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ANNUAL REPORT  
AND ACCOUNTS 2010

CREATING THE UK’S 
BEST FINANCIAL 
SERVICES PROVIDER

Lloyds Banking Group
Annual Report  
and Accounts 2010

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A full version of our Annual Report and  
Accounts and information relating to  
Lloyds Banking Group is available at:
www.lloydsbankinggroup.com

FORWARD LOOKING STATEMENTS
This annual report includes certain forward looking statements within the meaning of the US Private Securities Litigation Reform Act  
of 1995 with respect to the business, strategy and plans of Lloyds Banking Group and its current goals and expectations relating to  
its future financial condition and performance. Statements that are not historical facts, including statements about Lloyds Banking 
Group or its directors’ and/or management’s beliefs and expectations, are forward looking statements. Words such as ‘believes’, 
‘anticipates’, ‘estimates’, ‘expects’, ‘intends’, ‘aims’, ‘potential’, ’will’, ‘would’, ‘could’, ‘considered’, ‘likely’, ‘estimate’ and variations of 
these words and similar future or conditional expressions are intended to identify forward looking statements but are not the exclusive 
means of identifying such statements. By their nature, forward looking statements involve risk and uncertainty because they relate to 
events and depend upon circumstances that will occur in the future.

Examples of such forward looking statements include, but are not limited to, projections or expectations of the Group’s future financial 
position including profit attributable to shareholders, provisions, economic profit, dividends, capital structure, expenditures or any 
other financial items or ratios; statements of plans, objectives or goals of the Group or its management including in respect of certain 
synergy targets; statements about the future business and economic environments in the United Kingdom (UK) and elsewhere 
including future trends in interest rates, foreign exchange rates, credit and equity market levels and demographic developments; 
statements about competition, regulation, disposals and consolidation or technological developments in the financial services 
industry; and statements of assumptions underlying such statements.

Factors that could cause actual business, strategy, plans and/or results to differ materially from the plans, objectives, expectations, 
estimates and intentions expressed in such forward looking statements made by the Group or on its behalf include, but are not limited 
to: general economic and business conditions in the UK and internationally; inflation, deflation, interest rates and policies of the  
Bank of England, the European Central Bank and other G8 central banks; fluctuations in exchange rates, stock markets and currencies; 
the ability to access sufficient funding to meet the Group’s liquidity needs; changes to the Group’s credit ratings; the ability to derive 
cost savings and other benefits as well as the ability to integrate successfully the acquisition of HBOS; changing demographic 
developments including mortality and changing customer behaviour including consumer spending, saving and borrowing habits; 
changes to borrower or counterparty credit quality; technological changes; natural and other disasters, adverse weather and similar 
contingencies outside the Group’s control; inadequate or failed internal or external processes, people and systems; terrorist acts and 
other acts of war or hostility and responses to those acts, geopolitical, pandemic or other such events; changes in laws, regulations, 
taxation, accounting standards or practices; regulatory capital or liquidity requirements and similar contingencies outside the Group’s 
control; the policies and actions of governmental or regulatory authorities in the UK, the European Union (EU), the US or 
elsewhere; the ability to attract and retain senior management and other employees; requirements or limitations imposed on 
the Group as a result of HM Treasury’s investment in the Group; the ability to complete satisfactorily the disposal of certain 
assets as part of the Group’s EU State Aid obligations; the extent of any future impairment charges or write-downs caused by 
depressed asset valuations; market related trends and developments; exposure to regulatory scrutiny, legal proceedings or 
complaints; changes in competition and pricing environments; the inability to hedge certain risks economically; the adequacy  
of loss reserves; the actions of competitors; and the success of the Group in managing the risks of the foregoing.

Lloyds Banking Group may also make or disclose written and/or oral forward looking statements in reports filed with or furnished 
to the US Securities and Exchange Commission, Lloyds Banking Group annual reviews, half-year announcements, proxy statements, 
offering circulars, prospectuses, press releases and other written materials and in oral statements made by the directors, officers or 
employees of Lloyds Banking Group to third parties, including financial analysts. Except as required by any applicable law or 
regulation, the forward looking statements contained in this annual report are made as of the date hereof, and Lloyds Banking Group 
expressly disclaims any obligation or undertaking to release publicly any updates or revisions to any forward looking statements 
contained in this annual report to reflect any change in Lloyds Banking Group’s expectations with regard thereto or any change in 
events, conditions or circumstances on which any such statement is based.

CONTENTS

Overview

Group profile 

Group structure 

Group performance 

Strategy and progress 

Chairman’s statement 

Group Chief Executive’s review 

Addressing the key issues 

Marketplace trends 

Business review 

Summary of Group results 

Divisional results 

Other financial information 

Five year financial summary 

Our people 

Corporate responsibility 

Risk management 

Governance 

Board of Directors 

Directors’ report 

Corporate governance report 

Directors’ remuneration report 

Financial statements 

1

2

3

4

6

8

10

12

13

14

26

52

56

57

60

65

109

110

112

114

124

143

Report of the independent auditors  
on the consolidated financial statements  144

Consolidated financial statements 

Notes to the consolidated  
financial statements 

146

153

Report of the independent auditors on  
the parent company financial statements  272

Parent company financial statements 

273

Notes to the parent company  
financial statements 

Other information 

Shareholder information 

Glossary 

Abbreviations 

Index to annual report 

276

283

284

285

290

291

Overview

Business review

Governance

Financial statements

Other information

1

Group profile 

Group structure 

Group performance 

Strategy and progress 

Chairman’s statement 

Group Chief Executive’s review 

Addressing the key issues 

Marketplace trends 

1

2

3

4

6

8

10

12

Summary of Group results 

Divisional results 

Other financial information 

14

26

52

Board of Directors 

Directors’ report 

Corporate governance report 

110

112

114

Five year financial summary 

56 

Directors’ remuneration report  124

Our people 

Corporate responsibility 

Risk management 

57

60

65

Report of the independent  
auditors on the consolidated  
financial statements 

Consolidated  
financial statements 

Notes to the consolidated  
financial statements 

Report of the independent  
auditors on the parent company 
financial statements 

Parent company financial 
statements 

Notes to the parent company 
financial statements 

144

146

153

272

273

276

GROUP PROFILE

Shareholder information 

Glossary 

Abbreviations 

Index to annual report 

284

285

290

291

Lloyds Banking Group
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and Accounts 2010

OUR VISION IS TO BE RECOGNISED  
AS THE BEST FINANCIAL SERVICES 
COMPANY IN THE UK BY SHAREHOLDERS, 
CUSTOMERS AND COLLEAGUES.

Lloyds Banking Group is a leading UK based financial services group providing a  
wide range of banking and financial services, primarily in the UK, to personal and 
corporate customers. 

Lloyds Banking Group was formed in January 2009 following the acquisition of HBOS and  
our main business activities are retail, commercial and corporate banking, general insurance, 
and life, pensions and investment provision. The new Group also operates an international 
banking business with a global footprint in over 30 countries. 

The Group is the UK’s largest retail bank and has a large and diversified customer base. 
Services are offered through a number of well recognised brands including Lloyds TSB, 
Halifax, Bank of Scotland, Scottish Widows, Clerical Medical and Cheltenham & Gloucester, 
and a range of distribution channels including the largest branch network in the UK.

Lloyds Banking Group is quoted on both the London Stock Exchange and the New York  
Stock Exchange and is one of the largest companies within the FTSE 100.

Chairman’s statement 
We have a great platform for the future and 
have established a strong financial and 
operational trajectory.

Group Chief Executive’s review 
We achieved a step change in our financial 
performance, returning the Group to 
profitability while absorbing the substantial 
costs of reducing risk in the business.

Addressing the key issues 
An overview of the key issues currently 
affecting the Group. 

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Divisional results
Details of our operating divisions, their 
strategy, achievements, financial results 
and progress.

Our people
A summary of our key people initiatives  
and how we are recruiting, retaining and 
rewarding our most valuable resource.

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GROUP STRUCTURE

There are four primary operating divisions within the Group: Retail, Wholesale, Wealth and International, and Insurance. The key product 
markets in which they participate and relative contribution to the Group’s total income are presented below and a more detailed analysis of 
their strategy, business and performance is outlined within the Business Review. All the divisions are focused on delivering the Group Strategy 
and offering an integrated professional service to customers.

RETAIL
46% of total Group income1
Retail operates the largest retail bank in 
the UK and is the leading provider of 
current accounts, savings, personal loans, 
credit cards and mortgages. It serves 
over 30 million customers through one of 
the largest branch and fee free ATM 
networks in the UK. Retail is also a major 
general insurance and bancassurance 
distributor, offering a wide range of 
long-term savings, investment and 
general insurance products. 

Key product markets:

Secured lending – mortgages

Unsecured lending – credit cards,  
loans and overdrafts 

Internet and telephone banking

Current accounts

Savings accounts

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WEALTH AND 
INTERNATIONAL
10% of total Group income1
Wealth and International focuses 
on the private banking and asset 
management businesses of the  
Group and also operates the Group’s 
international business.
Key product markets:

Wealth management

Asset management

International Banking

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1

Excludes Group Operations, Central items and insurance claims.

OUR MULTI-BRAND APPROACH
The Group operates a range of well recognised 
brands across our four divisions with different 
brands utilised for different customer  
segments, geographies and markets. 

The main four brands operated by the Group 
are Lloyds TSB, Halifax, Bank of Scotland and 
Scottish Widows though a number of other 
brands are used in specialist markets.

WHOLESALE
36% of total Group income1
The Wholesale division serves in excess  
of a million businesses, ranging from 
start-ups and small enterprises to  
global corporations, with a range of 
propositions fully segmented according 
to customer need. 
Key product markets:

Corporate Banking Services

Treasury and Trading

Asset Finance

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INSURANCE
8% of total Group income1
The Life, Pensions and Investments business 
is the leading bancassurance provider in  
the UK and is also a leading player in the  
intermediary channel. The general insurance  
business is a leading distributor of home  
insurance in the UK and also offers a  
range of other general insurance products.
Key product markets:

Life assurance, pensions and  
investments 

General Insurance

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Overview

Business review

Governance

Financial statements

Other information

3

Group profile 

Group structure 
Group performance 

Strategy and progress 

Chairman’s statement 

Group Chief Executive’s review 

Addressing the key issues 

Marketplace trends 

1

2
3

4

6

8

10

12

Summary of Group results 

Divisional results 

Other financial information 

14

26

52

Board of Directors 

Directors’ report 

Corporate governance report 

110

112

114

Five year financial summary 

56 

Directors’ remuneration report  124

Our people 

Corporate responsibility 

Risk management 

57

60

65

Report of the independent  
auditors on the consolidated  
financial statements 

Consolidated  
financial statements 

Notes to the consolidated  
financial statements 

Report of the independent  
auditors on the parent company 
financial statements 

Parent company financial 
statements 

Notes to the parent company 
financial statements 

144

146

153

272

273

276

GROUP PERFORMANCE

Shareholder information 

Glossary 

Abbreviations 

Index to annual report 

284

285

290

291

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and Accounts 2010

COMBINED BUSINESSES – RESULTS SUMMARY

Net interest income

Other income

Total income

Insurance claims

Total income, net of insurance claims

Costs:

Operating expenses

Impairment of tangible fixed assets

Trading surplus

Impairment

Share of results of joint ventures and associates

Loss before tax and fair value unwind

Fair value unwind

Profit (loss) before tax – combined businesses

2010
£m

13,822

10,164

23,986

(542)

23,444

(10,928)

    (150)

(11,078)

12,366

(13,181)

(91)

(906)

3,118

2,212

2009
£m

12,726

11,875

24,601

(637)

23,964

(11,609)

  –

(11,609)

12,355

(23,988)

(767)

(12,400)

6,100

(6,300)

RECONCILIATION OF COMBINED BUSINESSES PROFIT (LOSS) 
BEFORE TAX TO STATUTORY PROFIT BEFORE TAX
2,212
Profit (loss) before tax – combined businesses

(6,300)

Integration costs

Volatility arising in insurance businesses

Government Asset Protection Scheme fee

Negative goodwill credit

Amortisation of purchased intangibles and  
goodwill impairment

Pension curtailment gain

Pre-acquisition results of HBOS plc

Customer goodwill payments provision

Loss on disposal of businesses

Profit before tax – statutory

(1,653)

306

–

–

(629)

910

–

(500)

(365)

281

(1,096)

478

(2,500)

11,173

(993)

–

280

–

–

1,042

KEY HIGHLIGHTS OVERVIEW

The Group returned to profitability on  
a combined businesses basis with profit 
before tax of £2,212 million

Statutory profit before tax of £281 million

Loss attributable to equity shareholders 
was £320 million; equivalent to a loss per 
share of 0.5 pence

Good trading performance against the 
backdrop of modest growth in the UK

Continued active support for the UK’s 
economic recovery by providing 
£30 billion of gross mortgage lending 
(including remortgages) and £49 billion of 
committed gross lending to businesses, 
of which £11 billion was for SMEs

Strong cost performance with a 6 per cent 
reduction in operating expenses 

Significant reduction in the 
impairment charge

Continued strong progress with the 
integration programme 

Good progress on balance sheet reduction 
with cumulative non-core asset reduction 
of £105 billion

Capital position significantly improved with 
core tier 1 ratio increased to 10.2 per cent

Excellent progress against term funding 
objectives with £50 billion of wholesale 
term issuance in the year

£61 billion reduction in liquidity support 
from government and central bank facilities

PRESENTATION OF INFORMATION
In order to reflect the impact of the acquisition of HBOS, provide more relevant and meaningful comparatives and better present the underlying business performance, the results of the 
Group and divisions are presented on a combined businesses basis. The key principles adopted in the preparation of the combined businesses basis of reporting are described below.

In order to reflect the impact of the acquisition of HBOS, the following adjustments have been made:
–  the 2009 results assume HBOS had been owned throughout the year;
–  the gain on acquisition of HBOS (in 2009) and amortisation of purchased intangible assets have been excluded; and
–  the unwind of acquisition-related fair value adjustments is shown as one line in the combined businesses income statement.

In order to better present the underlying business performance the following items, not related to acquisition accounting, have also been excluded:
–  integration costs;
–  insurance and policyholder interests volatility;
–  the Government Asset Protection Scheme (GAPS) fee paid in 2009;
–  goodwill impairment;
–  the curtailment gain in respect of the Group’s defined benefit pension schemes; 
– the customer goodwill payments provision; and
–  loss on disposal of businesses.

Further, to enable a better understanding of the Group’s core business trends and outlook, certain income statement and balance sheet information is analysed between core and non-core 
portfolios. Non-core portfolios consist of non-relationship assets and liabilities, together with assets and liabilities which are outside the Group’s current appetite. The EU mandated retail 
business disposal is not included in non-core portfolios.

A full reconciliation of the combined businesses basis to the statutory basis is given in note 4 on page 170. Unless otherwise stated, the commentaries on pages 13 to 55 are on a combined 
businesses basis.

 
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and Accounts 2010

STRATEGY AND PROGRESS

OUR CORPORATE 
STRATEGY

The Group’s business model is focused on the 
development of customer relationships, which 
are central to the strategy. We are constantly 
striving to build deep, lasting customer 
relationships, that will create value for our 
customers and subsequently value for us as  
a business. Customer leadership driven by 
superior customer insight, tailored products, 
better service and relationship focus, 
supported by industry leading efficiency and 
effectiveness and a prudent ‘through the 
cycle’ approach to risk is core to our strategy.  
It is this that will enable us to deliver on our 
vision of being recognised as the best financial 
services company in the UK by customers, 
colleagues and shareholders. 

Our corporate strategy identifies the key 
strategic deliverables required to implement 
the business model effectively and deliver 
our Group vision.

The strategy is focused on being a more 
conservative, ‘through the cycle’ relationship 
based business. The key objectives of our 
strategy are:

 – Building a high performance 

organisation 

 – Developing strong customer franchises 

that are based on deep customer 
relationships

 – Managing our most valuable resource,  

our people 

The main focus for the Group remains the 
financial services markets in the UK and our 
strategic position was strengthened through the 
acquisition of HBOS in January 2009. We are a 
well diversified UK financial services group and 
the largest retail financial services provider in the 
UK. We have leading positions in many of the 
markets in which we participate, a comprehensive 
distribution capability, well recognised brands 
and a large customer base. We continue to 
invest in products and services, systems and 
training that combined offer unparalleled 
choice and service to our customers.

We see corporate responsibility as being 
integral to our business strategy. We need to 
demonstrate that we are running our business 
in a responsible way; and are making a 
sustained, positive contribution to the 
economy and to society; by playing our part in 
the UK’s economic recovery and by investing 
in the communities of which we are a part.

Building a high performance organisation 
In delivering a high performance organisation the Group is focused on improving our  
cost efficiency and utilising our capital more effectively whilst maintaining a prudent 
approach to risk.

 –  The Group aspires to have one of the lowest cost to income ratios amongst UK financial 

institutions and further improving our processing efficiency and effectiveness will remain  
a priority. The effective integration of the HBOS business and the anticipated synergies 
arising from the acquisition will be key to further improving our efficiency.

 –  Utilising capital more effectively is increasingly important in the current environment  
and capital will continue to be rigorously allocated across our portfolio of businesses  
to support core business growth.

 –  The prudent Lloyds TSB ‘through the cycle’ approach to risk has been applied to the 

enlarged Group. Our conservative and prudent approach to risk is core to the business 
model and the ‘through the cycle’ approach means we will continue to support our 
customers throughout the economic cycle. The risk structures and frameworks that  
have been implemented are the foundation for good business management.

Developing strong customer franchises that  
are based on deep customer relationships
All our core businesses are focused on extending our customer relationships, whilst 
enhancing product capabilities to build competitive advantage. Ensuring we understand  
and effectively meet the needs of our customers from basic banking products to the more 
specialist services such as insurance, wealth management or corporate banking is at the  
heart of our business. It is also fundamental to ensuring we are developing long lasting 
customer relationships.

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Managing our most valuable resource, our people 
Executing our strategy effectively will only be possible if we ensure deliverables are effectively 
aligned with our corporate strategy and we manage our most valuable resource, our people, well. 
Our people have the skills and capabilities to deliver the strategy but in driving performance it  
is important to ensure we encourage, manage and develop our staff whilst creating a great  
place to work.  

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Overview

Business review

Governance

Financial statements

Other information

5

Group profile 

Group structure 

Group performance 
Strategy and progress 

Chairman’s statement 

Group Chief Executive’s review 

Addressing the key issues 

Marketplace trends 

1

2

3
4

6

8

10

12

Summary of Group results 

Divisional results 

Other financial information 

14

26

52

Board of Directors 

Directors’ report 

Corporate governance report 

110

112

114

Five year financial summary 

56 

Directors’ remuneration report  124

Our people 

Corporate responsibility 

Risk management 

57

60

65

Report of the independent  
auditors on the consolidated  
financial statements 

Consolidated  
financial statements 

Notes to the consolidated  
financial statements 

Report of the independent  
auditors on the parent company 
financial statements 

Parent company financial 
statements 

Notes to the parent company 
financial statements 

144

146

153

272

273

276

Shareholder information 

Glossary 

Abbreviations 

Index to annual report 

284

285

290

291

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Performance measures

Underlying cost:income ratio 

%

Integration cost synergies (run-rate)  £bn

2008

2009

2010

57

Target for end of 2011: £2bn

51

46

2009

2010

0.8

1.4

Good progress continues to be made in reducing  
the cost:income ratio, which fell to 46 per cent in 
2010. This was driven by both higher underlying 
income and lower operating expenses. The Group 
continues to expect the cost:income ratio to reduce 
to approximately 40 per cent in the medium term 
excluding the Bank Levy.

The delivery of cost synergies from the integration 
programme is ahead of schedule and we remain 
on track to deliver a run rate of more than £2 billion 
per annum of cost synergies and other operating 
efficiencies by the end of 2011. 

OUTPUT MEASURES
Significant progress has been made against 
our strategic goals and objectives 
during 2010, and the key performance 
indicators below highlight the overall 
progress being made by the Group. Further 
detail on these measures is contained within 
the business review. 

Profit (loss) before tax 
(Combined businesses basis)

£m

(6,713) 
2008 

(6,300) 

2008 
61.8

2009 

Balance sheet reduction 
(Cumulative)

£bn

Lending commitments 
(1 March to 28 February)

£bn

2010 

2,212 

Target: £200bn

Target for 2010/11: £67bn

Statutory profit before tax 

£m

2008 
2008 

2009 

2010 

 281

760 

1,042 

Earnings per share 

pence

2008 

2009 

(0.5)

2010

6.7 

7.5

Core tier 1 ratio 

%

2008 
2008 

2009 

2010 

5.6 

8.1 

10.2 

2009 

60

2009/10

2010

105

2010/11 achievement (to 31 Dec)

63

63

We previously outlined our strategy to reduce 
non relationship assets, including business which is 
outside our current risk appetite by some £200 billion. 
Excellent progress continues to be made against this 
target with a £105 billion reduction achieved to date.

The Group continues to actively support our customers 
and the UK economy by lending to UK households 
and businesses. Under the terms of our lending 
commitments to the UK Government we agreed to 
make available gross new lending of £67 billion in the 
12 months to 28 February 2011 and we remain on track 
to deliver this having extended £63 billion of qualifying 
lending by the end of December 2010.

Performance measures

Customer relationships are key to our strategy and important 
for all our businesses. The significant differences across the 
divisions/businesses means financial and non-financial strategic 
indicators for the development of customer relationships are 
tracked at a divisional level and commentary is included in the 
specific divisional commentaries. 

Performance measures

In delivering a high performance 
organisation, we need to have high levels 
of staff engagement. Every quarter we 
run a comprehensive confidential survey 
across the Group to gauge staff views on 
key issues and assess overall staff 
engagement. 

Staff engagement score 

2009

2010

72

80

In 2010, we achieved a record response rate of 
83 per cent (up from 81 per cent in 2009) which is 
regarded as ‘best in class’ and the overall engagement 
score increased from 72 to 80 showing the progress 
being made in this area. 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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and Accounts 2010

CHAIRMAN’S STATEMENT

“ We have a great platform for the 
future and have established a strong 
financial and operational trajectory. 
I am confident that we will be able  
to grow the business further over  
the coming years.”

My second annual statement as Chairman 
of Lloyds Banking Group comes to you 
at the end of another challenging year, a 
year in which we have turned the corner to 
profitability. In doing so, we made substantial 
progress towards creating a strong and stable 
bank, one better able to serve our customers. 
Only by focusing on their needs and offering 
them products and services that address those 
needs, can we expect to be successful and 
deliver benefit to you our shareholders and  
to our stakeholders at large.

Supporting the UK’s economic recovery

Although 2010 brought some increase in 
global confidence and stability, the banking 
industry continued to operate amidst 
challenging conditions. 

As we emerge from the financial crisis and 
the economic downturn, we recognise the 
public concern surrounding the banking 
industry and know we have much work 
to do as an industry to rebuild trust and 
understanding. We also acknowledge the 
role that we at Lloyds Banking Group must 
play in that process. We can only earn that 
trust by addressing the fundamentals, for 
all our stakeholders, and by being open, 
transparent and engaged in the broader 
debate about the role of banking in the UK. 
We need to demonstrate that we are meeting 
our obligations to customers and society by 
proactively – and responsibly – channelling the 
deposits we gather into productive enterprises 
and households.

Banks have a central role in promoting and 
fuelling the economic recovery. We will 
continue to play our part in supporting UK 
growth by extending a significant amount of 
new lending to businesses and households. 
We have provided nearly £80 billion of gross 
lending to UK homeowners and businesses 
in 2010 and, as part of our SME charter, the 
Group is committed to helping 300,000 
new start-up businesses by the end of 2012. 
We have already helped over 100,000 such 
enterprises during 2010. For the year ended 

28 February 2011 we will exceed the mortgage 
and business lending commitments made by 
the Group to the UK Government.

We have also recently announced, along 
with four other major UK banks (and in 
the context of an agreement with the UK 
Government), our intent to help support the 
UK economic recovery by jointly providing 
the capacity to support gross new lending 
of £190 billion to creditworthy UK businesses 
(including £76 billion to small and medium 
sized businesses). As the largest UK focused 
bank, we are determined to play a full role 
in supporting investment by UK businesses 
and households. Lending is one of our core 
business functions and it is in our interest and 
that of our shareholders that we make access 
to responsible credit as easy as possible.

At the same time, as a responsible lender, we 
will seek to ensure that we lend to customers 
who can afford to repay their borrowing and to 
businesses that have a fundamentally sound 
business model. These are principles to which 
we must adhere. 

Regulation

The level of industry regulation and its 
speed of change has never been greater. 
Shareholders will be aware of a number of 
strategic initiatives which are likely to change 
the shape of our industry, including the 
changes to capital requirements arising from 
Basel III and the fundamental changes to the 
regulatory environment in the UK, to highlight 
just a couple. Robust and stable regulation 
will be an important component in rebuilding 
confidence and trust and creating a healthy 
and sound financial system. However, we need 
to ensure that banks are allowed to fulfil their 
core purpose in delivering a smooth flow of 
credit to the economy. That means meeting 
banks’ obligations to businesses, by helping 
them to invest, expand, export, innovate, 
up-skill their workforce, win new contracts and 
diversify their business models. For individuals, 
it means supporting their financial needs over 
their lifetime.

In 2010, the UK Government appointed The 
Independent Commission on Banking (ICB) 
to review structural measures to reform the 
banking system and promote stability and 
competition. The ICB is not expected to 
publish its final report until September 2011 
although an important precursor of that will be 
the interim report expected to be published in 
April. It would be premature for me to seek to 
predict the outcome of the enquiry; however, 
discussions between ourselves and the ICB 
have been collaborative and constructive and 
we will welcome the increased certainty that 
the report’s recommendations should bring.

Our community

Through the financial services we provide to 
our customers and the support we give to 
the businesses that people work for, Lloyds 
Banking Group plays a role in the lives of 
nearly everyone in the UK. 

Our main contribution to society is the direct 
economic impact on the economy we have 
as a major employer and purchaser of goods 
and services. This economic contribution 
is supported by our active investment in 
communities across the country and our 
community giving programme. We invested 
£148 million in communities across the 
UK in 2010 including support for financial 
inclusion, sponsorship of sports for young 
people and donations through the Group’s 
charitable foundations.

Our partnership of the London 2012 Olympic 
and Paralympic Games will bring the Games 
to life in the heart of communities all over 
Britain and 2011 will be an exciting year in the 
countdown to 2012. Since the launch of our 
Local Heroes programme we have supported 
600 athletes. We have also pledged £1 billion 
of funding to help businesses benefit from 
London 2012 Games associated opportunities. 
In this way we have supported one in three 
of all businesses who have won London 2012 
Olympic Games related contracts.

Overview

Business review

Governance

Financial statements

Other information

7

Group profile 

Group structure 

Group performance 

Strategy and progress 
Chairman’s statement 

Group Chief Executive’s review 

Addressing the key issues 

Marketplace trends 

1

2

3

4
6

8

10

12

Summary of Group results 

Divisional results 

Other financial information 

14

26

52

Board of Directors 

Directors’ report 

Corporate governance report 

110

112

114

Five year financial summary 

56 

Directors’ remuneration report  124

Our people 

Corporate responsibility 

Risk management 

57

60

65

Report of the independent  
auditors on the consolidated  
financial statements 

Consolidated  
financial statements 

Notes to the consolidated  
financial statements 

Report of the independent  
auditors on the parent company 
financial statements 

Parent company financial 
statements 

Notes to the parent company 
financial statements 

144

146

153

272

273

276

CHAIRMAN’S STATEMENT

Shareholder information 

Glossary 

Abbreviations 

Index to annual report 

284

285

290

291

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Annual Report  
and Accounts 2010

Performance

Remuneration

As an organisation, we have made considerable 
progress in 2010, delivering good growth in 
our core business, returning to profitability 
and reducing the risk in the business. The 
integration of the HBOS business continues 
to progress well and we remain confident of 
achieving our target of run-rate synergy benefits 
of £2 billion per annum by the end of 2011, 
a substantial achievement.

In working diligently to create long term 
sustainable shareholder value we aim to 
restore our ability to pay dividends on ordinary 
shares as soon as market conditions and the 
financial performance of the Group permit. As 
you know this intention is subject to the expiry 
in 2012 of the restrictions arising from the 
European Commission’s remedies.

Following the recapitalisation of the banking 
sector, HM Treasury now holds approximately 
40.6 per cent of the equity capital of the 
Group. We are grateful and appreciative for 
the valuable support we have received from 
Government and through it the taxpayer, but 
our objective remains for the Group over time 
to operate as a wholly privately owned self-
supporting commercial enterprise. 

People

I have enjoyed meeting many colleagues 
in various visits to our operations all over 
the country over the past year. Gaining an 
on-the-spot insight into how they work to 
serve our stakeholders by building long term 
relationships with our customers and by 
supporting businesses has been invaluable. 
I must tell you that I have been impressed by 
their desire to work together to ensure the 
success of our integration, by their discipline 
and focus and by their commitment to their 
customers. It is clear that in our large and 
occasionally complex Group, teamwork 
combined with commitment, professionalism 
and hard work is the key to realising our 
promises to stakeholders.

Our people have faced a difficult year with 
great commitment and purpose. It is not 
easy or pleasant to work for a group which is 
continuously in the media headlines. All the 
more so when the delivery of our day-to-day 
banking and personal financial services are, in 
numerous surveys of our customers, judged to 
be at the very top or near it. On behalf of the 
Board I thank our colleagues for their significant 
achievements in 2010, which from letters and 
emails I receive, are as much appreciated by 
our shareholders as our customers.

Following on from the unprecedented 
turmoil across the sector in 2008 and 2009, 
the increased focus on remuneration has 
continued into 2010. In the context of 
the evolving economic environment and 
regulatory changes, the Remuneration 
Committee undertook a further review of 
executive remuneration in 2010. We firmly 
believe that remuneration policy needs to 
incentivise executives to continue strong, 
sustainable growth and delivery of value to 
shareholders, in light of one of the biggest 
integrations ever undertaken in the sector.  
The Committee equally however is mindful 
of the continued heightened awareness 
in the public domain around executive 
remuneration. Both these considerations 
informed the Committee’s decisions on 
remuneration this year and that for António 
Horta-Osório, our new Group Chief Executive.

The Group is primarily a retail and commercial 
bank. This means that the payout under our 
Group bonus schemes for 2010 is a small 
percentage of overall revenues. Though 
profitability increased substantially our total 
compensation for 2010 is lower than that for 2009. 

Group Chief Executive

On 28 February 2011, Eric Daniels will retire 
as Group Chief Executive and Director of 
Lloyds Banking Group plc and, in line with his 
contractual commitments, will retire from the 
Group in September 2011. His knowledge 
of the Group and our customers will, I am 
pleased to say, remain available to the Board 
and myself as required until then.

The Board and I are grateful to Eric Daniels for 
his leadership since June 2003, particularly since 
the announcement of the acquisition of HBOS 
in September 2008. The successful integration 
of the two companies and the sooner than 
expected return to profitability of the enlarged 
Lloyds Banking Group are testament to his 
leadership during a time of unprecedented 
financial turmoil. It is to Eric’s credit that the 
Group is in a strong position for the next 
phase of its development. I personally have 
valued greatly the considerable management, 
banking and organisational expertise Eric  
has brought to Lloyds Banking Group as  
Group Chief Executive. 

In November we announced the appointment 
of António Horta-Osório as the next Group 
Chief Executive. He brings with him deep 
experience in, and understanding of, the 
UK retail and commercial banking industry, 
as well as a track record of integrating three 
well respected UK retail banking franchises. 
António joined us in January 2011 and 
took over as Group Chief Executive on 

1 March 2011. The Board and I look forward 
to working with him to ensure the success of 
the next stage of development of the Group, 
and I hope many of you will be able personally 
to meet him at our annual general meeting in 
Glasgow on Wednesday 18 May 2011.

Changes to the Board

In addition to the changes previously 
outlined during the year we have continued 
to strengthen the Board both in terms of 
in-depth banking experience and broader 
business perspectives. On 1 March 2010, two 
new Non-Executive Directors were appointed, 
Glen Moreno and David Roberts, and Anita 
Frew joined the Board on 1 December 2010.

We are delighted that these three outstanding 
individuals have agreed to contribute their 
judgement and varied expertise to our Board. 
On a personal front I am also pleased that 
we have expanded the proportion of women 
on the Board and I expect that process 
to continue.

Dr Wolfgang Berndt retired at the annual 
general meeting in May 2010, having joined 
the Board in 2003. I would like to thank him for 
his significant contribution to the Group.

Our most senior management including our 
Executive Directors, have made extraordinary 
efforts both in terms of their time, involvement 
and personal contribution in achieving these 
results. I thank all of them for their loyalty in 
difficult circumstances. 

The full particulars and background of all our 
Directors are set out on pages 110 and 111.

Outlook

The successful execution of our strategy 
demands from us focus on core markets, on 
customer engagement, on cost leadership, 
on capital efficiency and on a prudent risk 
and funding profile. Carried out well these 
attributes should enable the Group to deliver 
earnings growth and shareholder value whilst 
achieving our aim of becoming recognised as 
the best financial services company in the UK.

We have a great platform for the future 
and have established a strong financial and 
operational trajectory. I am confident that we 
will be able to grow the business further over 
the coming years with António Horta-Osório 
at the helm leading our 112,000 colleagues 
– a dedicated workforce and an experienced 
management team.

Sir Winfried Bischoff 
Chairman

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Lloyds Banking Group
Annual Report  
and Accounts 2010

GROUP CHIEF EXECUTIVE’S REVIEW

“ We achieved a step change in our 
financial performance despite slow 
economic growth, returning the 
Group to profitability while 
absorbing the substantial costs of 
reducing risk in the business.”

Summary

Results overview

Good franchise momentum in 2010

2010 was a good year for the Group, 
in which we made significant progress, 
delivering a strong operating performance, 
while strengthening the business  
for the future. 

We achieved a step change in our financial 
performance despite modest economic 
growth, returning the Group to profitability 
while absorbing the substantial costs of 
reducing risk in the business. While the 
significant decrease in impairments was a 
key driver in our return to profitability, we 
also saw a good performance in the core 
business where underlying income grew 
7 per cent. 

We delivered good momentum across our 
core businesses through the continued 
development of our customer relationship 
strategy, attracting new customers to the 
Group and broadening and deepening our 
relationships with existing customers. 

We also realised substantial cost savings, 
and we are on track to deliver our target of 
£2 billion of run-rate cost synergies from the 
integration of HBOS by the end of 2011.

We made considerable progress during 
the year in reducing the Group’s risk. The 
application of our prudent approach to 
restructuring of the existing book and 
our risk standards to all new business is 
being reflected in the more predictable 
performance of these portfolios. We also 
made good progress in reducing the size 
of our balance sheet and substantially 
strengthened both our capital and 
funding positions.

As a result of the significant progress we 
have made in 2010, Lloyds Banking Group 
is now a much stronger business and is well 
positioned to realise the potential within 
its franchise.

On a combined businesses basis, the 
Group reported a £2.2 billion profit in 2010, 
compared to a £6.3 billion loss before 
tax in 2009. Underlying income grew by 
3 per cent to £23.6 billion, reflecting good 
underlying income growth of 7 per cent 
in our core business, partially offset by a 
reduction of 9 per cent in our non-core 
business as a result of planned asset 
reductions. Operating expenses fell by 
6 per cent, resulting in an improvement 
in our underlying cost:income ratio of 
4.5 percentage points to 46.2 per cent.

On a statutory basis, the Group delivered 
a profit before tax of £0.3 billion in 2010. 
This compared to a profit of £1 billion in 
2009, which benefited from an £11.2 billion 
negative goodwill gain associated with the 
purchase of HBOS.

A significant reduction in the  
impairment charge

We achieved a significant reduction in the 
impairment charge, which fell 45 per cent, 
with the deterioration in some of our 
International businesses more than offset by 
a substantial improvement in the rest of the 
Group, notably in the Wholesale division. 

The considerable reductions in the Retail 
and Wholesale impairment charges reflect 
the benefit of the actions we have taken 
over the past two years and our ongoing 
effective risk management, as well as the 
slowly improving economic environment. 
While we were disappointed by the 
increases in the International portfolios, 
these reflect specific economic challenges 
facing Ireland, and to some degree 
Australia, which we are managing closely.

We have seen good momentum across our 
core business franchise in 2010, supported 
by the extension of our relationship strategy 
across the Group, in what remain highly 
competitive markets.

In Retail, our strategy is to develop deep 
and enduring customer relationships 
through offering a broad range of products 
addressing customers’ needs, alongside 
superior service and advice. We opened 
1.9 million current accounts, and over 
5 million new savings accounts, and 
increased customer deposits by 5 per cent 
in the year.

In Wholesale, our commitment to 
supporting our customers through the  
cycle was equally successful, and we 
attracted over 100,000 new start-up 
customers and our achievements were 
recognised in the marketplace by the 
receipt of a number of awards.

We see strong growth opportunities in 
Wealth, through deepening relationships 
with existing Group customers and through 
the targeted acquisition of new customers. 
In 2010, we saw encouraging early results 
from the development of our customer 
offerings, and we grew our UK relationship 
customer base by 12 per cent.

In Insurance our focus on sustainable and 
profitable growth led to a 13 per cent 
increase in profit before tax. While this 
strategy led to a reduction in overall sales 
volumes in our UK Life, Pensions and 
Investments business, as we stopped selling 
a number of low return heritage HBOS 
products, this resulted in a substantial 
increase in new business margin.

Overview

Business review

Governance

Financial statements

Other information

9

Group profile 

Group structure 

Group performance 

Strategy and progress 

1

2

3

4

Summary of Group results 

Divisional results 

Other financial information 

14

26

52

Board of Directors 

Directors’ report 

Corporate governance report 

110

112

114

Five year financial summary 

56 

Directors’ remuneration report  124

Chairman’s statement 
6
Group Chief Executive’s review  8

Addressing the key issues 

Marketplace trends 

10

12

Our people 

Corporate responsibility 

Risk management 

57

60

65

Report of the independent  
auditors on the consolidated  
financial statements 

Consolidated  
financial statements 

Notes to the consolidated  
financial statements 

Report of the independent  
auditors on the parent company 
financial statements 

Parent company financial 
statements 

Notes to the parent company 
financial statements 

144

146

153

272

273

276

GROUP CHIEF EXECUTIVE’S REVIEW

Shareholder information 

Glossary 

Abbreviations 

Index to annual report 

284

285

290

291

Lloyds Banking Group
Annual Report  
and Accounts 2010

Supporting the UK’s economic recovery

During 2010 the Group continued to 
support the UK’s economic recovery through 
new lending to our mortgage and business 
customers. The Group extended £30 billion 
of gross mortgage lending (including 
remortgages) to UK homeowners and 
supported over 50,000 first time buyers. 

We also provided £49 billion of committed 
gross lending to UK businesses in 2010, of 
which £11 billion was for SMEs. As part of our 
SME Charter, the Group has committed to 
helping 300,000 new start-up businesses by the 
end of 2012, and has already helped in excess 
of 100,000 such enterprises during 2010. We 
continue to approve over 80 per cent of lending 
applications from SME customers. Despite 
the uncertain economic environment, the 
Group has successfully grown net lending to 
its core SME customers by 2.1 per cent, which 
compares favourably with the industry-wide 
reduction in SME lending reported in the 
latest available market statistics. 

As a result of our focus, we will exceed the 
mortgage and business lending commitments 
made by the Group to the UK government 
for the year ended 28 February 2011.

We have recently announced, along 
with four other major UK banks and in 
the context of an agreement with the 
UK Government, our intent to help support 
the UK economic recovery by jointly 
providing the capacity to support gross 
new lending of £190 billion to creditworthy 
UK businesses (including £76 billion to 
small and medium sized businesses). 
We are determined to play a full role in 
supporting investment by UK businesses 
and households.

Integration programme on track

We continued to make good progress on the 
integration of Lloyds TSB and HBOS, one of 
the largest and most complex programmes 
undertaken in the UK, exiting the year with 
run-rate cost synergies of £1.4 billion, as 
expected. We achieved savings across a 
wide range of Group activities, including 
implementing improved processes which are 
now being used on a harmonised basis across 
the Group, and driving savings in property and 
procurement. As part of the integration, we 
have also commenced the implementation 
of a number of major systems changes, 
which will complete in 2011. 

Our progress in 2010 underpins our 
confidence that we will deliver our target of 
£2 billion of annual run-rate cost synergies 
by the end of 2011.

Further progress in balance sheet 
reductions

We are pleased with the progress we have 
made in reducing the size of the Group’s 
balance sheet, with over half of our five year 
reduction plan achieved in the first two years. 
Although this has had an adverse effect on 
income, it has resulted in a material reduction 
in the Group’s risk profile, and a smaller 
balance sheet which brings associated 
funding benefits.

We have now achieved asset reductions 
totalling £105 billion in the two years since 
the inception of the programme, against  
our target of a £200 billion reduction. 

Excellent progress on funding and 
liquidity

We made excellent progress in enhancing 
our funding and liquidity position in 2010, 
thereby further reducing the Group’s risk, 
albeit at some incremental cost. 

We increased our deposit base by 
3 per cent, which, together with the 
reduction in the size of our balance sheet, 
resulted in an improvement in our loan to 
deposit ratio to 154 per cent at the end of 
2010 from 169 per cent at the 2009 year end.

In addition, we substantially exceeded 
our guidance for term wholesale funding 
issuance, achieving £50 billion of issuance 
in the year. We also continued to broaden 
the range of our funding sources, and 
maintained the proportion of our wholesale 
funding with a maturity of more than one 
year at 50 per cent.

Term issuance during the year enabled us 
to materially reduce the liquidity we receive 
from government and central bank sources, 
by £61 billion to £97 billion at the year 
end and we have made further progress 
since then. 

Capital position further strengthened

We considerably strengthened our capital 
position in the year, positioning us well 
ahead of the implementation of the Basel 
Committee on Banking Supervision’s so 
called ‘Basel III’ capital reforms, and  
changes expected to a number of 
accounting practices.

Our core tier 1 ratio increased to 
10.2 per cent, from 8.1 per cent at the end 
of 2009, substantially in excess of regulatory 
requirements. We also restructured the 
capital within our insurance subsidiaries, 
which will deliver substantial benefits under 
the Basel III reforms. At the year end, our 
tier 1 ratio was 11.6 per cent, and our total 
capital ratio was 15.2 per cent.

Regulatory environment

We operate in a demanding and evolving 
regulatory environment, and have continued 
to engage actively with our regulators 
during the year on a number of proposed 
reforms, ensuring we have a strong and 
stable banking system, which will also be 
able to support and serve its customers and 
the wider economy. 

Following extensive scrutiny of the Payment 
Protection Insurance (PPI) market in recent 
years, the Financial Services Authority issued 
its final policy statement on PPI complaints 
handling in August 2010. The application of 
this policy, which has been challenged by 
the British Bankers’ Association in a judicial 
review, could in extremis have a material 
effect on the Group’s financial position.

Our people

I am proud of the high levels of support and 
service our staff have continued to deliver 
to our customers over the past year, in what 
remains a challenging environment, and in 
the context of the considerable changes to 
the Group arising from the integration. Their 
dedication is reflected in our significant 
achievements in 2010, and the Board and 
I are very appreciative of their contribution.

Well positioned for future success

It has been a tremendous honour and a 
privilege to lead our many talented and 
dedicated people over the last eight years, 
and I would like to thank my colleagues 
and the Board for their support over this 
time. I am grateful to have been given the 
opportunity to create the new Group. The 
significant progress we have made in 2010 
positions the Group well for the future to 
meet our objective of becoming the best 
bank for all our stakeholders, including our 
customers, shareholders and employees. 

J Eric Daniels 
Group Chief Executive

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Lloyds Banking Group
Annual Report  
and Accounts 2010

ADDRESSING THE KEY ISSUES

The Government’s shareholding

As a result of the recapitalisation of the 
banking sector which included the capital 
raisings, the Government now holds a 
significant stake in Lloyds Banking Group. 
As at the date these accounts were 
approved the Government’s shareholding 
in Lloyds Banking Group was approximately 
40.6 per cent. This holding is managed 
by United Kingdom Financial Investments 
(UKFI) on behalf of HM Treasury. 

Information on key areas such as when 
the Government may reduce their 
holding, how the relationship with UKFI 
operates and the impact of the holding 
on our strategy is outlined below.

Share disposal 

The timing of any share disposal will be at the 
Government’s discretion, acting on the advice 
of UKFI.

However, within the publication ‘An Introduction: 
Who We Are, What We Do and the Framework 
Document Which Governs the Relationship 
Between UKFI and HM Treasury’, it is stated that 
UKFI is to ‘develop and execute an investment 
strategy for disposing of the investments in the 
banks in an orderly and active way through sale, 
redemption, buy-back or other means within 
the context of an overarching objective of 
protecting and creating value for the taxpayer 
as shareholder, paying due regard to the 
maintenance of financial stability and to acting 
in a way that promotes competition’.

Working relationship with UKFI

We have a very good working relationship 
with UKFI who act like any value orientated 
shareholder with regard to the strategic 
development and financial performance of 
the Group, providing significant constructive 
challenge where they see fit. 

The Government has made it very clear that 
UK financial institutions in which it holds 
substantial stakes will continue to operate as 
separate economic units with independent 
powers of decision and will continue to 
have their own independent Boards and 
management teams, determining their own 
strategies and commercial policies (including 
business plans and budgets).

The future 

Going forward the Group is focused on 
delivering strategy and subsequently value 
to all our shareholders. The Government 
holding does not affect this management 
focus and we remain committed to operating 
as a wholly privately owned, self supporting, 
dividend paying, commercial enterprise 
over time.

State aid

The European Commission required the 
Group to agree a restructuring plan as 
a result of the investment in the Group 
by HM Treasury. The final approval 
of the UK Government’s state aid 
measures, including the terms of the final 
restructuring plan, was agreed by the 
College of Commissioners in November 
2009. The plan consists of the following 
principal elements:

–   The disposal of a retail banking business 
with at least 600 branches, a 4.6 per cent 
share of the personal current accounts 
market in the UK and approximately 
19 per cent of the Group’s mortgage 
assets. The business consists of: the TSB 
brand; the branches, savings accounts and 
branch based mortgages of Cheltenham & 
Gloucester; the branches and branch 
based customers of Lloyds TSB Scotland 
and a related banking licence; additional 
Lloyds TSB branches in England and 
Wales, with branch based customers; and, 
Intelligent Finance. These disposals need 
to be made within four years of the date of 
State Aid approval, so by November 2013.

–   An asset reduction programme to achieve 
a £181 billion reduction in a specified pool 
of end 2008 assets by 31 December 2014; 
and

–   Behavioural commitments, including 
commitments; not to make certain 
acquisitions for approximately three to 
four years; and not to make discretionary 
payments of coupons or to exercise 
voluntary call options on hybrid securities 
from 31 January 2010 until 31 January 2012, 
which will also prevent the Group from 
paying dividends on its ordinary shares for 
the same duration.

We are making good progress against 
the agreed asset reduction programme 
and continue to make good progress in 
preparing for the disposal of the agreed retail 
banking business. The final cost of disposal 
will depend on the buyer and the extent to 
which substantial IT system and infrastructure 
development will be necessary. Therefore 
the total cost is hard to predict but is likely to 
be substantial.

The assets and liabilities, and associated 
income and expenses, of the business to 
be divested (referred to above) cannot be 
determined with precision until nearer the 
date of sale. 

Lending to aid the 
economic recovery
During 2010 the Group continued its 
policy of actively supporting the UK’s 
economic recovery through gross 
new lending to our mortgage and 
business customers.

During the year, the Group extended 
£30 billion of gross mortgage lending 
(including remortgages) to UK homeowners 
(including £5 billion in new lending to first-
time buyers) and £49 billion of committed 
gross lending to UK businesses (of which 
£11 billion was for SMEs). As part of our 
SME Charter, the Group has committed to 
helping 300,000 start-ups by 2012, and has 
already helped in excess of 100,000 new start 
up businesses during 2010. We continue 
to approve over 80 per cent of lending 
applications from SME customers. 

As a result of our focus, these actions have 
allowed us to remain ahead of the mortgage 
and business lending commitments made by  
the Group to the Government for the year 
ended 28 February 2011.

Overview

Business review

Governance

Financial statements

Other information

Group profile 

Group structure 

Group performance 

Strategy and progress 

Chairman’s statement 

Group Chief Executive’s review 
Addressing the key issues 

Marketplace trends 

1

2

3

4

6

8
10

12

Summary of Group results 

Divisional results 

Other financial information 

14

26

52

Board of Directors 

Directors’ report 

Corporate governance report 

110

112

114

Five year financial summary 

56 

Directors’ remuneration report  124

Our people 

Corporate responsibility 

Risk management 

57

60

65

Shareholder information 

Glossary 

Abbreviations 

Index to annual report 

284

285

290

291

Report of the independent  
auditors on the consolidated  
financial statements 

Consolidated  
financial statements 

Notes to the consolidated  
financial statements 

Report of the independent  
auditors on the parent company 
financial statements 

Parent company financial 
statements 

Notes to the parent company 
financial statements 

144

146

153

272

273

276

11

Lloyds Banking Group
Annual Report  
and Accounts 2010

ADDRESSING THE KEY ISSUES

Group integration

Independent Commission on Banking

As previously outlined within the 
Strategy and Progress section (pages  
4 and 5) the integration of the HBOS 
business is a key deliverable for the Group.

We have now completed the second 
year of our three year integration 
programme and remain on target 
to deliver annualised cost savings 
from synergies and other operating 
efficiencies of £2 billion by the end 
of 2011. Substantial wide-ranging 
progress has been made during 2010, 
including:

Rollout of the Lloyds TSB branch counter 
system and processes to the Halifax and 
Bank of Scotland branches – completes 
March 2011.

Migration of 3,700 Halifax and 
Bank of Scotland ATMs to the Lloyds TSB 
platform – completes April 2011.

Implementation of a single mortgage sales 
platform across core mortgage brands 
underway.

Development and implementation of a 
fully scaled single IT platform which will 
support the Group.

Single bancassurance sales system 
and unified set of products delivered.

Bank of Scotland and Lloyds TSB 
wealth management functions  
brought together to form one 
wealth management team.

Contract Hire fleet businesses are being 
brought together onto a single platform.

Following a review of the business, we 
completed our strategic exit from Ireland 
by the end of 2010, including the closure 
of 44 Bank of Scotland Ireland branches.

Completion of the legal transfer of 
our businesses in Spain to form one 
integrated business serving both local 
and international communities.

Wholesale Markets Corporate business 
now trading under the Lloyds Bank brand.

Procurement benefits of £236 million 
achieved in year. Over 90 per cent of 
Group expenditure consolidated within 
our top 1,000 suppliers.

79 non-branch properties exited,  
bringing the total to 162 since the  
start of the programme.

The Independent Commission on 
Banking (ICB) was established by the 
Government in June 2010 to examine 
the banking sector and to make 
recommendations on structural and 
related non-structural measures to 
promote stability and competition in 
the banking sector. 

The Commission will make recommendations 
covering both:

–  Structural measures to reform the 

banking system and promote stability and 
competition, including the complex issue 
of separating retail and investment banking 
functions; and 

–  Related non-structural measures to 

promote stability and competition in 
banking for the benefit of consumers 
and businesses. 

In considering these measures the 
Commission will have regard to the legal and 
operational requirements of implementing 
the options under consideration, and 
the importance of generating practical 
recommendations. It will also take into account 
the findings of ongoing EU and international 
work, and inform the UK Government’s 
approach to international discussions on 
the financial system.

The Commission will also have regard to 
the Government’s wider goals of financial 
stability and creating an efficient, open, 
robust and diverse banking sector, with 
specific attention paid to the potential 
impact of its recommendations on:

– Financial stability; 

–  Lending to UK consumers and businesses 

and the pace of economic recovery; 

– Consumer choice; 

–  The competitiveness of the UK financial 

and professional services sectors and the 
wider UK economy; and 

–  Risks to the fiscal position of the Government 

The Commission will produce a final report 
for the Cabinet Committee on Banking, 
by the end of September 2011, having 
completed its evidence gathering phase 
at the end of January 2011. The written 
responses which the ICB have received at this 
stage have been published on its website. 
The Group’s response can also be found on 
our website, www.lloydsbankinggroup.com.

We believe the Group’s ‘through the cycle’ 
relationship based strategy is consistent with 
the aims of the Commission but at this time 
it is not possible to gauge the impact of the 
review on the Group. We have cooperated 
fully with the ICB to date and are expecting 
their ‘options paper’, which will set out their 
initial thoughts on potential reform, during 
April 2011. Following its publication, there 
will be a further period of consultation during 
which the Group will continue to be at the 
forefront of the debate with the ICB.

