Dividends

Arranging dividend payments

Online

If you would like to have your dividend paid directly into your bank account, you can arrange this via our registrars' website.
You will first need to register on the website and set up an online portfolio. You can then give your dividend payment instructions online.

By post
You can also use one of the shareholder forms and return the completed form by post to the address shown on the form.

Dividend tax vouchers

We send out consolidated tax vouchers every February (commencing February 2015). However if you have registered on our registrar's website and set up an online portfolio you will receive a tax voucher with every dividend payment which is available to download via your online portfolio.

Dividend history

Details of the dividend history are available below.

	Interim dividend (pence) and payment date		Final dividend (pence) and payment date		Total dividend
2024	22.00	06/02/2024
2023	22.00	0/02/2023	55.0	01/08/2024	77.0
2022	22.00	01/02/2022	55.0	02/08/2022	77.0
2021	20.00	04/02/2021	50.0	03/08/2021	70.0
2020	24.50	04/02/2020	31.125	04/08/2020	55.625
2019	23.25	05/02/2019	62.25	06/08/2019	85.5
2018	21.75	06/02/2018	58.25	07/08/2018	80
2017	20.5	07/02/2017	54.5	11/08/2017	75.0
2016	19.5 *	02/02/2016	52.0	02/08/2016	71.5
2015	18.5	03/02/2015	49.5	04/08/2015	68.0
2014	17.0	04/02/2014	45.5	05/08/2014	62.5
2013	15.5	05/02/2013	41.5	06/08/2013	57.0
2012	15.0	07/02/2012	40.0 **	17/08/2012	55.0
2011	12.5	01/02/2011	33.5	02/08/2011	46.0
2010	11.1	02/02/2010	27.9	03/08/2010	39.0
2009	11.1	03/02/2009	26.0	05/08/2009	37.1
2008	10.6	05/02/2008	26.0	5/08/2008	36.6
2007	9.9	06/02/2007	23.7	07/08/2007	33.6
2006	9.1	01/02/2006	21.0	01/08/2006	30.1
2005	8.7	02/02/2005	19.0	02/08/2005	27.7
2004	8.2	04/02/2004	18.2	03/08/2004	26.4
2003	7.8	05/02/2003	17.7	05/08/2003	25.5
2002	7.5	06/02/2002	17.1	06/08/2002	24.6
2001	7.0	07/02/2001	16.3	07/08/2001	23.3
2000	6.1	07/02/2000	14.2	07/08/2000	20.3
1999	5.7	01/02/1999	13.3	02/08/1999	19.0