 2020
Issue and Settlement Date	Friday, 23 October 2020
Bidding Convention	Fully paid Bid Price (see Note 1)
Accrued Interest payable with bid	£0.001717032967 per £100 nominal
Auction Open	10:30am London Time
Auction Close	11:30am London Time
Post Auction Option Facility Open	2:00pm London Time
Post Auction Option Facility Close	2:30pm London Time

Details of Security
Title	0⅝% Treasury Gilt 2050
Amount (nominal) for auction	£1,750 million (fungible with previous issues) (see Note 3)
Nominal outstanding after auction	£21,146.0 million
Maturity Date	22 October 2050 at par
Interest Payment Dates	22 April and 22 October
ISIN Code	GB00BMBL1F74
SEDOL Code	B-MBL-1F7
Strippable	No (see Note 4)
Interest Payable	Gross (see Note 2)
Next Interest Payment Date	22 April 2021 (Standard Coupon)

Note 1: Bids may be made on either a competitive or a non‑competitive basis. Details of the bidding procedures are set out in the prospectus and in the Information Memorandum. Gilt‑edged Market Makers may bid by means of the Bloomberg Bond Auction System to the DMO not earlier than 10.30 am on Thursday, 22 October 2020 and not later than 11.30 am on Thursday, 22 October 2020.

Note 2: Holders may elect to have United Kingdom income tax deducted from interest payments, should they so wish, on application to the Registrar, Computershare Investor Services PLC.

Note 3: Subject to the provisions of the Information Memorandum, this auction will be eligible for the Post Auction Option Facility of an additional amount of the Gilt equivalent to 25% of the nominal amount of the Gilt allocated at the auction. Details of the Post Auction Option Facility procedures are set out in the Information Memorandum as supplemented by the prospectus.

Note 4: The Gilt may not be stripped and reconstituted until so specified in a notice issued by the DMO.

Documentation
Prospectus for auction of £1,750 million of 0⅝% Treasury Gilt 2050   DMO : 15 October 2020	Available on the DMO’s Gilt Market Publications webpage at: https://www.dmo.gov.uk/publications/
Information Memorandum relating to the Issue, Stripping and Reconstitution of British Government Stock   DMO : 31 March 2020	https://www.dmo.gov.uk/media/16368/infmemadd310320.pdf
Formulae for Calculating Gilt Prices from Yields   DMO : 16 March 2005	http://www.dmo.gov.uk/media/1955/yldeqns.pdf

Applications from Members of the Approved Group of Investors

For this auction applications may not be made by members of the Approved Group.

Gilt sales in 2020-21

The progress of gilt sales in 2020-21 is summarised in the table below.