Dividend payments to shareholders

The recent financial position of the Group along with the behavioural commitments 
we entered into as part of the State Aid Restructuring Plan have prevented us paying 
dividends on our ordinary shares.

We fully understand the hardship that the lack of dividend has caused many of our shareholders, 
and we are working diligently to restore the ability to pay dividends and create shareholder value. 

The Board intends to resume dividend payments on ordinary shares as soon as market 
conditions and the financial performance of the Group permit, subject to the expiry, in 2012, 
of the restrictions on paying dividends arising from the European Commission’s remedies. 

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Annual Report  
and Accounts 2010

MARKETPLACE TRENDS

The Economy

The global economy has continued to 
recover from the deep recession of 2009, but 
the recovery is fairly weak by past standards 
and its continuation is not assured. Remaining 
vulnerabilities in the sustainability of public 
finances and the robustness of banking 
sectors across the US and Europe have 
meant that growth there has faltered during 
2010 and required monetary policy to be 
kept highly accommodative for longer than 
expected at the start of the year. Ireland has 
required support from the IMF and EU, and 
other high deficit countries in the Eurozone 
may do so during 2011. The US has extended 
the Bush-era tax cuts, although it is unclear 
how much stimulus this will provide given the 
need to tighten fiscal policy significantly in 
the medium term. 

First estimates suggest that the UK economy 
grew by 1.4 per cent in 2010, below the long 
term average of 2.25 per cent. Growth 
peaked in the first half due to the initial boost 
from companies beginning to rebuild stocks, 
and has slowed during the second half. 
Consumer confidence has fallen back and 
house prices have recently reversed some of 
their 2009 rise. Nevertheless, employment 
has held up relatively well, falling by much 
less than in previous recessions and 
beginning to rise much earlier, although the 
recent trend is broadly flat. UK corporate 
liquidations have been on a gradually falling 
trend since Q3 2009, much earlier than in 
previous recoveries, and are now almost back 
to the level at the start of the recession. 
Related to that, commercial property prices 
have now risen by 16 per cent from the 
trough reached in July 2009. Even though 
house price rises have fallen back slightly 
recently, average prices are still 6 per cent 
above their trough of April 2009.

The Group’s central scenario is for the 
modest recovery in the UK to continue – the 
projection of slightly less than 2 per cent 
Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth in 2011 
and slightly less than 2.5 per cent in 2012 is 
close to consensus and slightly below the 
November 2010 forecasts from the Office for 
Budget Responsibility. Private and public 
sector deleveraging, which is expected to 
suppress economic growth, should be more 
than offset by a positive contribution from 
net external trade (reflecting the weakness of 
sterling), by further rebuilding of stocks by 
companies and by increased investment. 
Public spending cuts may increase 
unemployment slightly in 2011, but if the 
economy continues to grow, the private 
sector should be able to more than offset 
that impact from 2012. Similarly, further 

declines in corporate insolvencies are likely to 
be very slow, limited by the public spending 
cuts and the weakness of consumer 
spending. House prices and commercial 
property prices are expected to dip slightly in 
2011 and then rise slowly. The US recovery is 
assumed to continue in 2011, and in the 
Eurozone there is expected to be a wide 
divergence in 2011 between recovery in the 
stronger low-deficit countries and the higher 
deficit countries that will struggle to grow at 
all. The Irish economy, to which we have 
exposure, is not expected to grow materially 
in 2011. House prices there are expected to 
fall a little further in 2011 before flattening in 
2012; commercial property prices are 
expected to be flat over 2011 and 2012.

Downside risks around this scenario remain 
significant. Business and consumer 
confidence remains fragile, and the extent to 
which simultaneous fiscal tightening across 
Europe might undermine global and UK 
growth is unclear. Contagion from the Irish 
bail-out to other Eurozone economies could 
drive further fiscal tightening and worsen the 
outlook further. Rising commodity prices 
driven by strong recovery in Asia might fuel a 
further increase in inflation in the West, 
prompting short-term interest rates to rise 
more quickly than anticipated. Since any 
shock to growth would also worsen the 
outlook for both public finances and bank 
capital and funding, a relatively small initial 
shock could throw economies onto a much 
weaker path as governments are forced to 
tighten fiscal policy even further or financial 
institutions are constrained in their ability to 
lend. A ‘double-dip’ scenario – a second 
shallower recession following closely the one 
that the economy is just emerging from – 
would result in further significant increases in 
corporate failures and unemployment during 
2011-12. In addition, residential and 
commercial property would suffer a second 
period of falling prices, tenant defaults would 
increase and central banks would have 
limited ability to cushion the downturn.

Impact on our markets

The weak economic recovery has kept 
growth in our markets subdued.

On the retail side, net new mortgage  
lending (all new lending minus repayments) 
continued to weaken slightly after a 
72 per cent fall in 2009, so outstanding 
market balances grew by just 0.4 per cent. 
Net new unsecured consumer lending 
improved in 2010 after turning negative in the 
second half of 2010, but at £1.4 billion was 
less than 11 per cent of the 2007 level. Part of 
the weakness in lending is the natural result 

of some lenders having left the market, 
particularly in the higher risk segments of 
mortgages and personal loans, but we have 
also seen a continued desire from customers 
to repay debt early where they are able. 
Deposit market growth has also remained 
weak, with balances rising by 3 per cent 
through 2010, as deteriorating disposable 
incomes have squeezed savings flows.

Businesses also continue to reduce their 
indebtedness. Non-financial corporations 
shrunk their borrowings from banks and 
building societies by 3.9 per cent in 2010 after 
a 2.2 per cent reduction in 2009. Rising profits 
and weak investment spending boosted 
deposit growth in the latter part of 2009 and 
the first half of 2010, but deposit growth has 
since weakened to 1.6 per cent over 2010 as  
a whole, after 4.5 per cent in 2009.

Low interest rates have, however, been a  
key benefit to consumers and businesses 
throughout 2010. Arrears and defaults rose 
by much less during the recession than in 
previous recessions, and began to improve  
in 2010 despite the weakness of the recovery 
in the economy. The number of company 
liquidations in England and Wales fell by 
nearly 16 per cent in 2010 after a 23 per cent 
rise in 2009, reducing the rate of failure of 
active companies to 0.7 per cent from 
0.9 per cent in 2009. The number of individual 
insolvencies rose by a further 0.7 per cent in 
2010 after a 26 per cent rise in 2009, but 
insolvencies during the second half of 2010 
were 8.7 per cent lower than a year earlier. 
The number of mortgages in arrears across 
the market fell by 10 per cent in 2010, and the 
share in arrears by more than 3 months fell to 
its lowest in two years by Q4 2010.

Our customer data shows that a combination 
of low interest rates and declining 
indebtedness is beginning to strengthen 
households’ cashflow. This is positive news 
for both impairments’ and the near-term 
general economic outlook. Nevertheless, we 
expect that a continuation of weak economic 
recovery will be accompanied by a sustained 
period of weak growth in our markets. 
Consumers and businesses will continue to 
deleverage slowly. Deposit growth will be 
limited by the pressure on consumers’ 
disposable incomes from wage growth 
below inflation and cuts in welfare benefits, 
and from rising investment spend by 
companies. Arrears trends should continue 
to improve, but less quickly in the coming 
year than the experience through 2010.

Overview

Business review

Governance

Financial statements

Other information

Group profile 

Group structure 

Group performance 

Strategy and progress 

Chairman’s statement 

Group Chief Executive’s review 

Addressing the key issues 

Marketplace trends 

1

2

3

4

6

8

10

12

Summary of Group results 

Divisional results 

Other financial information 

14

26

52

Board of Directors 

Directors’ report 

Corporate governance report 

110

112

114

Five year financial summary 

56 

Directors’ remuneration report  124

Our people 

Corporate responsibility 

Risk management 

57

60

65

Shareholder information 

Glossary 

Abbreviations 

Index to annual report 

284

285

290

291

Report of the independent  
auditors on the consolidated  
financial statements 

Consolidated  
financial statements 

Notes to the consolidated  
financial statements 

Report of the independent  
auditors on the parent company 
financial statements 

Parent company financial 
statements 

Notes to the parent company 
financial statements 

144

146

153

272

273

276

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and Accounts 2010

SUMMARY OF GROUP RESULTS

BUSINESS REVIEW

Summary of Group results

Divisional results

Other financial information

Five year financial summary

Our people

Corporate responsibility

Risk management

14

26

52

56

57

60

65

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Annual Report  
and Accounts 2010

SUMMARY OF GROUP RESULTS

KEY HIGHLIGHTS

The Group returned to profitability on a combined  
businesses basis with profit before tax of £2,212 million 
(2009: £6,300 million loss).

Statutory profit before tax was £281 million (2009: £1,042 million, 
including an £11,173 million gain on the acquisition of HBOS); after charging 
integration costs of £1,653 million and other adjusting net charges of 
£278 million including a loss on disposal of businesses of £365 million.

Loss attributable to equity shareholders was £320 million (2009: 
profit of £2,827 million); equivalent to a loss per share of 0.5 pence 
(2009: earnings per share of 7.5 pence), after a charge for taxation of 
£539 million (2009: credit of £1,911 million) and a charge for profit 
attributable to non-controlling interests of £62 million (2009: £126 million).

Good trading performance against the backdrop of modest 
growth in UK economy. 

Continued active support for the UK’s economic recovery  
by providing £30 billion of gross mortgage lending (including 
remortgages) and £49 billion of committed gross lending to 
businesses, of which £11 billion for SMEs.

Underlying total income increased by 3 per cent to £23,641 million, 
including core business income growth of 7 per cent. 

Banking net interest margin improved to 2.10 per cent  
(2009: 1.77 per cent) with the majority of the gain achieved in the 
first half of the year. 

Significant reduction in the impairment charge. Impairment 
charge was 45 per cent lower at £13,181 million (2009: £23,988 million).

Strong cost performance with a 6 per cent reduction in operating 
expenses to £10,928 million. Further improvement in the underlying 
cost:income ratio to 46.2 per cent (2009: 50.7 per cent).

Continued strong progress with the integration programme 
delivering annual run-rate savings of £1,379 million. Confident of 
delivering a run-rate of £2 billion per annum by the end of 2011.

Good progress on balance sheet reduction with cumulative 
non-core asset reduction of £105 billion. On track to meet target of 
£200 billion over the next three years.

Capital position significantly improved with core tier 1 ratio 
increased to 10.2 per cent, primarily reflecting a reduction in risk 
weighted assets by 18 per cent to £406.4 billion.

Excellent progress against term funding objectives  
with £50 billion of wholesale term issuance in the year.

Customer relationship deposits increased by 3 per cent 
reflecting good growth in Retail and in Wealth and International.

Reduction in liquidity support from government and central 
bank facilities of £61 billion to £97 billion.

Given the flexibility and capacity we have for core business 
growth, we continue to believe that the Group has strong 
medium-term prospects, notwithstanding the economic and 
regulatory headwinds that we face in 2011.

2010 performance – a return to profitability and a further 
reduction in risk

The Group delivered a good operating performance in 2010 against 
the backdrop of modest growth in the UK economy, with good revenue 
growth in the core business, an improved net interest margin, a further 
reduction in costs, and continued strong progress on the integration of 
HBOS. The impairment charge reduced significantly, with deterioration 
in impairments in Ireland more than offset by substantial improvements 
elsewhere in the Group, particularly in the Wholesale division. As a 
result the Group returned to profitability in 2010 on a combined 
businesses basis, reporting a profit before tax of £2,212 million in 2010, 
compared to a loss before tax of £6,300 million in 2009. 

The increase in profit before tax was primarily generated by 
Wholesale and Retail. Wholesale returned to profitability in 2010 
delivering profit before tax of £3,257 million compared to a loss 
before tax of £4,703 million in 2009 reflecting a significant reduction  
in the impairment charge. Retail profit before tax also increased 
significantly to £4,716 million from £1,382 million in 2009 driven by 
good income growth and a significantly lower impairment charge. 
Insurance delivered a 13 per cent increase in profit before tax to 
£1,102 million as our focus on improved profitability of the product set 
delivered higher new business profits, despite lower sales. However, 
these increases were partially offset by a significant increase in loss 
before tax in Wealth and International to £4,824 million from 
£2,356 million in 2009, driven by a higher impairment charge, 
predominantly due to the material deterioration of the economic 
environment in Ireland in the last quarter of 2010. 

While the majority of the Group’s 2010 profit was earned in the first half, 
when liability management gains in the first half and losses in the 
second half arising from the equity conversion feature of the Enhanced 
Capital Notes (ECNs) are excluded, the second half saw a significant 
improvement in profitability when compared to the first half, driven  
by a significant increase in Wholesale profit, partially offset by an 
increased loss in Wealth and International.

Statutory profit before tax was £281 million in 2010. While this was a 
reduction from £1,042 million in 2009, the 2009 result had benefited 
from an £11,173 million credit from the gain arising on the HBOS 
acquisition (negative goodwill). In 2010, statutory profit included a 
charge for integration costs of £1,653 million (2009: £1,096 million), 
a provision of £500 million for customer goodwill payments, and a  
loss on disposal of businesses (acquired from a previous lending 
relationship) of £365 million; these items were partially offset by a 
£910 million pension curtailment gain and positive insurance volatility 
of £306 million. After a taxation charge of £539 million (see note 16  
on page 181 and 182) and a charge for profit attributable to 
non-controlling interests of £62 million, loss attributable to equity 
shareholders was £320 million and loss per share amounted to 
0.5 pence.

We further reduced risk in the business, through the reduction in  
the size of the Group’s balance sheet in line with our strategy and 
through the significant improvements in our capital, funding and 
liquidity achieved during the year. Our core tier 1 ratio now stands  
at 10.2 per cent (2009: 8.1 per cent), and our loan to deposit ratio, 
excluding repos, improved to 154 per cent, and to 119 per cent in our 
core business. Through strong term wholesale funding issuance 
during the year, which totalled £50 billion, we maintained the maturity 
profile of the Group’s wholesale funding, with 50 per cent having a 
maturity of more than one year. We also made excellent progress in 
reducing liquidity support from government and central bank 
facilities, which reduced by £60.6 billion to £96.6 billion.

Overview

Business review

Governance

Financial statements

Other information

Group profile 

Group structure 

Group performance 

Strategy and progress 

Chairman’s statement 

Group Chief Executive’s review 

Addressing the key issues 

Marketplace trends 

1

2

3

4

6

8

10

12

Summary of Group results 

Divisional results 

Other financial information 

14

26

52

Board of Directors 

Directors’ report 

Corporate governance report 

110

112

114

Five year financial summary 

56 

Directors’ remuneration report  124

Our people 

Corporate responsibility 

Risk management 

57

60

65

Shareholder information 

Glossary 

Abbreviations 

Index to annual report 

284

285

290

291

Report of the independent  
auditors on the consolidated  
financial statements 

Consolidated  
financial statements 

Notes to the consolidated  
financial statements 

Report of the independent  
auditors on the parent company 
financial statements 

Parent company financial 
statements 

Notes to the parent company 
financial statements 

144

146

153

272

273

276

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Annual Report  
and Accounts 2010

SUMMARY OF GROUP RESULTS

Combined businesses results summary – income

2010 
£m 

2009 
£m 

Change 
%

Net interest income

Other income:

13,822 

12,726 

Underlying other income

10,361 

10,804

Liability management gains

423 

1,498 

Outlook – strong medium-term prospects
Given the flexibility and capacity we have for core business growth, 
we continue to believe that the Group has strong medium-term 
prospects, notwithstanding the headwinds that we face in 2011. We 
give detailed comments on our prospects in the following sections.

Our medium-term targets remain unchanged. However, having joined 
the Group in January, António Horta-Osório will be appointed Group 
Chief Executive on 1 March and will be reviewing the business to further 
develop the strategy and actions needed to realise its full potential.  
He expects to report to the Board and subsequently to shareholders 
on the outcome of his strategic review and his plans at the end of the 
first half of 2011.

With the Group having returned to profitability in 2010, the risk in the 
business further reduced, and our improved capital, funding and 
liquidity positions, we now have a stronger business, which is well 
positioned for the future.

Reduction in fair value of equity 
conversion feature of ECNs

Total income

Insurance claims

Total income, net of  
insurance claims

Note on presentation of results
To enable meaningful comparisons to be made with prior periods, 
and in line with previous results announcements, the income 
statement commentaries below are on a combined businesses basis 
(see ‘basis of presentation’ – page 153). Certain commentaries also 
exclude the unwind of fair value adjustments.

Underlying income

Net interest income

Underlying other income

Insurance claims

Underlying income

Further, to enable a better understanding of the Group’s core 
business trends and outlook, certain income statement and balance 
sheet information is analysed between core and non-core portfolios. 
Non-core portfolios consist of non-relationship assets and liabilities, 
and assets and liabilities which are outside the Group’s current 
appetite. The EU mandated retail business disposal is not included  
in non-core portfolios.

Core and non-core income

Core

Non-core

Underlying income

9 

(4)

(14)

(2)

(2)

9 

(4)

3 

7 

(9)

3 

    (620)

10,164 

23,986 

(542)

(427)

11,875 

24,601 

(637)

23,444 

23,964 

13,822 

10,361 

(542)

12,726 

10,804

(637)

23,641 

22,893 

19,371 

4,270 

23,641 

18,188 

4,705 

22,893 

A good revenue performance
Total income, net of insurance claims, decreased by 2 per cent to 
£23,444 million, which included a reduction of £1,075 million in gains 
from the Group’s liability management exercises and a £193 million 
increase in the mark-to-market losses arising from the equity 
conversion feature of the Group’s Enhanced Capital Notes. The total 
mark-to-market loss relating to the ECNs in 2010 was £620 million, and 
comprised a gain of £192 million in the first half of the year and a loss 
of £812 million in the second half.

Underlying income, excluding these items, increased by 3 per cent.  
The Group delivered a good revenue performance in its core business 
in 2010 despite subdued growth in lending markets. Core business 
underlying income growth of 7 per cent was, however, partially offset  
by a reduction in non-core income of 9 per cent, in line with progress 
against the Group’s strategy to reduce the size of its balance sheet.

Group net interest income increased by £1,096 million, or 9 per cent, 
to £13,822 million. The net interest margin from our banking 
businesses was 33 basis points higher at 2.10 per cent, as higher asset 
pricing and reductions in the average spread between base rate and 
LIBOR more than offset lower deposit margins in Retail and increasing 
wholesale funding spreads. The incremental costs of wholesale 
funding have been recorded within Central items. The banking asset 
margin increased by 45 basis points to 1.56 per cent, and the banking 
liability margin decreased by 31 basis points to 0.97 per cent.

The majority of the net interest margin increase was achieved in the first 
half of the year, with only modest improvement in the second half, as 
previously guided, given rising wholesale market funding costs, a slowing 
migration of mortgages to standard variable rates, continued liability 

 
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Annual Report  
and Accounts 2010

SUMMARY OF GROUP RESULTS

margin pressures, and modest additional costs reflecting the successful 
increase in term issuance compared to our initial expectations. 

Wealth businesses, partially offset by a decline in the banking net 
interest margin.

In 2011, we see limited scope to increase asset pricing, with any gains 
likely to be offset by elevated wholesale funding costs, while liability 
margins will remain under pressure as a result of competitive markets 
and low base rates. Given these factors and the margin expansion 
since 2009, which we have achieved earlier than expected, we do not 
expect further progression in our net interest margin in 2011 
compared to 2010 as a whole.

Other income decreased by 14 per cent to £10,164 million. Excluding 
liability management gains and movements in the fair value of the 
ECNs, underlying other income decreased 4 per cent. This reflected 
lower payment protection insurance (PPI) income as a result of the 
Group’s decision to withdraw from writing PPI business during the 
year, lower overdraft charges following changes to fee structures, and 
loss on sale of assets arising from targeted balance sheet reductions, 
as well as other elements principally related to changes in financial 
market conditions during the year. 

Core business income growth was primarily driven by a strong 
performance in Retail, where net interest income benefited from an 
increase in asset margins, the majority of which occurred in the first 
half of the year. This increase was partially offset however by lower 
savings margins. Mortgage margins reflected a continued increase  
in the proportion of mortgages on standard variable rates (now 
representing 48 per cent of outstanding balances), lower LIBOR to 
base rate spreads, and higher new business margins as assets were 
priced to appropriately reflect risk and changes in funding costs. The 
Group achieved a 22.1 per cent share of gross mortgage lending 
(2009: 24.1 per cent), in markets which remained generally subdued. 
Unsecured lending balances were lower, continuing the recent trend 
and reflecting lower customer demand and continuing customer 
deleveraging. During the year, we continued to build our current 
account and savings customer franchises in what remains a 
competitive market for customer deposits, and reduced the 
proportion of more expensive term deposits while maintaining good 
overall deposit growth of 5 per cent. 

In Wholesale, core income grew by 4 per cent, driven by an increase in 
the banking net interest margin, principally from asset margin growth, 
which largely reflected the repricing of lending business. This was 
partially offset by lower net interest income in Treasury and Trading, 
reflecting the more stable interest rate environment. Non-core 
income decreased by 15 per cent, given lower interest earning asset 
balances resulting from the excellent progress in targeted balance 
sheet reductions. 

In Wealth and International, core income increased by 5 per cent, 
driven by the positive effect of foreign exchange movements in the 
International business and of higher global stock markets in the 

Divisional underlying income performance

The present value of new business premiums in our life, pensions  
and investments businesses decreased by 20 per cent, largely 
reflecting the focus on improving the profitability of the product  
set and the withdrawal of certain HBOS legacy products with lower 
returns. However, as a result of the repositioning of the product set, 
the benefits of cost savings and a reduction in initial commission on 
OEICs in 2010, UK new business profit increased by £135 million to 
£267 million. This improved performance shows through the 
Insurance division’s UK margins on an EEV basis increasing to 
3.7 per cent in 2010, compared to 2.6 per cent in 2009. General 
Insurance delivered a robust performance after taking account of  
the impact of the 2010 freeze events and the Group’s decision to 
cease writing new payment protection business during the year.

Within Group Operations and Central Items, underlying income 
decreased by £126 million primarily due to a reduction in the fair value 
of derivatives not mitigated through hedge accounting. Net interest 
expense was broadly unchanged at £823 million, but included capital 
and wholesale liquidity funding costs of £601 million (2009: £260 million) 
not recovered from the divisions, with the increase primarily due to 
higher wholesale market funding spreads and the Group’s decision to 
accelerate its wholesale funding in 2010. These increased costs were 
offset by improved net interest from interest rate risk management 
activities.

Outlook – income
Core assets accounted for approximately 82 per cent of income in 
2010 (2009: 79 per cent), with core income growing 7 per cent. In 2011, 
however, we expect income trends will reflect continued customer 
deleveraging and subdued new lending demand which, with further 
non-core asset reductions, will result in a continued reduction in the 
overall size of the Group’s balance sheet. As already stated, we do not 
expect to see further net interest margin progression in 2011.

Over time, however, we continue to target core businesses income 
growth of between 6 and 7 per cent per year and believe that our 
margin is likely to return to more than 2.5 per cent in the medium-term 
(approximately 2014) reflecting the effect of modest further 
improvements in asset pricing, higher liability margins facilitated by 
higher base rates, and greater stability in wholesale funding markets. 
We also anticipate reducing our wholesale funding requirements over 
this period. This margin outlook reflects, inter alia, our core economic 
assumptions for the medium-term, including base rates increasing to 
3.75 per cent by the end of this period and no deterioration in consumer 
spending, the Group’s asset reduction programme, the assumed costs of 
refinancing as wholesale funding matures, and a narrowing of wholesale 
market credit spreads over the medium-term. At the same time however, 
it is not possible to predict what effect current regulatory discussions 
could have on funding costs and therefore margin.

Retail

Wholesale

Wealth and International

Insurance

Group Operations and Central 
items

Underlying income

Core 
£m 

10,394 

5,540 

1,679 

2,009 

(251)

19,371

2010

Non-core 
£m 

591 

3,022

657 

 – 

 – 

4,270

Total 
£m 

10,985 

8,562 

2,336 

2,009 

(251)

23,641 

Core 
£m 

9,386 

5,336

1,601 

1,990 

(125)

18,188

2009

Non-core 
£m 

388 

3,573

744 

 – 

– 

4,705

Total 
£m 

9,774 

8,909 

2,345 

1,990 

(125)

22,893 

Change
 Core 
% 

11 

4 

5 

1 

7 

Overview

Business review

Governance

Financial statements

Other information

Group profile 

Group structure 

Group performance 

Strategy and progress 

Chairman’s statement 

Group Chief Executive’s review 

Addressing the key issues 

Marketplace trends 

1

2

3

4

6

8

10

12

Summary of Group results 

Divisional results 

Other financial information 

14

26

52

Board of Directors 

Directors’ report 

Corporate governance report 

110

112

114

Five year financial summary 

56 

Directors’ remuneration report  124

Our people 

Corporate responsibility 

Risk management 

57

60

65

Shareholder information 

Glossary 

Abbreviations 

Index to annual report 

284

285

290

291

Report of the independent  
auditors on the consolidated  
financial statements 

Consolidated  
financial statements 

Notes to the consolidated  
financial statements 

Report of the independent  
auditors on the parent company 
financial statements 

Parent company financial 
statements 

Notes to the parent company 
financial statements 

144

146

153

272

273

276

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Annual Report  
and Accounts 2010

SUMMARY OF GROUP RESULTS

Combined businesses results summary – expenses

2010 
£m 

2009 
£m 

Change 
% 

Operating expenses

(10,928)

(11,609)

Impairment of tangible fixed assets1

(150)

– 

Integration synergies run rate at 
31 December

Underlying cost:income ratio

1

Further detail is given in note 15, page 181.

(11,078)

(11,609)

1,379 

46.2% 

766 

50.7% 

6 

5 

Strong cost management delivering benefits
The Group has an excellent track record in managing its cost base, 
and has delivered a strong cost performance in 2010. During 2010, 
operating expenses decreased by 6 per cent to £10,928 million, as 
substantial integration related savings were captured, together with 
lower levels of operating lease depreciation. After investment, 
ongoing business as usual expenses were held within inflationary 
levels. Our underlying cost:income ratio also saw further 
improvement to 46.2 per cent.

We have already made significant progress in capturing savings from 
the integration programme with annual run-rate savings totalling 
£1,379 million achieved as at 31 December 2010. The Group is on 
track to deliver a run-rate of £2 billion per annum of cost synergies 
and other operating efficiencies by the end of 2011.

To date, costs of preparing for the EU mandated disposal of at least 
600 UK branches, associated customer assets and liabilities and a 
proportion of our mortgage assets, have been modest. However with 
integration nearing completion, activity preparing for this divestment 
will accelerate significantly. The final cost will depend on the buyer 
and the extent to which substantial IT system and infrastructure 
development will be necessary. Therefore the total cost is hard to 
predict but is likely to be substantial. These costs will be excluded 
from combined businesses profits.

With income growth in the short term dependent, inter alia, upon 
economic conditions, strong cost management will continue to be an 
important focus for management.

Outlook – expenses
We expect that our costs will be broadly flat in 2011, with further 
absolute cost savings likely to be partially offset by increased 
investment proposed to support the growth of the core business, 
increasing regulatory costs, costs resulting from the introduction of 
the Bank Levy (which is expected to cost around £260 million in 2011), 
and the combined cost in the region of £100 million of the recent rise 
in VAT and employers’ National Insurance contributions. Excluding 
the cost of the Bank Levy, the Group continues to target a 
cost:income ratio of approximately 40 per cent in the medium term.

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Annual Report  
and Accounts 2010

SUMMARY OF GROUP RESULTS

Impairment charge significantly lower 

The Group achieved a significant reduction in the impairment charge 
in 2010, in both the core and non-core businesses. The impairment 
charge of £13,181 million was 45 per cent lower than the £23,988 million  
charge in 2009, with deterioration in Ireland more than offset by 
substantial improvements elsewhere in the Group, particularly in  
the Wholesale division. 

Impaired loans increased by 10 per cent to £64,606 million, representing 
10.3 per cent of closing advances, driven by an increase in impaired 
loans in International, partially offset by decreases in Retail and 
Wholesale facilitated by improving economic conditions and, in 
Wholesale, also as a result of write-offs of irrecoverable assets and the 
sale of previously impaired assets. The Group’s coverage ratio 
increased by 1.7 per cent to 45.9 per cent, primarily as  
a result of an increase in provisions in International, predominantly  
in Ireland. Non-core loans and advances to customers generated 
approximately 70 per cent of the Group’s impaired loans reflecting 
their higher risk profile, with a coverage ratio of around 50 per cent at 
31 December 2010. The coverage ratio of the Group’s impaired core 
loans and advances to customers was approximately 37 per cent.

In Retail, the improvement in credit performance was faster than 
expected a year ago, with the impairment charge as a percentage of 
average loans and advances to customers decreasing to 0.74 per cent 
in 2010, significantly lower than 1.11 per cent in 2009. The core 
business impairment charge decreased by 34 per cent, reflecting the 
improved quality of new business and effective portfolio 
management and the continuing slow recovery of the economy.

The lower secured impairment charge reflected reduced impaired 
loan levels and improved arrears in the first half of 2010, although in 
the second half, and particularly in the last quarter, we saw some signs 
of strain, with fewer customers returning their accounts to order than 
was the case six months ago. House prices fell slightly in the year and 
the proportion of the mortgage portfolio with an indexed loan-to-
value of greater than 100 per cent was broadly stable at 13 per cent. 
The value of the portfolio with an indexed loan-to-value greater than 
100 per cent and more than three months in arrears has increased 
slightly by £0.2 billion and is now £3.2 billion, representing 0.9 per cent 
of the portfolio. The number of mortgage customers new to arrears 
has also remained relatively stable in the last twelve months, and is 
now well below the peak experienced in the second half of 2008. 
However, as a result of the early signs of strain we saw in the second 
half of the year and the subdued economic environment, we expect 
to see an increase in the secured impairment charge in 2011.

The unsecured impairment charge decreased by 29 per cent, 
reflecting continued improving portfolio trends resulting from the 
Group’s prudent risk appetite, management actions taken over the 
past two years, and stable unemployment. Unsecured impaired loans 
decreased by £0.8 billion to £3.0 billion as a result of fewer cases going 
into arrears, improved quality of new business and increased write off 
of impaired loans. Impairment provisions as a percentage of impaired 
loans decreased to 50.6 per cent from 55.3 per cent, driven largely by 
relatively highly provided assets being written off combined with 
more stringent criteria for unsecured collections repayment plans.

The Wholesale impairment charge fell significantly from 
£15,683 million in 2009 to £4,446 million in 2010. There was a 
significant reduction in both the core and non-core businesses 
impairment charge. The impairment charge as a percentage of 
average loans and advances to customers improved significantly to 
2.08 per cent in 2010 compared to 5.92 per cent in 2009. 

The decrease in this period generally reflects the significant actions 
which were taken in the first half of 2009 on the heritage HBOS 
portfolios (including the identification of large impairments post  
the HBOS acquisition, especially in corporate real estate, real estate 
related and Corporate (UK and US) portfolios), together with the 
stabilising UK and US economic environment in 2010, a low interest 
rate environment helping to maintain defaults at a lower level and a 
number of write backs due to asset disposals. 

In Wealth and International, impairment charges totalled £5,988 million, 
up 47 per cent on £4,078 million in 2009, reflecting increasing 
impairment charges in corporate and real estate in Ireland and 
Australia. The majority of the increase was in the non-core portfolio. 
The level of losses continues to be dominated by the economic 
environment in Ireland, and to a lesser extent has also been influenced 
by the performance of specific areas of the Australian economy. 

After the release of the Interim Management Statement on 
2 November 2010, the Group saw a further significant deterioration in 
market conditions in Ireland, with concerns over the country’s fiscal 
position leading ultimately to the approval of its application for 
EU-IMF financial support on 21 November 2010. Market sentiment 
continued to be negatively affected by uncertainty about the political 
situation and about the economic effect of the austerity measures 
introduced in the Irish Budget of 7 December 2010. As a result, in a 
statement dated 17 December 2010, we noted that any economic 
recovery in Ireland may take longer to achieve, that asset prices will 
remain depressed for longer than previously anticipated and 
therefore that we believed that the significant deterioration in the  

Combined businesses results summary – impairment charge
2010 
Non-core 
£m 

Core 
£m 

Retail

Secured

Unsecured

Wholesale

Wealth and International

Ireland

Other

Impairment charge

251 

    2,372 

2,623 

1,276 

 – 

    221 

221 

4,120 

Total 
£m 

292 

Core 
£m 

656 

    2,455 

    3,318 

2,747 

4,446 

41 

    83 

124 

3,170 

4,264 

4,264 

    1,503 

    1,724 

5,767 

9,061 

5,988 

13,181 

3,974

2,187 

 – 

    189 

189 

6,350 

2009 

Non-core 
£m 

133 

   120 

253 

13,496 

2,949 

   940 

3,889 

17,638 

Total 
£m 

789 

   3,438 

4,227 

15,683 

2,949 

   1,129 

4,078 

23,988 

Change
 Core 
% 

62

29

34

42

 – 

(17) 

(17) 

35 

Overview

Business review

Governance

Financial statements

Other information

Group profile 

Group structure 

Group performance 

Strategy and progress 

Chairman’s statement 

Group Chief Executive’s review 

Addressing the key issues 

Marketplace trends 

1

2

3

4

6

8

10

12

Summary of Group results 

Divisional results 

Other financial information 

14

26

52

Board of Directors 

Directors’ report 

Corporate governance report 

110

112

114

Five year financial summary 

56 

Directors’ remuneration report  124

Our people 

Corporate responsibility 

Risk management 

57

60

65

Shareholder information 

Glossary 

Abbreviations 

Index to annual report 

284

285

290

291

Report of the independent  
auditors on the consolidated  
financial statements 

Consolidated  
financial statements 

Notes to the consolidated  
financial statements 

Report of the independent  
auditors on the parent company 
financial statements 

Parent company financial 
statements 

Notes to the parent company 
financial statements 

144

146

153

272

273

276

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Annual Report  
and Accounts 2010

SUMMARY OF GROUP RESULTS

Irish market would affect the timing and level of value realisation from 
this portfolio. 

Capital resources 

Risk-weighted assets

Core tier 1 ratio 

Tier 1 capital ratio 

Total capital ratio 

2010

2009

£406.4bn

£493.3bn 

10.2%

11.6%

15.2%

8.1% 

9.6% 

12.4% 

Strong capital ratios
Our capital ratios improved significantly during the year, primarily 
reflecting a reduction in risk weighted assets, and balance sheet liability 
management transactions. Total capital also increased through further 
subordinated debt issuance and through a repatriation of capital held 
within our insurance subsidiaries, although this increase was partially 
reduced by a revised approach to private equity investments which 
have now been deducted from total capital.

Risk weighted assets reduced by 18 per cent to £406.4 billion, driven 
by strong management of risk, reduced asset levels and tighter risk 
criteria for new business. Reductions were also achieved through 
changes to our credit risk measurement methodology in certain 
portfolios, including migrating a number of our Wholesale portfolios, 
which had previously been modelled on an Advanced Internal 
Ratings-Based Approach, to the Foundation Internal Ratings-Based 
Approach (FIRB) which will facilitate integration work.

Effects of Basel III on capital
During 2010 the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision has 
substantially refined the details of the so called ‘Basel III’ reforms for 
an enhanced global capital accord. These include increased minimum 
levels of, and quality standards for, capital, increased risk weighting of 
assets, and the introduction of a minimum leverage ratio, as well as 
the timing and transitional arrangements for implementation. The 
final details are still to be clarified, particularly as the reforms are 
implemented within the European and UK regulations, which may 
include a countercyclical buffer, requiring higher levels of capital to  
be held at certain points of the economic cycle, and higher capital 
requirements for systemically important financial institutions.

One of the key reforms impacting the Group arises from a revised 
treatment of the capital held within our insurance subsidiaries. During 
2010, following a strategic review of our capital structure, £0.8 billion 
of equity was exchanged for subordinated debt within the insurance 
group and £1.5 billion was repatriated from the insurance group. 
Whilst this has no overall effect on the Group’s core tier 1 capital 
under current Basel regulations, it does deliver a material core tier 1 
capital benefit under the proposed Basel III reforms. 

At the year end, compared to 30 June 2010, given the deterioration in 
market conditions noted above, a further approximately 10 per cent 
of the £27 billion Irish portfolio had become impaired, and we have 
increased the level of provisions against the portfolio, increasing the 
impairment charge relating to Irish exposures for the full year 2010 to 
£4.3 billion on a combined businesses basis. This has resulted in an 
increase in provisions as a percentage of impaired Irish loans to 
53.7 per cent at the 2010 year end, in line with our expectations in our 
statement of 17 December 2010. 

In Australia, although economic performance has been robust overall, 
there are significant geographical and sector variations, and property 
assets situated outside the principal metropolitan areas have been 
particularly weak. Our exposure to these areas within our Australian 
portfolio drove increased impairments in 2010. 

Outlook – impairment
Overall, and based on our current economic assumptions for the UK 
and Ireland, including unemployment and property valuations, we 
expect to see further reductions in impairment losses in 2011 and 
beyond. We continue to target an improvement in the overall Group 
impairment charge as a percentage of average loans and advances  
to customers towards an expected 50-60 basis points by around 2014, 
as economic conditions improve.

In Retail, given our expectations for a modest improvement in the 
UK economic environment, and a further 2 per cent reduction in 
house prices in 2011, we currently expect that there will be a modest 
reduction in the overall Retail impairment charge in 2011. The rate of 
improvement is, however, expected to be significantly slower than in 
2010, with the improving performance of the unsecured book more 
than offsetting additional secured charges.

In Wholesale, depending upon UK economic conditions, notably 
consumer spending, future commercial real estate price stability, the 
continuation of low interest rates, and the performance of individually 
large exposures, we would expect to see a further modest reduction  
in 2011 as a whole, although the timing of the trend is inherently  
hard to predict. As previously guided, we expect the overall net 
impairment charge in our traditional lending businesses (especially  
in the trading and manufacturing sectors) to increase in 2011, driven in 
part by lower write backs on asset disposals compared to 2010  
and the effect of the UK government austerity measures on the  
wider economy. However, we also expect our impairment charges in 
corporate real estate and real estate related sectors to be lower than 
2010 as a result of a continuing stabilisation of the existing portfolio.  
We remain vigilant in monitoring changes in economic conditions and 
to individual lending positions and we continue to invest heavily in 
expert resource to work with customers to restructure their businesses 
on to sustainable bases, thus protecting employment where possible.

Despite the worsening trend during 2010, we expect to see a 
reduction in the Wealth and International impairment charge in 2011, 
although we anticipate that conditions will remain difficult, and we will 
therefore continue to monitor international markets closely.

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Lloyds Banking Group
Annual Report  
and Accounts 2010

SUMMARY OF GROUP RESULTS

Outlook – capital resources
The effect of the Basel III reforms is uncertain as much will depend on 
business performance and mitigating actions that can be completed, 
even before the transition period comes in to effect. Analysis suggests 
that with no mitigating actions the reforms will reduce the Group’s core 
tier 1 ratio by approximately 1.2 per cent in 2013, although lower risk 
weighted assets are expected from the planned reduction in the 
non-core balance sheet. The additional impact in 2014 of deducting the 
equity investment in insurance in excess of 10 per cent, transitioning  
in at 20 per cent per annum from 1 January 2014, would be around 
0.3 per cent were the Group to take no further action to mitigate this. 

The Group is confident that it is well positioned to maintain a strong 
capital position, meeting all regulatory requirements as currently 
formulated.

Based on our economic outlook, we continue to target returns on 
equity of more than 15 per cent over the medium to longer term. 
However, there continue to be material uncertainties as to future 
capital requirements and therefore we cannot be more specific at 
this stage.

Balance sheet

As at  31 December

Funded assets1

Non-core assets2

1

2

Further analysis is set out on page 95.

Further analysis is set out on page 55.

2010 
£bn 

655.0 

194.7 

2009 
£bn 

715.1 

236.1 

Rightsizing the balance sheet
Total Group funded assets decreased to £655.0 billion from 
£715.1 billion at 31 December 2009, substantially driven by reductions 
in non-core lending portfolios across the three banking divisions, 
continued customer deleveraging and de-risking and subdued 
demand in lending markets. We are pleased with the progress made 
on our balance sheet reduction plans in the period, given challenging 
market conditions, particularly in the latter part of 2010.

Previously, we set out our strategy to reduce non-core assets, 
including non-relationship assets and businesses which are outside 
our current appetite, by some £200 billion from a non-relationship 
pool of £300 billion. It continues to be our intention to manage these 
assets for value and, given the current economic climate, our primary 
focus remains on running these assets down over time. This strategy 
has been very effective and so far reductions of £105 billion have 
been achieved. 

Outlook – balance sheet
We are confident of achieving our targeted further reductions in 
non-core assets of approximately £100 billion over the next three years. 
In addition, we continue to progress plans to execute the divestment of 
retail assets and liabilities in line with our state aid obligations. 

The balance sheet reduction over time is providing the Group with 
increased optionality and flexibility from the resultant releases in both 
funding and capital. Together with initiatives to increase customer 
deposits in line with market growth, we expect to reduce the 
proportion of the Group’s funding that is derived from wholesale 
markets and eliminate our use of government and central bank 
facilities by the end of 2012. This will provide capacity for core 
business growth in line with our relationship strategy. In 2011, 
however, we expect to see a continuation in the trend of customer 
deleveraging and generally subdued demand for new lending.

Overview

Business review

Governance

Financial statements

Other information

Group profile 

Group structure 

Group performance 

Strategy and progress 

Chairman’s statement 

Group Chief Executive’s review 

Addressing the key issues 

Marketplace trends 

1

2

3

4

6

8

10

12

Summary of Group results 

Divisional results 

Other financial information 

14

26

52

Board of Directors 

Directors’ report 

Corporate governance report 

110

112

114

Five year financial summary 

56 

Directors’ remuneration report  124

Our people 

Corporate responsibility 

Risk management 

57

60

65

Shareholder information 

Glossary 

Abbreviations 

Index to annual report 

284

285

290

291

Report of the independent  
auditors on the consolidated  
financial statements 

Consolidated  
financial statements 

Notes to the consolidated  
financial statements 

Report of the independent  
auditors on the parent company 
financial statements 

Parent company financial 
statements 

Notes to the parent company 
financial statements 

144

146

153

272

273

276

21

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Annual Report  
and Accounts 2010

SUMMARY OF GROUP RESULTS

The Group made excellent progress on reducing its liquidity support 
from governmental and central bank sources, achieving reductions of 
£60.6 billion in 2010 leaving £96.6 billion outstanding at the year end. 
The Group currently receives no liquidity support from either the 
US Federal Reserve or the European Central Bank. The drawings from 
the UK Special Liquidity Scheme facilities and the issuance under the 
UK Credit Guarantee Scheme have various maturity dates, the last of 
which is in the fourth quarter of 2012. The Group is confident that all 
maturities can be met, and a further £13 billion of government and 
central bank facilities have been repaid since the year end.

Outlook – liquidity and funding
We expect the combination of continued increases in customer 
deposits and reductions in assets (primarily from non-core asset 
reduction plans) over the next three years to deliver further 
improvements in the Group’s liquidity and funding position. As a 
consequence, we expect steady improvement in the overall loan to 
deposit ratio (which is expected to fall to below 140 per cent within 
three years), a reduction in wholesale funding requirements and 
therefore levels of ongoing term issuance, and liquidity levels to be 
maintained in excess of regulatory requirements.

Liquidity and funding

As at 31 December

Wholesale funding

Loan to deposit ratio1

Core business loan to deposit ratio1

2010 

2009 

£298.0bn 

£325.5bn 

154% 

119% 

169% 

128% 

Government and central bank funding

£96.6bn 

£157.2bn 

Proportion of wholesale funding with maturity 
of greater than one year

50%

50%

1

Excluding repos and reverse repos.

A strengthened liquidity and funding position
The Group made excellent progress against its funding objectives in 
2010 and further enhanced its liquidity position which is supported by 
a robust and stable customer deposit base. While total customer 
deposits fell 3 per cent, deposits excluding repurchase agreements 
increased by 3 per cent, reflecting good growth in relationship 
deposits in Retail and in Wealth and International.

The Group has continued to reduce its reliance on short-term 
wholesale funding. During the year the absolute level of Group 
wholesale funding fell to £298.0 billion, from £325.5 billion at the end  
of 2009, reflecting a reduction in balance sheet assets. By the end of 
2010, our loan to deposit ratio, excluding repos and reverse repos, had 
improved to 154 per cent. Strong term issuance in 2010 also allowed 
the Group to maintain its maturity profile of wholesale funding with 
50 per cent of wholesale funding having a maturity date greater than 
one year at 31 December 2010. 

As previously guided, over the next couple of years the Group expects 
its public capital and senior funding issuance to be £20 billion to 
£25 billion per annum. We made excellent progress in 2010 on our term 
funding issuance plans, achieving £30 billion of publicly placed term 
issuance in the year. In addition, the Group issued a further £20 billion of 
term funding during the year via a series of privately placed funding 
transactions, a level which we do not expect to repeat in 2011. The 
Group continues to benefit from a diversity of funding sources. For 
example, during the year, we established a new funding programme in 
the US with our SEC Registered Shelf, issued inaugural Japanese Yen 
Samurai, Swiss Franc and Canadian Dollar bonds, and publicly 
launched the Lloyds TSB Bank plc Covered Bond Programme. We 
continue to look for opportunities to diversify our funding sources.

We welcome the proposals on minimum standards for funding 
liquidity published by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision in 
December 2010. The introduction of the Liquidity Coverage Ratio and 
Net Stable Funding Ratio will raise the resilience of banks to potential 
liquidity shocks and provide the basis for a harmonised approach  
to liquidity risk management. These proposals are subject to ongoing 
refinement and have not yet been enacted into UK and European law. 
However, the Group monitors compliance against these internal 
metrics, and as at 31 December 2010, the Group’s Liquidity Coverage 
Ratio was estimated at 71 per cent and the Net Stable Funding Ratio 
at 88 per cent. The actions already in place to reduce the size of the 
balance sheet are expected to ensure compliance with the future 
minimum standards, which are expected to be 100 per cent for both 
ratios, by their respective effective dates.

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Annual Report  
and Accounts 2010

SUMMARY OF GROUP RESULTS

Reconciliation of combined businesses results to statutory results

Profit (loss) before tax –  
combined businesses

Integration costs

Volatility arising in insurance businesses 

Amortisation of purchased intangibles and 
goodwill impairment

Pension curtailment gain 

Customer goodwill payments provision

Loss on disposal of businesses

Government Asset Protection Scheme fee

Negative goodwill credit

Pre-acquisition results of HBOS plc

Profit before tax – statutory

Taxation 

Profit (loss) for the year

Earnings per share

2010 
£ million 

2009 
£ million 

2,212 

(1,653)

306 

(629)

910 

(500)

(365)

– 

– 

– 

281 

(539)

(258)

(0.5)

p

(6,300)

(1,096)

478 

(993)

– 

– 

– 

(2,500)

11,173 

280 

1,042 

1,911 

2,953 

7.5p

Integration costs
One-off integration costs of £1,653 million were incurred in 2010, 
bringing the total integration costs since the HBOS acquisition to 
£2,749 million. The integration costs relate to severance, IT and 
business costs of implementation. 

Volatility arising in insurance businesses
A large proportion of the funds held by the Group’s insurance 
businesses are invested in assets which are expected to be held  
on a long-term basis and which are inherently subject to short-term 
investment market fluctuations. Whilst it is expected that these 
investments will provide enhanced returns over the longer term, the 
short-term effect of investment market volatility can be significant.  
In 2010, higher equity market returns compared to our long-term 
assumptions have contributed to positive insurance and policyholder 
volatility totalling £306 million.

Pension curtailment gain
A net curtailment gain of £910 million was recognised in 2010 
following changes to the Group’s UK defined benefit pension 
schemes. In the first half of 2010 the Group implemented changes to 
the terms of its UK defined benefit pension schemes. As a result of 
these changes, the amount of any future salary increases that will be 
deemed pensionable will be capped each year at the lower of Retail 
Price Index inflation; each employee’s actual percentage increase in 
pay; and 2 per cent of pensionable pay. This resulted in a curtailment 
gain of £1,019 million, but was partially offset in the second half of 2010 
from a change in the commutation factors in certain defined 
benefit schemes.

Customer goodwill payments provision
On 21 February, 2011, we announced that we had reached a voluntary 
agreement with the Financial Services Authority (FSA) to initiate a 
customer review and contact programme regarding outstanding 
concerns relating to the variation of limits on some Retail mortgage 
contracts. These specifically related to some Halifax standard variable 
rate mortgage customers, where the wording in the mortgage offer 
documents received by these customers had the potential to cause 
confusion. Under the contact programme, goodwill payments will be 
made to affected customers.

We have made a customer goodwill payments provision in 2010 of 
£500 million in relation to the contact programme. This provision, 
which has been excluded from combined businesses profits, is 
expected to fully cover the costs of the programme. Further detail  
is given in note 45 on page 216.

Loss on disposal of businesses
During 2010, the Group recorded a loss of £365 million on the 
disposal of two wholly-owned subsidiary companies, acquired from  
a previous lending relationship, each of which owned an oil drilling rig 
under construction. Consistent with the Group’s previous treatment, 
this loss has been reported outside of the Group’s  combined 
businesses results.

Overview

Business review

Governance

Financial statements

Other information

Group profile 

Group structure 

Group performance 

Strategy and progress 

Chairman’s statement 

Group Chief Executive’s review 

Addressing the key issues 

Marketplace trends 

1

2

3

4

6

8

10

12

Summary of Group results 

Divisional results 

Other financial information 

14

26

52

Board of Directors 

Directors’ report 

Corporate governance report 

110

112

114

Five year financial summary 

56 

Directors’ remuneration report  124

Our people 

Corporate responsibility 

Risk management 

57

60

65

Shareholder information 

Glossary 

Abbreviations 

Index to annual report 

284

285

290

291

Report of the independent  
auditors on the consolidated  
financial statements 

Consolidated  
financial statements 

Notes to the consolidated  
financial statements 

Report of the independent  
auditors on the parent company 
financial statements 

Parent company financial 
statements 

Notes to the parent company 
financial statements 

144

146

153

272

273

276

23

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Annual Report  
and Accounts 2010

SUMMARY OF GROUP RESULTS

Taxation

Bank of Scotland (Ireland) Limited

In February 2010, we announced that we would close our retail and 
intermediary business in the Republic of Ireland, and in August 2010 
we announced that we would transfer, subject to the necessary 
approvals, the Bank of Scotland (Ireland) Limited (BOSI) business to 
Bank of Scotland plc. The business was transferred to Bank of 
Scotland plc on 31 December 2010, including all of the strategic 
management and decision making activities, at which point BOSI 
ceased to exist. As a result the Group no longer has any regulated 
banking business in the Republic of Ireland. Bank of Scotland plc will 
utilise its extensive operational and management capability, including 
general and credit management, oversight and control, within the UK 
in relation to the Irish portfolio, aiding the efficient run-down of the 
existing lending portfolio.

UK economic outlook

We continue to believe that a slow recovery over the next couple  
of years remains the most likely outcome for the UK economy. Our 
central planning scenario reflects a number of economic assumptions 
including that GDP growth will recover to approximately 1.9 per cent 
in 2011 with a further increase to 2.4 per cent in 2012. We expect a 
decrease of 2 per cent in UK house prices in 2011, with a 2 per cent 
increase in 2012. We also expect a decrease of 2 per cent in commercial 
property prices in 2011 and a recovery of 3 per cent in 2012. Finally,  
we believe that unemployment will peak at 8.1 per cent in 2011.

Outlook – strong medium-term prospects

Given the flexibility and capacity we have for core business growth, 
we continue to believe that the Group has strong medium-term 
prospects, notwithstanding the headwinds that we face in 2011. 

Our medium-term targets remain unchanged. However, having joined 
the Group in January, António Horta-Osório will be appointed Group 
Chief Executive on 1 March, and will be reviewing the business to 
further develop the strategy and actions needed to realise its full 
potential. He expects to report to the Board and subsequently to 
shareholders on the outcome of his strategic review and his plans  
at the end of the first half of 2011.

With the Group having returned to profitability in 2010, the risk in  
the business further reduced, and our improved capital, funding and 
liquidity positions, we now have a stronger business, which is well 
positioned for the future.

