Dividend history

Preference and other non-equity dividends

	2006				2005
	Subordinated liabilities		Equity		Subordinated liabilities	Equity	2004	2003	2003
Amount per share	$	£	$	£	£	£	£	£	£
Non-cumulative preference shares of US$0.01
– Series B (redeemed January 2003)	—	—			—		—	0.13	1.65
– Series C (redeemed January 2003)	—	—			—		—	0.11	1.40
– Series D (redeemed March 2006)	0.37	0.21			1.13		1.11	1.23	1.34
– Series E (1)	2.03	1.10			1.12		1.10	1.21	1.32
– Series F	1.91	1.03			1.06		1.04	1.15	1.25
– Series G (1)	1.85	1.00			1.02		1.00	1.11	1.21
– Series H	1.81	0.98			1.00		0.98	1.09	1.18
– Series I (redeemed March 2006)	0.36	0.20			1.10		1.08	1.20	1.31
– Series J (redeemed November 2005)	—	—			1.06		1.15	1.27	1.39
– Series K (1)	1.97	1.06			1.09		1.07	1.18	1.29
– Series L	1.44	0.78			0.79		0.19	—	—
– Series M			1.60	0.87		0.88	0.30	—	—
– Series N			1.59	0.86		0.55	—	—	—
– Series P			1.56	0.85		0.13	—	—	—
– Series Q (issued May 2006)			1.01	0.53		—	—	—	—
– Series R (issued December 2006)			—	—		—	—	—	—
Non-cumulative convertible preference shares of US$0.01
– Series 1	91.18	50.26			50.33		49.05	54.89	59.15
– Series 2 (redeemed March 2005)	—	—			11.60		47.43	53.08	57.20
– Series 3 (redeemed December 2005)	—	—			43.03		41.74	45.57	49.81
Non-cumulative convertible preference shares of €0.01
– Series 1 (redeemed March 2005)	—	—			11.54		44.19	49.58	44.45
Non-cumulative preference shares of €0.01
– Series 1			73.07	37.18		41.14	3.45	—	—
– Series 2			71.18	36.22		—	—	—	—
Non-cumulative convertible preference shares of £0.01
– Series 1	145.16	73.87			73.87		73.87	73.87	73.87
Additional Value Shares of £0.01	—	—			—		—	0.55	0.30

Amount per share	2006 cents	2006 pence	2005 pence	2004 pence	2003 pence	2002 pence
Interim	47.4	24.2	19.4	16.8	14.6	12.7
Final (2)	130.0	66.4	53.1	41.2	35.7	31.0
Total dividends on equity shares	177.4	90.6	72.5	58.0	50.3	43.7

Notes:

(1) Redeemed in January 2007.

(2) 2006 final dividends are proposed.

For further information, see Notes 6 and 7 on the accounts.