Tim J W Tookey 
Group Finance Director

The tax charge for the year to 31 December 2010 was £539 million. 
This reflects a higher effective tax rate than the UK statutory rate 
primarily due to the effect of partially unrelieved losses in Ireland and 
Australia, policyholder tax, and the effect on deferred tax of the 
reduction in the UK corporation tax rate from 28 per cent to 
27 per cent with effect from 1 April 2011.

Acquisition related balance sheet adjustments

Profit before tax includes the unwind of £3,118 million of acquisition 
related fair value adjustments, of which £2,229 million relates to 
impairments. This is ahead of our previous expectation of approximately 
£2,500 million due to the acceleration of amounts held against the 
Group’s securities portfolios as expectations of future credit losses 
have improved. In 2011, we expect a further benefit of some £2 billion 
broadly in line with previous guidance. Thereafter, over the medium 
term, declining annual benefits are expected to accrue. 

Legal and regulatory

There has been extensive scrutiny of the Payment Protection 
Insurance market in recent years, and the Financial Services Authority 
issued its final Policy Statement on PPI complaints handling in August 
2010. The application of this Policy Statement could in extremis have  
a material impact on the Group’s financial position. In October 2010, 
an application for judicial review was issued by the British Bankers’ 
Association challenging the FSA’s new standards for PPI complaints 
handling and the Financial Ombudsman Service’s approach to such 
complaints. The hearing was held in late January 2011, and the 
judgement (which may be subject to appeal) is expected shortly. 
Further detail is given in note 54 on page 237.

The UK Government has appointed an Independent Commission on 
Banking (ICB) to review structural measures to reform the banking 
system and promote stability and competition. The ICB is not 
expected to publish its final report until September 2011 and it is  
too early to quantify any possible effect on the Group.

Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS) costs in respect of 
certain investment company failures have now started to emerge and, 
although relevant costs cannot be predicted, we expect that during 
the course of 2011 the Group will be required to make contributions 
towards such costs as required by the FSCS.

Lending to homeowners and businesses

The Group continues to actively support the UK economy by lending 
to UK households and businesses. In 2010, we have extended 
£30 billion of gross mortgage lending (including remortgages)  
and £49 billion of committed gross lending to businesses, of which 
£11 billion was for SMEs.

Under the terms of our lending commitments to the UK Government, 
we agreed to make available gross new lending of £67 billion in the 
12 months to 28 February 2011, of which £23 billion would be extended 
to homeowners and £44 billion to UK businesses. In the ten months 
from 1 March to 31 December 2010, we have extended lending that 
qualifies under the programme totalling over £20 billion to UK 
homeowners and over £42 billion to UK businesses, of which £10 billion 
has been extended to SMEs and we are on track to meet our lending 
commitments in full.

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and Accounts 2010

SUMMARY OF GROUP RESULTS

Combined businesses segmental analysis

2010

Net interest income

Other income

Total income

Insurance claims

Total income, net of insurance claims

Costs:

  Operating expenses

  Impairment of tangible fixed assets

Trading surplus

Impairment 

Share of results of joint ventures and associates

Profit (loss) before tax and fair value unwind

Fair value unwind1

Profit (loss) before tax

Banking net interest margin2 

Cost:income ratio3

Impairment as a percentage of  
average advances4

Key balance sheet and other items  
31 December 2010

Loans and advances to customers

Customer deposits

Risk-weighted assets

Wholesale
£m

Wealth and  

International
£m

Group  
Operations and 
Central items 
£m

Insurance 
£m

Retail
£m

9,378

1,607

10,985

–

10,985

(4,644)

        –

(4,644)

6,341

(2,747)

17

3,611

1,105

4,716

2.46%

42.3%

4,426

4,136

8,562

–

8,562

(3,744)

      (150)

(3,894)

4,668

(4,446)

(95)

127

3,130

3,257

1.88%

43.5%

1,176

1,160

2,336

–

2,336

(1,536)

      –

(1,536)

800

(5,988)

(8)

(5,196)

372

(4,824)

1.63%

65.8%

0.74%

2.08%

8.90%

£bn 

363.7

235.6

109.3

£bn 

173.2

124.3

222.7

£bn 

55.3

32.8

58.7

(263)

2,814

2,551

(542)

2,009

(854)

      –

(854)

1,155

–

(10)

1,145

(43)

1,102

42.5%

£bn

(895)

447

(448)

–

(448)

(150)

      –

(150)

(598)

–

5 

(593)

(1,446)

(2,039)

£bn 

0.4

0.9

15.7

Group 
£m

13,822

10,164

23,986

(542)

23,444

(10,928)

      (150)

(11,078)

12,366

(13,181)

(91)

(906)

3,118

2,212

2.10%

46.6%

2.01%

£bn 

592.6

393.6

406.4

Overview

Business review

Governance

Financial statements

Other information

Group profile 

Group structure 

Group performance 

Strategy and progress 

Chairman’s statement 

Group Chief Executive’s review 

Addressing the key issues 

Marketplace trends 

1

2

3

4

6

8

10

12

Summary of Group results 

Divisional results 

Other financial information 

14

26

52

Board of Directors 

Directors’ report 

Corporate governance report 

110

112

114

Five year financial summary 

56 

Directors’ remuneration report  124

Our people 

Corporate responsibility 

Risk management 

57

60

65

Shareholder information 

Glossary 

Abbreviations 

Index to annual report 

284

285

290

291

Report of the independent  
auditors on the consolidated  
financial statements 

Consolidated  
financial statements 

Notes to the consolidated  
financial statements 

Report of the independent  
auditors on the parent company 
financial statements 

Parent company financial 
statements 

Notes to the parent company 
financial statements 

144

146

153

272

273

276

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and Accounts 2010

SUMMARY OF GROUP RESULTS

Combined businesses segmental analysis continued

2009

Net interest income

Other income

Total income

Insurance claims

Total income, net of insurance claims

Operating expenses

Trading surplus

Impairment 

Share of results of joint ventures and associates

Profit (loss) before tax and fair value unwind

Fair value unwind1

Profit (loss) before tax

Banking net interest margin2 

Cost:income ratio3

Impairment as a percentage of  
average advances4

Key balance sheet and other items  
31 December 2009

Loans and advances to customers

Customer deposits

Risk-weighted assets

Wholesale
£m

Wealth and  
International
£m

Group  
Operations and 
Central items 
£m

Insurance 
£m

Retail
£m

7,970 

1,804 

9,774

– 

9,774 

(4,566)

5,208 

(4,227)

(6)

975 

407 

1,382 

1.97% 

46.7% 

4,710 

4,199 

8,909

– 

8,909 

(4,106)

4,803 

(15,683)

(720)

(11,600)

6,897 

(4,703)

1.52% 

46.1% 

1,217 

1,128 

2,345

– 

2,345 

(1,544)

801 

(4,078)

(21)

(3,298)

942 

(2,356)

1.71%

65.8%

1.11% 

5.92% 

6.04%

£bn 

371.1 

224.1 

128.6

£bn 

191.8 

153.4 

286.0

£bn 

63.5

29.0 

63.2

(287)

2,944 

2,657

(637)

2,020 

(974)

1,046 

– 

(22)

1,024 

(49)

975 

48.2%

£bn

(884) 

1,800 

916

– 

916 

(419)

497 

– 

2 

499 

(2,097)

(1,598)

£bn

0.6

0.2

15.5

Group 
£m

12,726 

11,875 

24,601

(637)

23,964 

(11,609)

12,355 

(23,988)

(767)

(12,400)

6,100 

(6,300)

1.77% 

48.4%

3.25%

£bn 

627.0

406.7

493.3

1

2

3

4

The net credit in 2010 of £3,118 million is mainly attributable to a reduction in the impairment charge of £2,229 million and an increase in other income of £1,195 million, as losses reflected in the 
acquisition balance sheet valuations of the lending and securities portfolios have been incurred, together with other hedging adjustments. This has been partly offset by a charge to net interest 
income of £301 million. The impact of the fair value unwind on net interest income is lower than in 2009 because the liability management exercises undertaken by the Group have had the effect of 
crystallising a proportion of the gains reflected in the opening balance sheet valuation of HBOS’s own debt; there has also been a benefit from revised expectations of future impairment losses likely 
to emerge from certain retail lending portfolios.

The calculation basis for banking net interest margins is set out on page 54.

Operating expenses divided by total income net of insurance claims.

Impairment on loans and advances to customers divided by average loans and advances to customers, excluding reverse repo transactions, gross of allowance for impairment losses.

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Annual Report  
and Accounts 2010

DIVISIONAL RESULTS
RETAIL

KEY OPERATING BRANDS

PROFILE

Retail operates the largest retail bank 
in the UK and is the leading provider 
of current accounts, savings, personal 
loans, credit cards and mortgages. With 
its strong stable of brands including 
Lloyds TSB, Halifax, Bank of Scotland 
and Cheltenham & Gloucester, it serves 
over 30 million customers through 
one of the largest branch and fee free 
ATM networks in the UK. 

Retail is focused on effectively meeting the 
needs of its customers. The division has 
over 22 million current account customers 
and provides social banking to over four 
million people through basic banking or 
social banking accounts. It is also the largest 
provider of personal loans in the UK, as 
well as being the UK’s leading credit card 
issuer. Retail provides over one in five new 
residential mortgages making it one of the 
leading UK mortgage lenders and provided 
over 50,000 mortgages to help first time 
buyers in 2010. Retail is the largest private 
sector savings provider in the UK. It is also a 
major general insurance and bancassurance 
distributor, offering a wide range of 
long-term savings, investment and general 
insurance products.

2010 HIGHLIGHTS
Profit before tax increased to £4,716 million, compared to £1,382 million in 2009. 

Profit before tax and fair value unwind increased to £3,611 million, a strong increase 
of £2,636 million compared to 2009, driven by good income growth, tight cost control and  
a significantly lower impairment charge. 

Net interest income increased by £1,408 million or 18 per cent to £9,378 million, 
largely as a result of the continuing re-pricing of risk, mortgage customers moving onto 
standard variable rates and a decrease in the LIBOR to Base Rate spread.

Other income decreased by £197 million or 11 per cent to £1,607 million, relating 
particularly to changes to current account overdraft structures.

Operating expenses remain tightly controlled, increasing by only 2 per cent to 
£4,644 million, which combined with strong income growth led to a significant reduction in 
the cost:income ratio to 42.3 per cent. Operating expenses benefited from continuing cost 
control as well as cost synergies.

The impairment charge reduced significantly to £2,747 million, down by 35 per cent, 
supported by prudent risk management, a stabilising economy, broadly stable house prices 
and low interest rates. The improvement in credit performance was faster than expected 
a year ago. 

Loans and advances to customers decreased by £7.4 billion, or 2 per cent to 
£363.7 billion, as customers continued to reduce their personal indebtedness, particularly 
unsecured debt. While mortgage balances declined by £3.8 billion, Retail continued to 
support first time buyers and home movers with gross mortgage lending of £30 billion. 

Customer deposits increased by £11.5 billion, or 5 per cent, to £235.6 billion, 
predominantly from instant access and tax free ISA accounts rather than more expensive 
term deposits.

Overview

Business review

Governance

Financial statements

Other information

Group profile 

Group structure 

Group performance 

Strategy and progress 

Chairman’s statement 

Group Chief Executive’s review 

Addressing the key issues 

Marketplace trends 

1

2

3

4

6

8

10

12

Summary of Group results 
Divisional results 

Other financial information 

14
26

52

Board of Directors 

Directors’ report 

Corporate governance report 

110

112

114

Five year financial summary 

56 

Directors’ remuneration report  124

Our people 

Corporate responsibility 

Risk management 

57

60

65

Shareholder information 

Glossary 

Abbreviations 

Index to annual report 

284

285

290

291

Report of the independent  
auditors on the consolidated  
financial statements 

Consolidated  
financial statements 

Notes to the consolidated  
financial statements 

Report of the independent  
auditors on the parent company 
financial statements 

Parent company financial 
statements 

Notes to the parent company 
financial statements 

144

146

153

272

273

276

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Annual Report  
and Accounts 2010

DIVISIONAL RESULTS

PERFORMANCE SUMMARY

Net interest income

Other income

Total income

Operating expenses

Trading surplus

Impairment

Share of results of joint ventures and associates

Profit before tax and fair value unwind

Fair value unwind

Profit before tax

Banking net interest margin

Banking asset margin

Banking liability margin

Cost:income ratio

Impairment as a % of average advances

As at 31 December

Key balance sheet and other items

Loans and advances to customers:

Secured

Unsecured

Customer deposits:

Savings

Current accounts

Risk-weighted assets

2010
£m

9,378

1,607

10,985

(4,644)

6,341

(2,747)

17

3,611

1,105

4,716

2.46%

1.93%

0.87%

42.3%

0.74%

2010
£bn

337.3

    26.4

363.7

195.3

  40.3

235.6

109.3

2009
£m

7,970

1,804

9,774

(4,566)

5,208

(4,227)

(6)

975

407

1,382

1.97%

1.18%

1.41%

46.7%

1.11%

2009
£bn

341.1

  30.0

371.1

185.6

  38.5

224.1

128.6

Change
%

18

(11)

12

(2)

22

35

PERFORMANCE INDICATORS

Profit before tax 

£m

2008

2,542

2009

1,382

2010     

4,716

Income and operating expenses 
growth 

%

Income

2

000.0

12

Operating expenses

Customer deposits 

£bn

Change
%

2008

2009

2010     

216.3

224.1

235.6

(1)

(12)

(2)

5

5

5

(15)

Loans and advances to customers 

£bn

2008

2009

2010     

377.1

371.1

363.7

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and Accounts 2010

DIVISIONAL RESULTS 
RETAIL

Strategic vision

Retail’s goal is to be recognised by customers as the UK’s best bank. 
This will be achieved by building deep and enduring customer 
relationships which deliver real value to customers. Retail believes this 
strategy will drive sustainable long term value for all stakeholders.  
A deep understanding of customers and their needs combined with 
highly efficient and effective processes will allow more investment in 
products and services that customers really value. Retail is increasing 
its capabilities through the integration of Lloyds TSB and HBOS which 
presents a great opportunity to use the best from each heritage and 
significantly improve systems and processes. This includes extending 
Lloyds TSB’s strong customer insight capabilities to Halifax and Bank 
of Scotland. Success for Retail will be reflected in enhanced customer 
service resulting in strong customer advocacy which in turn leads to 
lower customer acquisition costs, increased share of wallet and 
improved customer retention.

Progress against strategic initiatives

Deep and enduring customer relationships
The Retail strategy is to build deep and enduring relationships so that 
customers choose Retail’s relationship brands (Lloyds TSB, Halifax and 
Bank of Scotland) for more of their financial needs. This is being 
achieved through offering a broad range of products that address 
customer needs, alongside superior customer service and advice. 
Retail also continues to work to ensure customers are the focus of 
business development including instituting a number of programmes 
to ensure key customer needs underpin ongoing product and service 
development.

During 2010, Retail successfully delivered a number of elements of the 
strategy, with a focus on rebuilding trust with customers. A primary 
focus was the development of products that are simple, transparent 
and easy for customers to understand. Customer demand for these 
products has been very positive. For example, the customer response 
to the Halifax’s Clarity card has been strong with 145,000 new cards 
issued since its launch in July 2010. This card leads the market in terms 
of transparency and simplicity with a single customer interest rate and 
no usage fees for balance transfers, cash withdrawals and 
international usage.

Retail has also continued to develop its current account switching facility, 
which plays a key role in building a strong relationship with new 
customers, by making it easy for customers to switch. Experience has 
shown that after customers use the current account switching facility, they 
are over 70 per cent more likely to transfer their primary current account.

Creating products and services that customers value
A focus on customers, including active use of Retail’s strong customer 
insight capability, ensures that products and services are customer-
led in a highly competitive market. Retail has a strong record of 
award-winning products and services.

Retail is committed to supporting the housing market and working with 
customers to find solutions to their changing situations. An example of 
this is the recently launched Equity Support Scheme that enables 
customers with low or negative equity to move home. This scheme 
recognises that there are significant numbers of customers who are 
making payments on their mortgage and have a desire to move but 
due to lack of equity have been unable to do so. Retail has also 
extended its popular first time buyer ‘Lend a Hand’ mortgage to all 
home movers. This product helps customers through allowing friends 
and family to contribute to a savings account supporting a mortgage.

Retail continues to work to deliver products and services that address 
customer needs. An example of this is the recently launched Halifax 

Cash ISA Promise. In the month following the launch in October 2010 
the ISA business performed significantly ahead of expectations with 
44,000 accounts transferred, despite the launch being outside of the 
traditional ISA season. This industry leading promise addresses the 
poor transfer times between ISA providers, by promising to pay 
interest on new cash ISAs from the completed application date rather 
than when funds are transferred into the account, often weeks later. 
The other parts of the promise are increased information on cash ISA 
interest rates and an assurance that all cash ISAs are open to both 
new and existing customers.

Continually improving customer service
Retail continues to benefit from the opportunities afforded by its 
heritage businesses and is taking the best from the Lloyds TSB and 
HBOS franchises to create ‘one best way’ of doing things. Integration, 
together with changes in working practices, will deliver significant 
increases in efficiency which will allow further investment in the 
products and services that customers really value and will deliver a 
better customer experience.

Internet banking continues to grow in popularity amongst Retail’s 
customers. To support the development and broaden the potential  
of this format Retail has introduced a new internet platform which was 
rolled out to Lloyds TSB customers during 2010. One example of the 
new services being delivered on this platform is Money Manager 
which provides an innovative tool for customers to better manage 
their finances. 

Retail has been implementing new sales and customer service 
technology for mortgages and bancassurance across the network. 
These are being delivered to improve the quality of customer advice 
and increase the speed of decision making. The Mortgage Sales 
Platform offers customers a more comprehensive interview 
experience, a faster mortgage decision and ‘one best way’ of selling 
mortgages across its brands. In the bancassurance business a new 
platform has been rolled out to advisors, with tools which better 
identify customer’s needs. This innovative platform also brings 
portfolio modelling tools to the Retail market. 

Mobile banking is another key growth area and Retail is investing to 
make financial services more accessible and to increase the range of 
options available to customers. Lloyds TSB has launched a mobile 
banking application that allows customers to manage their money  
on the move, including transferring funds between accounts via their 
mobiles. Lloyds TSB now also offers a range of free text alerts, 
including balance updates and near limit alerts, thereby helping 
customers to better control their finances.

Integration

Retail has made good progress with integration, delivering significant 
cost savings and increased productivity as well as optimising 
performance across the business. The division has delivered run-rate 
synergies of £529 million at the end of 2010 and is on track to achieve 
run-rate synergies of £867 million by the end of 2011.

In 2010, Retail commenced the roll-out of a single counter system 
across all its branches providing a strong and efficient platform with 
increased functionality to further improve customer service. This is 
being supported by a ‘one best way’ programme that ensures there  
is a single efficient and effective approach to all major processes.

As part of the integration Lloyds TSB’s Protection for Life 
bancassurance product range was extended into Halifax and Bank of 
Scotland. The impact of these changes has already been significant 
with close to 50 per cent uplift in protection new business premiums 
in Halifax and Bank of Scotland.

Overview

Business review

Governance

Financial statements

Other information

Group profile 

Group structure 

Group performance 

Strategy and progress 

Chairman’s statement 

Group Chief Executive’s review 

Addressing the key issues 

Marketplace trends 

1

2

3

4

6

8

10

12

Summary of Group results 
Divisional results 

Other financial information 

14
26

52

Board of Directors 

Directors’ report 

Corporate governance report 

110

112

114

Five year financial summary 

56 

Directors’ remuneration report  124

Our people 

Corporate responsibility 

Risk management 

57

60

65

Shareholder information 

Glossary 

Abbreviations 

Index to annual report 

284

285

290

291

Report of the independent  
auditors on the consolidated  
financial statements 

Consolidated  
financial statements 

Notes to the consolidated  
financial statements 

Report of the independent  
auditors on the parent company 
financial statements 

Parent company financial 
statements 

Notes to the parent company 
financial statements 

144

146

153

272

273

276

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Annual Report  
and Accounts 2010

DIVISIONAL RESULTS

Financial performance

Profit before tax increased to £4,716 million compared to 
£1,382 million in 2009, an increase of £3,334 million. This included  
an increase of £698 million in respect of the fair value unwind.

Profit before tax and fair value unwind increased to £3,611 million,  
a significant improvement compared to £975 million in 2009. This 
increase in profit was driven by strong income growth, tight cost 
control and a significant reduction in the impairment charge in the 
context of a stabilising economy.

Total income increased by £1,211 million, or 12 per cent, to  
£10,985 million. This was driven by a strong increase in net interest 
income of £1,408 million, partially offset by a reduction in other 
income of £197 million.

Net interest income increased by 18 per cent, with a significant 
increase in the net interest margin to 2.46 per cent, from 1.97 per cent 
in 2009. The asset margins expanded significantly during 2010 from 
1.18 per cent to 1.93 per cent as a result of decreases in LIBOR to base 
rate spread and stable customer interest rates. The asset margin also 
widened partly as a result of mortgage customers continuing to move 
onto, and staying on, standard variable rates and assets being priced 
to more appropriately reflect risk and rising funding costs. The liability 
margin, on the other hand, has reduced from 1.41 per cent to  
0.87 per cent as the effect of lower LIBOR to base rate spreads was 
partially offset by the reduction of expensive deposit balances.

Other income decreased by 11 per cent in 2010 to £1,607 million from 
£1,804 million largely as a result of changes to current account 
overdraft charges. Retail continues to focus on having fees and rates 
that customers understand. It is believed that this will result in 
stronger customer relationships as well as supporting the deepening 
of these relationships. An example of this focus is the changes to the 
overdraft charging structure for Halifax and Bank of Scotland personal 
current accounts at the end of 2009, which delivers a more suitable 
product proposition and an improved customer experience and 
resulted in a reduction in other income of approximately £90 million. 
Similarly, the changes to the Lloyds TSB current account pricing 
model, which became effective at the end of 2010, provide a simpler, 
more sustainable proposition for customers, resulting in an overall 
reduction in the cost of overdraft usage.

Total income is analysed as follows and reflects the trends discussed 
above:

Mortgages and Savings 

Consumer Banking

Total income

2010 
£m 

4,739

6,246

10,985

2009 
£m 

3,667 

6,107 

9,774 

Change 
% 

29

2

12

Operating expenses remained well controlled and increased by  
2 per cent, against an increase in total income of 12 per cent, 
reflecting ongoing cost control and synergies from the integration. 
The cost:income ratio for the year improved to 42.3 per cent 
compared to 46.7 per cent in 2009.

The impairment charge on loans and advances decreased by 
£1,480 million, or 35 per cent, to £2,747 million reflecting the stabilising 
economy, more stable house prices, low interest rates and prudent 
lending criteria. As a percentage of average advances, the impairment 
charge decreased to 0.74 per cent, significantly lower than 1.11 per cent 
in 2009. The secured impairment charge reduced to £292 million from 
£789 million in 2009 while the unsecured impairment charge reduced 
to £2,455 million from £3,438 million in 2009.

The fair value unwind net credit of £1,105 million compares with 
£407 million in 2009. The net fair value unwind credit was larger than  
in 2009 which reflected a smaller charge related to the fixed rate 
mortgage portfolios as mortgages reached the end of their fixed 
term and borrowers moved to standard variable products. This was 
partially offset by a reduction in the credit attributed to the fixed rate 
savings portfolio as fixed rate term deposits, existing prior to 
acquisition, matured.

Balance sheet progress

Total loans and advances to customers decreased by £7.4 billion, or 
2 per cent, to £363.7 billion, compared to 31 December 2009. This 
resulted from reduced customer demand for credit and customers 
continuing to reduce their personal indebtedness. The reduction 
in lending to customers was partly the result of the repayment of 
unsecured debt where balances reduced by £3.6 billion, or 
12 per cent.

Secured balances were broadly stable as Retail maintained its strong 
commitment to the housing market and first time buyers. The 
proportion of mortgages on standard variable rate or equivalent 
products now stands at 48 per cent and is expected to rise only 
modestly during 2011.

The UK mortgage market for both house purchase and  
re-mortgaging was slightly lower in 2010, with gross market lending  
of £136.1 billion compared to £143.3 billion in 2009. Retail’s gross 
mortgage lending (including remortgages) was £30 billion in 2010. 
This lending included full delivery on agreed lending commitments. 
New mortgage lending continued to be focused on supporting the 
housing market with more than 70 per cent of the lending being for 
house purchase rather than re-mortgaging. Retail remains the largest 
lender to first time buyers in the market helping over 50,000 
customers buy their first home. It also continues to be an industry 
leader in its support for shared equity and shared ownership 
schemes.

Risk-weighted assets decreased by £19.3 billion, or 15 per cent, to 
£109.3 billion in 2010. This reduction was driven by lower lending 
balances, recalibrated downturn loss given default rates and the lower 
risk mix of the loan portfolio with reduced exposure to unsecured 
lending.

Total customer deposits increased by £11.5 billion, or 5 per cent, to 
£235.6 billion in the year. The growth was predominantly from instant 
access and tax free cash ISA accounts, rather than more expensive 
term deposits. This approach has helped support the net interest 
margin. Retail continues to perform well in the savings market, with  
a strong stable of savings brands which can be tailored to customer 
demands.

Non-core operations

Non-core operations consist of specialist mortgages (self-certified 
and sub-prime), selected third-party branded loans and selected 
third-party branded credit cards. As at 31 December 2010, these 
operations included loans and advances to customers of £30.6 billion 
(31 December 2009: £33.5 billion) and risk weighted assets of £11.2 billion 
(31 December 2009: £13.2 billion). In 2010 they also contributed income 
of £591 million (compared to £388 million in 2009) and an impairment 
charge of £124 million (compared to £253 million in 2009). In addition 
to the non-core assets, Retail continues to progress plans to divest 
other retail assets and liabilities in line with the state aid obligations.

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Annual Report  
and Accounts 2010

DIVISIONAL RESULTS
WHOLESALE

KEY OPERATING BRANDS

PROFILE
The Wholesale division serves in excess of 
a million businesses, ranging from start-ups 
and small enterprises to global corporations, 
with a range of propositions fully segmented 
according to customer need. The division 
comprises Corporate Markets, Treasury 
and Trading and Asset Finance.

Corporate Markets comprises Commercial, 
Corporate, Wholesale Markets, Wholesale 
Equity and Corporate Real Estate Business 
Support Unit. Commercial and Corporate 
provide relationship-based banking, risk 
management and advisory services to business 
customers, principally in the UK. Wholesale 
Markets provides risk management solutions, 
specialised lending, access to capital markets 
and multi-product financing solutions to its 
customers, whilst managing the Group’s own 
portfolio of structured credit investments and 
treasury assets. Wholesale Equity manages 
the division’s equity investment holdings 
(including Lloyds Development Capital). 
Corporate Real Estate Business Support Unit 
manages relationships with commercial real 
estate customers facing financial difficulties.

Treasury and Trading’s role is to provide access 
to financial markets in order to meet the Group’s 
balance sheet management requirements, 
and provides trading infrastructure to support 
execution of customer-driven risk management 
transactions, whilst operating within a well 
controlled and conservative risk appetite.

Asset Finance consists of a number of 
leasing and speciality lending businesses 
including Contract Hire (Lex Autolease and 
Hill Hire) and Consumer Finance (Black Horse 
Motor and Personal Finance).

2010 HIGHLIGHTS
Profit before tax was £3,257 million compared to a loss before tax of £4,703 million 
in 2009. 

Profit before tax and fair value unwind was £127 million, a £11,727 million improvement 
on the loss of £11,600 million in 2009, primarily reflecting the significant decrease in the level of 
impairment charge.

Net interest income decreased by 6 per cent to £4,426 million. This decrease reflected the 
lower interest earning asset balances, in-line with targeted balance sheet reductions and lower 
net interest income in Treasury and Trading, partially offset by a 36 basis point increase in the 
banking net interest margin.

Other income decreased marginally to £4,136 million, primarily reflecting a reduction from 
the higher market volatility in 2009 in Wholesale Markets and lower operating lease income in 
Asset Finance, partially offset by investment gains in Wholesale Equity.

Operating expenses decreased 9 per cent, reflecting reduced levels of operating lease 
depreciation and further cost savings achieved from the integration programme, partially offset  
by additional staff related costs in the Business Support Unit and continued investment in 
customer facing resource and systems.

Impairment charges on financial assets decreased significantly to £4,446 million, 
compared to £15,683 million in the previous year. The total impairment charge is 72 per cent 
lower than last year and continues to be primarily driven by the HBOS heritage corporate real 
estate and real estate related asset portfolios. 

Assets decreased by 14 per cent to £240.9 billion continuing on from a 28 per cent reduction 
in 2009. This reflects the targeted reduction in the balance sheet, mainly in loans and advances 
to customers and banks in non-core business and through reductions in debt securities and 
available-for-sale positions. 
Customer deposits excluding repos decreased 3 per cent to £114.1 billion, due to a 
reduction in short-term deposits in Treasury and Trading partially offset by higher deposits in 
Corporate Markets in line with the Group’s funding strategy. 

Continued progress in deepening customer relationships. Cross-selling has increased by 
9 per cent, reflecting increased product capabilities and opportunities arising from applying a 
single sales force model on the combined customer base.

Overview

Business review

Governance

Financial statements

Other information

Group profile 

Group structure 

Group performance 

Strategy and progress 

Chairman’s statement 

Group Chief Executive’s review 

Addressing the key issues 

Marketplace trends 

1

2

3

4

6

8

10

12

Summary of Group results 
Divisional results 

Other financial information 

14
26

52

Board of Directors 

Directors’ report 

Corporate governance report 

110

112

114

Five year financial summary 

56 

Directors’ remuneration report  124

Our people 

Corporate responsibility 

Risk management 

57

60

65

Shareholder information 

Glossary 

Abbreviations 

Index to annual report 

284

285

290

291

Report of the independent  
auditors on the consolidated  
financial statements 

Consolidated  
financial statements 

Notes to the consolidated  
financial statements 

Report of the independent  
auditors on the parent company 
financial statements 

Parent company financial 
statements 

Notes to the parent company 
financial statements 

144

146

153

272

273

276

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and Accounts 2010

DIVISIONAL RESULTS

PERFORMANCE SUMMARY

Net interest income
Other income
Total income
Costs:

Operating expenses
Impairment of tangible fixed assets

Trading surplus
Impairment
Share of results of joint ventures and associates

Profit (loss) before tax and fair value unwind
Fair value unwind

Profit (loss) before tax
Banking net interest margin
Banking asset margin
Banking liability margin
Cost:income ratio (excl. impairment of  
tangible fixed assets)
Impairment losses as a % of average advances
As at 31 December

Key balance sheet and other items
Loans and advances to customers
Loans and advances to banks
Debt securities
Available-for-sale financial assets

Customer deposits
Customer deposits excluding repos
Repos

Risk-weighted assets

2010
£m
4,426
4,136

8,562

(3,744)
      (150)
(3,894)

4,668
(4,446)
(95)

127
3,130

3,257
1.88%
1.28%
1.29%

43.7%
2.08%
2010
£bn

173.2
12.4
25.8
  29.5
240.9

114.1
      10.2
124.3
222.7

2009 
£m
4,710
4,199

8,909

(4,106)
  –
(4,106)

4,803
(15,683)
(720)

(11,600)
6,897

(4,703)
1.52%
1.02%
1.16%

46.1%
5.92%
2009
£bn

191.8
18.9
31.7
    36.9
279.3

117.9
  35.5
153.4
286.0

PERFORMANCE INDICATORS

Profit (loss) before tax 

£m

Change
%
(6)
(2)

(4)

(10,479)

2008

9

5

(3)
72
87

(55)

(4,703)

2009

2010     3,257

Income and operating expenses  
growth

%

(4)

Income

(9)

Operating expenses

Growth in cross-selling income 

%

Change
%

2009

26

2010     

9

Committed gross lending 

£bn

2009

2010     

 c 35

 c 49

(10)
(34)
(19)
(20)
(14)

(3)
(71)
(19)
(22)

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Annual Report  
and Accounts 2010

DIVISIONAL RESULTS 
WHOLESALE

Strategic vision

Wholesale’s strategic goal is to be recognised as the UK’s leading, 
through-the-cycle, relationship-focused wholesale bank. The mission is 
to retain and deepen recurring, multi-product customer relationships 
building on deep insight into customer needs to provide a broad range 
of banking, risk management and capital market products.

Progress against strategic initiatives

Supporting customers through the cycle
Wholesale’s through-the-cycle commitment to businesses is 
evidenced by key initiatives such as the SME Business Charter which 
was awarded the prize for innovation in SME finance by Business 
Moneyfacts in March 2010. In 2010, over 100,000 new Commercial 
start-up customers were attracted and over 200 regional customer 
events were held across the country, demonstrating our commitment 
to this segment. Wholesale’s focus on deepening customer 
relationships and continued commitment to businesses was again 
recognised by Finance Directors of commercial and corporate 
companies who voted Lloyds TSB as Bank of the Year in the CBI/Real 
FD awards for the sixth year running in May 2010. In September 2010, 
our Commercial Finance business was voted as winner in the 
InterContinental Finance Magazine’s global awards for Alternative 
Finance Provider of the year – United Kingdom.

Continued investment in Wholesale Markets capabilities has helped 
customers to diversify their funding sources and manage their interest 
rate and currency risks. This successful investment provides the 
foundations for deeper customer relationships and is earning external 
recognition which includes the Group being named ‘The most 
improved European Debt Capital Markets and Syndicate team’ by 
Euroweek in May 2010 and awarded ‘Best Arranger of UK Loans’ and 
‘Best Arranger Mid-Corporate Loans’ at the 2010 Euroweek 
Syndicated Loan & Leveraged Finance Awards. 

Integrating the businesses
Progress towards creating a single Wholesale Bank by the end of 2011 
continues on track, with several notable milestones passed in 2010. 
Internal business structures are in place across Wholesale, and around 
30 customer and data migrations successfully took place in 2010, 
representing assets of approximately £50 billion. The new Lloyds Bank 
Corporate Markets brand was launched in December, providing a 
single, comprehensive and consistent corporate banking and financial 
markets service for our customers. In the Asset Finance business, the 
successful integration of Lex and Autolease brands has created one  
of the UK’s leading car leasing firms. 

The focus for 2011 remains on the planning and execution of the 
remaining 40 migrations and strengthening risk systems, whilst 
ensuring that we continue to deliver our high levels of customer 
service. The division achieved run-rate synergies of £359 million at 
the end of 2010 and is on track to deliver run-rate synergies of 
£532 million by the end of 2011.

Prioritising businesses
In 2009, Wholesale systematically reviewed its assets, portfolios and 
businesses to identify those that would add most value to its 
relationship-focused strategic vision. In 2010, Wholesale ensured that 
investment in product and service capability was directed towards 
these core growth areas, and explored divestment opportunities for 
the remaining non-core assets.

Investment and change in the core growth areas continues to be 
embedded, with new talent joining the Group and new processes 
introduced to our client facing businesses. Cross-selling from 
deepening relationships increased by 9 per cent reflecting these 
enhanced product capabilities.

A number of disposals of non-core assets were completed during 
2010 in line with the planned reduction of Wholesale’s total assets, 
which includes part of the Group’s commitment under the state aid 
restructuring plan. Wholesale continues to operate under an 
oversight and governance framework with the intention always of 
maximising long-term shareholder value from any asset sale.

Financial performance

Profit before tax was £3,257 million compared to a loss before tax  
of £4,703 million in 2009. The improvement of £7,960 million is after 
taking into account fair value unwind of £3,130 million, which 
decreased by £3,767 million compared to 2009.

Profit before tax and fair value unwind of £127 million was an £11,727 
million improvement on the loss of £11,600 million in 2009, driven by  
a significant decrease in the impairment charge reflecting the 
stabilising economic climate, continuing to support previous 
guidance that the impairment charge peaked in first half of 2009.

Total income decreased by £347 million, or 4 per cent to £8,562 million 
mainly driven by a 6 per cent decrease in net interest income.

The decline in net interest income primarily reflects lower interest 
earning asset balances across loans and receivables in line with  
the Group’s targeted balance sheet reduction, mainly in loans and 
advances to customers, debt securities and available for-sale-positions. 
Income was affected by higher funding costs and lower lending 
volumes, although this was partly offset by higher customer margins 
on new business and from re-pricing on renewals. 

Banking net interest income, which excludes trading activity, 
increased by £330 million, to £3,683 million as lending business 
continued to be re-priced to reflect customer risk profiles, with 
lending margins increasing by 26 basis points. Deposit margins 
increased moderately, by 13 basis points, reflecting favourable 
internal liquidity rates, which was partially offset by the impact of 
lower LIBOR to base rate spreads. As a result, the banking net interest 
margin increased by 36 basis points to 1.88 per cent in 2010. The 
impact of re-pricing was only partially offset by a decrease in average 
interest earning assets and liability balances. 

Other income decreased by £63 million, or 2 per cent, to £4,136 
million, primarily reflecting higher levels of market volatility in 2009 
which resulted in mark to market gains in Wholesale Markets, whilst 
2010 experienced losses on sale of assets in targeted balance sheet 
reductions and lower operating lease income. Other income in 2010 
benefited from investment gains in Wholesale Equity as a result of 
stabilisation in market conditions and improved fund investment 
performance, strong fee income across structuring and capital 
markets and more favourable performance in Treasury and Trading.

Overview

Business review

Governance

Financial statements

Other information

Group profile 

Group structure 

Group performance 

Strategy and progress 

Chairman’s statement 

Group Chief Executive’s review 

Addressing the key issues 

Marketplace trends 

1

2

3

4

6

8

10

12

Summary of Group results 
Divisional results 

Other financial information 

14
26

52

Board of Directors 

Directors’ report 

Corporate governance report 

110

112

114

Five year financial summary 

56 

Directors’ remuneration report  124

Our people 

Corporate responsibility 

Risk management 

57

60

65

Shareholder information 

Glossary 

Abbreviations 

Index to annual report 

284

285

290

291

Report of the independent  
auditors on the consolidated  
financial statements 

Consolidated  
financial statements 

Notes to the consolidated  
financial statements 

Report of the independent  
auditors on the parent company 
financial statements 

Parent company financial 
statements 

Notes to the parent company 
financial statements 

144

146

153

272

273

276

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Annual Report  
and Accounts 2010

DIVISIONAL RESULTS

Risk-weighted assets decreased by £63.3 billion, or 22 per cent to 
£222.7 billion, primarily reflecting the balance sheet reductions and the 
move to Foundation IRB from Advanced IRB for all HBOS non-retail 
portfolios.

Non-core operations

Non-core consists of businesses and/or business lines that are 
inconsistent with Wholesale’s relationship-focused strategic vision  
of capital and liquidity efficient growth, driven by broad and deep 
customer relationships and within a prudent risk framework.

As at 31 December 2010, operations and portfolios considered 
to be non-core included assets of £126.9 billion (2009: £158.3 billion) 
which included £71.2 billion (2009: £83.1 billion) of loans and advances 
to customers, £25.4 billion (2009: £31.5 billion) of debt securities, 
£22.2 billion (2009: £32.0 billion) of available-for-sale financial assets 
and other assets of £8.1 billion (2009: £11.7 billion). Non-core  
risk-weighted assets were £94.8 billion (2009: £135.4 billion). Non-core 
portfolios and businesses include £4.9 billion (2009: £4.9 billion) of 
customer deposits. 

In 2010, non-core businesses generated income of £3,022 million  
and impairment of £3,170 million, compared to 2009 income of 
£3,573 million and impairment of £13,496 million.

Operating expenses decreased by £362 million, or 9 per cent, to 
£3,744 million primarily from a further reduction in the level of 
operating lease depreciation in Asset Finance and a continued focus 
on cost management including savings attributable to the integration 
programme. This was partially offset by additional costs in the 
Business Support Unit and continued investment in customer facing 
resource and systems.

The impairment charge decreased by £11,237 million to £4,446 million 
in December 2010. As a percentage of average loans and advances to 
customers, impairment charge improved to 2.08 per cent in 2010 
compared to 5.92 per cent in 2009. The decrease reflects reductions, 
notably in the heritage HBOS corporate real estate and real estate 
related portfolios and heritage HBOS Corporate (UK and US) 
portfolios and write backs from asset disposals, due to the stabilising 
economic environment, low interest rates which helped to maintain 
defaults at reduced levels, the stabilisation of UK real estate prices 
and provisioning against base case assumptions undertaken on the 
acquired heritage HBOS portfolios in the first half of 2009. The 
decrease further confirms the Group’s belief that the impairment 
charge peaked in the first half of 2009 under base case assumptions.

The share of losses from joint ventures and associates comprises a 
small loss of £95 million, a decrease of £625 million. This represents  
a net reduction in both the value and size of the portfolio compared 
to the prior year. The majority of the portfolio is now valued at nil with 
a remaining portfolio carrying value of approximately £128 million.

Fair value unwind decreased £3,767 million to £3,130 million, mainly 
due to lower impairments in 2010 relating to the HBOS assets that 
were fair valued on acquisition. The decrease was partially offset by 
charges relating to the expected losses on acquired debt securities 
and by fair value releases on sales.

Balance sheet progress

The division’s asset balances (comprising loans and advances to 
customers and banks, debt securities and available-for-sale financial 
assets) reduced by £38.4 billion, or 14 per cent to £240.9 billion, primarily 
reflecting deleveraging by customers and continuing active de-risking of 
the balance sheet by either selling down or reducing holdings in debt 
securities and available-for-sale positions.

Loans and advances to customers decreased £18.6 billion, or 10 per cent 
to £173.2 billion. In Corporate Markets, balances decreased by 
£17.5 billion or 10 per cent, as demand for new corporate lending and 
refinancing of existing facilities were more than offset by the level of 
maturities, reflecting a continued trend of subdued corporate lending, 
customer deleveraging and asset sales in non-core sectors. Despite this 
overall reduction, net lending to core customers in the SME sector 
increased by 2.1 per cent. In Asset Finance, the decrease of £2.7 billion, or 
23 per cent, reflected the targeted reduction in this asset class. Available 
for sale financial assets balances reduced by £7.4 billion, or 20 per cent, to 
£29.5 billion and debt securities decreased by £5.9 billion, or 19 per cent, 
to £25.8 billion, as Corporate Markets reduced the non-core balance 
sheet by either selling down or not replenishing total holdings after 
amortisations or maturities. Loans and advances to banks decreased 
£6.5 billion, or 34 per cent as the division refocused the balance sheet.

Customer deposits excluding repos decreased by £3.8 billion, or 
3 per cent to £114.1 billion, due to a reduction in short-term deposits in 
Treasury and Trading, which was partially offset by higher deposits in 
Corporate Markets in line with Group’s funding strategy.

The impairment charge decreased by £10,673 million to £4,182 million 
reflecting a sustained decrease since the peak in first half 2009. As  
well as reflecting stabilising economic conditions, a significant  
amount of the decrease was also due to the application in 2009 of 
Lloyds Banking Group provisioning policy and risk review processes 
which were applied to the heritage HBOS corporate real estate  
and real estate related portfolios and heritage HBOS Corporate  
(UK & US) portfolio.

Impairment of tangible fixed assets of £150 million was incurred on 
assets held on the balance sheet as a result of the consolidation of 
certain entities over which the Group exercised control. A £365 million 
loss was recorded in 2010 on the disposal of these entities which is 
excluded from the Group’s combined businesses profit before tax.

Change 
% 

(2)

(3)

(2)

2

(4)

(7)

72

87

94

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Annual Report  
and Accounts 2010

DIVISIONAL RESULTS 
WHOLESALE

Corporate Markets

Net interest income

Other income

Total income

Costs:

2010 
£m

3,669

2,471

6,140

2009 
£m 

3,756 

2,541 

6,297 

Operating expenses

(2,410)

(2,461)

Impairment of tangible  
fixed assets

Trading surplus

Impairment

Share of results of joint ventures 
and associates

Loss before tax and  
fair value unwind

Cost:income ratio  
(excl. impairment of tangible  
fixed assets)

Impairment as a % of average 
advances 

As at 31 December

    (150)

(2,560)

3,580

  – 

(2,461)

3,836 

(4,182)

(14,855)

(95)

(717)

(697)

(11,736)

39.3%

39.1% 

2.08%

6.09% 

2010
£bn 

2009 
£bn 

Change 
% 

Key balance sheet and other items

Loans and advances to customers

Risk-weighted assets

160.2

202.1

177.7 

263.8 

(10)

(23)

Loss before tax and fair value unwind decreased by £11,039 million to 
£697 million, due to a significant decrease in the impairment charge. 
Net interest income decreased by £87 million or 2 per cent. This 
reflected lower interest earning asset balances as a result of the 
ongoing focus on reducing the balance sheet. Despite increased 
funding costs net interest income benefited from improved margins 
from customer re-pricing.

Other income was £70 million or 3 per cent lower, primarily due to 
increased market volatility in 2009 which resulted in mark to market 
gains in Wholesale Markets which did not reoccur in 2010. 
Additionally other income benefited from investment gains in 
Wholesale Equity as a result of stabilising market conditions, and 
strong fee income across structuring and capital markets. 

Operating expenses decreased by £51 million to £2,410 million due 
to continued synergy benefits, partially offset by investment in the 
Business Support Unit as well as customer facing resource and 
systems. 

Overview

Business review

Governance

Financial statements

Other information

Group profile 

Group structure 

Group performance 

Strategy and progress 

Chairman’s statement 

Group Chief Executive’s review 

Addressing the key issues 

Marketplace trends 

1

2

3

4

6

8

10

12

Summary of Group results 
Divisional results 

Other financial information 

14
26

52

Board of Directors 

Directors’ report 

Corporate governance report 

110

112

114

Five year financial summary 

56 

Directors’ remuneration report  124

Our people 

Corporate responsibility 

Risk management 

57

60

65

Shareholder information 

Glossary 

Abbreviations 

Index to annual report 

284

285

290

291

Report of the independent  
auditors on the consolidated  
financial statements 

Consolidated  
financial statements 

Notes to the consolidated  
financial statements 

Report of the independent  
auditors on the parent company 
financial statements 

Parent company financial 
statements 

Notes to the parent company 
financial statements 

144

146

153

272

273

276

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Annual Report  
and Accounts 2010

DIVISIONAL RESULTS

Treasury and Trading

Asset Finance

Net interest income

Other income

Total income

Operating expenses

Profit before tax and  
fair value unwind

Cost:income ratio

As at 31 December

Key balance sheet and other items

Loans and advances to customers

Risk-weighted assets

2010 
£m

324

322

646

(218)

428

33.7%

2010
£bn 

4.1

8.6

2009 
£m 

544

238 

782

(187)

595 

23.9% 

2009 
£bn 

2.5 

8.4 

Change 
% 

(40)

Net interest income

35

(17)

(17)

(28)

Other income

Total income

Operating expenses

Trading surplus

Impairment

Change 
% 

64

2

Share of results of joint ventures 
and associates

Profit (loss) before tax and  
fair value unwind

Cost:income ratio

Impairment as a % of average 
advances

As at 31 December

2010 
£m

433

1,343

1,776

(1,116)

660

(264)

2009 
£m 

410

1,420 

1,830 

(1,458)

372

(828)

Change 
% 

6

(5)

(3)

23

77

68

–

(3)

396

62.8%

(459)

79.7% 

2.34%

5.86%

2010
£bn 

2009 
£bn 

Change 
% 

Profit before tax and fair value unwind decreased by £167 million to 
£428 million due to lower net interest income.

Total income decreased by £136 million, or 17 per cent. Interest 
income reduced as the highly volatile interest rate market evident in 
early 2009 was not repeated in 2010. Other income performance 
benefited from strong customer demand for interest rate, foreign 
exchange and risk management products in 2010. Trading flows are 
managed with the overriding aim of providing a service to customers, 
whilst maintaining Treasury and Trading’s conservative risk appetite. 

Operating expenses increased by £31 million to £218 million reflecting 
the investment in people and systems, in particular back office 
infrastructure, to support internal risk management and the customer 
franchise.

Key balance sheet and other items

Loans and advances to customers

Operating lease assets

Risk-weighted assets

8.9

3.0

12.0

11.6 

3.4 

13.8 

(23)

(12)

(13)

Profit before tax and fair value unwind was £396 million compared to a 
loss before tax and fair value unwind of £459 million in December 
2009. The £855 million improvement was due to a lower impairment 
charge and lower operating expenses.

Total income decreased by £54 million, or 3 per cent, to £1,776 million 
as a result of lower business volumes on assets held under operating 
leases. The lower business volumes are in-line with a targeted 
reduction in this asset class and were partly offset by stronger margins.

Operating expenses decreased by £342 million, or 23 per cent, to 
£1,116 million, reflecting reduced depreciation charges on assets held 
under operating leases due to lower fleet size and a year on year 
improvement in used car values, and strong cost management and 
savings achieved from integration.

The impairment charge decreased by £564 million to £264 million, 
reflecting a stabilising economic environment and an improvement in 
market conditions for both the retail and non-retail consumer finance 
businesses. The lower impairment charge has been driven by a 
reduction in new cases entering arrears, the reduced book size and a 
better mix in the credit quality of new business being written over the 
last two years.

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Annual Report  
and Accounts 2010

DIVISIONAL RESULTS
WEALTH AND INTERNATIONAL

KEY OPERATING BRANDS

Lloyds TSB

PROFILE

Wealth and International was 
formed in 2009 to give increased 
focus and momentum to the private 
banking and asset management 
businesses and to manage the Group’s 
international businesses.

The Wealth business comprises private banking, 
wealth management and asset management. 
Wealth’s global private banking and wealth 
management operations cater to the full range 
of wealth clients from affluent to Ultra High Net 
Worth within the UK, Channel Islands and Isle 
of Man, and internationally. Our private banking 
and wealth management business operates 
under the Lloyds TSB and Bank of Scotland 
brands. Our asset management business, 
Scottish Widows Investment Partnership, 
has a broad client base, managing assets 
for Lloyds Banking Group customers as well 
as a wide range of clients including pension 
funds, charities, local authorities, Discretionary 
Managers and Financial Advisers. In addition, 
the Group holds a 60 per cent stake in 
St James’s Place, the UK’s largest independent 
listed wealth manager and a 55 per cent stake in 
Invista Real Estate.

The International business comprises the 
Group’s other international banking businesses 
outside the UK, with the exception of corporate 
business in North America which is managed 
through the Group’s Wholesale division. These 
largely comprise corporate, commercial and 
asset finance business in Australia, Ireland and 
Continental Europe and retail businesses in 
Germany and the Netherlands.

2010 HIGHLIGHTS
Loss before tax increased to £4,824 million compared to £2,356 million in 2009. 

Loss before tax and fair value unwind increased by £1,898 million to £5,196 million, 
compared to £3,298 million in 2009, due to a higher impairment charge, predominantly 
in Ireland.

In Wealth, profit before tax increased by 36 per cent to £269 million. However, this 
was more than offset by the International loss before tax which increased by 56 per cent to 
£5,465 million.

Net interest income decreased by 3 per cent to £1,176 million, as an 8 basis points 
decline in the banking net interest margin more than offset the favourable impact of foreign 
currency movements, particularly the Australian dollar, and the income on the £7 billion 
European loan portfolio transferred in from the Wholesale division in the second half of 2009. 

Operating expenses decreased by 1 per cent to £1,536 million, with cost savings 
achieved from integration, particularly in the asset management businesses in Wealth, partly 
offset by investment in International’s German deposit taking operation, increased resources 
in business support functions and the effect of stronger foreign currency rates.

The impairment charge amounted to £5,988 million, compared to £4,078 million in 
2009, reflecting the material deterioration in the economic environment in Ireland in the last 
quarter of 2010 that resulted in EU-IMF financial support in late November 2010 and the 
tightening of liquidity in the second half of 2010 in regional Australian property markets to 
which the Group is exposed.

Loans and advances to customers decreased by £8.2 billion, or 13 per cent, to 
£55.3 billion, reflecting net repayments of £4.1 billion, and additional impairment provisions 
in the International businesses, partly offset by foreign exchange movements of £1.1 billion.

Customer deposits increased by £3.8 billion, or 13 per cent, to £32.8 billion, due to 
strong inflows in UK Private Banking and Bank of Scotland Germany, partly offset by outflows 
in Ireland following the closure of the Irish retail branch network.

Against its strategic objectives, Wealth has demonstrated continuing strength in client 
acquisition through the UK franchise with a 12 per cent increase in customer numbers. In 
International, resources have been deployed to manage arrears, and the balance sheet 
reduction strategy resulted in underlying local currency advances decreasing by £4.1 billion, 
or 7 per cent.

Overview

Business review

Governance

Financial statements

Other information

Group profile 

Group structure 

Group performance 

Strategy and progress 

Chairman’s statement 

Group Chief Executive’s review 

Addressing the key issues 

Marketplace trends 

1

2

3

4

6

8

10

12

Summary of Group results 
Divisional results 

Other financial information 

14
26

52

Board of Directors 

Directors’ report 

Corporate governance report 

110

112

114

Five year financial summary 

56 

Directors’ remuneration report  124

Our people 

Corporate responsibility 

Risk management 

57

60

65

Shareholder information 

Glossary 

Abbreviations 

Index to annual report 

284

285

290

291

Report of the independent  
auditors on the consolidated  
financial statements 

Consolidated  
financial statements 

Notes to the consolidated  
financial statements 

Report of the independent  
auditors on the parent company 
financial statements 

Parent company financial 
statements 

Notes to the parent company 
financial statements 

144

146

153

272

273

276

37

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Annual Report  
and Accounts 2010

PERFORMANCE SUMMARY

Net interest income

Other income

Total income

Operating expenses

Trading surplus

Impairment

Share of results of joint ventures and associates

Loss before tax and fair value unwind

Fair value unwind

Loss before tax

Banking net interest margin

Banking asset margin

Banking liability margin

Cost:income ratio

Impairment as a % of average advances

As at 31 December

Key balance sheet and other items

Loans and advances to customers

Customer deposits

Risk-weighted assets

2010
£m

1,176

1,160

2,336

(1,536)

800

(5,988)

(8)

(5,196)

372

(4,824)

1.63%

1.22%

0.83%

65.8%

8.90%

2010
£bn

55.3

32.8

58.7

2009
£m

1,217

1,128

2,345

(1,544)

801

(4,078)

(21)

(3,298)

942

(2,356)

1.71%

1.26%

0.82%

65.8%

6.04%

2009
£bn

63.5

29.0

63.2

Change
%

(3)

3

1

(47)

62

(58)

(61)

PERFORMANCE INDICATORS

Profit (loss) before tax 

£m

2008 277

(2,356)

2009

(4,824)

2010     

Income and operating expenses 
growth 

%

2008

(1)

000.0

Income

0

Operating expenses

Customer deposits 

2008

2009

2010     

Change
%

(13)

13

(7)

Wealth relationship clients

2008

2009

2010     

£bn

34.1

29.0

32.8

285,000

307,000

328,000

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and Accounts 2010

DIVISIONAL RESULTS 
WEALTH AND INTERNATIONAL

Strategic vision

Wealth provides strong growth opportunities for the Group and, 
through deepening the relationships with existing Group clients 
alongside targeted external customer acquisition, Wealth’s goal is 
to be recognised as the trusted adviser to expatriate and private 
banking clients both in the UK and selected international markets. 
Wealth’s initial focus in the UK is to increase the penetration of its 
offering into the Group’s existing customer base by the referral of 
wealthier customers to its private banking businesses where their wider 
financial needs can be more effectively met. Outside the UK, Wealth 
will be building on the strengths of its brand portfolio and existing 
expatriate, wealth management and private banking propositions.

In the International businesses, the priority is to maximise value in 
the medium term. International’s immediate focus is on close 
management of the lending portfolio, particularly in the Irish 
business, and re-pricing assets where appropriate. At the same 
time International is delivering operational efficiencies, reshaping 
its business models and rightsizing the balance sheet to reflect the 
ongoing environment.

Progress against strategic initiatives

Deep and enduring customer relationships
In Wealth, the focus has been on driving additional income growth 
from the Group’s affluent and high net worth client base through 
more effective use of the opportunities afforded by the Retail and 
Wholesale franchises to cross sell Wealth products to these 
customers. During 2010, customer segmentation across the Wealth 
businesses has been implemented and businesses transferred as 
appropriate to align to this segmentation, the customer referrals 
model has been formalised, and a new UK investment proposition 
launched. Continuing progress was demonstrated through a 
7 per cent increase in Wealth relationship customers in 2010, 
including a 12 per cent increase in UK Wealth, and a 16 per cent 
increase in Wealth’s customer deposits. 

Maximising value in the short to medium term
In International, the focus remains on managing the impaired asset 
portfolio and continued strengthening of the control environment. 
Redeployment of resource from front line activity and the wider 
Group to manage arrears and collections is now complete and 
business support units are fully operational. The business aims to 
de-risk and reduce the balance sheet where possible, with net 
repayments in the International portfolio contributing £4.1 billion to 
the reduction in underlying local currency customer advances.

As previously announced, the Group completed a strategic review  
of Bank of Scotland (Ireland) Limited (BOSI) during the year, 
concluding that there was little opportunity for scalable growth in the 
future and that the business currently carried on by BOSI would 
merge, pursuant to a court process, into Bank of Scotland plc. This 
announcement followed the closure earlier in the year of BOSI’s retail 
and intermediary business in Ireland, including all 44 Halifax retail 
branches.

The merger completed on 31 December 2010 at which point BOSI 
ceased to exist and its banking licence was relinquished. Bank of 
Scotland plc will utilise its extensive operational and management 
capability, including general and credit management, oversight and 
control, within the UK in relation to the Irish portfolio. This will support 
the efficient rundown of the remaining Irish lending portfolio.

In order to retain local administrative capability, historic knowledge 
and continuity of customer relationships, Bank of Scotland plc has 
entered into an agreement with an independent service company 
which will perform various administrative functions relating to the Irish 
business. Under this proposal the majority of BOSI employees have 
transferred to the service company.

Integration
Wealth and International is making excellent progress with the 
integration of its businesses with an annual synergies run-rate as at 
31 December 2010 of £240 million, substantially achieving the end of 
2011 run rate target of £242 million. The transfer of £50 billion of funds 
under management from Insight Investment to Scottish Widows 
Investment Partnership was successfully completed in the first half of 
2010 along with the sale of Employee Equity Solutions and Bank of 
Scotland Portfolio Management Service. In the second half of 2010 
the division successfully completed the integration of its Spanish 
businesses, while the UK Private Banking, Channel Islands and 
Wholesale Europe integration programmes are progressing well 
ensuring Wealth and International is on track to deliver targeted cost 
savings by the end of 2011. 

Overview

Business review

Governance

Financial statements

Other information

Group profile 

Group structure 

Group performance 

Strategy and progress 

Chairman’s statement 

Group Chief Executive’s review 

Addressing the key issues 

Marketplace trends 

1

2

3

4

6

8

10

12

Summary of Group results 
Divisional results 

Other financial information 

14
26

52

Board of Directors 

Directors’ report 

Corporate governance report 

110

112

114

Five year financial summary 

56 

Directors’ remuneration report  124

Our people 

Corporate responsibility 

Risk management 

57

60

65

Shareholder information 

Glossary 

Abbreviations 

Index to annual report 

284

285

290

291

Report of the independent  
auditors on the consolidated  
financial statements 

Consolidated  
financial statements 

Notes to the consolidated  
financial statements 

Report of the independent  
auditors on the parent company 
financial statements 

Parent company financial 
statements 

Notes to the parent company 
financial statements 

144

146

153

272

273

276

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Financial performance by business unit

Wealth

Funds under management

As at 31 December

2010 
£bn

2009 
£bn 

Net interest income

Other income

Total income

Operating expenses

Trading surplus

Impairment

Share of results of joint ventures 
and associates

Profit before tax and  
fair value unwind

Cost:income ratio

Impairment as a % of  
average advances 

As at 31 December

Key balance sheet and other items

Loans and advances to customers

Customer deposits

Risk-weighted assets

2010 
£m

345

1,018

1,363

2009 
£m 

383

1,003

1,386

(1,047)

(1,119)

316

(46)

(1)

267

(71)

2

269

76.8%

198

80.7% 

Change 
% 

(10)

1

(2)

6

18

35

36

SWIP:

Internal

External

Other Wealth:

St James’s Place

Invista Real Estate

Private and International Banking

Closing funds under management

Year ended 31 December

Opening funds under management

Inflows:

0.48%

0.70% 

SWIP and Insight – internal

2010
£bn 

2009 
£bn 

Change 
% 

9.1

26.8

10.4

9.2 

23.2 

10.0 

(1)

16

4

 – external

Other

Outflows:

SWIP and Insight – internal

 – external

Profit before tax and fair value unwind increased by 36 per cent to 
£269 million due to lower costs and lower impairment charges.

Other

Total income decreased by 2 per cent to £1,363 million. Net interest 
income decreased by 10 per cent, reflecting continued margin 
pressure driven by low base rates and a competitive deposit market. 
Other income increased by 1 per cent, as growth was constrained by 
lower asset management fee income following the sale of the external 
fund management business of Insight Investment in November 2009.

Operating expenses decreased by 6 per cent, driven by cost savings 
from integration, particularly in the Asset Management business and 
also include the effect of the sale of Insight Investment. On a like for 
like basis, excluding the costs of Insight Investment operating 
expenses decreased by 1 per cent.

The impairment charge decreased by 35 per cent reflecting strong 
credit management and improved collections and recoveries 
processes in 2010.

Customer deposits have increased by £3.6 billion, or 16 per cent, 
reflecting strong growth in the UK Private Banking business driven 
by the success of the Reserve savings account.

Investment return, expenses  
and commission

Net operating increase in funds1

Sale of Insight and Bank of Scotland Portfolio  
Management Service2

Closing funds under management

1
Includes Insight Investment’s external fund management business up to disposal on 
2 November 2009. 

2
Insight Investment was sold on 2 November 2009. The Bank of Scotland Portfolio Management 
Service business was transferred to Rathbone Brothers Plc over the course of 2010.

Funds under management of £192.0 billion increased by £7.9 billion. 
Net outflows of £6.4 billion reflect an exceptional withdrawal from a 
single institutional investor in Scottish Widows Investment Partnership 
(SWIP), partially offset by strong net inflows in St. James’s Place plc. 
Increases in global equity values, particularly in the second half of 
2010, increased funds under management by a further £15.1 billion.

In October 2010, Invista Real Estate announced that its contracts to 
manage the Group’s funds had been terminated on 12 months notice 
and that these contracts, representing £2.4 billion of Invista’s total 
funds under management, will be managed in future by SWIP. Invista 
Real Estate has commenced an orderly realisation of its assets, 
including the remaining investment management business, and plans 
to return the proceeds of these realisations to shareholders.

118.2

    28.0

146.2

27.0

5.3

13.5

192.0

2010
£bn 

184.1

2.0

8.9

      6.7

17.6

(5.6)

(13.3)

      (5.1)

(24.0)

15.1

8.7

(0.8)

192.0

111.7

  30.0 

141.7 

21.4 

5.4 

15.6 

184.1 

2009 
£bn 

244.9

7.1 

33.1 

  4.1

44.3

(6.8)

(26.4)

(4.0)

(37.2)

16.4

23.5

(84.3)

184.1

 
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and Accounts 2010

DIVISIONAL RESULTS 
WEALTH AND INTERNATIONAL

International

Net interest income

Other income

Total income

Operating expenses

Trading surplus

Impairment

Share of results of joint ventures 
and associates

Loss before tax and  
fair value unwind

Cost:income ratio

Impairment as a % of  
average advances 

As at 31 December

2010 
£m

831

142

973

(489)

484

2009 
£m 

834

125 

959

(425)

534 

(5,942)

(4,007)

(7)

(23)

(5,465)

50.3%

(3,496)

44.3% 

Change 
% 

14

1

(15)

(9)

(48)

70

(56)

10.30%

6.99% 

2010
£bn 

2009 
£bn 

Change 
% 

Key balance sheet and other items

Loans and advances to customers

Customer deposits

Risk-weighted assets

46.2

6.0

48.3

54.3 

5.8 

53.2 

(15)

3

(9)

Loss before tax and fair value unwind increased by £1,969 million to 
£5,465 million due to a higher impairment charge, reflecting an 
increase of £1,315 million in Ireland and £513 million in Australia.

Total income increased by 1 per cent, but was 7 per cent lower in 
constant currency. This reflects lower interest earning assets and the 
increased strain of higher impaired assets, partly offset by additional 
income on the £7 billion European loan portfolio transferred from 
Wholesale division in the second half of 2009.

Operating expenses increased by 15 per cent, partially due to foreign 
exchange movements. In constant currency, operating expenses 
increased by 12 per cent reflecting the development of International’s 
deposit taking operation in Germany, increased risk management 
resources to manage impaired asset portfolios in Ireland and Australia 
and costs associated with the closure of the Irish business.

The impairment charge and loans and advances to customers are 
summarised by key geography in the following table.

Ireland

Australia

Wholesale Europe

Latin America/Middle East

Netherlands

Impairment charge

Loans and advances  
to customers
as at 31 December

2010 
£m 

4,264

1,362

210

97

9

2009 
£m 

2,949 

849 

129 

69 

11 

 2010 
£bn

19.6

12.3

6.9

0.6

6.8

5,942

4,007 

46.2

2009 
£bn 

25.0 

13.0

8.5

0.6

7.2

54.3

The impairment charge increased by £1,935 million, or 48 per cent, to 
£5,942 million due to increased impairment charges in Ireland, 
particularly in the last quarter of 2010 as a result of downward revisions 
in the Group’s Irish economic assumptions, and increased impairment 
charges in Australia as a result of significant contractions in liquidity in 
regional property markets to which the Group has exposure in the 
second half of 2010.

The lower credit in respect of the fair value unwind reflects the unwind 
profile of the original fair value adjustment which anticipated a peak in 
the impairment charge in 2009 based on a faster economic recovery 
in Ireland than is now being experienced.

Overview

Business review

Governance

Financial statements

Other information

Group profile 

Group structure 

Group performance 

Strategy and progress 

Chairman’s statement 

Group Chief Executive’s review 

Addressing the key issues 

Marketplace trends 

1

2

3

4

6

8

10

12

Summary of Group results 
Divisional results 

Other financial information 

14
26

52

Board of Directors 

Directors’ report 

Corporate governance report 

110

112

114

Five year financial summary 

56 

Directors’ remuneration report  124

Our people 

Corporate responsibility 

Risk management 

57

60

65

Shareholder information 

Glossary 

Abbreviations 

Index to annual report 

284

285

290

291

Report of the independent  
auditors on the consolidated  
financial statements 

Consolidated  
financial statements 

Notes to the consolidated  
financial statements 

Report of the independent  
auditors on the parent company 
financial statements 

Parent company financial 
statements 

Notes to the parent company 
financial statements 

144

146

153

272

273

276

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Balance sheet progress

Loans and advances to customers decreased by £8.1 billion or 
15 per cent, to £46.2 billion due to net repayments of £4.1 billion 
across all businesses and higher impairment provisions, partly 
offset by an increase due to foreign exchange movements of 
£1.1 billion. The division is focused on de-risking and right-sizing 
the balance sheet, focusing on key Group relationships, as well  
as reducing concentrations in Commercial Real Estate. In the 
International businesses, drawn exposures in local currency have 
decreased with limited new business written within a tightened risk 
appetite that has been applied across the division since early 2009.  

Customer deposits increased by £0.2 billion, or 3 per cent, to £6 billion 
with a strong performance in Bank of Scotland Germany, which has 
now raised over €4 billion of deposits since its launch in January 2009, 
offset by a fall in customer deposits in Ireland following the closure of 
the division’s Irish retail business.

Non-core operations

Consistent with the division’s strategic approach to maximising value 
in the medium term, a number of businesses are considered to be 
non-core, predominately the remaining Irish lending portfolio. 
As at 31 December 2010, non-core businesses included loans and 
advances to customers of £37.2 billion (2009: £44.3 billion), risk 
weighted assets of £35.0 billion (2009: £40.1 billion) and customer 
deposits of £0.3 billion (2009: £3.7 billion). In 2010, these non-core 
operations contributed income of £657 million (2009: £744 million)  
and an impairment charge of £5,767 million (2009: £3,889 million).

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and Accounts 2010

DivisionAl Results
Insurance

key OperatInG BranDs

Overview

Business review

Governance

Financial statements

Other information

summary of Group results 

Divisional results 

Board of Directors 

Directors’ report 

other financial information 

Corporate governance report 

Five year financial summary 

56 

Directors’ remuneration report  124

110

112

114

Report of the independent  

auditors on the consolidated  

financial statements 

Consolidated  

financial statements 

shareholder information 

Glossary 

Abbreviations 

index to annual report 

284

285

290

291

Group profile 

Group structure 

Group performance 

strategy and progress 

Chairman’s statement 

our people 

Group Chief executive’s review 

Corporate responsibility 

Addressing the key issues 

Risk management 

Marketplace trends 

1

2

3

4

6

8

10

12

14

26

52

57

60

65

43

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and Accounts 2010

notes to the consolidated  

financial statements 

Report of the independent  

auditors on the parent company 

financial statements 

Parent company financial 

statements 

notes to the parent company 

financial statements 

144

146

153

272

273

276

prOFILe

the Insurance division provides 
long term savings, protection and 
investment products and general 
insurance products to customers in 
the uk and europe and consists of 
three business units: 

life, Pensions and investments uK (lP&i uK): 
the uK life, Pensions and investments 
business is the leading bancassurance 
provider in the uK and has one of the 
largest intermediary channels in the industry. 
the business provides long-term savings, 
protection and investment products 
distributed through the bancassurance, 
intermediary and direct channels through 
the lloyds tsB, Halifax, Bank of scotland 
and scottish Widows brands.

life, Pensions and investments 
europe: the european life, Pensions 
and investments business distributes 
products primarily in the German market 
under the Heidelberger leben and 
Clerical Medical brands.

General insurance: the General insurance 
business is a leading distributor of home 
insurance in the uK, with products sold 
through the branch network, direct 
channels and strategic corporate 
partners. the business also has significant 
brokerage operations for personal and 
commercial insurances. it operates 
primarily under the lloyds tsB, Halifax and 
Bank of scotland brands.

2010 hIGhLIGhts
profit before tax increased by 13 per cent to £1,102 million, compared to £975 million 
in 2009.

profit before tax and fair value unwind increased by 19 per cent, to £1,215 million, 
before a non-recurring charge of £70 million in respect of the Group’s decision to cease 
writing new payment protection insurance (PPi) business. 

Other income decreased 4 per cent to £2,814 million largely resulting from the 
decrease in PPi income as a result of the Group’s decision to cease writing payment 
protection business, partially off-set by improved new business income and the higher than 
expected return from improved investment markets.

total income, net of insurance claims decreased by £11 million to £2,009 million, 
primarily reflecting lower PPi income and claims arising from the freeze events in 2010, 
which are offset by reduced payment protection insurance claims and improved investment 
markets. 

Operating expenses decreased by 12 per cent or £120 million to £854 million due to 
a continued focus on cost management and delivery of integration synergies.

Good progress continues to be made on integration, including the launch of a single 
bancassurance proposition in June 2010.

Lp&I uk sales of £10,316 million (pVnBp) reduced by 20 per cent. the reduction in sales is 
largely due to the withdrawal of certain lower return HBos legacy products in the second half of 2009 
as the business continued to focus on value over volume and a change in mix towards protection 
products which, although more profitable, result in relatively lower PvnBP. An improvement in 
investment market conditions resulted in a reduction in sales of capital protected products. 

Lp&I uk margins increased to 3.7 per cent from 2.6 per cent in 2009. the improved 
margin reflects strategic choices made in respect of product and channel propositions as 
the legacy businesses are integrated in order to focus on value. the iRR on new business 
continues to improve and was in excess of 15 per cent in the year.

General Insurance profits increased by 1 per cent to £372 million primarily due to 
improved unemployment claims experience and integration synergies after taking account 
of continuing lower income resulting from ceasing to write new PPi business and claims 
related to the freeze events in 2010.

capital management initiatives resulted in £2.3 billion mitigation of the potential 
impact of Basel iii. 

Overview

Business review

Governance

Financial statements

Other information

Group profile 

Group structure 

Group performance 

Strategy and progress 

Chairman’s statement 

Group Chief Executive’s review 

Addressing the key issues 

Marketplace trends 

1

2

3

4

6

8

10

12

Summary of Group results 
Divisional results 

Other financial information 

14
26

52

Board of Directors 

Directors’ report 

Corporate governance report 

110

112

114

Five year financial summary 

56 

Directors’ remuneration report  124

Our people 

Corporate responsibility 

Risk management 

57

60

65

Shareholder information 

Glossary 

Abbreviations 

Index to annual report 

284

285

290

291

Report of the independent  
auditors on the consolidated  
financial statements 

Consolidated  
financial statements 

Notes to the consolidated  
financial statements 

Report of the independent  
auditors on the parent company 
financial statements 

Parent company financial 
statements 

Notes to the parent company 
financial statements 

144

146

153

272

273

276

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and Accounts 2010

PERFORMANCE SUMMARY

PERFORMANCE INDICATORS

Net interest income

Other income

Total income

Insurance claims

Total income, net of insurance claims

Operating expenses

Share of results of joint ventures and associates

Profit before tax and fair value unwind

Fair value unwind

Profit before tax

Profit before tax and fair value unwind – before 
impact of PPI new business closure

Other income – impact of PPI new business closure

Profit before tax and fair value unwind 

Profit before tax and fair value unwind by 
business unit

Life, Pensions and Investments:

Before impact of PPI new business closure

PPI new business closure

UK business

European business

General insurance

Other1

Profit before tax and fair value unwind

EEV new business margin

2010
£m

(263)

2,814

2,551

(542)

2,009

(854)

(10)

1,145

(43)

1,102

1,215

(70)

1,145

753

    (70)

683

110

372

(20)

1,145

3.5%

2009 
£m

(287)

2,944

2,657

(637)

2,020

(974)

(22)

1,024

(49)

975

1,024

–

1,024

617

    –

617

75

367

(35)

1,024

2.5%

Change
%

Profit before tax 

2008

2009

2010     

975

1,102

£m

1,540

Income and operating expenses 
growth 

%

(12)

Operating expenses

(1)

Income

New business margin (EEV) LP&I UK  %

2008

2009

2010     

3.1

2.52.5

3.5

LP&I UK bancassurance sales 

£m

2008

2009

8,356

6,997

8

(4)

(4)

15

(1)

12

55

12

12

13

19

12

22

11

47

1

43

12

1

 The above result includes certain Group and divisional costs and income not allocated to business units, as well as the division’s 
share of results of joint ventures and associates. The year ended 31 December 2010 includes an accounting gain on disposal of 
£13 million from the sale of the Group’s joint venture investment in esure.

2010     

4,432

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Annual Report  
and Accounts 2010

DIVISIONAL RESULTS 
INSURANCE

Strategic vision

The insurance division’s strategic vision is to be recognised as the 
leading insurance business by its customers, the Group’s shareholders 
and staff. The division has four strategic objectives to achieve its 
vision:

 – complete the integration of the businesses;

 – continue to strengthen its leading brands and grow sales profitably in 

its targeted markets;

 – enhance the capital management and operational efficiency of existing 

and future business; and

 – utilise the Group’s strengths in distribution and asset management.

Progress against strategic initiatives

Integrating the business
The integrations of the legacy Life, Pensions and Investments 
businesses and the legacy General Insurance businesses have 
continued to progress well. The division achieved run-rate synergies 
of £197 million by the end of 2010 and is on track to deliver run-rate 
synergies of £239 million by the end of 2011.

In the Life, Pensions and Investments UK business good progress was 
made in integrating the legacy distribution functions in both the 
Intermediary and bancassurance channels. Following the integration 
of the Scottish Widows and Clerical Medical intermediary sales forces 
in July 2009, a single bancassurance proposition was launched in 
June 2010.

In the General Insurance business an integrated supply chain model 
was implemented and includes the introduction of personal claims 
consultants, across all brands, since July 2010.

Sustainable growth
The UK Life, Pensions and Investments business continues to make 
excellent progress in improving the profitability of the combined 
product set. Certain low returning products sold through the HBOS 
heritage channels have been discontinued and replaced with products 
providing an improved customer proposition, and enhanced 
shareholder value. The decision to change the mix of business from 
investment to protection products, while resulting in higher margins 
has contributed relatively lower PVNBP due to the premium size, with 
PVNBP in the UK business decreasing by 20 per cent. However the 
focus on value has resulted in strong increases in new business profits, 
new business margins and internal rates of return.

This focus on value over volume will continue, establishing a realistic 
base from which to continue to grow a business that is both profitable 
and focused on meeting customer needs.

In General Insurance, the combined ratio improved from 83 per cent 
to 79 per cent. Home insurance delivered a resilient underwriting 
performance in the year. Adverse weather conditions at the beginning 
and end of the year impacted the performance of the home book, 
however this was partially mitigated by improvements made to the 
efficiency of the claims processes.

Capital management and operational efficiency
Managing the use of the Group’s capital remains a key objective of 
the business. Significant work has been undertaken to optimise the 
Insurance division’s contribution to Group capital and in 2010 this 
resulted in £2.3 billion mitigation of the potential impact of Basel III. 
The Insurance division remains well capitalised as assessed via the 
Insurance Groups Directive regulatory measure of surplus capital.  
The division is progressing its plans to achieve Solvency II compliance.

The Insurance division continues to focus on cost reduction with costs 
decreasing by 12 per cent in 2010. Efficiencies have been achieved 
without compromising the quality of customer service and customer 
satisfaction scores have remained robust across the division.

Leveraging distribution and asset management
An integrated Life, Pensions and Investments UK bancassurance 
proposition was launched in June 2010. The proposition draws on 
product design and customer service expertise from the two 
heritages in order to establish a consistent base from which to further 
leverage the scale of the Group’s bancassurance operation.

Life, Pensions and Investments 

UK Business

Net interest income 

Other income

Total income

Operating expenses

Profit before tax and  
fair value unwind

Profit before tax and fair value 
unwind – before impact of  
PPI new business closure

Other income – impact of PPI new 
business closure

Profit before tax and  
fair value unwind

Profit before tax and fair value 
unwind by business unit

New business profit:

Insurance business1

Investment business1

Total new business profit

Existing business profit

Experience and  
assumption changes

Profit before tax and fair value 
unwind – before impact of  
PPI new business closure

Other income –  
PPI new business closure

Profit before tax and  
fair value unwind

EEV new business margin (UK)

Life, Pensions and Investments 
sales (PVNBP)

2010 
£m 

(227)

1,408

1,181

(498)

2009 
£m 

(273)

1,474 

1,201 

(584)

683

617 

753

617 

(70)

– 

683

617 

Change 
% 

17

(4)

(2)

15

11

22

–

11

332

(65)

267

464

22

328

(196) 

132 

431 

1

67

102

8

54 

(59)

753

  617 

22

(70) 

–

683

3.7%

617 

2.6% 

11

10,316

12,973 

(20)

1

As required under IFRS, products are split between insurance and investment contracts 
depending on the level of insurance risk contained. For insurance contracts, the new business 
profit includes the net present value of profits expected to emerge over the lifetime of the 
contract, including profits anticipated in periods after the year of sale; for investment contracts 
the figure reflects the profit in the year of sale only, after allowing for the deferral of income and 
expenses. Consequently the recognition of profit from investment contracts is deferred relative 
to insurance contracts.

 
 
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Other information

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Strategy and progress 

Chairman’s statement 

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Addressing the key issues 

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1

2

3

4

6

8

10

12

Summary of Group results 
Divisional results 

Other financial information 

14
26

52

Board of Directors 

Directors’ report 

Corporate governance report 

110

112

114

Five year financial summary 

56 

Directors’ remuneration report  124

Our people 

Corporate responsibility 

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57

60

65

Shareholder information 

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Abbreviations 

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284

285

290

291

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financial statements 

Notes to the consolidated  
financial statements 

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auditors on the parent company 
financial statements 

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statements 

Notes to the parent company 
financial statements 

144

146

153

272

273

276

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and Accounts 2010

Life, Pensions and Investments UK delivered profit growth, before tax 
and fair value unwind, of £136 million, or 22 per cent, before taking 
into account the non-recurring £70 million charge from the Group’s 
decision to cease writing new payment protection business. After this 
charge, profit before tax and fair value unwind was £683 million, an 
increase of 11 per cent compared to 2009.

Total new business profit increased by £135 million, or 102 per cent, 
to £267 million. The increase primarily reflects a reduction in initial 
commission on OEICs sold through the branch network and cost 
reductions through integration across our sales channels in addition 
to progress made on product participation choices. 

LP&I UK margins on an EEV basis increased to 3.7 per cent in 2010 
from 2.6 per cent in 2009. The improved margin reflects the strategic 
choices made in respect of product and channel propositions as the 
legacy businesses have been integrated in order to focus on value. 
The IRR on new business was in excess of 15 per cent in the year. 

Existing business profit increased by £33 million, or 8 per cent, to 
£464 million. This predominantly reflects higher asset values and a 
higher assumed rate of return following improved market conditions 
in the second half of 2009.

Profits arising from experience and assumption changes decreased 
by £32 million to £22 million mainly reflecting the non-recurrence of 
benefits recognised in 2009, including a liability management gain of 

£30 million. During 2010 a review was undertaken into the charging 
between the funds of Clerical Medical prior to the acquisition 
of HBOS, giving rise to a charge of £132 million. Additionally 
assumptions regarding future maintenance expenses within the 
Clerical Medical business were aligned to reflect the heritage Lloyds 
TSB approach, giving rise to a charge of £119 million. These charges 
relate to pre-acquisition matters and were largely offset by the release 
of fair value provisions.

The capital positions of the UK life insurance companies within the 
Insurance division remain robust. The estimated Insurance Groups 
Directive capital surplus for both the Scottish Widows and HBOS 
Insurance groups remained consistent with last year at £1.3 billion and 
£1.6 billion, respectively.

European business
Profit before tax increased by 47 per cent to £110 million driven largely 
by experience and assumption changes. New business sales reflect 
difficult economic and market conditions in Germany, our main 
European market.

New business 
An analysis of the present value of new business premiums for 
business written by the Insurance division, split between the UK and 
European Life, Pensions and Investments Businesses is given below:

UK 
£m 

Europe 
£m 

Analysis by product

Protection

Payment protection

Savings and investments

Individual pensions

Corporate and other pensions

Retirement income

Managed fund business

Life and pensions

OEICs

Total

Analysis by channel

Bancassurance

Intermediary

Direct

Total

574

70

1,617

1,606

2,750

889

177

7,683

2,633

10,316

4,432

5,365

519

10,316

56

–

315

141

–

–

–

512

–

512

–

512

–

512

2010  
Total 
£m 

630

70

1,932

1,747

2,750

889

177

8,195

2,633

10,828

4,432

5,877

519

10,828

UK 
£m 

Europe 
£m 

519 

153 

2,689 

2,275 

2,600 

887 

146 

9,269 

3,704 

12,973 

6,997 

5,639 

337 

12,973 

49 

– 

312 

185 

– 

– 

– 

546 

– 

546 

– 

546 

– 

546 

2009  
Total 
£m 

568 

153 

3,001 

2,460 

2,600 

887 

146 

9,815 

3,704 

13,519 

6,997 

6,185 

337 

13,519 

Change 
% 

11 

(54)

(36)

(29)

6 

21 

(17)

(29)

(20)

(37)

(5)

54 

(20)

 
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and Accounts 2010

DIVISIONAL RESULTS 
INSURANCE

The present value of new business premiums reduced by 20 per cent, 
to £10,828 million. This largely reflects the withdrawal in 2009 of 
certain HBOS legacy products with lower returns.

In the bancassurance channel the reduction reflects the removal from 
sale of an HBOS guaranteed investment plan sold in 2009 and, since 
the integrated bancassurance proposition was launched in June 2010, 
a change in mix away from savings products towards more profitable 
protection business in line with the legacy Lloyds TSB strategy. Sales 
of OEICs have been further adversely affected by a reduction in the 
volume of capital protected products given improved investment 
markets. However, sales of protection products have increased by 
11 per cent and the aggregate new business margin has increased.

Within the intermediary channel the reduction in volumes primarily 
reflects the withdrawal of low returning HBOS individual pension 
products, partly offset by an increase in sales of the on-going 
Retirement Account pension product and strong sales of 
corporate pensions.

Funds under management
The table below shows the funds of the Life, Pensions and Investment 
companies within the Insurance division. These funds are 
predominantly managed within the Group by the Wealth and 
International division.

Opening funds under management

UK business

Premiums 

Claims and surrenders

Transfers related to the sale  
of Insight Investment

Net outflow of business

Investment return, expenses and commission

Other movements1

Net movement

European business

Net movement

Dividends and capital repatriation

2010 
£bn 

122.1

11.2

(14.9)

–

(3.7)

10.5

4.3

11.1

0.4

(0.5)

2009 
£bn 

113.7 

12.2 

(13.2)

(3.3)

(4.3)

12.3 

– 

8.0 

0.6 

(0.2)

Closing funds under management

133.1

122.1 

Managed by the Group

Managed by third parties

Closing funds under management

109.3

23.8

133.1

102.4 

19.7 

122.1 

1

Other movements in funds under management incorporates alignment changes and the 
inclusion of managed pension funds.

Supplementary European Embedded Value (EEV) disclosures

In addition to reporting under IFRS, the Insurance division provides 
supplementary financial reporting for its Life, Pensions and 
Investments business on an EEV basis. For the purpose of EEV 
reporting, covered business is defined as all life, pensions and 
investments business written in the Insurance division. This definition 
therefore excludes the results of St. James’s Place and the results of 
the business sold through the Wealth and International division which 
is not manufactured by the Insurance division.

New business profit

Expected return on  
existing business

Expected return on shareholders’ 
net assets

Profit before tax, before 
experience variances and 
assumption changes

Experience variances

Assumption changes

Profit before tax, volatility and 
other items

Volatility

Other items1

Profit before tax

Taxation2

Profit after tax

EEV new business margin

2010 
£m 

381

347

184

912

(15)

155

1,052

236

(231)

1,057

(7)

1,050

3.5%

2009 
£m 

341 

268 

219 

828 

139 

(1)

966 

228 

53 

1,247 

(349)

898 

2.5% 

Change 
% 

12

29

(16)

10

9

4

(15)

98

17

1

2

Other items represent amounts not considered attributable to the underlying performance of 
the business. In 2010 this includes a charge of £70 million following the Group’s decision to cease 
writing new payment protection insurance business and a charge of £132 million arising from the 
review of charging between the funds of Clerical Medical prior to the acquisition of HBOS. 

The figure for taxation in 2010 reflects the actual shareholder tax charged. This approach differs 
from 2009 where the tax charge was estimated based on the standard rate of corporation tax. 
The prior year figures have not been adjusted to reflect this change as the adjustment is between 
the volatility and taxation lines.

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2

3

4

6

8

10

12

Summary of Group results 
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Other financial information 

14
26

52

Board of Directors 

Directors’ report 

Corporate governance report 

110

112

114

Five year financial summary 

56 

Directors’ remuneration report  124

Our people 

Corporate responsibility 

Risk management 

57

60

65

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144

146

153

272

273

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and Accounts 2010

Total profit before tax, before volatility and other items, increased by 
£86 million, or 9 per cent, to £1,052 million. Excluding the impact of 
experience variances and assumption changes, the profit before tax 
increased by £84 million or 10 per cent to £912 million.

New business profit has increased by 12 per cent to £381 million, 
reflecting an improved mix of business and cost reductions through 
integration across our sales channels. The improved margin reflects 
the strategic choices made in respect of product and channel 
propositions as the legacy businesses have been integrated in order 
to focus on value.

Expected return on existing business has increased by 29 per cent  
to £347 million, reflecting an increase in the value of the opening 
balance sheet, driven by higher asset values due to higher investment 
markets in 2009, and an increase in the assumed rate of return. The 
expected return on shareholders’ net assets has reduced by 
16 per cent to £184 million primarily reflecting hedging initiatives.

The net impact of experience variances is not significant, with the 
reduction from the prior year reflecting the non-recurrence of benefits 
in 2009. Assumption changes in 2010 are predominantly driven by 
benefits in the European business and lower assumed investment 
management costs in the UK business, partly offset by a charge from 
aligning future maintenance expense assumptions within the Clerical 
Medical business to reflect the heritage Lloyds TSB approach.

Composition of EEV balance sheet 

2010
£m 

Value of in-force business (certainty equivalent)

6,315

Value of financial options and guarantees

Cost of capital

Non-market risk

Total value of in-force business

Shareholders’ net assets

Total EEV of covered business

(194)

(131)

(137)

5,853

3,748

9,601

Reconciliation of opening EEV balance sheet to closing  
EEV balance sheet on covered business

As at 31 December 2008

Total profit (loss) after tax

Other capital movements

Dividends paid to  
Group companies

As at 31 December 2009

Total profit (loss) after tax

Other capital movements

Dividends received from  
Group companies

Dividends paid to  
Group companies

As at 31 December 2010

Shareholders’ 
net assets
£m 

3,948 

(112)

191 

(187)

3,840 

337

(4)

70

(495)

3,748

Value of 
in-force 
business
£m 

4,155 

1,010 

– 

– 

5,165 

713

(25)

–

–

5,853

Analysis of shareholders’ net assets on an EEV basis on  
covered business

2009
£m 

5,623 

(176)

(150)

(132)

5,165 

3,840 

9,005 

Total 
£m 

8,103 

898 

191 

(187)

9,005 

1,050

(29)

70

(495)

9,601

As at 31 December 2008

Total profit (loss) after tax

Other capital movements

Dividends paid to  
Group companies

As at 31 December 2009

Total profit (loss) after tax

Other capital movements

Dividends received from  
Group companies

Dividends paid to  
Group companies

As at 31 December 2010

1,224

Required 
capital
£m 

Free 
surplus
£m 

Shareholders’ 
net assets 
£m 

1,401 

2,547 

3,948 

1

106

–

1,508 

(98)

(186)

–

–

(113)

85 

(187) 

2,332 

435

182

70

(112)

191 

(187)

3,840 

337

(4)

70

(495)

2,524

(495)

3,748

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Annual Report  
and Accounts 2010

DIVISIONAL RESULTS 
INSURANCE

Economic assumptions

A bottom-up approach is used to determine the economic 
assumptions for valuing the business in order to determine a market 
consistent valuation. 

The liabilities in respect of the Group’s UK annuity business are 
matched by a portfolio of fixed interest securities, including a large 
proportion of corporate bonds. The value of the in-force business 
asset for annuity business has been calculated after taking into 
account an estimate of the market premium for illiquidity in respect 
of these corporate bond holdings.

The risk-free rate assumed in valuing the non-annuity in-force 
business is the 15 year government bond yield for the appropriate 
territory. The risk-free rate assumed in valuing the in-force asset for 
the UK annuity business is presented as a single risk-free rate to allow 
a better comparison to the rate used for other business. That single 
risk-free rate has been derived to give the equivalent value to the UK 
annuity book, had that book been valued using the UK gilt yield curve 
increased to reflect the illiquidity premium described above. The 
risk-free rate used in valuing financial options and guarantees is 
defined as the spot yield derived from the yield curve for the relevant 
government bond. The table below shows the range of resulting 
yields and other key assumptions.

United Kingdom (Sterling)

Risk-free rate (value of in-force  
non-annuity business)

Risk-free rate (value of in-force annuity 
business)

Risk-free rate (financial options and  
guarantees)

Retail price inflation

Expense inflation

2010 
% 

3.99

4.66

2009 
% 

4.45 

5.05 

0.63 to 4.50 0.87 to 4.76 

3.56

4.20

3.64 

4.42 

Non-economic assumptions
Future mortality, morbidity, lapse and paid-up rate assumptions are 
reviewed each year and are based on an analysis of past experience 
and on management’s view of future experience. These assumptions 
are intended to represent a best estimate of future experience.

Non-market risk
An allowance for non-market risk is made through the choice of best 
estimate assumptions based upon experience, which generally will 
give the mean expected financial outcome for shareholders and 
hence no further allowance for non-market risk is required. However, 
in the case of operational risk, reinsurer default and with profit funds, 
these can be asymmetric in the range of potential outcomes for  
which an explicit allowance is made.

Sensitivity analysis
The table below shows the sensitivity of the EEV and the new 
business profit before tax to movements in some of the key 
assumptions. The impact of a change in the assumption has only 
been shown in one direction as the impact can be assumed to 
be reasonably symmetrical.

2010 EEV/new business profit before tax

100 basis points reduction in risk-free rate1

10 per cent reduction in market values of  
equity assets2

10 per cent reduction in market values of 
property assets3

10 per cent reduction in expenses4

10 per cent reduction in lapses5

5 per cent reduction in annuitant mortality 6

5 per cent reduction in mortality and morbidity 
(excluding annuitants)7

100 basis points increase in equity and  
property returns8

25 basis points increase in corporate  
bond spreads9

10 basis points increase in illiquidity premium10

Impact on 
new business 
profit before 
tax
£m 

Impact  
on EEV 
£m 

240

(269)

(15)

222

204

(97)

50

Nil

(115)

56

11

n/a

n/a

40

23

(3)

5

Nil

(5)

n/a

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

In this sensitivity the impact takes into account the change in the value of in-force business, 
financial options and guarantee costs, statutory reserves and asset values.

The reduction in market values is assumed to have no corresponding impact on dividend yields.

The reduction in market values is assumed to have no corresponding impact on rental yields.

This sensitivity shows the impact of reducing new business, maintenance expenses and 
investment expenses to 90 per cent of the expected rate.

This sensitivity shows the impact of reducing lapse and surrender rates to 90 per cent of the 
expected rate.

This sensitivity shows the impact on the Group’s annuity and deferred annuity business of 
reducing mortality rates to 95 per cent of the expected rate.

This sensitivity shows the impact of reducing mortality and morbidity rates on non-annuity 
business to 95 per cent of the expected rate.

Under a market consistent valuation, changes in assumed equity and property returns have no 
impact on the EEV.

This sensitivity shows the impact of a 25 basis point increase in corporate bond yields and the 
corresponding reduction in market values. Government bond yields, the risk-free rate and 
illiquidity premia are all assumed to be unchanged.

10

This sensitivity shows the impact of a 10 basis point increase in the allowance for illiquidity 
premium. It assumes that the overall corporate bond spreads are unchanged and hence market 
values are unchanged. Government bond yields and the non-annuity risk-free rate are both 
assumed to be unchanged. The increased illiquidity premium increases the annuity risk-free rate.

In sensitivities 4 to 7 and 9 assumptions have been flexed on the basis 
used to calculate the value of in-force business and the realistic and 
statutory reserving bases. A change in risk discount rates is not 
relevant as the risk discount rate is not an input to a market 
consistent valuation.

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2

3

4

6

8

10

12

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Other financial information 

14
26

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110

112

114

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and Accounts 2010

Profit before tax and fair value unwind from General Insurance 
increased by 1 per cent to £372 million, due primarily to improved 
unemployment claims experience plus integration synergies after 
taking account of lower income resulting from ceasing to write new 
PPI business and freeze related claims. 

Underwriting income for home insurance showed modest growth of 
3 per cent to £922 million. Home commission payable was adversely 
affected by the alignment of commission arrangements between the 
legacy businesses during the year.

PPI underwriting income decreased by £187 million, or 26 per cent, to 
£544 million reflecting the continued impact on new business 
volumes from the market wide move to monthly premiums in 2009 
and the Group’s withdrawal from the payment protection market on 
23 July 2010. Changes in commission payable reflect lower volumes  
of PPI written during the year.

Claims were 15 per cent lower than 2009 at £542 million reflecting 
lower unemployment claims experience. The home book has been 
particularly affected by the freeze events experienced in January and 
December 2010. This has been partly offset by the benefits of 
ongoing claims processing improvements and integration.

Operating expenses decreased by £54 million, or 21 per cent, to 
£208 million primarily as a result of the alignment of commission 
arrangements on home insurance, the delivery of integration  
savings and a continued focus on cost management.

2010 
£m 

2009 
£m 

Change 
% 

General Insurance

Home insurance

Underwriting income  
(net of reinsurance)

Commission receivable

Commission payable

Payment protection insurance

Underwriting income  
(net of reinsurance)

Commission receivable

Commission payable

Other

Underwriting income  
(net of reinsurance)

Commission receivable

Commission payable

Other (including  
investment income)

922

75

    (135)

862

544

27

    (318)

253

6

50

(15)

    (34)

7

897 

71 

(94)

874

731 

13 

(395)

349 

8 

69 

(28)

(6)

43 

Net operating income

1,122

1,266 

Claims paid on insurance contracts 
(net of reinsurance)

Operating income, net of claims

Operating expenses

Profit before tax and  
fair value unwind

Combined ratio

(542)

580

(208)

372

79%

(637)

629 

(262)

367 

83% 

3

6

(44)

(1)

(26)

19

(28)

(25)

(28)

46

(84)

(11)

15

(8)

21

1

 
 
 
 
 
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Annual Report  
and Accounts 2010

DIVISIONAL RESULTS
GROUP OPERATIONS

PROFILE

Group Operations manages the Group’s technology platforms, property estate, operations, procurement services and security. 
Through these areas Group Operations drives efficiencies and supports income growth across multiple brands and channels using 
scalable platforms, common processes and leveraging the Group’s purchasing power.

The division operates through four primary business functions; Information Technology; Operations; Procurement and Property.  
The Information Technology area provides technological expertise to each area of the Group whilst Operations includes Banking 
Operations, Collections and Recoveries and Payments and Business Services. The role of Procurement is to ensure that the Group gets 
the best value from its external expenditure and strategic suppliers and Property manages and maintains the Group’s estates portfolio.

STRATEGY

Group Operations aims to be recognised as a world class operations business by colleagues, customers, stakeholders and peers whilst 
ensuring value through cost and process efficiency. This will be achieved by providing excellent technology and effective process to 
support the businesses; driving simplification, automation and continuous improvement; developing world class operations, leadership 
and capability; and maintaining strong controls to protect the Group.

In addition to this the Integration programme is delivering substantial synergy benefits. The focus throughout 2011 will be to complete 
the migration of systems and process legacies onto a single platform. This will primarily be achieved by delivering the IT consolidation,  
a single and centralised operating model, along with excellent disciplined procurement and rationalisation of the property portfolio.

2010 HIGHLIGHTS

PERFORMANCE SUMMARY

2010 direct costs decreased by £109 million, 
or 4 per cent, to £2,973 million reflecting the 
continued focus on cost management and 
the delivery of integration synergy savings. 

Information Technology costs decreased by 
4 per cent, with integration savings offsetting 
inflationary rises.

Operations costs decreased by 7 per cent, 
through the continuing rationalisation of our 
major Operations functions and lower 
charges in respect of joint ventures.

Group Property costs decreased by 
2 per cent, with the continuing consolidation 
of the heritage property portfolios delivering 
further integration benefits.

Procurement costs decreased by 2 per cent, 
reflecting the effect of negotiated lower third 
party costs on centrally managed contracts. 
In addition, Procurement has helped to 
deliver Group wide synergies.

Support function costs decreased by 
3 per cent, primarily driven by the completion 
of payments filtering investment in 2009. 
Underlying support function costs increased 
largely as a result of further strengthening of 
the Risk function in line with increasing 
regulatory requirements.

Net interest expense

Other income

Total income

Direct costs:

2010
£m

(72)

49

(23)

20091
£m

(69)

20 

(49)

Information technology

(1,209)

(1,254)

Operations

Property

Procurement

Support functions

Result before recharges to divisions

Total net recharges to divisions

Share of results of joint ventures and associates

Loss before tax and fair value unwind

Fair value unwind

Loss before tax

(628)

(968)

(56)

(112)

(2,973)

(2,996)

2,930

3

(63)

–

(63)

(672)

(983)

(57)

(116)

(3,082)

(3,131)

2,957

3 

(171)

22

(149)

Change
%

(4)

53

4

7

2

2

3

4

4

(1)

63

58

1

2009 comparative figures have been amended to reflect the effect of centralising operations across the Group as part of the 
integration programme. To ensure a fair comparison of the 2010 performance, 2009 direct costs have been increased with an 
equivalent offsetting increase in recharges to divisions.

 
 
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2

3

4

6

8

10

12

Summary of Group results 
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Other financial information 

14
26

52

Board of Directors 

Directors’ report 

Corporate governance report 

110

112

114

Five year financial summary 

56 

Directors’ remuneration report  124

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Corporate responsibility 

Risk management 

57

60

65

Shareholder information 

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Abbreviations 

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financial statements 

Report of the independent  
auditors on the parent company 
financial statements 

Parent company financial 
statements 

Notes to the parent company 
financial statements 

144

146

153

272

273

276

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and Accounts 2010

CENTRAL ITEMS

Net interest expense

Other income

Total income

Operating expenses

Trading surplus 

Share of results of joint ventures and associates

Profit before tax and fair value unwind

Fair value unwind

Loss before tax

2010
£m 

(823)

398

(425)

(107)

(532)

2

(530)

(1,446)

(1,976)

2009 
£m

(815)

1,780

965

(294)

671 

(1)

670

(2,119)

(1,449)

Central items include income and expenditure not recharged to the 
divisions, including the costs of certain central and head office 
functions and the financial impact of hedge ineffectiveness.

Total income decreased by £1,390 million to £(425) million primarily 
due to a £1,045 million reduction in liability management gains, 
together with a £193 million increase in the mark-to-market losses 
arising from the equity conversion feature of the Group’s Enhanced 
Capital Notes and a £131 million reduction in the gain on other 
derivatives which cannot be mitigated through hedge accounting.

Liability management gains arose on transactions undertaken in both 
2009 and 2010 as part of the Group’s management of capital which 
exchanged certain debt securities for ordinary shares or other debt 
instruments. These transactions resulted in a gain of £423 million in 
2010 compared to a gain of £1,498 million in 2009 (of which 
£1,468 million is reflected in Central items). The fair value of the equity 
conversion feature of the Group’s Enhanced Capital Notes decreased 
by £620 million in 2010 compared to a decrease of £427 million in 2009.

Net interest expense was broadly unchanged at £823 million, but 
included higher capital and wholesale liquidity funding costs of 
£601 million (2009: £260 million) not recovered from the divisions, with 
the increase primarily due to higher wholesale market funding 
spreads and the Group’s decision to accelerate its wholesale funding 
in 2010. This has been offset by improved net interest from interest 
rate risk management activities compared to 2009.

Operating expenses reduced by £187 million to £107 million due to 
lower professional fees and other costs associated with capital 
transactions and projects. 

Fair value unwind improved by £673 million to £(1,446) million primarily 
due to the effect of the liability management transactions leading to  
a reduced amortisation rate. Gains on liability management 
transactions included accelerated fair value amortisations.

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and Accounts 2010

OTHER FINANCIAL INFORMATION
VOLATILITY ARISING IN INSURANCE BUSINESSES

The Group’s statutory profit before tax is affected by insurance volatility, 
caused by movements in financial markets, and policyholder interests 
volatility, which primarily reflects the gross up of policyholder tax 
included in the Group tax charge.

During 2010, the Group’s statutory profit before tax included positive 
insurance and policyholder interests volatility of £306 million compared 
to positive volatility of £478 million in 2009 primarily reflecting the more 
significant improvements in financial markets in 2009. The volatility in 
2010 reflects the strong performance of equity markets, partially offset  
by lower than expected returns on cash and fixed interest assets.

Volatility comprises the following:

Insurance volatility

2010
£m 

100

2009
£m 

237 

Policyholder interests volatility1

  216

  298 

Total volatility

Insurance hedging arrangements

Total

316

(10)

306

535 

(57)

478 

1

Includes volatility relating to the Group’s interest in St James’s Place.

Insurance volatility

The Group’s insurance businesses have liability products that are 
supported by substantial holdings of investments, including equities, 
property and fixed interest investments, all of which are subject to 
variations in their value. The value of the liabilities does not move exactly 
in line with changes in the value of the investments, yet IFRS requires 
that the changes in both the value of the liabilities and investments 
be reflected within the income statement. As these investments are 
substantial and movements in their value can have a significant impact 
on the profitability of the Group, management believes that it is 
appropriate to disclose the division’s results on the basis of an expected 
return in addition to results based on the actual return.

The expected sterling investment returns used to determine the 
normalised profit of the business, which are based on prevailing 
market rates and published research into historical investment return 
differentials, are set out below:

United Kingdom (Sterling)

Gilt yields (gross)

Equity returns (gross)

Dividend yield

Property return (gross)

2011 
% 

3.99

6.99

3.00

6.99

2010 
% 

4.45

7.45

3.00

7.45

Corporate bonds in unit-linked 
and with-profit funds (gross)

Fixed interest investments backing  
annuity liabilities (gross)

4.59

5.05

4.78

5.30

2009 
% 

3.74 

6.74 

3.00 

6.74 

4.34 

5.72 

The impact on the results due to the actual return on these investments 
differing from the expected return (based upon economic assumptions 
made at the beginning of the year) is included within insurance volatility. 
Changes in market variables also affect the realistic valuation of the 
guarantees and options embedded within the With Profits Funds, the 
value of the in-force business and the value of shareholders’ funds.

The Insurance division experienced positive volatility of £100 million 
during 2010. This was primarily driven by strong performance on equity 
and property investments relative to the expected return. During 2010, 
equity market values increased by 9 per cent and property returns 
reached 19 per cent. Partly offsetting this was lower than expected 
returns on cash and fixed interest assets. This benefit is lower than 
the £237 million positive volatility reported in 2009, as 2009 included 
significant benefits from reductions in corporate bond spreads, which 
did not occur in 2010, and greater out-performance of equity markets.

Group hedging arrangements

To protect against further deterioration in equity market conditions, and 
the consequent negative impact on the value of in-force business on the 
Group balance sheet, the Group purchased put option contracts in 2009. 
These expired in January 2010. The charge for this option was £7 million. 
New protection against significant market falls, using option contracts, 
was acquired by the Group, financed by selling some upside potential 
from equity market movements. There was no initial cost associated with 
these hedging arrangements. On a mark-to-market valuation basis a loss 
of £3 million was recognised in relation to these contracts in 2010. The 
2010 option contracts were replaced by the Group in January 2011 with 
fresh contracts to provide further protection against significant market 
falls. Again this was financed, at no initial cost, by selling some upside 
potential from equity market movements.

Policyholder interests volatility

The application of accounting standards results in the introduction 
of other sources of significant volatility into the pre-tax profits of the 
life, pensions and investments business. In order to provide a clearer 
representation of the performance of the business, and consistent with 
the way in which it is managed, adjustments are made to remove this 
volatility from underlying profits. The effect of these adjustments is 
separately disclosed as policyholder interests volatility; there is no impact 
upon profit attributable to equity shareholders over the long term.

The most significant of these additional sources of volatility is 
policyholder tax. Accounting standards require that tax on policyholder 
investment returns should be included in the Group’s tax charge rather 
than being offset against the related income. The impact is, therefore, 
to either increase or decrease profit before tax with a corresponding 
change in the tax charge. Over the longer term the charges levied to 
policyholders to cover policyholder tax on investment returns and the 
related tax provisions are expected to offset. In practice timing and 
measurement differences exist between provisions for tax and charges 
made to policyholders. Consistent with the normalised approach taken 
in respect of insurance volatility, differences in the expected levels of 
the policyholder tax provision and policyholder charges are adjusted 
through policyholder interests volatility. Other sources of volatility 
include the minorities’ share of the profits earned by investment vehicles 
which are not wholly owned by the long-term assurance funds.

During the year ended 31 December 2010, the statutory profit before  
tax in both the Insurance and Wealth and International divisions included 
credits to other income which relate to the policyholder interests 
volatility charge of £216 million (2009: policyholder interests volatility 
charge of £298 million). Strong market conditions in the latter part 
of 2010 resulted in increased policyholder tax liabilities and led to a 
policyholder tax charge of £315 million (2009: £410 million) for the year  
in the Group’s tax charge.

Overview

Business review

Governance

Financial statements

Other information

Group profile 

Group structure 

Group performance 

Strategy and progress 

Chairman’s statement 

Group Chief Executive’s review 

Addressing the key issues 

Marketplace trends 

1

2

3

4

6

8

10

12

Summary of Group results 

Divisional results 
Other financial information 

14

26
52

Board of Directors 

Directors’ report 

Corporate governance report 

110

112

114

Five year financial summary 

56 

Directors’ remuneration report  124

Our people 

Corporate responsibility 

Risk management 

57

60

65

Shareholder information 

Glossary 

Abbreviations 

Index to annual report 

284

285

290

291

Report of the independent  
auditors on the consolidated  
financial statements 

Consolidated  
financial statements 

Notes to the consolidated  
financial statements 

Report of the independent  
auditors on the parent company 
financial statements 

Parent company financial 
statements 

Notes to the parent company 
financial statements 

144

146

153

272

273

276

53

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Annual Report  
and Accounts 2010

Total cost reductions from synergies of £1,361 million were achieved in 
the year against the integration baseline and in line with target include 
other operating efficiencies and one-off savings which are excluded 
from the reported run rate synergies. The total cost reductions relate 
primarily to reductions in colleague numbers, procurement and 
IT savings.

One-off integration costs of £1,653 million were incurred in 2010 which 
have been excluded from the combined businesses results. This 
brings the total integration costs since the HBOS acquisition to 
£2,749 million. The integration costs relate to severance, IT and 
business costs of implementation. The severance provisions are for 
26,000 role reductions announced to the end of 2010, of which 22,000 
have been achieved to date. 

OTHER FINANCIAL INFORMATION
INTEGRATION

The Group remains on target to deliver annualised cost savings from 
synergies and other operating efficiencies of £2 billion by the end 
of 2011.

The sustainable run-rate synergies achieved as at 31 December 2010 
totalled £1,379 million excluding a number of one-off savings. The 
table below analyses the run-rate synergies as at 31 December 2010 
by division and the 2011 target run-rate of £2 billion.

Synergy  
run-rate  
as at  
31 December 
2010  
£m 

301 

248 

233 

167 

393 

37 

1,379 

2010

Allocation of 
Group  
Operations 
run-rate to 
divisions  

£m

228 

111 

7 

30 

(393)

17

– 

2011

Target  
run-rate  
by market  
facing  
division  
£m 

Run-rate  
by market 
facing  
division 
£m 

529

359 

240 

197 

– 

54

867 

532 

242 

239 

– 

120 

1,379 

2,000 

Retail 

Wholesale

Wealth and 
International

Insurance

Group Operations

Central items

Total

Savings to date continue to be driven largely from role reductions 
resulting from deployment of the new Group organisation design 
adopting the Lloyds TSB approach. The overwhelming majority of 
role reductions have been achieved through re-deployment, natural 
turnover and voluntary redundancy. In addition the Group has exited 
79 non-branch properties during 2010, bringing the total to 162 since 
the start of the integration programme. 

Procurement benefits in 2010 were also significant at £236 million and 
supplier negotiations resulted in over 90 per cent of Group 
expenditure being consolidated within our top 1,000 suppliers.

The software build of the Integrated IT Platform was completed in the 
first half of 2010 and following extensive testing largely implemented 
by the end of 2010 and is now live and operational for most 
Lloyds TSB processes and transactions. Roll out of the Lloyds TSB 
counter system across Halifax and Bank of Scotland branches 
commenced in late 2010 and will complete during the first half of 2011. 
Similarly HBOS ATMs are being migrated and the Group’s target 
mortgage sales platform rolled out to mortgage sales advisers 
creating a single platform for mortgage sales. 

Product and channel systems are being integrated and harmonised 
where required and this will continue through the first half of 2011 in 
parallel with a detailed and rigorous programme of testing in 
preparation for customer data migration from HBOS systems to the 
single IT platform by the end of 2011.

Integration activities have continued at pace over 2010 with delivery 
being wide ranging and spanning Group activities. Examples include 
the rollout of the Lloyds TSB model of day time cash deliveries to 
Halifax and Bank of Scotland branches; implementation of an improved 
online mortgage application process for mortgage brokers; delivery of 
a single scalable secure Internet Banking platform; launch of an 
integrated product proposition for our market leading bancassurance 
business; migration of Asset Finance Lex customer and Bank of Scotland 
dealer finance books onto a single platform; and harmonisation of our 
loss notification and loss adjusting service processes for household 
insurance within our General Insurance business.

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Annual Report  
and Accounts 2010

OTHER FINANCIAL INFORMATION
BANKING NET INTEREST MARGIN

Banking net interest margin

Banking net interest income

Average interest-earning assets

Average interest-bearing liabilities

Banking net interest margin

Banking asset margin

Banking liability margin

2010
£m

2009
£m

13,386

637,386

352,701

2.10%

1.56%

0.97%

11,953

674,246

347,180

1.77%

1.11%

1.28%

Banking net interest income is analysed for asset and liability margins based on interest earned and paid on average assets and average liabilities 
respectively, adjusted for Funds Transfer Pricing, which prices intra-group funding and liquidity. Centrally held wholesale funding costs and related 
items are included in the Group banking asset margin. 

Average interest-earning assets and average interest-bearing liabilities relate solely to customer and product balances in the banking businesses 
on which interest is earned or paid. Funding and capital balances including debt securities in issue, subordinated debt, repurchase agreements and 
shareholders’ equity are excluded from the calculation of average interest-bearing liabilities. However, the cost of funding these balances allocated 
to the banking businesses is included in banking net interest income. 

A reconciliation of banking net interest income to Group net interest income which shows the items excluded in determining banking net interest 
income follows:

Banking net interest income – combined businesses

Insurance division

Other net interest income (including trading activity)

Group net interest income – combined businesses

Fair value unwind

Insurance gross up

Volatility arising in insurance businesses

Pre-acquisition results of HBOS plc

Group net interest income – statutory

2010
 £m

13,386

(263)

699

13,822

(301)

(949)

(26)

–

12,546

2009
£m

11,953

(287)

1,060

12,726

(2,166)

(1,280)

(11)

(243)

9,026

Overview

Business review

Governance

Financial statements

Other information

Group profile 

Group structure 

Group performance 

Strategy and progress 

Chairman’s statement 

Group Chief Executive’s review 

Addressing the key issues 

Marketplace trends 

1

2

3

4

6

8

10

12

Summary of Group results 

Divisional results 
Other financial information 

14

26
52

Board of Directors 

Directors’ report 

Corporate governance report 

110

112

114

Five year financial summary 

56 

Directors’ remuneration report  124

Our people 

Corporate responsibility 

Risk management 

57

60

65

Shareholder information 

Glossary 

Abbreviations 

Index to annual report 

284

285

290

291

Report of the independent  
auditors on the consolidated  
financial statements 

Consolidated  
financial statements 

Notes to the consolidated  
financial statements 

Report of the independent  
auditors on the parent company 
financial statements 

Parent company financial 
statements 

Notes to the parent company 
financial statements 

144

146

153

272

273

276

55

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Annual Report  
and Accounts 2010

OTHER FINANCIAL INFORMATION
CORE AND NON-CORE BUSINESS

Non-core portfolios consist of non-relationship assets and liabilities together with assets and liabilities which are outside the Group’s current appetite. 
An analysis of non-core assets and liabilities and the associated income and impairment charge is shown in the table below.

2010

Core portfolios
Retail
Wholesale
Wealth and International
Insurance
Group Operations and Central items

Non-core portfolios
Retail
Wholesale
Wealth and International

Total Group

Core portfolios
Non-core portfolios
Total Group

2009
Core portfolios
Retail
Wholesale
Wealth and International
Insurance
Group Operations and Central items

Non-core portfolios
Retail
Wholesale
Wealth and International

Total Group

Core portfolios
Non-core portfolios
Total Group

Underlying
income1
£m

Impairment
charge
£m

Loans and
advances to
customers
£bn

Risk weighted
assets
£bn

Customer
deposits
£bn

10,394
5,540
1,679
2,009
(251)
19,371

591
3,022
  657
4,270
23,641

%

82
18
100

£m 

9,386
5,336
1,601
1,990
(125)
18,188

388
3,573
  744
4,705
22,893

%

79
21
100

(2,623)
(1,276)
(221)
–
  –
(4,120)

(124)
(3,170)
(5,767)
(9,061)
(13,181)

%

31
69
100

£m 

(3,974)
(2,187)
(189)
–
  –
(6,350)

(253)
(13,496)
(3,889)
(17,638)
(23,988)

%

26
74
100

333.1
102.0
18.1
–
  0.4
453.6

30.6
71.2
  37.2
139.0
592.6

%

77
23
100

£bn 

337.6
108.7
19.2
–
  0.6
466.1

33.5
83.1
  44.3
160.9
627.0

%

74
26
100

98.1
127.9
23.7
–
  15.7
265.4

11.2
94.8
  35.0
141.0
406.4

%

65
35
100

£bn 

115.4
150.6
23.1
–
  15.5
304.6

13.2
135.4
  40.1
188.7
493.3

%

62 
38
100

235.6
119.4
32.5
–
  0.9
388.4

–
4.9
  0.3
5.2
393.6

%

99
1
100

£bn 

224.1
148.5
25.3
–
  0.2
398.1

–
4.9
  3.7
8.6
406.7

%

98
2
100

1

Net of insurance claims. Excluding liability management gains and the reduction in the fair value of the equity conversion feature of the Group’s Enhanced Capital Notes.

Non-core assets

Non-core portfolios primarily comprise loans and advances to customers. However, certain portfolios of debt securities, available for sale financial 
assets and other assets in Wholesale are also considered to be non-core. The Group’s total non-core assets are shown in the table below.

As at 31 December

Non-core assets
Loans and advances to customers
Debt securities
Available for sale financial assets
Other assets
Total non-core assets

2010
£bn

139.0
25.4
22.2
8.1
194.7

20091
£bn

Change
%

160.9
31.5
32.0
11.7
236.1

(14)
(19)
(31)
(31)
(18)

1

Total non-core assets at 31 December 2009 have been reduced by £3.9 billion from the previously presented figure of £240 billion following a reclassification between core and non-core.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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and Accounts 2010

FIVE YEAR FINANCIAL SUMMARY

The statutory financial information set out in the table below has been derived from the annual report and accounts of Lloyds Banking Group plc for 
each of the past five years. 

The financial statements for each of the years presented have been audited by PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, independent auditors.

Income statement data for the year ended 31 December (£m)

Total income, net of insurance claims

Operating expenses

Trading surplus

Impairment 

Gain on acquisition

Profit before tax

(Loss) profit for the year

(Loss) profit for the year attributable to equity shareholders

Total dividend for the year1

Balance sheet data (£m)

Share capital

Shareholders’ equity

Net asset value per ordinary share

Customer deposits

Subordinated liabilities

Loans and advances to customers

Total assets

Share information

Basic earnings per ordinary share

Diluted earnings per ordinary share

Total dividend per ordinary share1

Market price (year end)

Number of shareholders (thousands)

Number of ordinary shares in issue (millions)2

Financial ratios (%)3

Dividend payout ratio

Post-tax return on average shareholders’ equity

Cost:income ratio4

Capital ratios (%)5

Total capital

Tier 1 capital

2010

2009

20086

20076

20066

24,956

(13,270)

11,686

(10,952)

–

281

(258)

(320)

–

23,278

(15,984)

7,294

(16,673)

11,173

1,042

2,953

2,827

–

9,868

(6,100)

3,768

(3,012)

–

760

798

772

648

10,696

(5,568)

5,128

(1,796)

–

3,999

3,320

3,288

2,026

11,098

(5,300)

5,798

(1,555)

–

4,249

2,908

2,804

1,927

31 December
2010

31 December
2009

31 December
2008

31 December
2007

31 December
2006

6,815

46,061

68p

393,633

36,232

592,597

991,574

2010

(0.5)

p

(0.5)

p

–

65.7p

2,798

68,074

2010

–

(0.7)

53.2

10,472

43,278

68p

406,741

34,727

626,969

1,027,255

2009

7.5p

7.5p

–

50.7p

2,834

63,775

2009

–

8.8

68.7

1,513

9,393

155p

170,938

17,256

240,344

436,033

2008

6.7p

6.6p

11.4p

126.0p

824

5,973

2008

83.9

7.0

61.8

1,432

12,141

212p

156,555

11,958

209,814

353,346

2007

28.9p

28.7p

35.9p

472.0p

814

5,648

2007

61.6

28.1

52.1

1,429

11,155

195p

139,342

12,072

188,285

343,598

2006

24.8p

24.5p

34.2p

571.5p

870

5,638

2006

68.7

26.6

47.8

31 December
2010

31 December
20097

31 December
20087

31 December
2007

31 December
2006

15.2

11.6

12.4

9.6

11.1

7.9

11.0

8.1

10.7

8.2

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

Annual dividends comprise both interim and estimated final dividend payments. Under IFRS, the total dividend for the year represents the interim dividend paid during the year and the final dividend 
which will be paid and accounted for during the following year. 

This figure excludes 81 million (2006 to 2008: 79 million) limited voting ordinary shares.

Averages are calculated on a monthly basis from the consolidated financial data of Lloyds Banking Group.

The cost:income ratio is calculated as total operating expenses as a percentage of total income (net of insurance claims).

Capital ratios are in accordance with Basel II requirements; other than the ratios for 2007 and 2006 which reflect Basel I.

Restated in 2009 for IFRS 2 (Revised) and to separate the share of results of joint ventures and associates from total income.

Restated in 2010 to reflect a prior year adjustment to available-for-sale revaluation reserves.

Overview

Business review

Governance

Financial statements

Other information

Group profile 

Group structure 

Group performance 

Strategy and progress 

Chairman’s statement 

Group Chief Executive’s review 

Addressing the key issues 

Marketplace trends 

1

2

3

4

6

8

10

12

Summary of Group results 

Divisional results 

Other financial information 

Five year financial summary 
Our people 

Corporate responsibility 

Risk management 

14

26

52

56 
57

60

65

Board of Directors 

Directors’ report 

Corporate governance report 

110

112

114

Directors’ remuneration report  124

Shareholder information 

Glossary 

Abbreviations 

Index to annual report 

284

285

290

291

Report of the independent  
auditors on the consolidated  
financial statements 

Consolidated  
financial statements 

Notes to the consolidated  
financial statements 

Report of the independent  
auditors on the parent company 
financial statements 

Parent company financial 
statements 

Notes to the parent company 
financial statements 

144

146

153

272

273

276

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and Accounts 2010

OUR PEOPLE

Building long lasting relationships through people

Lloyds Banking Group’s continued success depends on people. 
Banking is about helping people to reach their goals in life by  
getting the most from their money. Lloyds Banking Group makes 
business sense but we also need it to make sense for people – for  
our employees and customers. Our employees are focused on 
providing our customers with great service every day. They know  
that successful relationships are at the heart of how we do business 
and how we support our customers through the cycle. 

To make this happen, we are creating an organisation that attracts, 
retains and develops the best talent in the industry and one that 
embraces diversity too. We want to be recognised as a great place  
to work.

At Lloyds Banking Group, we are committed to making a significant 
investment in our people. Life here is fast-moving and full of 
challenges as we strive to be the best. It’s also incredibly rewarding.  
In 2010 we recorded our highest ever employee engagement score. 
Engaged employees are more motivated to understand customer 
needs and deliver outstanding service, time and time again. This is 
one of the ways in which we will rebuild trust in our industry. Our 
rewards and benefits packages, which go beyond salary and bonus, 
are designed to keep our employees motivated to do this. 

This year we delivered a significant milestone in our integration when 
we harmonised Terms and Conditions for most employees in the 
Group. In addition, over 87,000 employees selected benefits available 
through our Flexible Benefits plan. Over 52,000 people showed their 
confidence in the Group by electing to take part in Sharesave, our 
employee share ownership plan that offers everyone the opportunity to 
buy shares over a three year period and have a long term investment 
in the Group’s success. We made some changes to our pension 
schemes in April and our new scheme, ‘Your Tomorrow’, was awarded 
the Pension Quality Mark Plus – the highest quality mark available 
from the National Association of Pension Funds.

As a leader in financial services, we are committed to professional 
development and creating outstanding learning opportunities that 
allow people to reach their full potential. We invest in our people, 
offering the best coaching and training. Learning @ Lloyds Banking 
Group is one of the largest corporate learning facilities in Europe.

We also provide our people with the opportunity to contribute to  
our leading corporate and social responsibility practices, a strong  
part of our culture. Employees celebrated raising £3.4 million for the 
British Heart Foundation in just two and a half years at the end  
of 2010. They also demonstrated their continued commitment and 
enthusiasm for good causes when 21,500 voted for the 2011 Charity  
of the Year, Save the Children. 

Our new Diversity and Inclusion strategy was launched in January 
2010 and our sponsorship of London 2012 offers employees a  
unique opportunity to be involved both in the Games and the  
legacy they leave. 

Integration

2010 was significant in relation to people integration. Shaping our  
new business for the future means having the very best people in every 
single role and being as efficient as possible. We have successfully 
managed the impact of change on our people by working at pace to 
establish controls and embed risk management practices, by defining 
and implementing the new organisational structure and selecting for it. 

We continue to move toward establishing a single organisation and 
by 1 December 85 per cent of eligible colleagues were on the newly 
harmonised Terms and Conditions. This is a significant step forward 
on our journey towards becoming ‘One Bank’.

Inevitably in bringing the two organisations together, there has been 
an opportunity to rationalise and this has led to a reduction  
in roles. Where possible we have either redeployed colleagues to 
other areas of the Group or reduced numbers through natural 
attrition. Where it has been necessary for colleagues to leave the 
organisation, this has been achieved by offering voluntary severance 
and by making less use of contractors and agency colleagues. 
Compulsory redundancies are always a last resort.

The focus has been on enabling the business to integrate, while also 
building foundations for the future to ensure the organisation can 
attract, retain and develop the best talent. People have been at the 
heart of the change programme, and a robust communications 
process has been followed to ensure that colleagues are aware of the 
changes before they happen. We have four recognised Unions who 
have been consulted on all proposed changes. 

We have focused on bringing the majority of colleagues on to one 
core colleague system which involved the migration of over 63,000 
colleagues on to a new platform which is now accessible to colleagues 
from both heritages. 

We also implemented a number of new Lloyds Banking Group 
platforms for colleagues. In 2010 we built an integrated colleague 
proposition for the future with a focus on recruiting, performance 
management, learning, and reward and improving the direct links 
between these factors.

The implementation of the Resourcing Candidate Management 
System in 2010 provides us with one integrated Lloyds Banking Group 
internal role recruitment tool and also one external 
Lloyds Banking Group careers website. Combined, they enable 
integration, simplification and improvement of key elements of the 
recruitment process.

‘Your Performance’ was launched early in 2010 providing a Group 
wide on-line approach for managing performance with 96 per cent 
colleague coverage. ‘Your Learning’ was launched providing one 
integrated learning tool helping colleagues develop learning plans 
and record training and accreditation. ‘Your Tomorrow’, the first 
Lloyds Banking Group Defined Contribution pension scheme 
launched in 2010 and we auto-enrolled over 8,000 colleagues. We 
also completed development of an integrated Pay and Bonus tool  
for managing Pay 2011 and Bonus 2010 aligned directly with 
Performance Management. 

These changes have been made with Group wide engagement,  
with line managers and colleagues embracing the changes.

Colleague engagement

Although 2010 has been a period of considerable change, we are 
proud of our continuously high levels of colleague engagement. This 
is vital in creating a high commitment, high performance organisation. 

Every quarter we run a comprehensive and confidential colleague 
survey to gauge colleagues’ views on key issues. The scope of the 
colleague survey includes all UK and International colleagues across 
the Group. In 2010, we achieved record response rates of 83 per cent 
(up from 79 per cent in 2009) which is regarded as ‘best in class’. The 
overall Engagement Index finished the year at 80 index points, which 
is an increase of 8 index points from 2009. The results to individual 

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OUR PEOPLE

questions continued to improve compared with 2010, most notably in 
areas such as Performance Management, Learning, Customer and 
Leadership. The level of engagement now exceeds all of the external 
benchmarks, including the UK Financial Services and UK High 
Performance norms for the first time. 

Talent, recruitment and retention

One of our highest priorities is recruiting, retaining and developing 
talented people. Developing colleagues and succession planning are 
vital in supporting our strategy and have been a major focus in 2010. 
During the year we have undertaken detailed talent reviews and 
succession planning for our most senior leaders. Through internal 
promotion and attracting new talent to the Group in 2010 we have 
improved the talent profile and succession pipeline, while mitigating 
the retention risks of our senior leaders.

In 2010 we recruited 147 people into the Lloyds Banking Group 
Graduate Leadership Programme. The strength of our Graduate 
Programme has been externally acknowledged with The Times rating 
us in the Top 30 UK organisations for graduate recruitment.

Performance and reward

Effective performance management is at the heart of our work to 
build a high performance culture across Lloyds Banking Group. It  
also plays a critical role in helping us to develop our colleagues to 
build long term partnerships with customers and strong relationships 
with each other. Every colleague has a Balanced Scorecard 
comprising of five areas (building the business, customer, risk, people 
and finance) with objectives that are aligned to our broader strategy. 
At the end of every year colleagues are given a performance rating 
based on their overall contribution during the year assessed against 
both what they have done (performance against their objectives) and 
how they have gone about doing it (performance against our values 
and behaviours). This performance rating is then linked to how each 
colleague is rewarded.

Throughout the year, line managers provide colleagues with regular 
open and honest feedback to help them develop the right skills and 
behaviours and to help them address any challenges they may face in 
meeting performance standards. In 2010 we launched a single 
approach to performance management across Lloyds Banking Group, 
the success of which was acknowledged at the 2010 Personnel Today 
Awards where it was one of the reasons why we received the top 
award for Managing Change.

In 2010 we introduced a cap on our Defined Benefit pension schemes 
that will help us to manage the significant long-term cost inherent in 
the scheme and continue to meet our obligations to all members  
in future years. Alongside this we introduced a new Defined 
Contribution pension scheme that gives considerable flexibility  
to employees to plan for retirement.

Learning and development 

In 2010 we have continued to invest in the development of our 
colleagues across the organisation providing an average of 5.4 days 
formal learning per full time equivalent.

Retail Customer Service Training

A key focus for training across Retail has been the transformation of our approach in handling 
customer complaints. This has resulted in over 30,000 customer facing colleagues receiving 
training across Lloyds TSB, Halifax and Bank of Scotland Branch Networks. The key purpose of 
this training was to improve the experience for customers when advising us of a complaint – this 
included colleagues taking ownership of each complaint at first point of contact, accurate 
recording and effective and timely resolution. A blend of training approaches was adopted 
including e-learning, testing, validation and face to face sessions supported by comprehensive 
Senior Manager engagement. This programme has resulted in a significant improvement in the 
number of complaints resolved at first point of contact and is having a positive impact on our 
Customer Service measures.

Business focus
Our learning strategy is aligned to our goal of outperformance 
through cost and customer leadership. It aims to help drive high 
performance, greater productivity and deep lasting customer 
relationships by supporting the development of highly engaged, 
skilled colleagues and capable leaders. 

To further simplify access to business aligned learning we have 
continued to deploy our Academies approach supported by a 
redesigned Learning @ Lloyds Banking Group website, which attracts 
around 1.7 million visits per month.

We remain committed to supporting a range of programmes linked 
to professional qualifications or relevant external certification. These 
programmes enable us to develop our colleagues in line with 
recognised industry standards and provide confidence to customers 
and other stakeholders.

Technical capabilities
Our colleagues need appropriate technical capabilities to enable 
them to support our customers effectively. Our business-focused 
learning programmes cover critical business skills such as risk, 
relationship management and financial management. A key focus has 
been supporting colleagues through the changes needed to 
successfully progress our integration programme.

Significant activity has taken place to support the implementation of 
common enhanced IT platforms designed to deliver improved 
customer service through our branches. Colleagues in our Telephone 
Banking teams also received significant investments in customer 
service training.

Leadership and management capability
Leaders throughout the organisation play a critical role in bringing  
our values to life for colleagues. The Group has continued its focus  
on developing and strengthening leadership and management  
skills with the launch of new Group wide Executive Development  
and Leadership and Management programmes. Using a shared 
Leadership language these have placed a particular emphasis on 
Performance Management and leading during a period of sustained 
rapid change. 

Overview

Business review

Governance

Financial statements

Other information

Group profile 

Group structure 

Group performance 

Strategy and progress 

Chairman’s statement 

Group Chief Executive’s review 

Addressing the key issues 

Marketplace trends 

1

2

3

4

6

8

10

12

Summary of Group results 

Divisional results 

Other financial information 

Five year financial summary 
Our people 

Corporate responsibility 

Risk management 

14

26

52

56 
57

60

65

Board of Directors 

Directors’ report 

Corporate governance report 

110

112

114

Directors’ remuneration report  124

Shareholder information 

Glossary 

Abbreviations 

Index to annual report 

284

285

290

291

Report of the independent  
auditors on the consolidated  
financial statements 

Consolidated  
financial statements 

Notes to the consolidated  
financial statements 

Report of the independent  
auditors on the parent company 
financial statements 

Parent company financial 
statements 

Notes to the parent company 
financial statements 

144

146

153

272

273

276

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Diversity and inclusion

During 2010, we have continued to make strong progress in all areas 
of Diversity & Inclusion. With a broad strategy, significant focus has 
come through the appointment of five Executive Director level 
sponsors who cover gender and work life balance, ethnic diversity, 
sexual orientation, disability and generational diversity.

Our leading edge diversity and inclusion strategy, developed through 
active consultation across the organisation, will enhance the Group’s 
ability to build deep and lasting relationship with colleagues, 
customers and suppliers.

We have also achieved excellent colleague network growth under our 
sexual orientation strand, with membership tripling in 2010. Externally, 
we continue to be active and prominent members of Stonewall3, 
participating in their annual Workplace Equality Index. The Group  
has also achieved some firsts; our Home Loan advert featuring a  
gay couple was the first gay imagery from a UK financial services 
organisation in national press. And our sponsorship of the largest  
ever lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender consumer survey – 
covering 23 countries and with over 8,000 UK respondents, will  
yield deep insights into the opportunities to strengthen our 
customer relationships.

Lloyds Banking Group Ethnic Minority Network

HR people risk

Mark Swyny  
Lloyds Banking Group

During 2010 the GEM Network for ethnic minority colleagues marked its launch across the 
enlarged Group with an inspirational event held in Leeds. Themed ‘Your Time to Shine’ almost 
300 colleagues from across the Group came together to hear from the Group’s Executive 
Sponsor for Ethnic Diversity, Angie Risley, fellow ethnic minority colleagues’ inspirational  
career success stories and celebrity guest speaker Tim Campbell, first winner of BBC’s 
‘The Apprentice’. 

Delegates came away from the event feeling motivated, inspired and equipped to make their 
career with the Group all they want it to be. Following the launch event, by the end of the year 
GEM Network membership increased to almost 1,500 members. 

”I came away inspired and feeling that Lloyds Banking Group is the place to be for ethnic 
minorities. It was a life changing event for me.” 

Source: GEM conference feedback form.

Through reviewing our resourcing, work life balance and leadership 
development practices, we have continued to ensure we are able to 
attract, recruit and retain talented colleagues from diverse 
backgrounds. With diversity and inclusion integrated into the 
organisation’s mainstream management development we are 
equipping our leaders to embrace inclusion and leverage the 
opportunities of diverse thinking. All colleagues have had the 
opportunity to learn more about our progress, to give their views and 
to participate through the Group’s first national Diversity & Inclusion 
Week, a campaign to be repeated on an annual basis.

A new area of focus for the Group has been the establishment of a 
People Risk function within Group Human Resources. This function 
aims to ensure the management of people risks are central to the 
development and delivery of the Group’s business strategy.

People Risk is fundamental to our ongoing success as an organisation. 
Consequently we have built people risk management into our overall 
accountability framework including our Group Risk Appetite and 
incorporating it into our Group People Strategy.

We have created a team to lead on the development and delivery of  
a people risk strategy. The team will also support the establishment  
of people risk management across the Group. This will be achieved 
through effective support, challenge and oversight of risk 
management across Human Resources; managing and co-ordinating 
the Group’s regulatory relationship on Human Resource issues and 
through strategic people risk management.

Strengthening the Group’s focus in this way, the People Risk function’s 
early priorities have included: reviewing and enhancing the  
co-ordination and management of the Group’s Approved Persons 
arrangements for Significant Influence Functions, providing guidance 
on moderation of pay and bonuses to comply with the FSA’s 
Remuneration Code and increasing the integration of risk into our 
reward and performance framework.

As we enter the final year of our integration programme, we continue 
to make excellent progress towards becoming ‘One Bank’. We will  
go on building a diverse, talented and engaged workforce and 
equipping it with the skills it needs to provide the best customer 
service. By rewarding great service and strong performance 
appropriately, we will embed the values needed to build deep and 
enduring customer relationships that are at the heart of our business. 

We also continue to make great progress on matters of disability, 
ethnicity and sexual orientation.

    1    2    3           

With regards to disability, we have implemented new development 
programmes, grown our colleague network by over 100 per cent and 
conducted research to better understand our disabled customer 
experience. In addition, we launched and sponsor the Radiate 
Network1, the UK’s first national network of senior disabled leaders.

Our ethnic diversity colleague network has also grown in numbers, 
with over 1500 colleagues participating. Alongside our internal 
activity, our external presence has grown through our sponsorship of 
the Runnymede Trust’s2 ‘Snowy Peaks’ report which researched ethnic 
minority success at senior management and executive levels. 

1

Radiate is the network of high-fliers with disabilities or health conditions. It is supported by 
RADAR (the UK’s largest disability campaigning organisation) and Lloyds Banking Group

2

The Runnymede Trust is an independent race equality think tank

3

Stonewall is a lesbian, gay and bisexual rights charity in the United Kingdom and the largest gay 
equality organisation in Europe

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CORPORATE RESPONSIBILITY

Supporting our business strategy 

Our business strategy is to be recognised as the UK’s best financial 
services company. We want to be recognised and recommended as  
a trusted brand by customers, a good employer by colleagues and an 
active, valued participant in our communities. 

Trust in the banking industry has been eroded over the past few years. 
Rebuilding stakeholders’ trust in financial institutions will be central to 
us achieving our corporate goal.

Corporate responsibility is integral to our business strategy. We need 
to ensure that we are running our business in a responsible way. We 
need to demonstrate that we are making a sustained, positive 
contribution to the economy and to society; by playing our part in the 
UK’s economic recovery and by investing in the communities of which  
we are a part. Finally, as a relationship-led business, we need to work 
on building deep and lasting relationships with our customers, 
employees and suppliers; by engaging with them, listening to their 
needs and, if appropriate, making changes to the way we do business. 

The following pages set out how we are delivering on our 
responsibilities to all of our stakeholders. We report under three 
headings, Responsible Business Management; our Economic and 
Social Impact; and, Building Relationships. 

Responsible business management 

We believe that we can make our greatest contribution to society by 
being good at what we do, and by doing it in a responsible way. Our 
approach to responsible business management is founded on robust 
corporate governance practices and a risk management culture which 
guides the way all employees approach their work, the way they 
behave and the decisions they make. This helps us focus on building 
and sustaining long-term relationships with customers. Over time, we 
believe that this will enable us to deliver superior, more sustainable 
shareholder value.

Corporate responsibility governance
We strengthened our governance framework in 2010, establishing 
Board representatives for key strands of our Corporate Responsibility 
agenda. Sir Winfried Bischoff, Chairman of Lloyds Banking Group, 
has overall Board responsibility for Corporate Responsibility. 
Truett Tate, Group Executive Director, Wholesale, is Executive 
Sponsor for Climate Change and Environmental Issues and 
Helen Weir, Group Executive Director, Retail, is Executive Sponsor 
for Financial Inclusion. 

We also established a new Environmental Steering Group, chaired by 
our Group Property Director. With senior representation from across 
the Group, this drives our environmental strategy, targets and 
performance. This year, we have established a Financial Inclusion 
Steering Group. 

The Board considers corporate responsibilty issues throughout the 
year, and reviews our performance on an ongoing basis. The 
Corporate Responsibility Steering Group, chaired by Group HR 
Director Angie Risley, meets on a regular basis to drive corporate 
responsibility strategy. Most of our activity, however, takes place in the 
business itself, driven by a network of senior managers who act as 
Corporate Responsibility champions. 

Risk management
We have rolled out Lloyds TSB’s conservative approach to risk across 
the entire Group. This prudent attitude to risk is core to the Group’s 
business model. It is the foundation for responsible business 

management. The Group’s risk management framework is set out  
on pages 69 to 70.

Reflecting the importance that we place on risk management, risk  
is included as one of the five principal criteria within the Group’s 
balanced scorecard on which individual staff performance is judged. 
We work very closely with the FSA and UK Financial Investments to 
ensure that our remuneration structure is aligned to prudent risk 
management. Business Executives have specific risk management 
objectives and incentive schemes take account of performance 
against these. Full disclosure on Executive remuneration is on 
pages 124 to 141 of this report. 

Responsible lending, advice and support
As a responsible lender, we wish to ensure customers only borrow 
what they can afford to repay. We have a responsible lending 
programme with internal management reporting and accountability. 
Our customer-facing employees are trained to offer the necessary 
advice and support to help customers manage their borrowing. 

Each customer’s circumstances are different so we use an affordability 
model, to better assess a customer’s ability to repay. We take into 
account customers’ current and past management of financial 
products. We also consider their ability to make repayments both at 
the time the account is opened, and throughout the duration of the 
loan, to ensure that the borrowing remains suitable to 
their circumstances. 

Lloyds TSB, Halifax and Bank of Scotland all have dedicated Customer 
Support and Money Management units to provide specialist help to 
customers who are concerned about their financial situation. They are 
there to help customers who actively seek help with their finances, 
and proactively contact those who we believe are at the highest risk of 
missing repayments. We speak with more than 300,000 customers a 
month to assess their financial health and find ways in which we 
can help.

We have an ongoing programme to train colleagues to provide 
guidance and support to customers on managing their borrowing. 
We help them find an appropriate solution, whether through more 
effective budgeting, or by rescheduling their borrowing with us. We 
have trained over 7,000 financial health specialists available to help 
our customers in branches. Where appropriate, we refer customers to 
free and independent money advice charities. In 2010, we contributed 
£12.5 million to money advice and debt charities, including the Money 
Advice Trust and the Consumer Credit Counselling Service.

Protecting customers against financial crime 
We take protecting our customers and their assets extremely 
seriously. We invest in activities to deter, detect and prevent fraud  
and we operate systems designed to ensure that our products and 
services are not abused for the purposes of laundering the proceeds 
of crime or for facilitating terrorism. We have processes in place to 
check the identity of customers and use various tools to monitor the 
validity of transactions that they make and receive. 

We also want to help our customers to protect themselves from 
financial crime. Our various brand websites contain information to 
help customers to understand how to protect against the risks of 
common types of internet fraud. We run regular financial crime 
awareness campaigns, support industry education initiatives and 
sponsor the charity Crimestoppers. 

Overview

Business review

Governance

Financial statements

Other information

Group profile 

Group structure 

Group performance 

Strategy and progress 

Chairman’s statement 

Group Chief Executive’s review 

Addressing the key issues 

Marketplace trends 

1

2

3

4

6

8

10

12

Summary of Group results 

Divisional results 

Other financial information 

14

26

52

Board of Directors 

Directors’ report 

Corporate governance report 

110

112

114

Five year financial summary 

56 

Directors’ remuneration report  124

Our people 
Corporate responsibility 

Risk management 

57
60

65

Shareholder information 

Glossary 

Abbreviations 

Index to annual report 

284

285

290

291

Report of the independent  
auditors on the consolidated  
financial statements 

Consolidated  
financial statements 

Notes to the consolidated  
financial statements 

Report of the independent  
auditors on the parent company 
financial statements 

Parent company financial 
statements 

Notes to the parent company 
financial statements 

144

146

153

272

273

276

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Environmental management
We believe that we have an important role to play in facilitating and 
financing the transition to a low carbon, resource efficient economy. 
Our vision is to be recognised by our stakeholders as a leading 
environmentally responsible organisation. 

We are already one of the leading global financers of renewable energy 
(by debt underwriting capability). In 2010, Lloyds Banking Group  
was rated the top UK bank in the new FTSE CDP Carbon Strategy 
Index Series, recognising our performance in managing climate risks 
and grasping the emerging opportunities. 

Managing environmental risks in lending 
We have introduced policies and procedures to reduce the 
environmental impact of our lending activities. Our groupwide 
Environmental Risk Policy requires all business loans to be assessed 
for material environmental risks as part of the credit sanctioning 
process. Our policy is supported by a robust process which ensures 
that there is a consistent approach to identifying, assessing, 
mitigating and reporting environmental risks. Lending officers are 
responsible for ensuring that environmental risks are assessed and 
that action is taken where a risk is identified. Employees are trained in 
environmental risk management as part of our standard credit risk 
training course and have access to relevant guidance documents. In 
2011, we will further strengthen our risk management process with the 
implementation of an online environmental risk screening tool. 

Project finance: Equator Principles 
Lloyds Banking Group is a signatory to the Equator Principles to 
support our approach to assessing and managing environmental and 
social issues in project finance. Lending officers are responsible for 
undertaking initial classification of transactions that qualify under the 
Equator Principles. Their assessments are subject to further review by 
our Equator Principles Review Group, comprising experts from both 
our Risk and Project Finance teams, to ensure that each transaction is 
compliant and is consistent with our Environmental Risk Policy. We 
trained over 100 employees in our Equator Principle Procedures 
in 2010.

Resource efficiency
Reducing our own use of resources helps us minimise our impact on the 
environment as well as keeping our costs under control. In 2010, we 
launched Smart & Responsible, our new targeted environmental action 
plan. It aims to deliver significant environmental and cost savings, as well 
as improving colleagues’ work-life balance. 

We also registered for the Carbon Reduction Commitment Energy 
Efficiency Scheme in 2010 and will now be required to purchase 
allowances for each tonne of energy-related CO2 we emit. It has 
significant cost implications for the Group which provides a further 
incentive to reduce our carbon emissions. We are already working 
towards achieving the Carbon Trust Standard for the Group – this 
standard recognises organisations that are genuinely measuring  
and reducing CO2 emissions. Our goal is to reduce our energy 
consumption by 30 per cent by 2020.

Engaging our employees 
Employees play a key role in delivering our environmental agenda. 
One of the main areas where colleagues can have a real impact is in 
business travel. We have a common travel policy in place across the 
Group which supports a focus on reducing travel. This has helped  
us increase the volume of teleconferences by 73 per cent in 2010 
compared with 2009.

We strengthened our approach in 2010 with the introduction of 
TRAVELwise, part of the Smart & Responsible programme. We have 
set a TRAVELwise target to avoid 1 in 5 business flights by 2015. 

CO2 Emissions (tonnes)

Total UK CO2 emissions
Scope 1 emissions

Scope 2 emissions

Scope 3 emissions

2010

2009

442,535

449,207

73,182

76,387

333,315

343,693

36,038

29,127

For 2009, we have reported emissions for January to December. For 2010 and future years, 
we will report annual emissions from October to September. Our CO2 emissions have been 
independently verified by environmental consultants by RPS Group. 

The Equator Principles reporting January to December 2010 are 
as follows.

Our economic and social impact 

Deals

Completed

In progress

Not completed

Total

A

–

–

–

–

Geography of completed transactions 

US

Europe

Rest of world

Total

–

–

–

–

Industry of completed transactions

B

8

4

5

17

3

5

–

8

Renewables

Infrastructure 

Energy & ulilities 

Total 

C

10

–

2

12

2

8

–

10

Number

8

8

2

18

We have a presence in almost every community in the UK and touch 
many millions of lives. Our significant role in the financial services 
sector is a privilege, and one that comes with important obligations.

As a UK-focused bank, we have an important role to play in 
supporting the UK’s economic recovery. We need to demonstrate 
that we are meeting our obligations to our customers by continuing to 
give them access to the finance they need. Whilst our main 
contribution to society is our direct economic impact, we strongly 
believe that this must also be supported by our active investment in 
the communities in which we operate. 

Supporting the UK’s economic recovery
We know that there are those who believe that the banks are not 
lending enough, and that it is difficult for people to obtain loans. We 
believe that at Lloyds Banking Group we are playing a very active part 
in the economic recovery. Indeed, as a UK-focused bank, we have a 
vital interest in supporting its recovery. 

In 2010, we extended over £79 billion of new lending to homeowners 
and businesses. As a predominantly UK bank, the vast majority of this 
lending was conducted in this country. We remain ahead of the 
mortgage and business lending commitments made by the Group to 
the Government for the year ending February 2011.

Total

18

4

7

29

5

13

–

18

£m

391

699

78

1,168

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CORPORATE RESPONSIBILITY

During 2010 we extended £30 billion of gross mortgage lending 
(including remortgages) to UK homeowners, representing around 
1 in 5 of all new mortgages in the UK. We extended more than 
£5 billion in new lending to first time buyers, helping over 50,000 
customers buy their first homes in 2010. We also support various 
schemes which help first time buyers, including Right to Buy, Shared 
Equity and Shared Ownership.

We made available £49 billion of committed gross lending to UK 
businesses in 2010, of which £11 billion was for SMEs. We continue to 
approve over 80 per cent of lending applications from SMEs. As the 
UK’s biggest provider of start up finance, we play an active part in 
developing the entrepreneurial culture of the UK. We helped more 
than 100,000 new business start ups last year.

We also actively participate in all the main Government lending 
programmes designed to help small businesses access the finance 
that they need. We are one of the most active lenders under the 
Government’s Enterprise Finance Guarantee Scheme. To date we 
have offered more than 4,000 loans, nearly 30 per cent of total loans 
granted under the scheme, totalling around £300 million of funding 
being made available to SMEs across the UK.

Financial inclusion 
Our approach to financial inclusion is aligned with the Government’s 
aims to increase access to banking and credit, while, at the same time, 
developing consumers’ financial literacy and understanding. We aim 
to lead the banking sector in reaching those that are financially 
excluded and equip them with the confidence and capability to 
manage their money effectively. We also have a strong commercial 
interest in helping to create a nation of consumers who are both 
comfortable and confident in dealing with the financial services 
sector.

In 2010, we published our first standalone Financial Inclusion Report, 
setting out our financial inclusion strategy and our future agenda. We 
have established a Financial Inclusion Steering Group to oversee our 
activities and strengthen our strategic approach. 

We have developed dedicated products and services that address 
financial exclusion. With over four million accounts, we are the biggest 
provider of social bank accounts in the UK. Social bank accounts – 
often known as basic bank accounts – are a simple form of current 
account that are open to anyone, regardless of credit rating, as long 
as they have not been convicted of fraud or are an un-discharged 
bankrupt. They enable customers to pay household bills by direct 
debit, which can save them money when compared with other 
methods of payment. We also are the only bank to offer social 
banking customers a bespoke Christmas savings account, the Halifax 
Christmas Saver. This is an important part of our work to help close 
the savings gap. 

We are currently providing the Government’s Financial Inclusion 
Taskforce with insights and data we gain from our significant market 
share of social bank accounts, to help them understand the behaviour 
of vulnerable social banking customers. 

Financial capability 
We recognise that we are one of the most important sources of 
financial information and guidance for consumers. We take seriously 
our responsibility to raise levels of general financial understanding 
across the communities we serve and work closely with the 
Government, the FSA and other stakeholders to deliver this. 

In 2010, we launched ‘Money for Life’, our new £4 million financial 
capability programme for the further education sector. We are 
partnering with the Consumer Financial Education Body and skills 
agencies in each of the four nations of the UK to promote and deliver 
the programme. Money for Life aims to develop the capacity of the 
further education sector to improve the financial capability and 
personal money management skills of the three million people they 
serve. Over the next two years we will also aim to train 500 of our 
employees through the programme. This training will provide them 
with the skills they need to support our financial education agenda in 
their local communities. 

Money for life – supporting financial capability in the UK’s 
further education sector

In Scotland, Money for Life is funding the creation of a DVD, scripted and produced by drama 
students at James Watt college, to raise awareness of financial issues amongst young offenders 
and those at risk of offending. A second focus group will bring together six adult learning 
colleges to create specially tailored interactive budgeting DVDs for learners. Stakeholders in the 
Highlands, Dundee and Stirling will also partner to create coaching and mentoring programmes 
designed to help further education tutors and facilitators gain the skills to provide financial 
capability support to their diverse learning groups.

Community investment
Our economic contribution to society is supported by active 
investment in communities and our community giving programme. 
We invested £148 million in communities across the UK in 2010, 
including support for financial inclusion and social banking, 
sponsorship of sports for young people and donations through  
the Group’s charitable Foundations. 

Funding grassroots charities 
Much of the Group’s charitable giving is channelled through the 
Lloyds TSB Foundations and Bank of Scotland Foundation – five 
independent charitable Foundations funded solely by the Group. In 
the last 25 years, more than £450 million has been distributed to small, 
grassroots charities across the UK through the Lloyds TSB 
Foundations. In 2010, we established the Bank of Scotland 
Foundation to take forward our long term community investment 
in Scotland. 

Last year, we donated more than £29 million to the Foundations. This 
enabled the Foundations to distribute 1,278 grants to charities across 
the UK. These grants often cover charities’ core costs, such as wages 
for key employees. In the current economic climate, when many 
charities are finding it difficult to attract funding, the Foundations’ 
grants are helping many charities to survive. 

Our Charity of the Year programme
Our Charity of the Year programme is our flagship fundraising 
initiative. It is one of the largest corporate fundraising programmes in 
the UK. The British Heart Foundation (BHF) was our Charity of the 
Year from July 2008 to December 2010. We raised £3.4 million in total 
for the BHF through a wide range of employee, customer and 
shareholder fundraising projects. The money we raised funds 

Overview

Business review

Governance

Financial statements

Other information

Group profile 

Group structure 

Group performance 

Strategy and progress 

Chairman’s statement 

Group Chief Executive’s review 

Addressing the key issues 

Marketplace trends 

1

2

3

4

6

8

10

12

Summary of Group results 

Divisional results 

Other financial information 

14

26

52

Board of Directors 

Directors’ report 

Corporate governance report 

110

112

114

Five year financial summary 

56 

Directors’ remuneration report  124

Our people 
Corporate responsibility 

Risk management 

57
60

65

Shareholder information 

Glossary 

Abbreviations 

Index to annual report 

284

285

290

291

Report of the independent  
auditors on the consolidated  
financial statements 

Consolidated  
financial statements 

Notes to the consolidated  
financial statements 

Report of the independent  
auditors on the parent company 
financial statements 

Parent company financial 
statements 

Notes to the parent company 
financial statements 

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146

153

272

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15 specialist BHF Heart Nurses and 12 healthcare assistants, nurses, 
psychologists and health educators, who will support 14,400 patients 
and their families across the UK. 

In October 2010, colleagues voted for Save the Children as our 
Charity of the Year for 2011.

Save the Children – our Charity of the Year in 2011

Lloyds Banking Group’s Charity of the Year for 2011 is Save the Children. Working together we 
aim to raise at least £1 million to fund 52 Save the Children Families and Schools Together 
(FAST) projects in some of the UK’s most disadvantaged communities. FAST is a unique 
programme that works with three- to five-year-olds and their families to ensure that children 
get the best possible start to their school life. It brings together children and their parents, 
schools and community volunteers to help coach parents on how to support their children’s 
development, ultimately helping them to break out of the cycle of poverty.

Employee volunteering
Our employees are our strongest link with the local communities in 
which we operate. We are committed to enabling employees to make 
a contribution to communities. 

As one of the UK’s biggest employers, our colleague volunteering 
initiatives can make a real difference. In 2010, we launched our Day  
to Make a Difference volunteering programme. This enables all 
Lloyds Banking Group employees to spend one day a year during 
work time volunteering for a charity or local community project of 
their choice. Over 7,300 employees volunteered during 2010 in their 
local communities. 

Matched giving
Through our Matched Giving scheme, operated by our charitable 
Foundations, we enable employees to maximise their contributions  
to the charities and causes that are important to them. In 2010, 
employees could claim up to £500 from the Foundations to match 
funds they raised for charity, including our Charity of the Year, or time 
given in volunteering. This has been raised to £1,000 per employee 
in 2011. 

In 2010, our colleagues claimed £1.3 million in matched funding, 
raising £3.2 million for charities in the process.

Community sponsorship
As the Official Banking and Insurance Partner of the London 2012 
Olympic and Paralympic Games, we are using the power of the 
London 2012 Games to inspire young people to take part in more 
sport through Lloyds TSB and Bank of Scotland National School Sport 
Week, delivered in partnership with the charity Youth Sport Trust in 
England and Wales and Sport Scotland in Scotland. In 2010, almost 
50 per cent of UK schools, and five million young people, took part. 

We also support the future stars of Team GB and ParalympicsGB 
through our Local Heroes programme which will have provided 
funding to more than 1,000 emerging young athletes across Britain  
by 2012. Athletes receive £1,000 to help towards their training, 
equipment and travel costs.

Building relationships

We know we have much work to do as an industry to rebuild trust and 
relationships with our stakeholders. Our starting point is with our 
customers. As a bank, we have long term, sometimes lifelong, 
relationships with our customers. We are entrusted with peoples’ 
money – their savings, their mortgages, their business bank accounts. 
Ensuring we maintain and build customers’ trust is core to the 
sustainability of our business. 

Only by focusing on customers’ needs, and addressing those needs, 
can we expect to deliver benefit to all our stakeholders. 

As a relationship-led business, our people are our most valuable 
resource. They are the Group’s ambassadors. Building strong 
relationships with our people, and helping them to develop, is 
therefore fundamental to the success of the business and achieving 
our vision of being the UK’s best financial services organisation. Our 
approach to building relationships with our people is covered 
separately on pages 57 to 59 of this report. 

Treating customers fairly
Treating customers fairly, and ensuring that we are transparent in  
all our dealings with them, is central to our aim of building deep and 
lasting relationships with customers. 

Our customer treatment standards are aligned to the FSA’s best 
practice standards. We conduct regular testing and monitoring to 
check adherence with our customer treatment policies and have 
systems in place, such as our Whistleblowing helpline, which allow 
colleagues to identify and report behaviours which do not meet our 
high standards.

Listening to our customers
Every month we contact 75,000 customers as part of a systematic 
customer feedback process. We listen carefully to what our customers 
tell us, both good and bad, and use this to make changes where 
necessary. Often, we learn about the small things that cause irritation 
to customers. By listening to our customers, we can quickly put 
things right. 

Addressing customers’ complaints 
The vast majority of our customers are happy with the service we 
provide. When we do receive complaints, we take them seriously,  
and ensure that they are dealt with quickly, fairly and consistently.  
Our 40,000 customer-facing and call-centre employees have also 
received extra, in-depth training on handling of customer complaints. 
We now resolve 90 per cent of complaints at first touch in a branch  
or over the phone with the support of our new ‘Phone a Friend’ 
complaints resolution team. Overall, we improved our customers’ 
view of complaint handling by 10 points in 2010. However, we know 
we have to work hard to reduce the number of complaints we receive 
in the first place if we are to achieve our goal of becoming the UK’s 
best and most recommended bank. 

Delivering innovative products and services
We work hard to introduce new and innovative products that respond 
to customers’ evolving needs, underlining our commitment to 
building long-term relationships with our customers.

In 2010, Halifax launched the Cash ISA Promise, an industry leading 
move to help drive a fairer deal for customers when transferring their 
cash ISA. The Cash ISA Promise enables all customers switching their 
existing cash ISA to Halifax, to earn interest from the first day that we 
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industry-wide complaints that ISA transfers take too long, costing 
consumers millions in lost interest. Lloyds TSB and Bank of Scotland 
have also committed to paying customers interest upon receipt of 
their ISA applications. 

for the next three years, providing expert guidance and support for 
up to 90,000 SMEs on starting up, employment, exporting, bidding 
for London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games contracts, finance 
and sustainability. 

Halifax also launched a ‘No Fees’ First Time Buyer Mortgage early in 
2011 – a first among mainstream lenders. The mortgage offers Halifax 
current account customers a 90 per cent loan-to-value mortgage at a 
two year fixed-rate of 5.79 per cent. It has been specifically designed 
to help first time buyers by paying the fees on their mortgage.

Lloyds TSB’s unique ‘Lend a Hand’ mortgage enables buyers to take 
out a mortgage with a deposit of as little as 5% at an equivalent rate 
to borrowers with a significantly bigger deposit. The mortgage is 
linked to the savings of a helper, such as a family member, to ‘top up’ 
the deposit to 25% of a property’s value. 

Research published by Lloyds TSB shows that, ‘Second Steppers’ – those 
still living in their first home, but looking to take their next step up the 
housing ladder – are the segment of the market most likely to have 
their equity levels affected by a reduction in house prices. Second 
Steppers typically bought their first homes at the height of the market 
and, due to market conditions, have not benefited from any increase 
in their equity. Originally launched for first time buyers, in 2010  
‘Lend a Hand’ was extended to all home movers, in recognition of the 
challenges faced by Second Steppers of securing a larger deposit. No 
other major lender offers deals for customers moving house unless 
they have a deposit of at least 10%. 

Increasing transparency 
We took a number of industry leading steps in 2010 to improve 
transparency for savers. Lloyds TSB and Halifax have taken steps to:

 – Ensure current interest rate information is clearly visible online and on 

paper statements.

 – Offer existing savings customers access to all savings deals ensuring 
that no barriers exist for those wishing to switch to a better-paying 
savings account.

 – Ensure that an online calculator is available to help customers work 
out exactly how much interest they can earn in different accounts.

During 2011, all of the Group’s main savings brands, including 
Lloyds TSB, Halifax, Bank of Scotland, Cheltenham & Gloucester and 
Birmingham Midshires will publish savings interest rates on customer 
statements. 

We are also investing in tools to help customers have greater control 
of their money. Lloyds TSB’s cutting edge online ‘Money Manager’ 
service helps customers track spending patterns and manage their 
finances. It provides a combined view of spending across Lloyds TSB 
personal current accounts and credit cards, and can break down 
customers’ expenditure under categories such as bills and shopping, 
helping them to budget.

Supporting Britain’s businesses 
We support corporate and commercial customers throughout the 
economic cycle to ensure their financial health, stability and growth. 
Through this approach we are able to build deep and lasting 
relationships with customers, and support their ongoing contributions 
to the UK economy. 

As part of our award winning 2012 SME Charter, we have pledged to 
support 300,000 new start-ups across the country by 2012. The 
Charter sets out a series of commitments that form a three year 
programme of support for SMEs to help them grow as the recovery 
gains momentum. We are running 200 business seminars every year 

Our dedicated Business Support Unit provides bespoke help to 
business customers that are facing difficulty. Wherever possible,  
we work to turn these businesses around and restore their financial 
stability so that they are able to return to mainstream banking.  
By focusing on helping these businesses recover, we have an 
opportunity to deepen relationships and retain loyal customers. 

Building relationships with our suppliers
Our suppliers are important to us. We actively encourage our 
employees to build strong working relationships with them. We are  
a signatory to the Prompt Payment Code, committing to paying 
suppliers on time and not changing the payment terms agreed at  
the outset of the contract. This Code requires that we provide clear 
guidance on payment procedures, including redress for any disputes, 
and encourage similar good practice amongst our suppliers and 
other businesses.

Payment of suppliers

Number of payments

576,940

763,917

335,713

320,579

2010

2009

2008

2007

Value (£bn)

Average time to pay (days)

Number/amount of 
compensation payments for 
late settlement

5.82

27.21

5.22

28.33

2.67

26.03

2.20

28.78

Nil

Nil

Nil

Nil

2010 and 2009 data represents Lloyds Banking Group. Historical data is Lloyds TSB only. 

Independent assessment of our performance

In 2010, we were re-selected for the Dow Jones Sustainability Index. 
This comprises the top 10 per cent most sustainable companies 
globally, based on long-term economic, environmental and social 
criteria. We are the top UK bank in the new FTSE CDP Carbon 
Strategy Index Series launched in 2010 and a component of the 
Carbon Disclosure Leadership Index. We are also Platinum 
performers in Business in the Community’s Corporate Responsibility 
Index and are included in the FTSE4Good Index. 

Summary 

Looking ahead, we need to continue to engage in open conversations 
with our key stakeholders and demonstrate how we are listening to 
their needs. We realise that it will take time to rebuild trust and 
understanding in the sector and we are committed to leading the 
way. By listening to our stakeholders, and by acting in their best 
interests, we will support our strategic aim of being recognised by 
them as the UK’s best financial services organisation. Over time, we 
believe that this will enable us to deliver superior, more sustainable 
shareholder value. 

CC
  Comprehensive CR resource online:
www.lloydsbankinggroup-cr.com

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Business review

Governance

Financial statements

Other information

Group profile 

Group structure 

Group performance 

Strategy and progress 

Chairman’s statement 

Group Chief Executive’s review 

Addressing the key issues 

Marketplace trends 

1

2

3

4

6

8

10

12

Summary of Group results 

Divisional results 

Other financial information 

14

26

52

Board of Directors 

Directors’ report 

Corporate governance report 

110

112

114

Five year financial summary 

56 

Directors’ remuneration report  124

Our people 

Corporate responsibility 
Risk management 

57

60
65

Shareholder information 

Glossary 

Abbreviations 

Index to annual report 

284

285

290

291

Report of the independent  
auditors on the consolidated  
financial statements 

Consolidated  
financial statements 

Notes to the consolidated  
financial statements 

Report of the independent  
auditors on the parent company 
financial statements 

Parent company financial 
statements 

Notes to the parent company 
financial statements 

144

146

153

272

273

276

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RISK MANAGEMENT

The Group’s approach to risk

Risk as a strategic differentiator

State funding and state aid

Risk governance

Principal risks and uncertainties

Business risk

Credit risk

Market risk

Insurance risk

Operational risk

Liquidity and funding risk

Capital risk

Financial and prudental regulatory reporting, 
disclosure and tax risk

Life insurance businesses

66

66

66

67

70

74

75

88

91

91

93

97

102

102

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UNAUDITED INFORMATION

This section contains both audited and non audited information.  
The audited information is that required to comply with the 
requirements of relevant International Financial Reporting Standards. All 
other information is unaudited. Each page in this section identifies which 
information is audited and which is not audited.

THE GROUP’S APPROACH TO RISK

The Group’s approach to risk is founded on robust corporate 
governance practices and a risk management culture which guides the 
way all employees approach their work, the way they behave and the 
decisions they make. The Board takes the lead by establishing the ‘tone 
at the top’ and approving professional standards and corporate values 
for itself, senior management and other colleagues. The Board ensures 
that senior management implements strategic policies and procedures 
designed to promote professional behaviour and integrity. The Board 
also ensures that senior management implements risk policies and 
risk appetites that either limit, or where appropriate, prohibit activities, 
relationships, and situations that could diminish the quality of corporate 
governance. All colleagues including the Group Chief Executive are 
assessed against a balanced scorecard that explicitly includes their 
risk performance, as a component of overall performance.

This Board-level engagement, coupled with the direct involvement 
of senior management in group-wide risk issues at Group Executive 
Committee level, ensures that issues are escalated on a timely basis 
and appropriate remediation plans are initiated. The interaction of 
the executive and non-executive governance structures relies upon 
a culture of transparency and openness that is encouraged by senior 
management. Key decisions are always taken by more than one person. 

The Group uses an enterprise-wide risk management framework 
for the identification, assessment, measurement and management 
of risk. It seeks to maximise value for shareholders over time by 
aligning risk management with the corporate strategy, assessing the 
impact of emerging risks from legislation, new technologies or the 
market, and developing risk tolerances and mitigating strategies. The 
framework seeks to: strengthen the Group’s ability to identify and 
assess risks, aggregate group-wide risks and define the corporate risk 
appetite, develop solutions for reducing or transferring risk, and where 
appropriate, exploit risks to gain competitive advantage, thereby 
seeking to increase shareholder value. 

The Group has a conservative business model embodied by a risk 
culture founded on prudence and accountability, where everyone 
understands that they are accountable for the risks they take and that 
the needs of customers are paramount. The focus has been and  
remains on building and sustaining long-term relationships with 
customers, through good and bad economic times. The approach is 
supported by a ‘through the cycle’ approach to risk with strong control 
and monitoring. 

The Group Business Risk Committee and the Group Asset and Liability 
Committee are chaired by the Group Chief Executive and include all 
members of the Group Executive Committee. The aggregate group wide 
risk profile and portfolio appetite are discussed at these monthly 
meetings. The Risk Committee, chaired by a Non-Executive Director, 
comprises other Non-Executive Directors and oversees the Group’s 
risk exposures. This Second-Line-Of-Defence Committee is supported 
by the Chief Risk Officer, who is independent of the front line business 
units, is a full member of the Group Executive Committee and reports 
to the Group Chief Executive. The Chief Risk Officer regularly informs the 
Risk Committee of the aggregate risk profile and has direct access to the 
Chairman and members of the Risk Committee.

RISK AS A STRATEGIC DIFFERENTIATOR

The maintenance of a strong control framework remains a priority 
for the Group and is the foundation for the delivery of effective risk 
management. The Group optimises performance by allowing divisions 
and business units to operate within approved capital, liquidity and 
risk parameters and within the Group’s policy framework. The Group’s 
approach to risk management ensures that business units remain 
accountable for risk whilst undertaking individual strategies to meet 
business performance targets. The combination of divisional and group 
risk management maintains effective independent oversight. 

The Group continues to enhance its capabilities by providing to the 
Board both qualitative and quantitative data including stress testing 
analysis on risks associated with strategic objectives to facilitate more 
informed and effective decision making. The Group‘s ability to take 
risks which are well understood, consistent with its strategy and plans 
and which are appropriately remunerated, is a key driver  
of shareholder return. 

As part of its integration initiative, the Group has rolled out the 
methodology and financial control framework that was used by the 
heritage Lloyds TSB Group; including compliance with the requirements 
of the US Sarbanes Oxley Act. 

Risk analysis and reporting capabilities support the identification of 
opportunities as well as risks and it provides an aggregate view of the 
overall risk portfolio. Risk mitigation strategies clearly aligned with 
responsibilities and timescales are monitored at group and 
divisional level. 

Reflecting the importance the Group places on risk management, risk is 
included as one of the five principal criteria within the Group’s balanced 
scorecard on which individual staff performance is judged. Business 
executives have specified risk management objectives, and incentive 
schemes take account of performance against these.

STATE FUNDING AND STATE AID

HM Treasury currently holds approximately 40.6 per cent of the Group’s 
ordinary share capital. United Kingdom Financial Investments Limited 
(UKFI) as manager of HM Treasury’s shareholding continues to operate 
in line with the framework document between UKFI and HM Treasury 
managing the investment in the Group on a commercial basis without 
interference in day-to-day management decisions. There is a risk that  
a change in Government priorities could result in the framework 
agreement currently in place being replaced leading to interference in 
the operations of the Group, although there have been no indications that 
the Government intends to change the existing operating arrangements.

The Group has made a number of undertakings to HM Treasury 
arising from the capital and funding support, including the provision 
of additional lending to certain mortgage and business sectors until 
28 February 2011, and other matters relating to corporate governance 
and colleague remuneration. However the commitments in respect 
of lending are subject to normal prudent commercial lending criteria 
and pricing, the availability of funding to support such lending and 
the availability of sufficient demand from creditworthy customers and 
potential customers. The new agreement between the leading UK banks 
and the Government in relation to gross business lending in the 2011 
calendar year is subject to a similar set of criteria.

In addition, the Group is subject to European state aid obligations in line 
with the restructuring plan agreed with HM Treasury and the EU College 
of Commissioners in November 2009, which is designed to support the 

Overview

Business review

Governance

Financial statements

Other information

Group profile 

Group structure 

Group performance 

Strategy and progress 

Chairman’s statement 

Group Chief Executive’s review 

Addressing the key issues 

Marketplace trends 

1

2

3

4

6

8

10

12

Summary of Group results 

Divisional results 

Other financial information 

14

26

52

Board of Directors 

Directors’ report 

Corporate governance report 

110

112

114

Five year financial summary 

56 

Directors’ remuneration report  124

Our people 

Corporate responsibility 
Risk management 

57

60
65

Shareholder information 

Glossary 

Abbreviations 

Index to annual report 

284

285

290

291

Report of the independent  
auditors on the consolidated  
financial statements 

Consolidated  
financial statements 

Notes to the consolidated  
financial statements 

Report of the independent  
auditors on the parent company 
financial statements 

Parent company financial 
statements 

Notes to the parent company 
financial statements 

144

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long-term viability of the Group and address any competition distortions 
arising from the benefits of state aid. This has placed a number of 
requirements on the Group including asset reductions in certain parts of 
its balance sheet by the end of 2014 and the disposal of certain portions 
of its business by the end of November 2013, including in particular the 
disposal of some parts of its retail banking business. The Group is 
working closely with the EU Commission, HM Treasury and the 
Monitoring Trustee appointed by the EU Commission.

RISK GOVERNANCE (audited)

The embedding of an integrated governance and risk management 
framework throughout the Group has continued, through a 
consistent approach to risk appetite, policies, delegations and Risk 
Committee structures.

The risk governance structure is intended to strengthen risk evaluation 
and management, whilst also positioning the Group to manage the 
changing regulatory environment in an efficient and effective manner. 
The risk governance structure for Lloyds Banking Group is shown in 
table 1.1. 

BOARD AND COMMITTEES
The Board, assisted by its key Risk Committees (Risk Committee and 
Audit Committee), approves the Group’s overall risk management 
framework. The Board also reviews the Group’s aggregate risk exposures 
and concentrations of risk to ensure that these are consistent with the 
Board’s appetite for risk. The role of the Board, Audit Committee and 
Risk Committee are shown in the corporate governance section on 
pages 120 to 121, and further key risk oversight roles are described below.

In particular, the Risk Committee, (formerly Risk Oversight Committee) 
which comprises non-executive directors, oversees the development, 
implementation and maintenance of the Group’s overall risk 
management framework and its risk appetite, strategy, principles and 
policies, to ensure that these are in line with emerging regulatory, 
corporate governance and industry best practice. The Risk Committee 
regularly reviews the Group’s risk exposures across the primary risk 
drivers and the detailed risk types.

The Group Executive Committee assisted by the Group Business Risk 
Committee and the Group Asset and Liability Committee, supports the 
Group Chief Executive in ensuring the effectiveness of the Group’s risk 
management framework and the clear articulation of the Group’s risk 
policies, whilst also reviewing the Group’s aggregate risk exposures and 
concentrations of risk.  

The Group Asset and Liability Committee is responsible for the 
strategic management of the Group’s assets and liabilities and the  
profit and loss implications of balance sheet management actions. It  
is also responsible for the risk management framework for market risk,  
liquidity risk, capital risk and earnings volatility. The Group Asset and 
Liability Committee is supported by the Senior Asset and Liability 
Committee. This Senior Level Committee is responsible for the review 
of documentation relating to the management of assets and liabilities  
in the Group’s balance sheet and the escalation of issues of group-level  
significance to the Group Asset and Liability Committee. It is also 
supported by the Group Market Risk Forum which escalates matters 
relating to the strategic management of the Group’s structural market 
risks, including market risks held in the Group’s insurance companies.

The Group Business Risk Committee reviews and recommends the 
Group’s risk appetite and risk management framework, high-level 
group policies and the allocation of risk appetite. Group Business Risk 
Committee periodically reviews risk exposures and risk/reward returns 

and monitors the development, implementation and effectiveness of  
the Group’s Risk Governance Framework. Within the scope of its work 
the committee also considers reputational risk and any issues which 
could have a materially adverse impact on the Group. 

The Group Business Risk Committee is supported by the 
following Committees:

 – The Group Operational and Regulatory Risk Committee, which is 

responsible for identifying current and emerging significant regulatory 
and operational risks or accumulation of risks and control deficiencies 
across the Group and reviewing associated oversight plans to ensure 
pre-emptive risk management action. The Committee also seeks to 
ensure that adequate divisional engagement occurs to develop, 
implement and maintain the Group’s compliance and operational risk 
management framework.

 – The Group Credit Risk Committee, which is responsible for the 

development and effectiveness of the Group’s credit risk management 
framework, clear description of the Group’s credit risk appetite, setting 
of high-level Group credit policy, and compliance with regulatory 
credit requirements. On behalf of the Group Business Risk Committee, 
the Group Credit Risk Committee monitors and reviews the Group’s 
aggregate credit risk exposures and concentrations of risk.

 – The Group Model Governance and Approvals Committee, which 
is responsible for setting the control framework and standards for 
models across the Group, including establishing appropriate levels 
of delegated authority, the approval of models that are considered to 
be material to the Group (including credit risk rating systems), and the 
principles underlying the Group’s economic capital framework.

 – The Group Insurance Risk Committee, which is responsible for the 

development and effectiveness of the Group’s insurance risk 
management framework, clear articulation of the Group’s insurance  
risk appetite, setting of high-level insurance risk policy, and ensuring 
compliance with regulatory insurance requirements. On behalf of the 
Group Business Risk Committee, the Group Insurance Risk Committee 
monitors and reviews the Group’s aggregate insurance risk exposures 
and provides proactive and robust challenge around insurance risk  
and business activities giving rise to insurance risk.

 – The Group Financial Crime Committee serves as the principal 
Group forum for reviewing and challenging the management of 
financial crime risk including the overall strategy and performance.  
The Committee is accountable for ensuring that, at Group level, 
financial crime risks are effectively identified and managed within 
risk appetite and that strategies for financial crime prevention are 
effectively co-ordinated and implemented across the Group. 
 – The Divisional Financial Control Committees, which provide 

governance over financial statements. The meetings provide review 
and challenge as to the veracity of the results, press releases and 
supporting analyst information with oversight over the processes 
that have been followed in drawing them up. Items of focus are key 
assumptions and areas of subjectivity in the results and ensuring 
proper remediation of control issues that impact internal controls over 
financial reporting. The Group’s auditors also report findings from their 
audit work. 

The Group Risk Directors and Divisional Risk Officers meet on a regular 
basis under the Chairmanship of the Chief Risk Officer to review and 
challenge the risk profile of the Group and to ensure that mitigating 
actions are appropriate. Aggregate risk reports are reviewed by this 
group before submission to Group Business Risk Committees and then 
to Risk Committee.

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AUDITED INFORMATION

TABLE 1.1: RISK GOVERNANCE STRUCTURES

The Lloyds Banking Group Board

1st line of defence
Business Management

Group
Chief Executive

Group Asset
and Liability
Committee

Group 
Executive
Committee

Group 
Business Risk 
Committee

2nd line of defence
Group and Divisional
Oversight Functions

3rd line of defence
Group Audit

Nomination
& Governance
Committee

Remuneration
Committee

Audit
Committee

Risk
Committee

Group 
Market Risk 
Forum

Senior Asset 
and Liability
Committee

Group
Operational
and Regulatory
Risk Committee

Group
Financial
Crime
Committee

Group 
Credit Risk 
Committee

Group Model
Governance
and Approvals
Committee

Group 
Insurance Risk 
Committee

Divisional
Financial Control
Committees

Group
Executive
Director
Retail

Group
Executive
Director
Wholesale

Group Executive
Director
Wealth and
International

Group
Executive
Director
Insurance

Group
Operations
Director

Group
Finance
Director

Group
HR
Director

Chief Risk
Officer

Director of
Group Audit

Divisional
Risk Officer

Divisional
Risk Officer

Divisional
Risk Officer

Divisional
Risk Officer

Divisional
Risk Officer

Divisional
Risk Officer

Divisional
Risk Officer

Group Risk
Directors

BU Risk

BU Risk

BU Risk

BU Risk
BU Risk

BU Risk

BU Risk

BU Risk

BU Risk

Governance
Committees

Oversight 

Business
functions

Reporting line
Functional reporting line from BU Risk Officer or function to Divisional Risk Officers
Functional reporting line to support the Committees

Group Executive Directors have primary responsibility for measuring, 
monitoring and controlling risks within their areas of accountability 
and are required to establish control frameworks for their businesses 
that are consistent with the Group’s high level policies and within the 
parameters set by the Board, Group Executive Committee and Group 
Risk. Compliance with policies and parameters is overseen by the Risk 
Committee, the Group Business Risk Committee, the Group Asset and 
Liability Committee, Group Risk and the Divisional Risk Officers.

RISK MANAGEMENT OVERSIGHT
The Chief Risk Officer oversees and promotes the development and 
implementation of a consistent Group-wide risk management 
framework. The Chief Risk Officer, supported by the Group Risk Directors 
and the Divisional Risk Officers, provides objective challenge to the 
Group’s senior management. The Group Executive Committee and the 
Board receive regular briefings and guidance from the Chief Risk Officer 
to ensure awareness of the overarching risk management framework and 
a clear understanding of their accountabilities for risk  
and internal control. 

Group Risk Directors who report directly to the Chief Risk Officer, are 
allocated responsibility for specific risk types and are responsible for 
ensuring the adequacy of the framework for their risk types as well  
as the oversight of the risk profile across the Group. Divisional Risk 
Officers have dual reporting lines to their own divisional executive 

and also to the Chief Risk Officer and are responsible for the risk 
profile within their own divisions. This matrix approach enables the 
Group Executive Committee members to fulfil their risk management 
accountabilities.

Divisional Risk Officers provide oversight of risk management activity 
for all risks within each of the Group’s divisions. Reporting directly to 
the Group Executive Directors responsible for the divisions and to the 
Chief Risk Officer, their day-to-day contact with business management, 
business operations and risk initiatives provides an effective risk 
oversight mechanism. 

The Director of Group Audit provides independent assurance to 
the Audit Committee and the Board that risks within the Group are 
recognised, monitored and managed within acceptable parameters. 
Group Audit is fully independent of Group Risk, seeking to ensure 
objective challenge to the effectiveness of the risk governance 
framework.

          
Overview

Business review

Governance

Financial statements

Other information

Group profile 

Group structure 

Group performance 

Strategy and progress 

Chairman’s statement 

Group Chief Executive’s review 

Addressing the key issues 

Marketplace trends 

1

2

3

4

6

8

10

12

Summary of Group results 

Divisional results 

Other financial information 

14

26

52

Board of Directors 

Directors’ report 

Corporate governance report 

110

112

114

Five year financial summary 

56 

Directors’ remuneration report  124

Our people 

Corporate responsibility 
Risk management 

57

60
65

Shareholder information 

Glossary 

Abbreviations 

Index to annual report 

284

285

290

291

Report of the independent  
auditors on the consolidated  
financial statements 

Consolidated  
financial statements 

Notes to the consolidated  
financial statements 

Report of the independent  
auditors on the parent company 
financial statements 

Parent company financial 
statements 

Notes to the parent company 
financial statements 

144

146

153

272

273

276

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TABLE 1.2: RISK MANAGEMENT FRAMEWORK

The Lloyds Banking Group business strategy and objectives

Policy framework and accountabilities

Risk
Identification

Control
Activities

Risk and Control
  Assessment

Risk
Measurement

Independent
Reviews

Monitoring

Risk
Reporting

Action plans and tracking

People

Systems and tools

RISK MANAGEMENT IN THE BUSINESS
Line management are directly accountable for the management of 
risks arising in their individual businesses. A key objective is to ensure 
that business decisions strike an appropriate balance between risk and 
reward, consistent with the Group’s risk appetite. 

All business units, divisions and group functions complete a control 
self assessment annually (see page 122), reviewing the effectiveness 
of their internal controls and putting in place a programme of 
enhancements where appropriate. Managing directors of each business 
and each Group Executive Committee member certify the accuracy of 
their assessment. 

Risk management in the business forms part of a tiered risk management 
model, as shown above, with the Divisional Risk Officers and Group Risk 
providing oversight and challenge, as described above, and the Chief Risk 
Officer and group committees establishing the group-wide perspective. 

This approach seeks to provide the Group with an effective mechanism 
for developing and embedding risk policies and risk management 
strategies which are aligned with the risks faced by its businesses.  
It also seeks to facilitate effective communication on these matters 
across the Group.

RISK MANAGEMENT FRAMEWORK
The Group’s risk management principles and risk management 
framework cover the full spectrum of risks that a group, which 
encompasses both banking and insurance businesses, would encounter.

The Group uses an enterprise-wide risk management framework for 
the identification, assessment, measurement and management of 
risk. It seeks to maximise value for shareholders over time by aligning 
risk management with the corporate strategy, assessing the impact of 
emerging risks from legislation, new technologies or the market, and 
developing risk tolerances and mitigating strategies. The framework 
seeks to: strengthen the Group’s ability to identify and assess risks, 
aggregate group-wide risks and define the group risk appetite, develop 
solutions for reducing or transferring risk, and where appropriate, 
exploit risks to gain competitive advantage, thereby seeking to increase 
shareholder value. The principal elements of the risk management 
framework are shown in table 1.2. The framework above comprises 11 
interdependent activities which map to the components of the internal 

control integrated framework issued by the Committee of Sponsoring 
Organisations of the Treadway Commission. 

The framework is dynamic and allows for proportionate adjustment 
of policies and controls where business strategy and risk appetite is 
amended in response to changes in market conditions.

The Lloyds Banking Group business strategy and objectives are 
used to determine the Group’s high level risk principles and risk appetite 
measures and metrics for the primary risk drivers (see table 1.3). The risk 
appetite is proposed by the Group Chief Executive and reviewed by 
various governance bodies including the Group Executive Committee 
and the Risk Committee. Responsibility for the approval of risk appetite 
rests with the Board. The approved high level appetite and limits are 
delegated to individual Group Executive Committee members by the 
Group Chief Executive. 

The more detailed description of the risk principles and distribution 
of the risk appetite measures amongst the divisions and businesses 
are determined by the Group Chief Executive, in consultation with 
the Group Business Risk Committee and the Group Asset and 
Liability Committee.

The risk principles are executed through the Policy Framework 
and Accountabilities. These principles are supported by the policy 
levels below:

Principles – high level principles for the six primary risk drivers

High level group policy – policy statements for each of the main risk 
types aligned to the risk drivers

Detailed group policy – detailed policy that applies across the Group

Divisional policy – local policy that specifically applies to a division

Business unit policy – local policy that specifically applies to a  
business unit

Divisional and business unit policy is only produced by exception and is 
not necessary unless there is a specific area for which a particular division 
or business unit requires a greater level of detail than is appropriate for 
group level policy. The governance arrangements for development of, 
and compliance with, group, divisional and business unit policy and 
the associated accountabilities are clearly outlined to all colleagues. 

 
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Colleagues are expected to be aware of policies and procedures which 
apply to them and their work and to observe the relevant policies 
and procedures. Line management in each business area has primary 
responsibility for ensuring that group policies and the relevant local 
policies and procedures are known and observed by all colleagues within 
that area.

Group and divisional risk functions have responsibility for overseeing 
effective implementation of policy. Group Audit provides independent 
assurance to the Board about the effectiveness of the Group’s control 
framework and adherence to policy. Policies are reviewed annually to 
ensure they remain fit for purpose.

Execution of the Group’s risk management framework is dependent 
upon a clear and consistent risk identification using a common 
language to define risks and to categorise them (see table 1.3 below).

Proportionate control activities are in place to design mitigating 
controls, to transfer risk where appropriate and seeks to ensure 
executives are content with the residual level of risk accepted.

Risk and control assessments are undertaken to assess the 
effectiveness of current mitigations and whether risks taken are 
consistent with the Group’s risk appetite (this includes the annual control 
self-assessment exercise). 

The impact of risks and issues (including financial, reputational and 
regulatory capital) are determined through effective risk measurement 
including modelling, stress testing and scenario analysis.

The outcomes of independent reviews (including internal and external 
audit and regulatory reviews) are integrated into risk management 
activities and action plans.

Risk reporting is standardised through the use of standard definitions 
to enable risk aggregation. Divisions monitor their risk levels against their 
risk appetite, seeking to ensure effective mitigating action is being taken 
where appropriate. Divisional risk reports are reviewed by each divisional 
executive committee to ensure that respective senior management are 
satisfied with the overall risk profile, risk accountabilities and progress 
on any necessary action plans and tracking. Reporting, including 
that of performance against relevant limits or policies, is in place to 
provide a level of detail appropriate to the exposures concerned and 
regular information is provided to Group Risk for review and aggregate 
reporting. The monitoring process requires that significant issues are 
appropriately reported, and an escalation process is in place to report 
significant losses to appropriate levels of management. Regular reports 
are prepared by Group Risk on risk exposures and material issues to the 
Group Asset and Liability Committee, Group Business Risk Committee, 
Group Executive Committee, Risk Committee and the Board.

At group level, a consolidated risk report is produced which is reviewed 
and debated by the Group Business Risk Committee, Group Executive 
Committee, Risk Committee and the Board to ensure that they are 
satisfied with the overall risk profile, risk accountabilities and mitigating 
actions. The consolidated risk report provides a quarterly assessment of 
the aggregate residual risk for the primary risk drivers, comparing the 
assessment with the previous quarter and providing a forecast for the 
next six months.

PRINCIPAL RISKS AND UNCERTAINTIES

At present the most significant risks faced by the Group, which are derived from the primary risk drivers detailed in table 1.3 below, are:

Risk: Definition 

Features 

Credit: The risk of reductions in 
earnings and/or value, through 
financial loss, as a result of the 
failure of the party with whom the 
Group has contracted to meet 
its obligations (both on and off 
balance sheet).

Arising in the Retail, Wholesale and Wealth and International divisions, reflecting the risks inherent in the 
Group’s lending activities and, to a much lesser extent in the Insurance division in respect of investment 
of own funds. Adverse changes in the credit quality of the Group’s UK and/or international borrowers and 
counterparties, or in their behaviour, would be expected to reduce the value of the Group’s assets and 
materially increase the Group’s write-downs and allowances for impairment losses. Credit risk can be affected 
by a range of factors, including, inter alia, increased unemployment, reduced asset values, increased personal 
or corporate insolvency levels, reduced corporate profits, increased interest rates or higher tenant defaults. 
Over the last three years, the global banking crisis and economic downturn has driven cyclically high bad debt 
charges. These have arisen from the Group’s lending to:

 – Wholesale customers (including those in Wealth and International): where companies continue to face 
difficult business conditions, resulting in elevated corporate default levels, illiquid commercial property 
markets and heightened impairment charges. The Group has high levels of exposure in both the UK 
and internationally, including Ireland, USA and Australia. There are particular concentrations to financial 
institutions and commercial real estate, including secondary and tertiary locations.

 – Retail customers (including those in Wealth and International). UK bad debts have reduced materially in 
2010 as a result of risk management activity and more stable, low interest rate UK economic conditions. 
This portfolio will remain strongly linked to the economic environment, with inter alia house prices fall, 
unemployment increases, consumer over-indebtedness and rising interest rates all likely to impact both 
secured and unsecured retail exposures.

The Group follows a through the economic cycle, relationship based, business model with risk management 
processes, appetites and experienced staff in place.

Overview

Business review

Governance

Financial statements

Other information

Group profile 

Group structure 

Group performance 

Strategy and progress 

Chairman’s statement 

Group Chief Executive’s review 

Addressing the key issues 

Marketplace trends 

1

2

3

4

6

8

10

12

Summary of Group results 

Divisional results 

Other financial information 

14

26

52

Board of Directors 

Directors’ report 

Corporate governance report 

110

112

114

Five year financial summary 

56 

Directors’ remuneration report  124

Our people 

Corporate responsibility 
Risk management 

57

60
65

Shareholder information 

Glossary 

Abbreviations 

Index to annual report 

284

285

290

291

Report of the independent  
auditors on the consolidated  
financial statements 

Consolidated  
financial statements 

Notes to the consolidated  
financial statements 

Report of the independent  
auditors on the parent company 
financial statements 

Parent company financial 
statements 

Notes to the parent company 
financial statements 

144

146

153

272

273

276

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Risk: Definition 

Features 

Legal and regulatory: Legal 
and regulatory risk is the risk 
of reductions in earnings and/
or value, through financial or 
reputational loss, from failing to 
comply with the laws, regulations 
or codes applicable.

Legal and regulatory exposure is driven by the significant volume of current legislation and regulation within 
the UK and overseas with which the Group has to comply, along with new or proposed legislation and 
regulation which needs to be reviewed, assessed and embedded into day-to-day operational and business 
practices across the Group as a whole. This is particularly the case in the current market environment, which  
is witnessing increased levels of government and regulatory intervention in the banking sector. 

The Group continues to face political and regulatory scrutiny as a result of the Group’s perceived systemic 
importance following the acquisition of HBOS. At the time of the acquisition, the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) 
identified some competition concerns in the UK personal current accounts and mortgages markets and for 
SME banking in Scotland. The OFT reiterated that it would keep these under review and consider whether 
to refer any banking markets to the Competition Commission if it identifies any prevention, restriction or 
distortion of competition. 

The UK Government appointed an Independent Commission on Banking to review possible structural 
measures to reform the banking system and promote stability and competition. That commission will publish 
its final report by the end of September 2011. The Treasury Select Committee is conducting an examination 
of competition in retail banking. It is too early to quantify the potential impact of these developments on 
the Group.

From April 2011, lead regulation and supervision of the Group’s activities will begin transitioning from the FSA 
to the new Financial Conduct Authority for conduct of business supervision and the Prudential Regulatory 
Authority for capital and liquidity supervision. In addition, from 2011, the European Banking Authority, the 
European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority and the European Securities and Markets Authority 
as new EU Supervisory Authorities are likely to have greater influence on regulatory approaches across the EU. 
These could lead to changes in how the Group is regulated and supervised on a day-to-day basis.

Evolving capital and liquidity requirements continue to be a priority for the Group. In September 2010 and 
further clarified in December 2010, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision put forward proposals for 
a reform package which changes the regulatory capital and liquidity standards, the definition of ‘capital’, 
introduces new definitions for the calculation of counterparty credit risk and leverage ratios, additional capital 
buffers and development of a global liquidity standard. Implementation of these changes is expected to be 
phased in between 2012 and 2018.

The Group is currently assessing the impacts of these regulatory developments and will participate in the 
consultation and calibration processes to be undertaken by the various regulatory bodies during 2011. The 
insurance division is progressing its plans to achieve Solvency II compliance. The Group continues to work 
closely with the regulatory authorities and industry associations to ensure that it is able to identify and respond 
to proposed regulatory changes and mitigate against risks to the Group and its stakeholders.

There is a risk that certain aspects of the Group’s business may be determined by the authorities or the courts 
as not being conducted in accordance with applicable laws or regulations, or with what is fair and reasonable in 
their opinion. The Group may also be liable for damages to third parties harmed by the conduct of its business.

 
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Risk: Definition 

Features 

Liquidity and funding: Liquidity 
risk is defined as the risk that 
the Group has insufficient 
financial resources to meet its 
commitments as they fall due,  
or can only secure them at 
excessive cost. 

Funding risk is defined as the risk 
that the Group does not have 
sufficiently stable and diverse 
sources of funding or the funding 
structure is inefficient.

Market Risk: The risk of reductions 
in earnings and/or value, through 
financial or reputational loss, 
from unfavourable market 
moves; including changes in, and 
increased volatility of, interest 
rates, market-implied inflation 
rates, credit spreads, foreign 
exchange rates, equity, property 
and commodity prices.

Insurance Risk: The risk of 
reductions in earnings and/or  
value, through financial or 
reputational loss, due to 
fluctuations in the timing, 
frequency and severity of insured/
underwritten events and to 
fluctuations in the timing and 
amount of claims settlements.

Arising in the banking business of the Group through the Retail, Wholesale and Wealth and International 
divisions reflecting the risk that the Group is unable to attract and retain either retail, wholesale or corporate 
deposits or issue debt securities. Like all major banks, the Group is dependent on confidence in the short and 
longer term wholesale funding markets; should the Group, due to exceptional circumstances, be unable to 
continue to source sustainable funding and provide liquidity when necessary, the Group’s ability to fund its 
financial obligations could be impacted. 

The key dependencies for successfully funding the Group’s balance sheet include the continued functioning 
of the money and capital markets; successful right sizing of the Group’s balance sheet; the continuation of 
HM Treasury and Bank of England facilities in accordance with the terms agreed; limited further deterioration 
in the UK’s and the Group’s credit rating and no significant or sudden withdrawal of deposits resulting in 
increased reliance on wholesale funding markets. A return to the extreme market conditions of 2008 would 
place a strain on the Group’s ability to meet its financial commitments.

Liquidity and funding risks are managed within a Board approved framework using a range of metrics to 
monitor the Group’s profile against its stated appetite and potential market conditions. 

Market risk is managed within a Board approved framework using a range of metrics to monitor the Group’s 
profile against its stated appetite and potential market conditions.

The principal market risks are as follows:

There is a risk to the Group’s banking income arising from the level of interest rates and the margin of interbank 
rates over central bank rates. A further banking risk arises from competitive pressures on product terms in 
existing loans and deposits, which sometimes restrict the Group in its ability to change interest rates applying 
to customers in response to changes in interbank and central bank rates. 

The main equity market risks arise in the life assurance companies and staff pension schemes. Credit 
spread risk arises in the life assurance companies, pension schemes and banking businesses. Equity market 
movements and changes in credit spreads impact the Group’s results.

Continuing concerns about the scale of deficits in Ireland and southern European countries resulted in 
increased credit spreads in the areas affected, and fears of contagion affected the Euro and widened spreads 
between central bank and interbank rates.

The Group’s trading activity is small relative to its peers and is not considered to be a principal risk. The average 
95 per cent 1-day trading Value at Risk (VaR) was £7.4 million for 2010.

The major sources of insurance risk are within the insurance businesses and the staff defined benefit pension 
schemes. 

Insurance risk is inherent in the insurance business and can be affected by customer behaviour. Insurance risks 
accepted relate primarily to mortality, longevity, morbidity, persistency, expenses, property and unemployment. 

The primary insurance risk carried by the Group’s defined benefit pension schemes is related to longevity. 

Insurance risks typically, and longevity in particular, crystallise gradually over time. Actuarial assumption 
setting for financial reporting and liability management requires expert judgement as to when evidence of an 
emerging trend is sufficient to require an alteration to long-run assumptions.

Overview

Business review

Governance

Financial statements

Other information

Group profile 

Group structure 

Group performance 

Strategy and progress 

Chairman’s statement 

Group Chief Executive’s review 

Addressing the key issues 

Marketplace trends 

1

2

3

4

6

8

10

12

Summary of Group results 

Divisional results 

Other financial information 

14

26

52

Board of Directors 

Directors’ report 

Corporate governance report 

110

112

114

Five year financial summary 

56 

Directors’ remuneration report  124

Our people 

Corporate responsibility 
Risk management 

57

60
65

Shareholder information 

Glossary 

Abbreviations 

Index to annual report 

284

285

290

291

Report of the independent  
auditors on the consolidated  
financial statements 

Consolidated  
financial statements 

Notes to the consolidated  
financial statements 

Report of the independent  
auditors on the parent company 
financial statements 

Parent company financial 
statements 

Notes to the parent company 
financial statements 

144

146

153

272

273

276

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Risk: Definition 

Features 

Customer treatment: The risk 
of regulatory censure and/or 
a reduction in earnings/value, 
through financial or reputational 
loss, from inappropriate or poor 
customer treatment.

People: The risk of reductions in 
earnings and/or value, through 
financial or reputational loss, 
from inappropriate colleague 
actions and behaviour, industrial 
action, legal action in relation 
to people, or health and safety 
issues. Loss can also be incurred 
through failure to recruit, retain, 
train, reward and incentivise 
appropriately skilled staff to 
achieve business objectives and 
through failure to take appropriate 
action as a result of staff 
underperformance.

Integration: The risk that 
Lloyds Banking Group fails to 
realise the business growth 
opportunities, revenue benefits, 
cost synergies, operational 
efficiencies and other benefits 
anticipated from, or incurs 
unanticipated costs and losses 
associated with, the acquisition  
of HBOS plc.

Customer treatment and how the Group manages its customer relationships affects all aspects of the Group’s 
operations and is closely aligned with achievement of the Group’s strategic aim – to create deep long lasting 
relationships with its customers. There is currently a high level of scrutiny regarding the treatment of customers 
by financial institutions from the press, politicians and regulatory bodies.

The FSA continues to drive focus on conduct of business activities and has established a new approach to 
supervision of Conduct Risk, replacing the previous ‘Treating Customers Fairly’ initiative for retail customers. 
Under this new regime the FSA has indicated that it will seek to place greater emphasis on product 
governance and contract terms in general, and will seek to intervene much earlier in the product lifecycle to 
prevent customer detriment. The FSA also continues to carry out thematic reviews on a variety of issues across 
the industry as a whole, for example complaints handling. The Group actively engages with the regulatory 
authorities and other stakeholders on these key customer treatment challenges, which includes for example, 
PPI (see note 54 to the financial statements on page 237 ‘Contingent liabilities and commitments’).

The Group has policies, procedures and governance arrangements in place to facilitate the fair treatment 
of customers. Since the acquisition of HBOS, the Group has made significant progress in aligning its 
approach to Treating Customers Fairly across both heritages. In addition the Group has aligned its 
Treating Customers Fairly governance and management information arrangements, with customer impact 
being a key factor in assessing every integration proposition. The Group regularly reviews its product range  
to ensure that it meets regulatory requirements and is competitive in the market place.

The Group aims to attract, retain, and develop high calibre talent. Failure to do so would present a significant 
risk to delivering the Group’s overall strategy and is affected by a range of factors including:

 – Ongoing regulatory and public interest in remuneration practices

 – Delivery of the Group’s integration commitments, and

 – Uncertainty about EU state aid requirements and the Independent Commission on Banking’s proposals for 

banking reform.

The Group’s remuneration arrangements encourage compliant and appropriate behaviour from colleagues, 
in line with group policies, values and short and long term people risk priorities. The Group has continued to 
work closely with regulators, to seek to ensure compliance with our obligations. However, there is recognition 
that international consensus must be achieved to avoid UK institutions being significantly disadvantaged in 
attracting and retaining the highest calibre talent.

The Group continues to manage union relationships actively and the majority of colleagues are now on 
harmonised Terms and Conditions. There is strong ongoing commitment to support and retain colleagues 
throughout a period of significant integration and organisational change. Active monitoring of the Colleague 
Engagement Survey, allows the Group to understand engagement levels. These continue to increase and are 
now exceeding industry benchmarking for high performing organisations.

Lloyds Banking Group is closely engaged with the UK Government and regulators on reform proposals, and 
with the EU on disposal arrangements, to influence and manage colleague uncertainty.

The integration of the two heritage organisations continues to be one of the largest integration challenges 
that has been seen in the UK financial services industry. The Group’s Integration Execution Board, chaired by 
the Group Operations Director, continues to oversee the integration process and progress is being regularly 
reviewed by the Group Executive Committee and Group Board. While there continue to be delivery risks to 
the programme, not least the risk of new regulatory requirements which may have an effect on resourcing, the 
Group is now two years into the integration programme and has a fully developed and functioning governance 
framework to manage these risks. There is a clear understanding of the phased deliverables to ensure effective 
delivery through to 2012. 

 
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TABLE 1.3: RISK DRIVERS

Primary 
risk drivers

Business
Risk

Credit
Risk

Market
Risk

Insurance
Risk

Operational
Risk

Financial
Soundness

Detailed 
risk types

Execution of
strategy 

Retail

Wholesale

Wealth and
International

Interest rate

Foreign
exchange

Equity

Credit spread

Mortality

Longevity

Morbidity

Persistency

Property

Expenses

Unemployment

Legal and regulatory

Customer
treatment

People

Supplier management

Customer processes

Financial crime

Money laundering
and sanctions

Security

IT systems

Change

Organisational
infrastructure

Capital

Liquidity 
and funding

Financial and
prudential
regulatory
reporting

Disclosure

Tax

RISK DRIVERS
The Group’s risk language is designed to capture the Group’s ‘primary 
risk drivers’. A description of each ‘primary risk driver’, including 
definition, appetite, control and exposures, is included below. These 
are further sub divided into 31 more granular risk types to enable more 
detailed review and facilitate appropriate reporting and monitoring, as 
set out in table 1.3.

Through the Group’s risk management processes, these risks are 
assessed on an ongoing basis and seek to ensure optimisation of risk 
and reward and that, where required, appropriate mitigation is in place. 
Both quantitative and qualitative factors are considered in assessing  
the Group’s current and potential future risks.

BUSINESS RISK

DEFINITION 
Business risk is defined as the risk that the Group’s earnings are adversely 
impacted by a sub optimal business strategy or the sub optimal 
implementation of the strategy. In assessing business risk, consideration 
is given to internal and external factors.

RISK APPETITE
Business risk appetite is encapsulated in the Group’s budget and 
medium-term plan, which are sanctioned by the Board on an annual 
basis. Divisions’ and business units’ plans are aligned to the Group’s 
overall business risk appetite.

EXPOSURES
The Group’s portfolio of businesses exposes it to a number of internal 
and external factors:

 – internal factors: resource capability and availability, customer 

treatment, service level agreements, products and funding and the risk 
appetite of other risk categories; and

 – external factors: economic, technological, political, social and ethical, 
environmental, legal and regulatory, market expectations, reputation 
and competitive behaviour.

MEASUREMENT
An annual business planning process is conducted at group, divisional 
and business unit level which includes a quantitative and qualitative 
assessment of the risks that could impact the Group’s plans. Within the 
planning round, the Group conducts both scenario analysis and stress 
tests to assess risks to future earning streams. Stress testing and scenario 
analysis are fully embedded in the Group’s risk management practice. 
The Group assesses a wide array of scenarios including economic 
recessions, regulatory action scenarios, scenarios specific to the 
operations of each part of the business, as well as reverse stress tests.

MITIGATION
As part of the annual business planning process, the Group develops 
a set of management actions to prevent or mitigate the impact on 
earnings in the event that business risks materialise. Additionally, 
business risk monitoring, through regular reports and oversight, results  
in corrective actions to plans and reductions in exposures where 
necessary.

Revenue and capital investment decisions require additional formal 
assessment and approval. Formal risk assessment is conducted as part 
of the financial approval process. Significant mergers and acquisitions by 
business units require specific approval by the Board. In addition to the 
standard due diligence conducted during a merger or acquisition, group 
risk conducts, where appropriate, an independent risk assessment of the 
target company.

MONITORING
The Group’s strategy is reviewed and approved by the Board. 
Reputational risk is covered at a number of levels throughout the 
organisation, which includes the Group Executive Committee and  
the Group Business Risk Committee. Regular reports are provided  
to the Group Executive Committee and the Board on the progress  
of the Group’s key strategies and plans. Group Risk conducts oversight 
to seek to ensure that business plans remain consistent with the 
Group’s strategy.

Overview

Business review

Governance

Financial statements

Other information

Group profile 

Group structure 

Group performance 

Strategy and progress 

Chairman’s statement 

Group Chief Executive’s review 

Addressing the key issues 

Marketplace trends 

1

2

3

4

6

8

10

12

Summary of Group results 

Divisional results 

Other financial information 

14

26

52

Board of Directors 

Directors’ report 

Corporate governance report 

110

112

114

Five year financial summary 

56 

Directors’ remuneration report  124

Our people 

Corporate responsibility 
Risk management 

57

60
65

Shareholder information 

Glossary 

Abbreviations 

Index to annual report 

284

285

290

291

Report of the independent  
auditors on the consolidated  
financial statements 

Consolidated  
financial statements 

Notes to the consolidated  
financial statements 

Report of the independent  
auditors on the parent company 
financial statements 

Parent company financial 
statements 

Notes to the parent company 
financial statements 

144

146

153

272

273

276

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AUDITED INFORMATION

CREDIT RISK

DEFINITION
The risk of reductions in earnings and/or value, through financial  
or reputational loss, as a result of the failure of the party with whom 
the Group has contracted to meet its obligations (both on and off 
balance sheet).

RISK APPETITE
Credit risk appetite is set by the Board and is described and reported 
through a suite of metrics derived from a combination of accounting 
and credit portfolio performance measures, which in turn use the various 
credit risk rating systems as inputs. These metrics are supported by 
a comprehensive suite of policies, sector caps, product and country 
limits to manage concentration risk and exposures within the Group’s 
approved risk appetite.

This statement of the Group’s overall appetite for credit risk is reviewed 
and approved annually by the Board. With the support of the Group 
Credit Risk Committee and Group Business Risk Committee, the Group 
Chief Executive allocates this risk appetite across the Group. Individual 
members of the Group Executive Committee ensure that credit risk 
appetite is further delegated to an appropriate level within their areas 
of responsibility.

EXPOSURES
The principal sources of credit risk within the Group arise from loans 
and advances to retail customers, financial institutions and corporate 
clients. The credit risk exposures of the Group are set out in note 56 
to the financial statements on page 251. Credit risk exposures are 
categorised as ‘retail’ arising in the Retail and Wealth and International 
Divisions and ‘wholesale’ arising in the Wholesale and Wealth and 
International Divisions.

In terms of loans and advances, credit risk arises both from amounts 
lent and commitments to extend credit to a customer as required. 
These commitments can take the form of loans and overdrafts, or 
credit instruments such as guarantees and standby, documentary and 
commercial letters of credit. With respect to commitments to extend 
credit, the Group is potentially exposed to loss in an amount equal to 
the total unused commitments. However, the likely amount of loss is 
less than the total unused commitments, as most retail commitments to 
extend credit can be cancelled and the creditworthiness of customers 
is monitored frequently. In addition, most wholesale commitments to 
extend credit are contingent upon customers maintaining specific credit 
standards, which are regularly monitored.

Credit risk can also arise from debt securities, private equity investments, 
derivatives and foreign exchange activities. Note 19 to the financial 
statements on page 184 shows the total notional principal amount 
of interest rate, exchange rate, credit derivative and equity and other 
contracts outstanding at 31 December 2010. The notional principal 
amount does not, however, represent the Group’s credit risk exposure, 
which is limited to the current cost of replacing contracts with a positive 
value to the Group. Such amounts are reflected in note 56 on page 251.

Credit risk exposures in the insurance businesses arise primarily from 
holding investments and from exposure to reinsurers. A significant  
proportion of the investments are held in unit-linked and with-profits 
funds where the shareholder risk is limited, subject to any 
guarantees given.

MEASUREMENT
In measuring the credit risk of loans and advances to customers and 
to banks at a counterparty level, the Group reflects three components: 
(i) the ‘probability of default’ by the counterparty on its contractual 
obligations; (ii) current exposures to the counterparty and their likely 
future development, from which the Group derives the ‘exposure at 
default’; and (iii) the likely loss ratio on the defaulted obligations (the 
‘loss given default’).

The Group’s rating systems assess probability of default and if 
Advanced, exposure at default and loss given default, in order to derive 
an expected loss. (If not Advanced, regulatory prescribed exposure 
at default and loss given default values are used in order to derive an 
expected loss). In contrast, impairment allowances are recognised for 
financial reporting purposes only for loss events that have occurred at 
the balance sheet date, based on objective evidence of impairment (see 
note 2(H) to the financial statements on page 158). Due to the different 
methodologies applied, the amount of incurred credit losses provided 
for in the financial statements differs from the amount determined 
from the expected loss models that are used for internal operational 
management and banking regulation purposes.

The Group assesses the probability of default of individual 
counterparties using internal rating models tailored to the various 
categories of counterparty. In its principal retail portfolios and a number 
of wholesale lending portfolios, exposure at default and loss given 
default models are also in use. They have been developed internally 
and use statistical analysis, combined, where appropriate, with external 
data and subject matter expert judgement. Each rating model is subject 
to a validation process, undertaken by independent risk teams, which 
includes benchmarking to externally available data, where possible. 
The most material rating models are approved by the Group Model 
Governance Committee.

Each probability of default model segments counterparties into 
a number of rating grades, each representing a defined range of 
default probabilities. Exposures migrate between rating grades if the 
assessment of the counterparty probability of default changes. Each 
rating system is required to map to a master scale, which supports the 
consolidation of credit risk information across portfolios through the 
adoption of a common rating scale. Given the differing risk profiles and 
credit rating considerations, the underlying risk reporting has been split 
into two distinct master scales, a retail master scale and a wholesale 
master scale.

(Note 56 to the financial statements provides an analysis of the portfolio 
and pages 79 to 88 provide details of our Credit risk portfolio.)

 
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RISK MANAGEMENT 

AUDITED INFORMATION

MITIGATION
The Group uses a range of approaches to mitigate credit risk.

Internal control
The Group follows a through the economic cycle, relationship based, 
business model with risk management processes, appetites and 
experienced staff in place. These policies and procedures define chosen 
target market and risk acceptance criteria. These have been, and will 
continue to be fine-tuned as appropriate and include the use of early 
warning indicators to help anticipate future areas of concern and allow 
us to take early and proactive mitigating actions.

Credit principles and policy: Group Risk sets out the Group credit 
principles and policy according to which credit risk is managed, which  
in turn is the basis for divisional and business unit credit policy. Principles 
and policies are reviewed at least annually, and any changes are subject 
to a review and approval process. Divisional and business unit policies 
include lending guidelines, which define the responsibilities of lending 
officers and provide a disciplined and focused benchmark for credit 
decisions.

Counterparty limits: Limits are set against all types of exposure in a 
counterparty name, in accordance with an agreed methodology for each 
exposure type. This includes credit risk exposure on individual derivative 
transactions, which incorporates potential future exposures from market 
movements. Aggregate facility levels by counterparty are set and limit 
breaches are subject to escalation procedures.

Credit scoring: In its principal retail portfolios, the Group uses statistically 
based decisioning techniques (primarily credit scoring models). 
Divisional risk departments review model effectiveness, while new 
models and model changes are referred by them to divisional model 
governance committees for approval. The most material changes are 
referred to the Group Model Governance Committee.

Individual credit assessment and sanction: Credit risk in wholesale 
portfolios is subject to individual credit assessments, which consider the 
strengths and weaknesses of individual transactions and the balance of 
risk and reward. Exposure to individual counterparties, groups of 
counterparties or customer risk segments is controlled through a tiered 
hierarchy of delegated sanctioning authorities. Approval requirements 
for each decision are based on the transaction amount, the customer’s 
aggregate facilities, credit risk ratings and the nature and term of the 
risk. The Group’s credit risk appetite criteria for counterparty 
underwriting are the same as that for assets intended to be held over  
the period to maturity.

Controls over rating systems: The Group has established an 
independent team in Group Risk that sets common minimum standards, 
designed to ensure risk models and associated rating systems are 
developed consistently, and are of sufficient quality to support business 
decisions and meet regulatory requirements. Internal rating systems are 
developed by risk functions either in the business units or divisions, with 
the business unit managing directors having ownership of the systems. 
Line management takes responsibility for ensuring the validation of the 
rating systems, supported and challenged by independent specialist 
functions in their respective division.

Cross-border and cross-currency exposures: Country limits are 
authorised by the country limits panel, taking into account economic, 
financial, political and social factors. Group policies stipulate that these 
limits must be consistent with, and support the approved business and 
strategic plans of the Group.

Concentration risk: Credit risk management includes portfolio controls 
on certain industries, sectors and product lines to reflect risk appetite. 
Credit policy is aligned to the Group’s risk appetite and restricts 
exposure to certain high risk countries and more vulnerable sectors 
and segments. Note 21 to the financial statements on page 188, 
provides an analysis of loans and advances to customers by industry 
(for wholesale customers) and product (for retail customers). Exposures 
are monitored to prevent an excessive concentration of risk. These 
concentration risk controls are not necessarily in the form of a maximum 
limit on lending, but may instead require new business in concentrated 
sectors to fulfil additional hurdle requirements. The Group’s large 
exposures are reported in accordance with regulatory reporting 
requirements.

Stress testing and scenario analysis: The credit portfolio is also subjected 
to stress testing and scenario analysis, to simulate outcomes and 
calculate their associated impact. Events are modelled at a group-wide 
level, at divisional and business unit level and by rating model and 
portfolio, for example, within a specific industry sector.

Specialist expertise: Credit quality is maintained by specialist units 
providing, for example: intensive management and control (see Intensive 
Care section); security perfection, maintenance and retention; expertise 
in documentation for lending and associated products; sector specific 
expertise; and legal services applicable to the particular market place 
and product range offered by the business.

Daily settlement limits: Settlement risk arises in any situation where a 
payment in cash, securities or equities is made in the expectation of a 
corresponding receipt in cash, securities or equities. Daily settlement 
limits are established for each counterparty to cover the aggregate of 
all settlement risk arising from the Group’s market transactions on any 
single day.

Risk assurance and oversight: Divisional and group level oversight teams 
monitor credit performance trends, review and challenge exceptions to 
planned outcomes, and test the adequacy of credit risk infrastructure 
and governance processes throughout the Group. This includes tracking 
portfolio performance against an agreed set of key risk indicators. 
Group credit risk assurance, a group level function comprising forty 
seven experienced credit professionals, is also in place. In conjunction 
with divisional and group risk senior management, this team carries out 
independent risk based credit reviews, providing individual business 
unit assessment of the effectiveness of risk management practices 
and adherence to risk controls across the diverse range of the Group’s 
wholesale and retail businesses and activities, facilitating a wide range 
of audit, assurance and review work. These include cyclical (‘standard’) 
credit reviews, non-standard reviews, project reviews, credit risk rating 
model reviews and bespoke assignments, including impairment reviews 
as required. The work of group credit risk assurance continues to provide 
executive and senior management with assurance and guidance on credit 
quality, effectiveness of credit risk controls and accuracy of impairments.

Overview

Business review

Governance

Financial statements

Other information

Group profile 

Group structure 

Group performance 

Strategy and progress 

Chairman’s statement 

Group Chief Executive’s review 

Addressing the key issues 

Marketplace trends 

1

2

3

4

6

8

10

12

Summary of Group results 

Divisional results 

Other financial information 

14

26

52

Board of Directors 

Directors’ report 

Corporate governance report 

110

112

114

Five year financial summary 

56 

Directors’ remuneration report  124

Our people 

Corporate responsibility 
Risk management 

57

60
65

Shareholder information 

Glossary 

Abbreviations 

Index to annual report 

284

285

290

291

Report of the independent  
auditors on the consolidated  
financial statements 

Consolidated  
financial statements 

Notes to the consolidated  
financial statements 

Report of the independent  
auditors on the parent company 
financial statements 

Parent company financial 
statements 

Notes to the parent company 
financial statements 

144

146

153

272

273

276

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AUDITED INFORMATION

Collateral
The principal collateral types for loans and advances are:

 – mortgages over residential and commercial real estate;

 – charges over business assets such as premises, inventory and accounts 

receivables;

 – charges over financial instruments such as debt securities and equities; 

and

 – guarantees received from third parties.

The Group maintains guidelines on the acceptability of specific classes 
of collateral.

Collateral held as security for financial assets other than loans and 
advances is determined by the nature of the instrument. Debt securities, 
treasury and other eligible bills are generally unsecured, with the 
exception of asset-backed securities and similar instruments, which 
are secured by portfolios of financial assets. Collateral is generally not 
held against loans and advances to financial institutions, except where 
securities are held as part of reverse repurchase or securities borrowing 
transactions or where a collateral agreement has been entered into 
under a master netting agreement. Collateral or other security is also 
not usually obtained for credit risk exposures on derivative instruments, 
except where the Group requires margin deposits from counterparties.

It is the Group’s policy that collateral should always be realistically valued 
by an appropriately qualified source, independent of the customer, 
at the time of borrowing. Collateral is reviewed on a regular basis in 
accordance with business unit credit policy, which will vary according 
to the type of lending and collateral involved. In order to minimise 
the credit loss, the Group may seek additional collateral from the 
counterparty as soon as impairment indicators are identified for the 
relevant individual loans and advances.

The Group considers risk concentrations by collateral providers and 
collateral type, as appropriate, with a view to ensuring that any potential 
undue concentrations of risk are identified and suitably managed by 
changes to strategy, policy and/or business plans.

Master netting agreements
Where it is efficient and likely to be effective (generally with 
counterparties with which it undertakes a significant volume of 
transactions), the Group enters into master netting agreements. 
Although master netting agreements do not generally result in an offset 
of balance sheet assets and liabilities, as transactions are usually settled 
on a gross basis, they do reduce the credit risk to the extent that, if an 
event of default occurs, all amounts with the counterparty are terminated 
and settled on a net basis. The Group’s overall exposure to credit risk on 
derivative instruments subject to master netting agreements can change 
substantially within a short period, since it is affected by each transaction 
subject to the agreement.

Other credit risk transfers
The Group also undertakes asset sales, securitisations and credit 
derivative based transactions as a means of mitigating or reducing  
credit risk, taking into account the nature of assets and the prevailing 
market conditions.

MONITORING
In conjunction with Group Risk, businesses and divisions identify and 
define portfolios of credit and related risk exposures and the key 
benchmarks, behaviours and characteristics by which those portfolios 
are managed in terms of credit risk exposure. This entails the production 
and analysis of regular portfolio monitoring reports for review by senior 
management. Group Risk in turn produces an aggregated review of 
credit risk throughout the Group, including reports on significant credit 
exposures, which are presented to the Group Credit Risk Committee, 
Group Business Risk Committee and Risk Committee.

The performance of all rating models is monitored on a regular 
basis, in order to seek to ensure that models provide appropriate risk 
differentiation capability, the generated ratings remain as accurate and 
robust as practical, and the models assign appropriate risk estimates to 
grades/pools. All models are monitored against a series of agreed key 
performance indicators. In the event that monthly monitoring identifies 
material exceptions or deviations from expected outcomes, these will  
be escalated to the appropriate Model Governance Committee.

 
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RISK MANAGEMENT 

UNAUDITED INFORMATION

 – Homeowner Mortgage Support Scheme: This is a medium-term 

Government initiative that enables borrowers affected by temporary 
reductions in income to access reduced payments for a period of 
up to two years. The Government provides a partial guarantee to 
the Group whilst a customer participates in the plan. Decisions on 
eligibility, principally whether the Group expects the borrower’s 
earnings to recover fully, initially rest with the Group and must be made 
on the basis of detailed information received from an independent 
fee-free advisor. After a year, the customer must undergo a further 
full assessment made by the advice agency. The customer must pay 
at least 30 per cent of the interest due. Any shortfall in payments 
made during the period covered by the scheme is collected through 
increased payments over the remaining term.

 – Mortgage Rescue Scheme: This is a short-term Government initiative 
for borrowers in difficulty and facing repossession, who would have 
priority for re-housing by a local authority (e.g. the elderly, disabled, 
single parents). Eligible customers can have their property bought in 
full or part by the social rented sector and then remain in their home 
as a tenant or shared equity partner. If the property is sold outright the 
mortgage is redeemed in full.

 – ‘Breathing space’ initiative: This is a Government led initiative which 

requires the banking industry to allow a ‘breathing space’ of up to sixty 
days to allow borrowers in difficulty to agree a repayment plan with 
a debt advice charity prior to any action being taken by the bank to 
recover the outstanding debt.

 – Delay Repossession: Under this initiative lenders will not begin 

repossession proceedings for at least three months when a customer  
is in arrears. This does not apply to fraud cases. The undertaking 
comes alongside an existing agreement under which mortgage 
providers are obliged to explore a range of options, such as payment 
holidays and altering the terms of a mortgage, before resorting to 
repossession. 

 – HomeBuy Direct: The HomeBuy Direct scheme covers certain newly 
built homes on specific housing developments across England. The 
scheme is provided through ‘HomeBuy agents’. HomeBuy agents are 
housing associations that have been authorised to run schemes for 
people who have difficulty buying a home. Customers can only buy 
a home through HomeBuy Direct if their household earnings are no 
more than £60,000 per annum, and they cannot otherwise afford to buy 
a home in their area. The HomeBuy Direct scheme is open to people 
who rent council or housing association properties; ‘key workers’ in the 
public sector (e.g. teachers) and first-time buyers. The scheme provides 
up to 30 per cent of the purchase price through an equity loan that has 
no repayments for the first five years. After this there is an annual fee of 
1.75 per cent, which will increase annually with inflation. The customer 
can increase their share of ownership at any time.

INTENSIVE CARE OF CUSTOMERS IN DIFFICULTY
To support corporate customers that encounter difficulties during the 
current economic downturn, the Group has continued to expand its 
dedicated business support unit (BSU) model and established a central 
team managing this activity globally. Teams have been strengthened 
in both Wholesale and especially Wealth and International to deal with 
the rise in workloads experienced during the year as the recessionary 
conditions took hold both in the UK and overseas. In Wholesale 
three teams operate to support customers experiencing difficulties 
in Corporate Real Estate, Corporate and Commercial, and Specialist 
Finance. In Wealth and International, teams have been created in Ireland 
and Australia. Under this model, relationship management passes early 
and fully to BSU; because the BSU specialists receive the customers at 
an early stage in the process they have more time to develop effective 
solutions. The strategy is to work alongside management teams and key 
stakeholders to turn around businesses in distress and re-establish these 
as viable entities. 

These specialist support teams utilise a range of techniques (including 
debt for equity swaps, sale of business and restructuring options) to 
preserve viable companies wherever possible and undertake regular 
reviews so that the customer receives the appropriate level of support. 
The reviews are also designed to ensure that support strategies continue 
to be relevant and are being executed.

Where a turnaround is not feasible, exposure is minimised through  
a combination of appropriate asset sales, restructuring and  
work-out strategies.

To support UK retail customers who are encountering financial 
difficulties, the Group has launched a cross-channel support 
programme. The Group provides support to customers in difficulty via 
trained colleagues in branches and dedicated telephony units, and via 
online guidance material. For those customers requiring more intensive 
help, assistance is provided through dedicated support units where 
tailored repayment programmes can be agreed. Customers are actively 
supported and referred to free money advice agencies where they have 
multiple credit facilities including those external to the Group, that 
require restructuring.

Within collections and recoveries, the sharing of best practice and 
alignment of policies across the Group has helped to drive more 
effective customer outcomes and achieve operational efficiencies. The 
Group has strengthened resources in collections and recoveries to help 
customers in distress by offering advice and access to a wider range of 
options such as short-term repayment plans or the government backed 
Homeowners Mortgage Support and Mortgage Rescue schemes.

A core element of our relationship management approach is to contact 
customers showing signs of financial distress, discussing with them their 
circumstances and offering solutions to prevent their accounts falling 
into arrears. 

In addition, the Group participates in the following UK Government 
(‘Government’) sponsored programmes for households:

 – Income Support for Mortgage Interest: This is a medium-term 

Government initiative that provides certain defined categories of 
customers, principally those who are unemployed, access to a benefit 
scheme, paid for by the Government, which covers all or part of the 
interest on the mortgage. Qualifying customers are able to claim for 
mortgage interest on up to £200,000 of the mortgage, and the benefit 
is payable for a maximum of two years. All decisions regarding an 
individual’s eligibility and any amounts payable under the scheme rest 
solely with the Government. Payments are made directly to the Group 
by the appropriate Government department.

Overview

Business review

Governance

Financial statements

Other information

Group profile 

Group structure 

Group performance 

Strategy and progress 

Chairman’s statement 

Group Chief Executive’s review 

Addressing the key issues 

Marketplace trends 

1

2

3

4

6

8

10

12

Summary of Group results 

Divisional results 

Other financial information 

14

26

52

Board of Directors 

Directors’ report 

Corporate governance report 

110

112

114

Five year financial summary 

56 

Directors’ remuneration report  124

Our people 

Corporate responsibility 
Risk management 

57

60
65

Shareholder information 

Glossary 

Abbreviations 

Index to annual report 

284

285

290

291

Report of the independent  
auditors on the consolidated  
financial statements 

Consolidated  
financial statements 

Notes to the consolidated  
financial statements 

Report of the independent  
auditors on the parent company 
financial statements 

Parent company financial 
statements 

Notes to the parent company 
financial statements 

144

146

153

272

273

276

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UNAUDITED INFORMATION

OUR CREDIT RISK PORTFOLIO IN 2010

OVERVIEW
 – The Group achieved a significant reduction in the impairment charge 
in 2010 to £13,181 million (from £23,988 million in 2009), due to the 
stabilisation of the wholesale portfolios and good retail affordability 
and performance. Improvements in Wholesale and Retail more than 
offset increased impairment charges in Ireland and Australia, caused  
by difficult market conditions.

 – Prudent, ‘through the cycle’ credit policies and procedures are in 

place throughout the Group, focusing on development of enduring 
client relationships. This resulted in higher quality new business being 
originated across the UK. Very little new origination took place outside 
the UK. 

 – The Group’s level of impairment is being managed successfully in the 
current challenging economic environment by the Wholesale business 
support units and Retail collection and recovery units. The business 
support model has been expanded from Wholesale across Wealth and 
International division, with a central team established to manage its 
business support activity globally. The Group has also strengthened 
resources within Retail collections and recoveries to enable more 
timely engagement with customers experiencing difficulties to drive 
more effective customer outcomes. 

 – The Group actively reduced limits to Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Greece 
and Spain over the last two years, with the associated country risk 
profile modest in the context of the Group’s asset base. Except for 
Ireland, the 2011 base case impairment forecast for these countries is 
de-minimis in the context of the Group.

 – The closure of our Bank of Scotland (Ireland) Limited business was 

completed on the 31 December 2010 and a new operating structure 
came into existence, focused on intensive management of the closed 
book to optimise the winding up of our lending.

As well as these Government-sponsored initiatives, the Group, through 
its banking businesses, also operates a number of its own schemes to 
assist households. These include:

 – Short-term reduced or nil arrangements: This is an arrangement 

whereby customers who are experiencing short-term difficulties may 
be granted a reduced (including nil) payment arrangement. This is 
agreed with the customer based on their individual circumstances; nil 
payment arrangements can be granted for up to three months and 
reduced payment arrangements for up to six months. There is no 
reduction in contractual terms for customers on these arrangements.

 – Term extensions: This allows customers to extend their mortgage term 
in order to reduce their contractual monthly payment. The maximum 
term is aligned to the overall standard term limits for mortgages and 
there is no forbearance of any debt.

 – Transfer to interest only: This allows customers who are currently on a 

capital and interest repayment basis to transfer to an interest only basis 
for a period of time (up to three years maximum) in order to reduce 
their contractual monthly payment.

 – Contractual repayment: This scheme allows customers in arrears, but 

who have made sufficient payments in a six month period, to capitalise 
their arrears. The contractual repayment is then adjusted to provide full 
repayment of the loan and full interest within the agreed original term.

The Group’s accounting policy for loan renegotiations and forbearance 
is set out on page 159.

In addition to these household-related initiatives, the Group, through its 
banking businesses, participates in a number of initiatives designed to 
assist small and medium-sized enterprises. These include:

 – The Lending Code: Introduced by the British Bankers’ Association in 

November 2009, the Lending Code is a voluntary set of commitments 
and standards of good practice to ensure that lenders act fairly and 
reasonably in all dealings with customers.

 – Statement of Principles: The Group through a number of its businesses 

has signed up to the Statement of Principles outlining an agreed 
approach to working with micro-enterprises (entities with fewer 
than 10 employees and having a turnover of less than €2 million). 
The principles include how to ensure that the right relationship is 
established from the start, how to help if the business faces difficulties 
and how businesses can work most effectively with their bank.

 – As part of the Group’s commitment to the Statement of Principles, it 
issues a Letter of Concern to customers when it has concerns about 
their business or the Group’s relationship with them. This ensures that 
the customer understands the Group’s concerns; the approach aims to 
generate early dialogue between the customer and the Group, so that 
a joint approach to the situation can be developed.

 – Business Lending Taskforce: The Group through its banking businesses 
is actively involved in the recently set up Business Lending Taskforce, 
which has committed to 17 actions in three broad areas: (i) improving 
customer relationships; (ii) ensuring better access to finance; and 
(iii) providing better information and promoting understanding.

 
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TABLE 1.4: IMPAIRMENTS ON GROUP LOANS AND ADVANCES
(audited)

As at 31 December 2010

Retail

Wholesale

Wealth and 
International

Hedging and  
other items

Loans and  
advances
£m 

Impaired 
loans
£m

Impaired 
loans as 
a % of 
closing 
advances
%

Impair-
ment 
provisions1
£m

368,981

9,750

2.6

3,096

187,651 34,514

18.4 15,855

Impair-
ment 
provisions 
as a % of 
impaired 
loans
% 

31.8

45.9

66,368 20,342

30.7 10,684

52.5

3,378

–

–

–

–

626,378 64,606

10.3 29,635

45.9

Impairment provisions (29,635)

Fair value adjustments

(4,146)

592,597

As at 31 December 2009 

Retail

Wholesale

Wealth and 
International
Hedging and  
other items

378,005

11,015

2.9

3,806

210,934

35,114

16.6

17,179

34.6

48.9

69,402

12,704

18.3

5,003

39.4

1,663

660,004

58,833

8.9

25,988

44.2

Impairment provisions

(25,988)

Fair value adjustments

(7,047)

626,969

1

Impairment provisions include collective unimpaired provisions.

TABLE 1.5: IMPAIRMENT CHARGE BY DIVISION (audited)

Retail

Wholesale

Wealth and International

Total impairment charge 

2009 
£m 

Change 
% 

2010 
£m 

2,747

4,446

5,988

4,227

15,683

4,078

13,181

23,988

35

72

(47)

45

EUROPEAN SOVEREIGN EXPOSURES (unaudited)
As at 31 December 2010, the Group had in aggregate, minimal direct 
exposure to the national and local governments of Portugal, Ireland, 
Italy, Greece and Spain.

OUTLOOK – GROUP (unaudited)
Based on its latest economic assumptions, as set out on page 12,  
the Group expects an improved impairment charge in 2011 compared 
with 2010. 

While the second half of 2010 has seen most countries exiting from 
recession, forecasts are that the UK recovery will continue to be at  
a modest pace and is likely to be protracted. The risks to the impairment 
charge remain skewed to the downside across all lending businesses. In 
the UK, business and consumer confidence remain fragile and the extent 
to which simultaneous fiscal tightening might undermine global and UK 
growth is unclear. Contagion from the Irish bail-out to other Eurozone 
economies could drive further fiscal tightening and worsen the outlook 
further. Rising commodity prices driven by strong recovery in Asia might 
fuel a further increase in inflation, prompting short-term interest rates 
to rise more quickly than anticipated. Potential interest rate rises, public 
spending cuts and reduced consumer spending could cause cashflow 
stress and higher levels of default amongst mid-market corporates and 
Commercial customers in particular. In addition, in our commercial real 
estate book, any deterioration in the economy could increase the level 
of tenant defaults and reduce capital values further from an already 
depressed level, particularly in the regions. Further significant falls in 
house prices, real disposable household income or increasing interest 
rates, would result in a higher secured retail impairment charge relative 
to current expectations.

A ‘double-dip’ scenario – a second recession following closely the one 
from which the economy is just emerging – remains a key downside 
risk to UK impairment charges. This is because it would result in 
further significant increases in corporate failures and unemployment 
during 2011-12, as well as causing a second period of falling prices for 
residential and commercial property, tenant defaults would increase 
and central banks would have limited ability to cushion the downturn. 
Together, these factors could lead to increased impairments across the 
Group’s UK portfolios.

The Group’s exposure to Ireland and Australia is being closely managed. 
In post bail-out Ireland, the fragility of the economy and political system 
could cause further credit quality deterioration within our closed book. 
Australia, while benefiting from a commodities export boom, continues 
to be affected by deteriorating property markets in the geographic areas 
and property classes where the Group is exposed. Base rate increases 
are an additional threat to affordability in our Australian property and 
acquisition finance books.

 
 
 
 
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Addressing the key issues 

Marketplace trends 

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2

3

4

6

8

10

12

Summary of Group results 

Divisional results 

Other financial information 

14

26

52

Board of Directors 

Directors’ report 

Corporate governance report 

110

112

114

Five year financial summary 

56 

Directors’ remuneration report  124

Our people 

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Risk management 

57

60
65

Shareholder information 

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Abbreviations 

Index to annual report 

284

285

290

291

Report of the independent  
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financial statements 

Consolidated  
financial statements 

Notes to the consolidated  
financial statements 

Report of the independent  
auditors on the parent company 
financial statements 

Parent company financial 
statements 

Notes to the parent company 
financial statements 

144

146

153

272

273

276

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RETAIL

OVERVIEW (unaudited)
 – The Retail impairment charge was £2,747 million in 2010, a decrease  

of £1,480 million, or 35 per cent, from 2009.

 – The decrease in the Retail impairment charge was driven primarily 
by the improved quality of new business and effective portfolio 
management, coupled with a continuing slow recovery of the 
economy. The Retail impairment charge for loans and advances 
to customers, as an annualised percentage of average loans and 
advances to customers, decreased to 0.74 per cent from 1.11 per cent 
in 2009.

 – New lending quality continues to be good with subsequent early 

arrears at pre-recessionary levels.

 – Average loan-to-value on new mortgage lending in the year was 
60.9 per cent (59.3 per cent for 2009) while the average indexed 
loan-to-value on the mortgage portfolio was 55.6 per cent 
(54.8 per cent at 31 December 2009) consistent with a net fall in house 
prices since December 2009.

TABLE 1.7: IMPAIRMENTS ON RETAIL LOANS AND ADVANCES
(audited)
As at 31 December 2010

Loans and 
advances  

£m

Impaired 
loans 
£m

341,069

6,769

27,912 

2,981 

Secured

Unsecured

Total gross lending

368,981

9,750

Impairment provisions

(3,096)

Fair value adjustments

(2,154)

363,731

As at 31 December 2009 

Loans and 
advances  
£m

Impaired 
loans  
£m

345,900

32,105

7,196

3,819

Impaired 
loans as 
a % of 
closing 
advances 
%

Impair-
ment
provisions1
£m

Impair-
ment 
provisions 
as a % of 
impaired 
loans 
%

2.0

10.7

2.6

1,589

1,507

3,096

23.5

50.6 

31.8

Impaired 
loans as 
a % of 
closing 
advances 
%

Impairment 
provisions 
as a % of 
impaired 
loans 
% 

Impairment
 provisions1
£m

2.1

11.9

2.9

1,693

2,113

3,806

23.5

55.3

34.6

 – Overall volume of customers entering arrears in 2010 compared to 
2009 was lower for unsecured lending and flat for secured lending. 
Secured early arrears balances increased in the second half of 2010.

Secured

Unsecured

TABLE 1.6: RETAIL IMPAIRMENT CHARGE (audited)

Secured

Unsecured

Total impairment charge 

2010 
£m 

292

2,455

2,747

2009 
£m 

789

3,438

4,227

Total gross lending

378,005

11,015

Change 
% 

Impairment provisions

(3,806)

Fair value adjustments

(3,141)

63

29

35

1

Impairment provisions include collective unimpaired provisions.

371,058

The Retail division’s loans and advances to customers are analysed in the 
following table: 

Retail’s impairment charge decreased by £1,480 million to £2,747 million 
in 2010 compared with 2009 and was lower in both secured and 
unsecured portfolios. This improvement was driven primarily by the 
improved quality of new business and effective portfolio management, 
coupled with the continuing slow recovery of the economy. The lower 
secured impairment charge reflected a reduction in impaired loans and 
improved arrears in the first half of 2010. Across Retail in 2010, there 
were fewer cases going into arrears. The impairment charge on loans 
and advances to customers, as an annualised percentage of average 
loans and advances to customers, decreased to 0.74 per cent from 
1.11 per cent in 2009.

IMPAIRED LOANS AND PROVISIONS (audited)
Retail impaired loans decreased by £1.2 billion to £9.8 billion compared 
with 31 December 2009 and, as a percentage of closing loans and 
advances to customers, decreased to 2.6 per cent from 2.9 per cent 
at 31 December 2009. The reduction in the value of impaired loans 
reflected the continuing low interest rate environment for mortgages 
and fewer unsecured loans going into arrears. Impairment provisions, 
as a percentage of impaired loans, reduced to 31.8 per cent from 
34.6 per cent at 31 December 2009 largely driven by more stringent 
criteria for new and existing unsecured collections repayment plans 
resulting in highly provided assets being written-off. 

TABLE 1.8: RETAIL LOANS AND ADVANCES TO CUSTOMERS (audited)
As at 31 December

2010
£m

 2009
£m

Secured:

Mainstream

Buy to let

Specialist

Unsecured:

Credit cards

Personal loans

Bank accounts

Others, including joint ventures

Total Retail gross lending

265,368

270,069

46,356

44,236

  29,345     31,595

341,069

345,900

11,207

13,881

2,624

200 

12,301

16,940

2,629

  235

27,912

32,105

368,981

378,005

OUTLOOK – RETAIL (unaudited)
The Group remains cautious about the pace and consistency of economic 
recovery and how this may impact our customers. The outlook assumes 
a slow economic recovery resulting in an improvement in the unsecured 
impairment charge. In the secured portfolio however, there are a mixture 
of signals from lead indicators, including falling house prices and an 
increase in secured arrears in the second half of 2010, which lead Retail to 
expect a higher secured impairment charge in 2011. Overall the Group 
anticipates a modest reduction in Retail’s 2011 impairment charge based 
on the current outlook of a modestly improving economic environment.

 
 
 
 
 
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RISK MANAGEMENT 

SECURED

SECURED IMPAIRMENT CHARGE (unaudited)
The impairment charge decreased by £497 million, to £292 million in 
2010 compared to the previous year. The main drivers of the reduction 
were continued benefits from internal activities (risk and collections 
policies), maintained affordability and the continuing slow recovery 
of the economy. However, for the second half of 2010 the impairment 
charge was greater than the first half due to falling house prices 
combined with a worsening house price outlook towards the end of  
the period. The impairment charge for loans and advances to customers, 
as a percentage of average loans and advances to customers, decreased 
to 0.09 per cent from 0.23 per cent in 2009.

Provisions held against secured assets reflect adequate allowance for 
incurred losses including customers currently on repayment plans or in 
financial difficulties who are maintaining their repayments whilst interest 
rates are very low. 

SECURED IMPAIRED LOANS (unaudited)
Impaired loans decreased by £0.4 billion to £6.8 billion at 31 December 
2010 and, as a percentage of closing loans and advances to customers, 
reduced to 2.0 per cent from 2.1 per cent at 31 December 2009. The 
reduction in the value of impaired loans reflects the continued ability 
of customers to afford their mortgage payments in a low interest rate 
environment. 

The number of customers going into arrears remained stable throughout 
2010. In the second half of 2010 fewer accounts in arrears returned to 
order resulting in higher early arrears balances for 31 December 2010 
compared to 30 June 2010. As reported at the 2009 year end, Specialist 
lending remains closed to new business and this book is in run-off.

SECURED ARREARS (unaudited) 
The percentage of mortgage cases greater than three months in  
arrears (excluding repossessions) remained stable at 2.3 per cent  
at 31 December 2010 compared to 31 December 2009. 

TABLE 1.9: MORTGAGES GREATER THAN THREE MONTHS IN 
ARREARS (EXCLUDING POSSESSIONS) (audited)

Greater than  
three months in arrears  
(excluding repossessions)

Mainstream

Buy to let

Specialist

Total

Greater than  
three months in arrears  
(excluding repossessions)

Mainstream

Buy to let

Specialist

Total

Number of cases

Total mortgage 
accounts %

31 Dec
2010
Cases

31 Dec
2009
Cases

31 Dec
2010 
%

31 Dec
2009
%

55,675

57,837

7,577

7,557

12,582

13,848

75,834

79,242

2.1

1.8

6.4

2.3

2.1

1.9

6.6

2.3

Value of debt1

31 Dec
2010
£m

6,247

1,157

2,262

9,666

31 Dec
2009
£m

 6,407

 1,159

 2,498

10,064

Total mortgage 
balances %

31 Dec
2010
%

31 Dec
2009
%

2.4

2.5

7.7

2.8

2.4

2.6

7.9

2.9

1

 Value of debt represents total book value of mortgages in arrears but not repossessed.

The stock of repossession cases rose from 2,720 at 31 December 2009 
to 3,043 at 31 December 2010. This still represents a relatively low 
proportion of the portfolio and was broadly consistent with prior years.

Secured loan to value analysis (unaudited)
Management actions have resulted in new lending quality remaining 
strong. The average loan-to-value ratio (LTV) for new mortgages and 
further advances written in 2010 was 60.9 per cent compared with 
59.3 per cent for 2009. This is primarily driven by a greater proportion 
of new lending to first-time buyers and home movers delivering on 
the Group’s commitment to support new home owners. The average 
indexed LTV on the mortgage portfolio at 31 December 2010 was 
55.6 per cent compared with 54.8 per cent at 31 December 2009. House 
prices, having initially increased, fell in the second half of 2010 resulting 
in the indexed LTV in excess of 100 per cent ending 2010 at 13.2 per cent 
of the mortgage portfolio (£44.9 billion), compared with 13.0 per cent 
(£44.8 billion) at 31 December 2009. The tables below show LTVs across 
the principal mortgage portfolios. 

The increased average LTVs for impaired Buy to let mortgages, is driven 
by the modest net fall in house prices and the seasoning of higher risk 
lending that was closed at the start of 2009.  

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2

3

4

6

8

10

12

Summary of Group results 

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14

26

52

Board of Directors 

Directors’ report 

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110

112

114

Five year financial summary 

56 

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57

60
65

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284

285

290

291

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financial statements 

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financial statements 

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statements 

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272

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100.0

100.0

100.0

100.0

from £15,683 million for 2009. 

TABLE 1.10: ACTUAL AND AVERAGE LTVS ACROSS THE PRINCIPAL 
MORTGAGE PORTFOLIOS (audited)
As at 31 December 2010

Mainstream Buy to let
% 

% 

Specialist1
% 

Total 
% 

Stock of residential mortgages

New residential lending 

Impaired mortgages 

As at 31 December 2009

51.9

60.0

72.3

75.6

66.5

97.8

72.9

n/a

87.3

Mainstream  Buy to let 
% 

% 

Specialist1 
% 

Less than 60%

60% to 70%

70% to 80%

80% to 90%

90% to 100%

Greater than 100%

Total

Average loan-to-value:

Less than 60%

60% to 70%

70% to 80%

80% to 90%

90% to 100%

Greater than 100%

Total

Average loan-to-value:

Stock of residential  
mortgages

New residential lending

Impaired mortgages 

33.0

12.1

16.1

15.3

11.9

11.6

11.4

11.1

21.9

18.0

19.1

18.5

14.0

9.4

15.9

21.3

20.0

19.4

28.5

11.7

16.8

16.2

13.6

13.2

55.6

60.9

78.0

Total 
% 

29.7 

11.6 

16.0 

15.6 

14.1 

13.0 

34.4 

11.9 

15.2 

14.3 

12.2 

12.0 

12.0 

11.3 

20.2 

19.1 

21.4 

16.0 

14.3 

9.7 

17.0 

21.5 

20.3 

17.2 

100.0 

100.0 

100.0 

100.0 

51.0 

58.3 

71.1 

75.2 

65.6 

91.5 

72.3 

73.7 

85.6 

54.8 

59.3 

76.5 

1

 Specialist lending is closed to new business and is in run-off.

UNSECURED (unaudited)
In 2010 the impairment charge on loans and advances to customers 
reduced by £983 million to £2,455 million compared with 2009. This 
reflected a continuation of the improving portfolio trends resulting 
from the Group’s prudent risk appetite, with a focus on lending towards 
existing customers, combined with stable unemployment. 

A combination of reduced demand from customers for personal 
unsecured borrowing and the Group’s prudent risk policy contributed to 
loans and advances to customers reducing by £4.2 billion to £27.9 billion 
at 31 December 2010.

Impaired loans decreased by £0.8 billion to £3.0 billion which represented  
10.7 per cent of closing loans and advances to customers at 
31 December 2010, compared with 11.9 per cent at 31 December 2009. The 
movement in impaired loans is consistent with the trends seen in both the 
flow of accounts to arrears and arrears balances, both of which have fallen 
across all unsecured products during 2010. This is a result of tightening 
credit policy across the credit lifecycle, including stronger controls on 
customer affordability, set against a stable economic environment. Retail’s 
exposure to revolving credit products has been actively managed to ensure 
that it is appropriate to customers’ changing financial circumstances. 
The portfolios’ results are supported by pre-recessionary levels of early 
arrears for accounts acquired in the last two years, highlighting an 
underlying improvement in the risk profile of the business.

Impairment provisions decreased by £0.6 billion, compared with 
31 December 2009, to £1.5 billion. Impairment provisions, as a percentage 
of impaired loans, decreased to 50.6 per cent at 31 December 2010 from 
55.3 per cent at 31 December 2009, largely driven by more stringent 
criteria for new and existing unsecured collections repayment plans 
resulting in highly provided assets being written-off.

WHOLESALE 

OVERVIEW (unaudited)
 – Impairment charge for 2010 decreased significantly to £4,446 million, 

 – Impairment experience in 2010 was better than guided a year ago 

as stabilising economic conditions led to lower impairment charges 
especially in the corporate real estate, real estate related and 
Corporate (UK and US) portfolios. 

 – A robust credit risk management and control framework is in place 

across the combined portfolios and a prudent risk appetite approach 
(largely based on Lloyds TSB’s model) continues to be embedded 
across the division. Significant resources have been deployed into the 
business support units focused on key and vulnerable obligors and 
asset classes.

TABLE 1.11: WHOLESALE IMPAIRMENT CHARGE (audited)
2009 
£m 

2010 
£m 

Change 
% 

Corporate Markets

Asset Finance

Total impairment charge 

4,182

14,855

264

828

4,446

15,683

72

68

72

Wholesale’s impairment charge decreased by £11,237 million, or 
72 per cent, compared to £15,683 million for 2009. Impairment 
charges as an annualised percentage of average loans and advances 
to customers reduced to 2.08 per cent from 5.92 per cent in 2009. 
Significant actions were taken in the first half of 2009 on the heritage 
HBOS portfolios, including the identification of large impairments 
post the HBOS acquisition especially in corporate real estate, real 
estate related and Corporate (UK and US) portfolios. Together with the 
stabilising UK and US economic environment in 2010, a low interest 
rate environment helping to maintain defaults at a lower level and a 
number of write backs due to asset disposals, impairment charges have 
decreased substantially compared with 2009.

IMPAIRED LOANS AND PROVISIONS (audited)
Wholesale’s impaired loans reduced by £600 million to £34,514 million 
compared with 31 December 2009. The reduction is due to new impaired 
assets (mainly in the Corporate Real Estate Business Support Unit) being 
offset by write-offs on irrecoverable assets and the sale of previously 
impaired assets. Impairment provisions also reduced as a result of the 
write-offs and a lower impairment rate on recently impaired assets. As a 
result, impairment provisions as a percentage of impaired loans reduced to 
45.9 per cent from 48.9 per cent at 31 December 2009. As a percentage of 
closing loans and advances to customers, impaired loans increased to 
18.4 per cent from 16.6 per cent at 31 December 2009. This increase 
is essentially a factor of the reducing level of total loans and advances to 
customers as at 31 December 2010 compared with 31 December 2009. 
We continue to monitor our vulnerable portfolios within Wholesale 
and, where appropriate, remedial risk mitigating actions are 
being undertaken.

 
 
 
 
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RISK MANAGEMENT 

OUTLOOK – WHOLESALE (unaudited)
The potential effects of the UK Government’s austerity measures 
on portfolios vulnerable to Government spending cuts are currently 
unknown. Although appropriate early warning indicators and action 
plans are in place to help mitigate against this, we would expect some 
negative effect on the portfolio. This is especially so in the traditional 
customer lending businesses, which are vulnerable to reduced consumer 
spending as a result of tax rises, and other UK Government austerity 
measures. As previously guided, we expect the overall net impairment 
charges in our traditional lending businesses (especially in the trading 
and manufacturing sectors) to increase in 2011, driven in part by a  
lower benefit from write backs on asset disposals and the effect of  
the UK Government austerity measures on the wider economy. 

Wholesale retains some material single obligor concentrations on 
weaker credits, especially from the heritage HBOS real estate and  
real estate related portfolios. These portfolios (especially the secondary 
and tertiary assets which comprise a large part of the heritage HBOS 
corporate real estate and real estate related portfolio) remain vulnerable 
to an increase in tenancy defaults and reduced capital values from an 
already depressed level, particularly in the regions. However, against our 
base case assumptions, we expect our impairment charges in corporate 
real estate to be lower than 2010 as a result of a continuing stabilisation 
of the existing portfolio and actions taken in 2009 and 2010. Whilst we 
therefore remain cautious in respect of the outlook for 2011, we do 
expect a modest reduction in the total impairment charge for 2011  
as a whole.

TABLE 1.12: IMPAIRMENTS ON WHOLESALE LOANS 
AND ADVANCES (audited)
As at 31 December 2010 

Corporate Markets:

Corporate

Commercial

Corporate Real 
Estate BSU

Impaired  
loans as a 
% of  
closing 
advances 
% 

Impair-
ment
provisions1
£m 

Balance 
£m 

Impaired  
loans 
£m 

81,171

29,148

6,635

2,856

8.2

9.8

3,629

993

Impair-

ment  
provisions  
as a % of  
impaired  
loans 
% 

54.7

34.8

46.2

99.1

Wholesale Equity

140

108

26,151 17,518

67.0

77.1

8,091

107

Wholesale Markets

40,042   5,718  

14.3   1,992  

34.8  

Total Corporate 
Markets

176,652 32,835

18.6 14,812

45.1

Treasury and Trading

1,050

–

–

–

Asset Finance

9,949

1,679

16.9

1,043

Total Wholesale

187,651 34,514

18.4  15,855

–

62.1

45.9

Reverse repos

3,096

Impairment provisions (15,855)

Fair value adjustments

(1,665)

Loans and advances 
to customers

173,227

Loans and advances 
to banks

Debt securities2

Available-for-sale 
financial assets3

12,409

25,781

29,458

1

2

3

 Impairment provisions include collective unimpaired provisions.

 Of which Wholesale Markets is £25,120 million, Wholesale Equity £487 million, Treasury and 
Trading £163 million, Asset Finance £7 million, Corporate £2 million and Commercial £2 million.

 Of which Wholesale Markets is £21,279 million, Wholesale Equity £2,109 million, Treasury and 
Trading £6,011 million and Corporate £59 million.

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Other information

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Strategy and progress 

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Addressing the key issues 

Marketplace trends 

1

2

3

4

6

8

10

12

Summary of Group results 

Divisional results 

Other financial information 

14

26

52

Board of Directors 

Directors’ report 

Corporate governance report 

110

112

114

Five year financial summary 

56 

Directors’ remuneration report  124

Our people 

Corporate responsibility 
Risk management 

57

60
65

Shareholder information 

Glossary 

Abbreviations 

Index to annual report 

284

285

290

291

Report of the independent  
auditors on the consolidated  
financial statements 

Consolidated  
financial statements 

Notes to the consolidated  
financial statements 

Report of the independent  
auditors on the parent company 
financial statements 

Parent company financial 
statements 

Notes to the parent company 
financial statements 

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146

153

272

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As at 31 December 2009

Corporate Markets:

Corporate

Commercial

Corporate Real 
Estate BSU

Impaired 
loans as a 
% of  
closing 
advances 
% 

Impairment
provisions1
£m 

Impairment  
provisions  
as a % of  
impaired  
loans 
% 

Balance 
£m 

Impaired  
loans 
£m 

96,865

9,362

29,223 

2,695 

9.7

9.2 

4,698

956 

50.2

35.5 

49.9 

93.2 

Wholesale Equity

505 

413 

25,509 

16,505 

64.7 

81.8 

8,234 

385 

Wholesale Markets

  44,606 

  4,170 

  9.3 

  1,675 

  40.2 

Total Corporate 
Markets

196,708 

33,145 

16.8 

15,948 

48.1 

Treasury and Trading

1,394 

– 

– 

– 

Asset Finance

12,832 

1,969 

15.3 

1,231 

Total Wholesale

210,934 

35,114 

16.6 

17,179 

– 

62.5 

48.9 

Reverse repos

1,108 

Impairment provisions

(17,179)

Fair value adjustments

(3,055)

Loans and advances 
to customers

Loans and advances 
to banks

Debt securities

Available-for-sale 
financial assets

191,808 

18,862 

31,736 

36,867 

1

 Impairment provisions include collective unimpaired provisions.

CORPORATE (unaudited) 
The £81,171 million of loans and advances to customers in the Corporate 
portfolio is structured across a number of different portfolios and sectors 
as discussed below:

UK and US Corporate – Showed resilience during 2010 with the 
impairment charge significantly lower than 2009 levels and modest 
recoveries as asset prices improved during the first half of the year. 
Sentiment among UK corporates during the second half of the year 
changed as the scale of the Government austerity measures became 
clearer although most effects are not expected to be felt until 2011. 
Major corporate balance sheets are relatively strong with adequate 
levels of undrawn committed bank facilities available and continued 
access to the capital markets. In the Corporate North American portfolio 
significant reductions were achieved in the non-core portfolio, mostly in 
the first half when secondary markets were fairly buoyant. Impairments 
were significantly lower than in 2009 albeit the overall position is 
improved by some write backs.

Mid-market Corporate – As anticipated, the slightly more benign 
conditions experienced in the first half of 2010 were not sustained  
in the second half in the corporate mid-market. Impairments rose 
during the second half of the year, albeit to levels still significantly below 
those experienced in 2009, with legacy issues in the heritage HBOS 
portfolio continuing to be a significant driver of impairments in 2010. 
Although a number of exporters have been able to take advantage of 
a beneficial exchange rate, the corporate middle market is dominated 
by domestically focused businesses and the prospect of public sector 
spending cuts, tax increases and continuing high commodity and import 
prices is likely to see confidence remain fragile in 2011. 

Corporate Real Estate – The focus is to continue to improve and 
re-balance the risk profile of the existing portfolio and apply conservative 
and prudent lending policies in relation to new business. A significant 
percentage concentration of customer lending is in real estate and 
real estate related investment lending, especially heritage HBOS 
and sustainability of its cashflow in 2010 has been key to the relative 
resilience seen in the investment market to date. The portfolio remains 
vulnerable to tenant default and asset price falls due to a significant 
element of investment lending in the portfolio, a large element of which 
is supported by secondary or tertiary assets. Refinancing risk remains an 
emerging issue with significant maturities due in the next few years. 

Financial Institutions – As part of the Group’s funding, liquidity and 
general hedging requirements, Corporate maintains relationships with 
many major financial institutions throughout the world. During the 
second half of 2010, concerns about sovereign fiscal deficits and public 
sector debt levels increased our scrutiny of the European banking 
sector, in particular the weaker Eurozone countries. Trading exposures 
are in large part collateralised and interbank activity is mainly with high 
investment grade counterparties. 

COMMERCIAL (unaudited) 
The Commercial portfolio’s impairment experience has remained steady 
throughout the year, although a slightly higher run rate was observed 
in the second half, but overall was materially below that incurred in 
2009. Portfolio metrics including delinquencies and assets under close 
monitoring, while improving through supportive management actions, 
remain above benign levels. 

CORPORATE REAL ESTATE BUSINESS SUPPORT UNIT (unaudited)
The Corporate Real Estate Business Support Unit portfolios have 
endured a significant level of stress as a consequence of the 
unprecedented scale and pace of deterioration in the property sector 
since the peak in 2007, coupled with the previous aggressive lending 
appetite in the heritage HBOS business. Against significant impairments 
taken in 2009, experience in 2010 is materially lower. This reflects 
the stabilising economic environment and the prudent provisioning 
undertaken on the HBOS corporate real estate and real estate related 
portfolio in 2009. The Group continues to remain cautious regarding the 
short to medium term prospects for the sector.

The management of the distressed portfolio remains key not only to 
mitigating loss for the Group, but also for the Group as a major lender 
within the property sector to ensure that the strategies adopted do 
not adversely impact on a market that remains fragile. During 2010, a 
number of restructurings, good level of asset reduction, and continued 
active management led to a fall in impairments compared to the 
previous year.

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RISK MANAGEMENT 

UNAUDITED INFORMATION

The portfolio comprises £10.7 billion of loans and advances to banks, 
£6.0 billion of Available-for-Sale debt securities and £1.1 billion of loans 
and advances to customers (excluding reverse repos). 

The majority of Treasury and Trading’s funding and risk management 
activity is transacted with investment grade counterparties and much 
of it is on a secured basis, such as repos. Derivative transactions with 
wholesale counterparties are typically collateralised under a Credit 
Support Annex in conjunction with the ISDA Master Agreement. 
Treasury and Trading has reduced the government bond portfolio in 
response to growing concern over market conditions in Europe. The 
credit quality of the government bond portfolio is almost solely AAA 
rated sovereign debt. 

ASSET FINANCE 
The credit quality of the retail portfolios continues to be relatively 
stable with key risk indicators continuing to show signs of improvement. 
Impairments in 2010 were lower than anticipated, particularly in the 
second charge secured portfolio and the retail motor loans portfolio. 
Asset quality also continues to improve in response to the continuing 
strategy to enhance the quality of new business written and following 
the closure of new business by the Personal Financial Services business. 
The credit quality profile across the non-retail portfolios also continues 
to be relatively stable, and impairment levels significantly less than 
2009, reflecting a material slow down in new default cases. Exposures 
to the Fleet Operator sector, particularly a small number of daily/flexi 
rental operators, continue to require intensive management to support 
customers through their financial difficulties, but have not affected 
impairment levels to the extent seen in 2009.

On the property investment side there have been signs of recovery in 
capital values, specifically at the prime end of the commercial market 
and in London generally. Since the half year, this recovery has slowed 
as investor activity and sentiment cooled. Rental values remain fragile 
across most property sectors. 

WHOLESALE EQUITY 
The Wholesale Equity portfolio (assets representing ‘Equity Risk’ 
including ordinary equity, preference shares and debt securities) totals 
£5.6 billion (split £4.2 billion on balance sheet commitments and 
£1.4 billion as yet undrawn, the majority of which relates to the Funds 
Investment business). The portfolio comprises the two core businesses, 
Lloyds Development Capital and Project Finance with the remaining 
businesses (Joint Ventures Equity, BSU Investment portfolios and Fund 
Investments) all now categorised as non-core. 

In terms of market sentiment, the second half of 2010 saw a gradual 
uptick in main share indices (UK, Europe and USA) which, despite 
episodic volatility has contributed to a relatively stable valuation position 
combined with some indication that there may be a slow recovery in 
market activity. While signs are on balance currently positive, we remain 
cautious on prospects for value recovery looking into 2011. 

WHOLESALE MARKETS
Loans and advances to customers of £40.0 billion largely comprise 
balances in the Structured Corporate Finance portfolio, which includes 
Acquisition Finance (leveraged lending – £11.6 billion), Project Finance 
and asset based finance. The Acquisition Finance portfolio continues 
to be significantly affected by the economic environment, with a 
relatively high proportion of deals being restructured. The rate of new 
problem loans started to abate in the second half of 2009 and this 
trend continued during 2010. Refinancing risk is an issue for Acquisition 
Finance, with significant loan maturities due in the next few years.  
In Ship Finance, global markets, especially the dry bulk and container 
sectors, experienced considerable pressure during 2009, leading to 
higher impairment levels. The container sector strengthened during 
2010, but the Group expects the shipping sector to remain challenging 
into 2011. 

Wholesale Markets is also responsible for the Treasury Assets portfolio 
which mainly encompasses a portfolio of Asset-Backed Securities (ABS) 
and financial institution Floating Rate Note positions. Further details of 
Wholesale Division’s Asset-Backed Securities is provided in note 18 to 
the financial statements on page 183. The size of the Treasury Assets 
portfolio has reduced through asset sales and amortisation.

TREASURY AND TRADING
Treasury and Trading acts as the link between the wholesale markets and 
the Group’s balance sheet management activities and provides pricing 
and risk management solutions to both internal and external clients. 

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Addressing the key issues 

Marketplace trends 

1

2

3

4

6

8

10

12

Summary of Group results 

Divisional results 

Other financial information 

14

26

52

Board of Directors 

Directors’ report 

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110

112

114

Five year financial summary 

56 

Directors’ remuneration report  124

Our people 

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57

60
65

Shareholder information 

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284

285

290

291

Report of the independent  
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financial statements 

Consolidated  
financial statements 

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financial statements 

Report of the independent  
auditors on the parent company 
financial statements 

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statements 

Notes to the parent company 
financial statements 

144

146

153

272

273

276

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WEALTH AND INTERNATIONAL

OVERVIEW (unaudited) 
 – Increased impairment charges in commercial real estate portfolios in 
Ireland and Australia were the primary drivers of a divisional increase  
in impairment of 47 per cent in 2010 compared with 2009.

 – Impairment charges in Ireland increased significantly in the last quarter 
of 2010 reflecting a material deterioration in market conditions that 
resulted in EU-IMF financial support in late November 2010.

 – As part of the closure of Bank of Scotland (Ireland) Limited, a dedicated 
UK based business support unit credit team has been put in place to 
manage the wind down of the Irish book.

 – Increased impairment charges in Australia are primarily due to real 
estate concentrations in specific geographical and industry sectors 
where liquidity has significantly contracted in 2010.

TABLE 1.13: WEALTH AND INTERNATIONAL IMPAIRMENT CHARGE 
(audited)

Wealth

International:

Ireland

Australia

Wholesale Europe

Other

Total impairment charge

2010 
£m

46

2009 
£m

71

Change 
%

35

4,264

1,362

210

   106

5,942

5,988

2,949

849

129

   80

4,007

4,078

(45)

(60)

(63)

(33)

(48)

(47)

Wealth and International’s impairment charge increased by £1,910 million  
to £5,988 million in 2010 compared with 2009. Impairment charges as a 
percentage of average loans and advances to customers increased to 
8.90 per cent from 6.04 per cent in 2009.

IMPAIRED LOANS AND PROVISIONS (audited) 
Total impaired loans increased by £7,638 million to £20,342 million 
compared with £12,704 million at 31 December 2009 and as a 
percentage of closing loans and advances to customers increased to 
30.7 per cent from 18.3 per cent at 31 December 2009. The level of 
impaired loans in the International business is supported by detailed 
portfolio reviews conducted during 2010. 

In December 2010, responsibility for impaired assets in Ireland was 
transferred from the local BSU team to a dedicated UK based BSU credit 
team to manage the wind down of the lending book. In Australia, this 
activity continues to be managed locally and strengthened through 
deployment of additional staff. Responsibility for these areas has 
been consolidated within a new central team, which has considerable 
experience in work-out strategies and will manage this activity globally 
for the  Group. 

Impairment provisions as a percentage of impaired loans increased 
to 52.5 per cent from 39.4 per cent at 31 December 2009. In the 
International business the increase in impairment provisions is due 
to a higher level of impaired loans and an increased coverage level, 
particularly in Ireland.

OUTLOOK – WEALTH AND INTERNATIONAL (unaudited) 
Impairment charges in the division are expected to reduce in 2011 
compared to the current year charge, although economic conditions 
in Ireland continue to be monitored closely. The outlook also remains 
cautious for the Group’s Australian exposures, where there continues 
to be limited liquidity in regional property markets to which the Group 
is exposed. 

TABLE 1.14: IMPAIRMENTS ON WEALTH AND INTERNATIONAL 
LOANS AND ADVANCES (audited)
As at 31 December 2010 

Loans and  
advances
£m

Impaired 
loans
£m

Impaired 
loans as 
a % of 
closing 
advances
%

Impair-
ment
 provisions1
£m

Impair-
ment 
provisions 
as a % of 
impaired 
loans
%

9,472 

353 

3.7 

116 

32.9 

Wealth

International:

Ireland

Australia

27,428 14,445

52.7

7,763

14,587 

4,187 

28.7 

2,208 

53.7

52.7 

41.7 

Wholesale Europe

7,322 

1,007 

13.8 

420 

Other

7,559    

350    

4.6    

177    

50.6    

56,896 19,989 

35.1  10,568

52.9  

Wealth and 
International

66,368  20,342 

30.7  10,684 

52.5 

Impairment provisions (10,684)

Fair value adjustments

(327)

55,357

As at 31 December 2009

Loans and 
advances
£m

Impaired 
loans
£m

Impaired 
loans as 
a % of 
closing 
advances
%

Impairment 
provisions 
as a % of 
impaired 
loans
%

Impairment
 provisions1
£

9,523

281

3.0

100

35.6

Wealth

International:

Ireland

Australia

Wholesale Europe

8,781 

Other

   7,937

29,104

14,057

9,712

2,030

537 

  144

59,879

12,423

33.4

14.4

6.1 

  1.8

20.7

3,601

966

243 

  93

4,903

37.1

47.6

45.3 

  64.6

39.5

Wealth and 
International

69,402

12,704

18.3

5,003

39.4

Impairment provisions

(5,003)

Fair value adjustments

(851)

63,548

1

 Impairment provisions include collective unimpaired provisions.

 
 
 
 
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RISK MANAGEMENT 

AUDITED INFORMATION

WEALTH 
Total impaired loans increased by £72 million, or 26 per cent to 
£353 million compared with £281 million at 31 December 2009 and as a 
percentage of closing loans and advances increased to 3.7 per cent from 
3.0 per cent at 31 December 2009. Impairment charges decreased by 
£25 million to £46 million compared to £71 million in 2009. This reduction 
is primarily due to the mortgage lending business in Spain where there 
has been improved credit management of the book during 2010. 

IRELAND 
Total impaired loans increased by £4,733 million, or 49 per cent to 
£14,445 million compared with £9,712 million at 31 December 2009 and 
as a percentage of closing loans and advances increased to 52.7 per cent 
from 33.4 per cent at 31 December 2009. Impairment charges increased 
by £1,315 million to £4,264 million compared to £2,949 million in 2009. 
Impairment charges as a percentage of average loans and advances to 
customers increased to 15.4 per cent from 9.9 per cent in 2009. 

Further deterioration in the Irish economy resulted in increased impaired 
loans in 2010 and coverage levels significantly increased in the last 
quarter of 2010 reflecting downward revisions in the Group’s Irish 
economic assumptions. 

TABLE 1.15: IMPAIRMENTS ON IRELAND LOANS AND ADVANCES
As at 31 December 2010 

Impaired 

WHOLESALE EUROPE 
Total impaired loans increased by £470 million, or 88 per cent to 
£1,007 million compared with £537 million at 31 December 2009 and as 
a percentage of closing loans and advances increased to 13.8 per cent 
from 6.1 per cent at 31 December 2009. Impairment charges increased 
by £81 million to £210 million compared to £129 million in 2009. 
Impairment charges as a percentage of average loans and advances 
to customers increased to 2.8 per cent from 2.3 per cent in 2009. 
Commercial real estate is the primary driver of the impairment charge  
in Wholesale Europe reflecting a small number of specific transactions.

OTHER INTERNATIONAL 
Total impaired loans increased by £206 million, or 143 per cent to 
£350 million compared with £144 million at 31 December 2009 and as a 
percentage of closing loans and advances increased to 4.6 per cent from 
1.8 per cent at 31 December 2009. Impairment charges increased by 
£26 million to £106 million compared to £80 million in 2009. Impairment 
charges as a percentage of average loans and advances to customers 
increased to 1.3 per cent from 1.0 per cent in 2009. The most significant 
contribution to the impairment charge is from a limited number of 
corporate exposures which at the year end comprised 82 per cent of 
impaired lending and 92 per cent of the impairment charge in 2010.

Commercial Real Estate

Corporate

Retail

Total

As at 31 December 2009 

Commercial Real Estate

Corporate

Retail

Total

Gross loans
£m

loans Provisions
£m

£m

11,685

8,070

7,673

9,232

4,343

870

4,791

2,356

616

27,428 14,445

7,763

Gross loans
£m

Impaired  
loans
£m

Provisions
£m

11,738

9,094

8,272

6,114

3,002

596

2,154

1,159

288

29,104

9,712

3,601

The most significant contribution to impairment in Ireland is the commercial 
real estate portfolio. Impairment provisions provide 52 per cent coverage 
on impaired commercial real estate loans – reflecting peak to trough falls 
in commercial property and house prices widening to 60 per cent and 
38 per cent respectively. Mortgage lending at the year end comprised 
96 per cent of the retail portfolio with impaired loans of £0.8 billion and 
impairment coverage of 65 per cent. 

Following the closure of the Irish business, the portfolio is in run-off 
although current levels of redemptions and recoveries are low due  
to a severe lack of liquidity.

AUSTRALIA 
Total impaired loans increased by £2,157 million, or 106 per cent to 
£4,187 million compared with £2,030 million at 31 December 2009 and  
as a percentage of closing loans and advances increased to 28.7 per cent 
from 14.4 per cent at 31 December 2009. Impairment charges increased 
by £513 million to £1,362 million compared to £849 million in 2009. 
Impairment charges as a percentage of average loans and advances  
to customers increased to 9.3 per cent from 6.3 per cent in 2009. 

MARKET RISK

DEFINITION 
The risk of reductions in earnings, value and/or reserves, through 
financial or reputational loss, arising from unexpected changes in 
financial prices, including interest rates, inflation rates, exchange rates, 
credit spreads and prices for bonds, commodities, equities, property 
and other instruments. It arises in all areas of the Group’s activities and  
is managed by a variety of different techniques.

RISK APPETITE
Market risk appetite is defined with regard to the quantum and 
composition of market risk that exists currently in the Group and the 
direction in which the Group wishes to manage this. 

This statement of the Group’s overall appetite for market risk is reviewed 
and approved annually by the Board. With the support of the Group 
Asset and Liability Committee, the Group Chief Executive allocates 
this risk appetite across the Group. Individual members of the Group 
Executive Committee ensure that market risk appetite is further 
delegated to an appropriate level within their areas of responsibility.

EXPOSURES
The Group’s banking activities expose it to the risk of adverse 
movements in interest rates, credit spreads, exchange rates and equity 
prices, with little or no exposure to commodity risk. The volatility of 
market values can be affected by both the transparency of prices and  
the amount of liquidity in the market for the relevant asset.

Most of the Group’s trading activity is undertaken to meet the 
requirements of wholesale and retail customers for foreign exchange 
and interest rate products. However, some interest rate, exchange 
rate and credit spread positions are taken using derivatives and other 
on-balance sheet instruments with the objective of earning a profit from 
favourable movements in market rates.

Although the economic performance for Australia has been more robust, 
exposure to the New Zealand and non-metropolitan Australian commercial 
real estate sectors remains a key influence on impairment performance. 
These markets have suffered a significant reduction in liquidity in 2010, 
driving increased impaired lending and also constraining recoveries. 

Market risk in the Group’s retail portfolios and in the Group’s capital 
and funding activities arises from the different repricing characteristics 
of the Group’s non-trading assets and liabilities. Interest rate risk arises 
predominantly from the mismatch between interest rate insensitive 
liabilities and interest rate sensitive assets.

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114

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AUDITED INFORMATION

 – Surplus assets are held primarily in four portfolios: (a) in the long term 

Credit spread risk

Risk also arises from the margin of interbank rates over central bank 
rates. A further banking risk arises from competitive pressures on 
product terms in existing loans and deposits, which sometimes restricts 
the Group in its ability to change interest rates applying to customers in 
response to changes in interbank and central bank rates.

Foreign currency risk also arises from the Group’s investment in its 
overseas operations.

The Group’s insurance activities also expose it to market risk, 
encompassing interest rate, exchange rate, property, credit spreads  
and equity risk:

 – With Profit Funds are managed with the aim of generating rates of 
return consistent with policyholders’ expectations and this involves  
the mismatch of assets and liabilities.

 – Unit-linked liabilities are matched with the same assets that are used 
to define the liability but future fee income is dependent upon the 
performance of those assets. (This forms part of the Value of in Force 
see note 30 to the financial statements on page 194.)

 – For other insurance liabilities the aim is to invest in assets such that 

the cash flows on investments will match those on the projected future 
liabilities. It is not possible to eliminate risk completely as the timing 
of insured events is uncertain and bonds are not available at all of the 
required maturities. As a result, the cash flows cannot be precisely 
matched and so sensitivity tests are used to test the extent  
of the mismatch.

funds of Scottish Widows plc, Clerical Medical Investment Group 
Limited and their subsidiaries; (b) in the shareholder funds of life 
assurance companies; (c) investment portfolios within the general 
insurance business and (d) within the main fund of Heidelberger 
Lebensversicherung AG.

The Group’s defined benefit staff pension schemes are exposed to 
significant risks from the constituent parts of their assets and from the 
present value of their liabilities, primarily equity and real interest rate risk. 
For further information on pension scheme assets and liabilities please 
refer to note 43 to the financial statements on page 208.

MEASUREMENT
The following market risk measures are used for risk reporting and 
setting risk appetite limits and triggers:

Value at Risk: for short term liquid positions a 1-day 95 per cent VaR  
is used; for structural positions a 1-year 95 per cent VaR is used

Standard Stresses: Interest Rates 25bp; Equities 10 per cent; Credit 
Spreads relative 30 per cent widening

Bespoke Extreme Stress Scenarios: e.g. stock market crash

Both VaR and standard stress measures are also used in setting 
divisional market risk appetite limits and triggers. 

Although an important measure of risk, VaR has limitations as a result 
of its use of historical data, assumed distribution, holding periods and 
frequency of calculation. In addition, the use of confidence levels does 
not convey any information about potential loss when the confidence 
level is exceeded. Where VaR models are less well suited to the nature 
of positions, the Group recognises these limitations and supplements 
its use with a variety of other techniques. These reflect the nature of 
the business activity, and include interest rate repricing gaps, open 
exchange positions and sensitivity analysis. Stress testing and scenario 
analysis are also used in certain portfolios and at group level, to simulate 
extreme conditions to supplement these core measures. Trading book 
VaR (1-day 99 per cent) is back-tested daily against profit and loss.

Banking – trading assets and other treasury positions
Based on the commonly used 95 per cent confidence level, assuming 
positions are held overnight and using observation periods of the 
preceding 300 business days, the VaR for the years ended 31 December 
2010 and 2009 based on the Group’s global trading positions was as 
detailed in table 1.16.

The risk of loss measured by the VaR model is the potential loss in 
earnings given the confidence level and assumptions noted above. 
The total and average trading VaR does not assume any diversification 
benefit across the five risk types, which now includes inflation. The 
maximum and minimum VaR reported for each risk category did not 
necessarily occur on the same day as the maximum and minimum VaR 
reported as a whole. The Group internally uses VaR as the primary 
measure for all trading book positions arising from short term market 
facing activity.

TABLE 1.16: BANKING – TRADING ASSETS AND OTHER 
TREASURY POSITIONS
As at 31 December

2010

Interest rate risk

Foreign exchange risk

Equity risk

Inflation risk

Total VaR

Close
£m

3.9

0.4

–

1.6

0.3

6.2

Average Maximum Minimum
£m

£m

£m

4.4

0.4

–

2.4

0.2

7.4

8.0

0.8

0.2

4.3

0.7

13.0

2.3

0.1

–

1.2

–

4.2

2009

Close 
restated
£m

7.1

1.1

–

4.1

0.2

12.5

2009 VaR has been restated to reflect trading risk only. Risk relating to the 
funding of the lending business is reported in the Banking-Non-Trading 
section of the report.

Banking – non-trading
Market risk in non-trading books consists almost entirely of exposure to 
changes in interest rates including the margin between interbank and 
central bank rates. This is the potential impact on earnings and value 
that could occur when, if rates fall, liabilities cannot be re-priced as 
quickly or by as much as assets; or when, if rates rise, assets cannot be 
re-priced as quickly or by as much as liabilities.

Risk exposure is monitored monthly using, primarily, market value 
sensitivity. This methodology considers all re-pricing mismatches in the 
current balance sheet and calculates the change in market value that 
would result from a set of defined interest rate shocks. Where re-pricing 
maturity is based on assumptions about customer behaviour these 
assumptions are also reviewed monthly. 

A limit structure exists to ensure that risks stemming from residual and 
temporary positions or from changes in assumptions about customer 
behaviour remain within the Group’s risk appetite. 

The following table shows, split by material currency, Lloyds Banking 
Group sensitivities as at 31 December 2010 to an immediate up and 
down 25 basis points change to all interest rates. 

 
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RISK MANAGEMENT 

AUDITED INFORMATION

TABLE 1.17: BANKING – NON-TRADING 

Sterling

US Dollar

Euro

Australian Dollar

Other

2010

2009

Up 25bps 
£m

Down 
25bps 
£m

Up 25bps 
£m

(86.9)

88.4

11.1

(11.4)

8.9

(1.2)

(3.0)

(9.0)

1.2

3.1

(71.1)

72.3

66.6

(5.5)

4.4

2.2

(0.2)

67.5

Down 
25bps 
£m

(66.4)

5.6

(4.4)

(2.3)

0.2

(67.3)

Base case market value is calculated on the basis of the Lloyds Banking 
Group current balance sheet with re-pricing dates adjusted according 
to behavioural assumptions. The above sensitivities show how this 
projected market value would change in response to an immediate 
parallel shift to all relevant interest rates – market and administered. 

This is a risk based disclosure and the amounts shown would be  
amortised in the income statement over the duration of the portfolio. 

The measure, however, is simplified in that it assumes all interest rates, 
for all currencies and maturities, move at the same time and by the 
same amount.

Pension schemes
Management of the assets of the Group’s defined benefit pension 
schemes is the responsibility of the Scheme Trustees, who also appoint 
the Scheme Actuaries to perform the triennial valuations. The Group 
monitors its pensions exposure holistically using a variety of metrics 
including accounting and economic deficits and contribution rates. 
These and other measures are regularly reviewed by the Pensions 
Strategy Committee and used in discussions with the Trustees, through 
whom any risk management and mitigation activity must be conducted.

The schemes’ main exposures are to equity risk, real rate risk and credit 
spread risk. Accounting for the pension schemes under International 
Accounting Standard (IAS)19 spreads any adverse impacts of these risks 
over time. 

Insurance portfolios
The Group’s market risk exposure in respect of insurance activities 
described above is measured using EEV as a proxy for economic value. 
The pre-tax sensitivity of EEV to standardised stresses is shown below 
for the years ended 31 December 2010 and 2009. Foreign exchange risk 
arises predominantly from overseas holdings of equities. Impacts have 
only been shown in one direction but can be assumed to be reasonably 
symmetrical. Opening and closing numbers only have been provided as 
this data is not volatile and consequently is not tracked on a daily basis.

TABLE 1.18: INSURANCE PORTFOLIOS
As at 31 December

Equity risk (impact of 10% fall pre-tax)

Interest rate risk (impact of  
25 basis point reduction pre-tax)

Credit spread risk (impact of relative 
30% widening)

2010
£m

2009
£m

(367.4)

(383.6)

82.1

64.0

(163.0)

(156.4)

MITIGATION
Various mitigation activities are undertaken across the Group to manage 
portfolios and seek to ensure they remain within approved limits.

Banking – non-trading activities
Interest rate risk arising from the different repricing characteristics of 
the Group’s non-trading assets and liabilities, and from the mismatch 
between interest rate insensitive liabilities and interest rate sensitive 
assets, is managed centrally. Matching assets and liabilities are offset 
against each other and internal interest rate swaps are also used. 

The corporate and retail businesses incur foreign exchange risk in the 
course of providing services to their customers. All non-structural foreign 
exchange exposures in the non-trading book are transferred to the 
trading area where they are monitored and controlled.

Insurance activities
Investment holdings are diversified across markets and, within markets, 
across sectors. Holdings are diversified to minimise specific risk and 
the relative size of large individual exposures is monitored closely. For 
assets held outside unit-linked funds, investments are only permitted in 
countries and markets which are sufficiently regulated and liquid.

MONITORING
The Senior Asset and Liability Committee and the group market risk 
forum regularly review high level market risk exposure including, but not 
limited to, the data described above. They also make recommendations 
to the Group Chief Executive concerning overall market risk appetite 
and market risk policy. Exposures at lower levels of delegation are 
monitored at various intervals according to their volatility, from daily in 
the case of trading portfolios to monthly or quarterly in the case of less 
volatile portfolios. Levels of exposures compared to approved limits are 
monitored locally by independent risk functions and at a high level by 
Group Risk. Where appropriate, escalation procedures are in place.

Banking activities
Trading is restricted to a number of specialist centres, the most 
important centre being the treasury and trading business in London. 
These centres also manage market risk in the wholesale non-trading 
portfolios, both in the UK and internationally. The level of exposure 
is strictly controlled and monitored within approved limits. Active 
management of the wholesale portfolios is necessary to meet customer 
requirements and changing market circumstances.

Market risk in the Group’s retail portfolios and in the Group’s capital 
and funding activities is managed centrally within limits defined in the 
detailed Group policy for interest rate risk in the banking book, which  
is reviewed and approved annually.

Insurance activities
Market risk exposures from the insurance businesses are controlled via 
approved investment policies and triggers set with reference to the 
Group’s overall risk appetite and regularly reviewed by the Senior Asset 
and Liability Committee and the Group Market Risk Forums:

 – The With Profit Funds are managed in accordance with the relevant 
fund’s principles and practices of financial management and legal 
requirements.

 – The investment strategy for other insurance liabilities is determined 
by the term and nature of the underlying liabilities and asset/liability 
matching positions are actively monitored. Actuarial tools are used  
to project and match the cash flows.

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Strategy and progress 

Chairman’s statement 

Group Chief Executive’s review 

Addressing the key issues 

Marketplace trends 

1

2

3

4

6

8

10

12

Summary of Group results 

Divisional results 

Other financial information 

14

26

52

Board of Directors 

Directors’ report 

Corporate governance report 

110

112

114

Five year financial summary 

56 

Directors’ remuneration report  124

Our people 

Corporate responsibility 
Risk management 

57

60
65

Shareholder information 

Glossary 

Abbreviations 

Index to annual report 

284

285

290

291

Report of the independent  
auditors on the consolidated  
financial statements 

Consolidated  
financial statements 

Notes to the consolidated  
financial statements 

Report of the independent  
auditors on the parent company 
financial statements 

Parent company financial 
statements 

Notes to the parent company 
financial statements 

144

146

153

272

273

276

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 – Investment strategy for surplus assets held in excess of liabilities takes 
account of the legal, regulatory and internal business requirements for 
capital to be held to support the business now and in the future. 

Insurance risk is primarily controlled via the following processes:

 – Underwriting (the process to ensure that new insurance proposals  

are properly assessed)

The Group also agrees strategies for the overall mix of pension assets 
with the pension scheme trustees.

 – Pricing-to-risk (new insurance proposals are priced to cover the 

underlying risks inherent within the products)

INSURANCE RISK (audited)

DEFINITION
The risk of reductions in earnings and/or value, through financial or 
reputational loss, due to fluctuations in the timing, frequency and 
severity of insured/underwritten events and to fluctuations in the timing 
and amount of claim settlements. This includes fluctuations  
in profits due to customer behaviour.

RISK APPETITE
Insurance risk appetite is defined with regard to the quantum and 
composition of insurance risk that exists currently in the Group and the 
direction in which the Group wishes to manage this. It takes account 
of the need for each entity in the Group to maintain solvency in excess 
of the minimum level required by the entity’s jurisdictional legal or 
regulatory requirements.

The Group’s appetite for insurance risk is reviewed and approved 
annually by the Board.

EXPOSURES
The major sources of insurance risk within the Group are the insurance 
businesses and the Group’s defined benefit staff pension schemes. The 
nature of insurance business involves the accepting of insurance risks 
which relate primarily to mortality, longevity, morbidity, persistency, 
expenses, property damage and unemployment. The prime insurance 
risk carried by the Group’s staff pension schemes is related to longevity.

MEASUREMENT
Insurance risks are measured using a variety of techniques including 
stress and scenario testing; and, where appropriate, stochastic 
modelling.

Current and potential future insurance risk exposures are assessed and 
aggregated using risk measures based on 1-in-20 year stresses and other 
supporting measures where appropriate, for example those set out in 
note 39 to the financial statements on page 206.

MITIGATION
A key element of the control framework is the consideration of insurance 
risk by a suitable combination of high level Committees/Boards. For 
the life assurance businesses the key control bodies are the Board 
of Scottish Widows Group Limited and the Board of HBOS Financial 
Services Limited with the more significant risks also being subject to 
review by the Group Executive Committee and/or Lloyds Banking Group 
Board. For the general insurance businesses the key control bodies 
are the Boards of the legal entities including Lloyds TSB General 
Insurance Limited, St. Andrew’s Insurance plc and the Irish subsidiaries, 
with the more significant risks again being subject to Group Executive 
Committee and/or Lloyds Banking Group Board review. All Group staff 
pension schemes issues are covered by the Group Asset and Liability 
Committee and the Group Business Risk Committee.

The overall insurance risk is mitigated through pooling and through 
diversification across large numbers of uncorrelated individuals, 
geographical areas, and different types of risk exposure.

 – Claims management

 – Product design

 – Policy wording

 – Product management

 – The use of reinsurance or other risk mitigation techniques.

In addition, limits are used as a control mechanism for insurance risk  
at policy level.

At all times, close attention is paid to the adequacy of reserves, solvency 
management and regulatory requirements.

The most significant insurance risks in the life assurance companies are 
longevity risk and persistency risk. The merits of longevity risk transfer 
and hedging solutions are regularly reviewed. By their nature persistency 
risks are difficult to hedge.

General insurance exposure to accumulations of risk and possible 
catastrophes is mitigated by reinsurance arrangements which are 
broadly spread over different reinsurers. Detailed modelling, including 
that of the potential losses under various catastrophe scenarios, supports 
the choice of reinsurance arrangements. Appropriate reinsurance 
arrangements also apply within the life and pensions businesses with 
significant mortality risk and morbidity risk being transferred to our 
chosen reinsurers.

Options and guarantees are incorporated in new insurance products only 
after careful consideration of the risk management issues that they present.

In respect of insurance risks in the staff pension schemes, the Group 
ensures that effective communication mechanisms are in place for 
consultation with the trustees to assist with the management of risk in 
line with the Group’s risk appetite.

MONITORING
Ongoing monitoring is in place to track the progression of insurance 
risks. This normally involves monitoring relevant experiences against 
expectations (for example claims experience, option take up rates, 
persistency experience, expenses, non-disclosure at the point of sale),  
as well as evaluating the effectiveness of controls put in place to manage 
insurance risk. Reasons for any significant divergence from experience 
are investigated and remedial action is taken.

Insurance risk exposures are reported and monitored regularly by the 
Group Executive Committee.

OPERATIONAL RISK (unaudited)

DEFINITION 
The risk of reductions in earnings and/or value, through financial 
or reputational loss, from inadequate or failed internal processes 
and systems, operational inefficiencies, or from people related or 
external events.

There are a number of categories of operational risk:

Legal and regulatory
Legal and regulatory risk is the risk of reductions in earnings and/or 
value, through financial or reputational loss, from failing to comply with 
the laws, regulations or codes applicable.

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RISK MANAGEMENT 

UNAUDITED INFORMATION

Customer treatment
The risk of reductions in earnings and/or value, through financial or 
reputational loss, from inappropriate or poor customer treatment.

People
The risk of reductions in earnings and/or value, through financial or 
reputational loss, from inappropriate colleague actions and behaviour, 
industrial action, legal action in relation to people, or health and safety 
issues. Loss can also be incurred through failure to recruit, retain, train, 
reward and incentivise appropriately skilled staff to achieve business 
objectives and through failure to take appropriate action as a result of 
staff underperformance.

Supplier management
The risk of reductions in earnings and/or value through financial or 
reputational loss from services with outsourced partners or third-party 
suppliers.

Customer processes
The risk of reductions in earnings and/or value, through financial 
or reputational loss, resulting from poor externally facing business 
processes. Customer process risk includes customer transaction and 
processing errors due to incorrect capturing of customer information 
and/or system failure.

Financial crime
The risk of reductions in earnings and/or value, through financial or 
reputational loss, associated with financial crime and failure to comply 
with related legal and regulatory obligations, these losses may include 
censure, fines or the cost of litigation.

Money laundering and sanctions
The risk of reductions in earnings and/or value, through financial or 
reputational loss, associated with failure to comply with prevailing legal 
and regulatory obligations on activities related to money laundering, 
sanctions and counter terrorism, these losses may include censure, fines 
or the cost of litigation.

Security
The risk of reductions in earnings and/or value, through financial or 
reputational loss, resulting from theft of or damage to the Group’s 
assets, the loss, corruption, misuse or theft of the Group’s information 
assets or threats or actual harm to the Group’s people. This also includes 
risks relating to terrorist acts, other acts of war, geopolitical, pandemic or 
other such events.

IT systems
The risk of reductions in earnings and/or value through financial 
or reputational loss resulting from the development, delivery and 
maintenance of effective IT solutions.

Change
The risk of reductions in earnings and/or value, through financial 
or reputational loss, from change initiatives failing to deliver to 
requirements, budget or timescale, failing to implement change 
effectively or failing to realise desired benefits.

Organisational infrastructure
The risk of reductions in earnings and/or value, through financial or 
reputational loss, resulting from poor internally facing business processes 
at group, divisional or business unit level. Organisational infrastructure in 
this context embraces the structures, systems and processes that provide 
direction, control and accountability for the enterprise.

RISK APPETITE
The Group has developed an impact on earnings approach to 
operational risk appetite. This involves looking at how much the Group 
could lose due to operational risk losses at various levels of certainty. 

In setting operational risk appetite, the Group looks at both impact on 
solvency and the Group’s reputation. 

The Group encourages and maintains an appropriately balanced 
legal and regulatory compliance culture and promotes policies and 
procedures to enable businesses and their staff to operate in accordance 
with the laws, regulations and voluntary codes which impact on the 
Group and its activities.

EXPOSURES
By its very nature, operational risks can arise from a wide range of the 
Group’s activities that involve people, processes and systems. The 
Group’s principal operational risks relate to the Group’s ability to attract, 
retain and motivate its people, the rate and scale of change arising 
from the Group’s integration programme, the way in which the Group 
treats its customers and the legal and regulatory environment in which 
it operates.

The Group continues to face risks relating to its ability to attract, retain, 
and develop high calibre talent, as a result of challenges arising from 
ongoing regulatory and public interest in remuneration practices, 
delivery of the Group’s integration commitments; and uncertainty from 
EU state aid requirements and Independent Commission on Banking 
proposals on banking reform.

The integration programme continues to be one of the largest 
integration exercises undertaken by a financial services firm. The breadth 
of the integration programme is such that all parts of the Group are 
impacted to a large or small degree, with the greatest impact being 
on the Retail bank. Although now over two years into the successful 
implementation of the programme, there continue to be delivery risks  
as the programme moves into its final phase of execution.

Customer treatment and how the Group manages its customer 
relationships affects all aspects of the Group’s operations and is closely 
aligned with achievement of the Group’s strategic aim – to create 
deep long lasting relationships with its customers. There is currently a 
high level of scrutiny regarding the treatment of customers by financial 
institutions from the press, politicians and regulatory bodies, which 
includes, for example PPI (see note 54 to the financial statements on 
page 237 ‘Contingent Liabilities and Commitments’).

Legal and regulatory exposure is driven by the significant volume of 
current legislation and regulation within the UK and overseas with which 
the Group has to comply, along with new or proposed legislation and 
regulation which needs to be reviewed, assessed and embedded into 
day-to-day operational and business practices across the Group as a 
whole. This is particularly the case in the current market environment, 
which is witnessing increased levels of government and regulatory 
intervention in the banking sector.

MEASUREMENT
Both Lloyds TSB and HBOS had operational risk Advanced 
Measurement Approach Waivers, granted by the FSA, enabling the use 
of an internal capital model for calculating regulatory capital. As part of 
its integration programme, Lloyds Banking Group is in the process of 
moving to The Standardised Approach (TSA) and, in anticipation of this, 
calculated regulatory capital for the year ended 31 December 2010 on 
the basis of TSA.

Overview

Business review

Governance

Financial statements

Other information

Group profile 

Group structure 

Group performance 

Strategy and progress 

Chairman’s statement 

Group Chief Executive’s review 

Addressing the key issues 

Marketplace trends 

1

2

3

4

6

8

10

12

Summary of Group results 

Divisional results 

Other financial information 

14

26

52

Board of Directors 

Directors’ report 

Corporate governance report 

110

112

114

Five year financial summary 

56 

Directors’ remuneration report  124

Our people 

Corporate responsibility 
Risk management 

57

60
65

Shareholder information 

Glossary 

Abbreviations 

Index to annual report 

284

285

290

291

Report of the independent  
auditors on the consolidated  
financial statements 

Consolidated  
financial statements 

Notes to the consolidated  
financial statements 

Report of the independent  
auditors on the parent company 
financial statements 

Parent company financial 
statements 

Notes to the parent company 
financial statements 

144

146

153

272

273

276

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MITIGATION
The Group’s operational risk management framework consists of the 
following key components:

 – Identification and categorisation of the key operational risks facing  

a business area.

 – Risk assessment, including impact assessment of financial and 

non-financial impacts (e.g. reputational risk) for each of the key risks  
to which the business area is exposed.

 – Control assessment, evaluating the effectiveness of the control 

framework covering each of the key risks to which the business area  
is exposed.

 – Loss and incident management, capturing actions to manage any 

losses facing a business area.

 – The development of Key Risk Indicators for management reporting.

 – Oversight and assurance of the risk management framework in 

divisions and businesses.

 – Scenarios for estimation of potential loss exposures for material risks.

The Group purchases insurance to mitigate certain operational 
risk events.

MONITORING
Business unit risk exposure is aggregated at divisional level and 
reported to Group Risk where a group-wide report is prepared. The 
report is discussed at the monthly Group Operational and Regulatory 
Risk Committee. This committee can escalate matters to the Chief Risk 
Officer, or higher committees if appropriate.

The insurance programme is monitored and reviewed regularly, with 
recommendations being made to the Group’s senior management 
annually prior to each renewal. Insurers are monitored on an ongoing 
basis, to ensure counterparty risk is minimised. A process is in place to 
manage any insurer rating changes or insolvencies.

The Group has adopted a formal approach to operational risk event 
escalation. This involves the identification of an event, an assessment of 
the materiality of the event in accordance with a risk event impact matrix 
and appropriate escalation.

FINANCIAL SOUNDNESS (audited)

Financial soundness risk has three key risk components covering liquidity 
and funding risk; capital risk; and financial and prudential regulatory 
reporting, disclosure and tax risk.

LIQUIDITY AND FUNDING RISK 

DEFINITION (audited)
Liquidity risk is defined as the risk that the Group does not have sufficient 
financial resources to meet its commitments when they fall due, or can 
secure them only at excessive cost. Funding risk is further defined as the 
risk that the Group does not have sufficiently stable and diverse sources 
of funding or the funding structure is inefficient.

RISK APPETITE (audited)
Liquidity and funding risk appetite for the banking businesses is set 
by the Board and reviewed on an annual basis. This statement of the 
Group’s overall appetite for liquidity risk is reviewed and approved 
annually by the Board. With the support of the Group Asset and 
Liability Committee, the Group Chief Executive allocates this risk 
appetite across the Group. It is reported through various metrics 

that enable the Group to manage liquidity and funding constraints. 
The Group Chief Executive, assisted by the Group Asset and Liability 
Committee and its sub-committee the Senior Asset and Liability 
Committee, regularly reviews performance against risk appetite. 

EXPOSURE (audited)
Liquidity exposure represents the amount of potential outflows in any 
future period less committed inflows. Liquidity is considered from both 
an internal and regulatory perspective.

MEASUREMENT (audited)
A series of measures are used across the Group to monitor both short 
and long term liquidity including: ratios, cash outflow triggers, wholesale 
funding maturity profile, early warning indicators and stress test survival 
period triggers. The Board approved liquidity risk appetite links a 
number of these measures to balance sheet progression set out in the 
group funding plan, with regular reporting to the Board. Strict criteria 
and limits are in place to ensure highly liquid marketable securities are 
available as part of the portfolio of liquid assets.

Details of contractual maturities for assets and liabilities form an 
important source of information for the management of liquidity risk. 
Note 56(4) to the financial statements on page 263 sets out an analysis 
of assets and liabilities by relevant maturity grouping. In order to reflect 
more accurately the expected behaviour of the Group’s assets and 
liabilities, measurement and modelling of the behavioural aspects 
of each is constructed. This forms the foundation of the Group’s 
liquidity controls.

MITIGATION (audited)
The Group mitigates the risk of a liquidity mismatch in excess of its risk 
appetite by managing the liquidity profile of the balance sheet through 
both short-term liquidity management and long-term funding strategy. 
Short-term liquidity management is considered from two perspectives; 
business as usual and liquidity under stressed conditions, both of which 
relate to funding in the less than one year time horizon. Longer term 
funding is used to manage the Group’s strategic liquidity profile which 
is determined by the Group’s balance sheet structure. Longer term is 
defined as having an original maturity of more than one year.

The Group’s funding and liquidity position is underpinned by its 
significant customer deposit base, and has been supported by stable 
funding from the wholesale markets with a reduced dependence on 
short-term funding. A substantial proportion of the retail deposit base 
is made up of customers’ current and savings accounts which, although 
repayable on demand, have traditionally in aggregate provided a stable 
source of funding. Additionally, the Group accesses the short-term 
wholesale markets to raise interbank deposits and to issue certificates 
of deposit and commercial paper to meet short-term obligations. The 
Group’s short-term money market funding is based on a qualitative 
analysis of the market’s capacity for the Group’s credit. The Group has 
developed strong relationships with certain wholesale market segments, 
and also has access to corporate customers to supplement its retail 
deposit base. 

The ability to deploy assets quickly, either through the repo market or 
through outright sale, is also an important source of liquidity for the 
Group’s banking businesses. The Group holds sizeable balances of high 
grade marketable debt securities as set out in Table 1.21 which can be 
sold to provide, or used to secure, additional short term funding should 
the need arise from either market counterparties or central bank facilities 
(European Central Bank, Federal Reserve, Bank of England and Reserve 
Bank of Australia). 

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RISK MANAGEMENT 

MONITORING (audited)
Liquidity is actively monitored at business unit and Group level. 
Routine reporting is in place to senior management and through the 
Group’s committee structure, in particular the Group Asset and Liability 
Committee and the Senior Asset and Liability Committee which meet 
monthly. In a stress situation the level of monitoring and reporting is 
increased commensurate with the nature of the stress event. Liquidity 
policies and procedures are subject to independent oversight.

LIQUIDITY AND FUNDING MANAGEMENT IN 2010 
(unaudited)
During 2010 liquidity and funding remained a key area of focus for the 
Group and the industry as a whole. Like all major banks, the Group 
is dependent on confidence in the short and longer term wholesale 
funding markets; should the Group, due to exceptional circumstances, 
be unable to continue to source sustainable funding and liquidity where 
necessary, its ability to fund its financial obligations could be affected.

Daily monitoring and control processes are in place to address both 
statutory and prudential liquidity requirements. In addition, the 
framework has two other important components:

 – Firstly, the Group stress tests its potential cash flow mismatch position 
under various scenarios on an ongoing basis. The cash flow mismatch 
position considers on-balance sheet cash flows, commitments 
received and granted, and material derivative cash flows. Specifically, 
commitments granted include the pipeline of new business awaiting 
completion as well as other standby or revolving credit facilities. 
Behavioural adjustments are developed, evaluating how the cash flow 
position might change under each stress scenario to derive a stressed 
cash flow position. Scenarios cover both Lloyds Banking Group name 
specific and systemic difficulties. The scenarios and the assumptions 
are reviewed at least annually to gain assurance they continue to be 
relevant to the nature of the business.

 – Secondly, the Group has a contingency funding plan embedded 

within the Group Liquidity Policy which has been designed to identify 
emerging liquidity concerns at an early stage, so that mitigating 
actions can be taken to avoid a more serious crisis developing.

The Group has invested considerable resource to ensure that it satisfies 
the governance, reporting and stress testing requirements of the FSA’s 
new ILAS liquidity regime. The Group has noted the industry move 
towards strategic balance sheet measures of the funding profile and has 
started to monitor and forecast the Group’s Net Stable Funding Ratio 
(NSFR) and Liquidity Coverage Ratio (LCR). The Group is aware that the 
regulatory liquidity landscape is subject to potential change. Specifically, 
in relation to the papers issued by the Basel Committee on Banking 
Supervision (‘Strengthening the resilience of the banking sector’ and 
‘International framework for liquidity risk measurement, standards and 
monitoring’) the Group has actively participated in the industry-wide 
consultation and calibration exercises which took place through 2010.

During the year, the individual entities within the Group, and the Group, 
complied with all of the externally imposed liquidity and funding 
requirements to which they are subject.

The Group is reliant on both wholesale funding markets and the 
legacy Government and central bank facilities to support its balance 
sheet. The liquidity and funding challenges facing the Group over the 
medium term continue to be ensuring sustainable access to wholesale 
funding markets, and the repayment of Government and central bank 
facilities. The combination of a clear focus on right-sizing the balance 
sheet, continued development of the Group’s customer deposit base, 
and strategic access to the capital markets will enable the Group 
to strengthen its funding base while reducing its overall wholesale 
funding requirement.

The key dependencies on successfully funding the Group’s balance 
sheet include the continued functioning of the money and capital 
markets; successful right-sizing of the Group’s balance sheet; the 
repayment of Government and central bank facilities in accordance with 
the agreed terms; no more than limited further deterioration in the UK’s 
and the Group’s credit rating; and no significant or sudden withdrawal of 
deposits resulting in increased reliance on wholesale funding markets. 
Additionally, the Group has entered into a number of EU state aid 
related obligations to achieve reductions in certain parts of its balance 
sheet by the end of 2014. The requirement to meet this deadline may 
result in the Group having to provide funding to support these asset 
reductions and/or disposals and may also result in a lower price being 
achieved.

During 2010, the Group further improved the diversification of funding 
supporting its balance sheet. Wholesale funding reduced by £27.5 billion 
whilst customer deposits increased by £11.3 billion, resulting in a more 
stable liability base. The customer loan to deposit ratio improved to 
154 per cent compared with 169 per cent at 31 December 2009. 

At 31 December 2010, the Group’s further overall support from legacy 
Government and central bank facilities totalled £96.6 billion, a reduction 
of £60.6 billion compared with 31 December 2009. These facilities have 
various maturity dates, the last of which is in the fourth quarter of 2012. 
The Group’s plan to right size the balance sheet is expected to avoid the 
necessity to refinance much of this. Repayment of the remaining amount 
will be achieved by a combination of customer deposit growth and 
term wholesale issuance. 

TABLE 1.19: ANALYSIS OF GOVERNMENT AND 
CENTRAL BANK FACILITIES (audited)
As at 31 December

Credit Guarantee scheme

Other

Total Government and central bank facilities

2010 
£bn 

45.4 

51.2

96.6 

2009 
£bn 

50.0 

107.2

157.2 

Overview

Business review

Governance

Financial statements

Other information

Group profile 

Group structure 

Group performance 

Strategy and progress 

Chairman’s statement 

Group Chief Executive’s review 

Addressing the key issues 

Marketplace trends 

1

2

3

4

6

8

10

12

Summary of Group results 

Divisional results 

Other financial information 

14

26

52

Board of Directors 

Directors’ report 

Corporate governance report 

110

112

114

Five year financial summary 

56 

Directors’ remuneration report  124

Our people 

Corporate responsibility 
Risk management 

57

60
65

Shareholder information 

Glossary 

Abbreviations 

Index to annual report 

284

285

290

291

Report of the independent  
auditors on the consolidated  
financial statements 

Consolidated  
financial statements 

Notes to the consolidated  
financial statements 

Report of the independent  
auditors on the parent company 
financial statements 

Parent company financial 
statements 

Notes to the parent company 
financial statements 

144

146

153

272

273

276

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UNAUDITED INFORMATION

The Group’s wholesale term funding ratio (wholesale funding with  
a remaining life of over one year as a percentage of total funding)  
at 31 December 2010 has been maintained at 50 per cent.

TABLE 1.20: GROUP FUNDING POSITION (audited)
As at 31 December

2010
£bn 

2009
£bn 

Change
% 

Despite the market disruption as a result of European sovereign risk 
concerns during 2010, the Group outperformed its term wholesale 
issuance plans, allowing an accelerated repayment of Government 
and central bank facilities and thus reducing the on-going reliance on 
short term funding. The Group continued to fund itself successfully in the 
short term money markets, extending the maturity profile of this source 
of funding. The Group anticipates that wholesale markets will remain 
vulnerable to periods of disruption during 2011. To mitigate the impact 
of such events, the Group has been actively diversifying its funding 
sources and investor base.

In June 2010, the FSA introduced a new liquidity framework (Individual 
Liquidity Adequacy Standards – ILAS) bringing in enhanced systems and 
controls, quantitative requirements, reporting requirements and stress testing. 
As part of the ILAS framework, the FSA has issued an Individual Liquidity 
Guidance (ILG) to the Group, representing a new regulatory requirement, 
which was effective from 1 June 2010. The Group has maintained its liquidity 
levels above the ILG regulatory minimum since inception.

Late in 2010, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision refined the 
details of the Basel III reforms to ensure the strengthening of global 
liquidity standards. This supplemented the 2008 published Principles of 
Sound Liquidity Risk Management and Supervision (‘Sound Principles’). 
These principles have been strengthened by the development of two 
principal liquidity measures. 

The first measure promotes short term resilience of the liquidity profile 
by ensuring that banks have sufficient high quality liquid assets to meet 
potential funding outflows in a stressed environment within a one month 
period. This is measured by the LCR. The second promotes resilience 
over a longer time horizon by requiring banks to fund their activities 
with a more stable source of funding on a going concern basis. This 
is measured by NSFR which has a time horizon of one year and has 
been developed to ensure a sustainable maturity structure of assets 
and liabilities. 

The Group welcomes the Basel Committee’s Sound Principles.  
The introduction of the LCR (January 2015) and NSFR (January 2018)  
will raise the resilience of banks to potential liquidity shocks and provide 
the basis for a harmonised approach to liquidity risk management.  
At 31 December 2010, the Group’s internal calculation of the LCR was 
71 per cent and the NSFR was 88 per cent; the guidance issued by the 
Basel Committee is still subject to final ratification by the EU and the 
methodology is likely to be refined on the basis of feedback from banks 
and regulators during the observation period. The actions already 
announced to right size the balance sheet are expected to ensure 
compliance with the future minimum standards, which are expected  
to be 100 per cent for both ratios by their respective effective dates. 

Funding Requirement

Loans and advances to customers1

589.5

625.9 

Loans and advances to banks2

Debt securities

Available-for-sale financial assets  
– secondary3

Cash balances4

Funded assets

On balance sheet primary  
liquidity assets5

Reverse repurchase agreements

Balances at central banks – primary4

Available-for-sale financial assets  
– primary

Held to maturity

Other assets6

Total Group assets

Less: Other liabilities6

Funding requirement

Funded by

Customer deposits7

Wholesale funding

Repurchase agreements

Total equity

Total funding

10.5

25.7

25.7

3.6

16.1 

32.7 

37.7 

2.7 

655.0

715.1 

7.3

34.5

17.3

  7.9

67.0

269.6

5.3 

36.3 

8.9

–   

50.5 

261.7 

991.6

1,027.3 

(229.1)

(223.4)

762.5

803.9 

382.5

298.0

35.1

46.9

371.2 

325.5 

63.1 

44.1 

762.5

803.9 

(6)

(35)

(21)

(32)

33

(8)

38

(5)

94

33

3

(3)

3

(5)

3

(8)

(44)

6

(5)

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

Excludes £3.1 billion (31 December 2009: £1.1 billion) of reverse repurchase agreements.

Excludes £15.6 billion (31 December 2009: £15.1 billion) of loans and advances to banks within 
the insurance businesses and £4.2 billion (31 December 2009: £4.2 billion) of reverse repurchase 
agreements.

Secondary liquidity assets comprise a diversified pool of highly rated unencumbered collateral 
(including retained issuance).

Cash balances and Balances at central banks – primary are combined in the Group’s 
balance sheet.

Primary liquidity assets are FSA eligible liquid assets including UK Gilts, US Treasuries, Euro AAA 
government debt and unencumbered cash balances held at central banks.

Other assets and other liabilities primarily include balances in the Group’s insurance businesses 
and the fair value of derivative assets and liabilities.

Excluding repurchase agreements of £11.1 billion (31 December 2009: £35.5 billion).

 
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RISK MANAGEMENT 

AUDITED INFORMATION

TABLE 1.21: GROUP FUNDING BY TYPE
2010
As at 31 December
£bn

Deposits from banks1

Debt securities in issue:1

Certificates of deposit

Commercial paper

Medium-term notes2

Covered bonds

Securitisation

Subordinated liabilities1

Total wholesale funding3

Customer deposits

Total Group funding4

26.4

42.4

 32.5

87.7

32.1

   39.0

233.7

37.9

298.0

382.5

680.5

5.7  

  35.8

  5.1

34.3

5.6

43.8

56.2

100.0

239.5

37.4

325.5

371.2

696.7

34.3

5.4

46.7

53.3

100.0

1

2

3

4

A reconciliation to the Group’s balance sheet is provided on page 97.

Medium-term notes include £45.4 billion of funding from the Credit Guarantee scheme.

The Group’s definition of wholesale funding aligns with that used by other international market 
participants; including interbank deposits, debt securities in issue and subordinated liabilities.

Excluding repos and total equity.

Total wholesale funding is analysed by residual maturity as follows:

TABLE 1.22: WHOLESALE FUNDING BY RESIDUAL MATURITY
As at 31 December

2010 
£bn 

2010 
% 

2009 
£bn 

Less than one year

One to two years

Two to five years

More than five years

148.6

46.8

52.3

50.3

49.9

15.7

17.6

16.8

161.8 

48.8 

68.7 

46.2 

2009 
% 

49.7 

15.0 

21.1 

14.2 

Total wholesale funding

298.0

100.0

325.5 

100.0 

2010
%

3.9

6.2

4.8

12.9 

4.7 

2009
£bn

48.6

50.9

35.0

89.7

28.1

2009
%

7.0

7.3

5.0

12.9

4.0

TERM ISSUANCE
The stabilisation of the term wholesale markets observed in the 
first quarter of 2010 and the continued functioning of these markets 
throughout the year, despite the European Sovereign credit concerns, 
enabled the Group to outperform its term issuance plan for 2010. 
The Group has taken advantage of the improved market sentiment 
by successfully accessing a number of markets, both secured 
and unsecured. The table below summarises the Group’s term issuance 
during 2010. Exceeding term funding plans in 2010 contributed to the 
acceleration in repaying Government and central bank facilities during 
the year.

TABLE 1.23: ANALYSIS OF 2010 TERM ISSUANCE

Securitisation

Medium-term notes

Covered bonds

Subordinated 
liabilities

Private placements¹

Total Issuance

Sterling
£bn

US Dollar
£bn

Euro
£bn

currencies
£bn

Other  

3.5

1.1

–

0.7

4.6

9.9

5.2

3.7

–

2.5

4.6

16.0

2.1

2.7

3.7

1.3

10.6

20.4

0.7

2.2

–

–

0.8

3.7

Total
£bn

11.5

9.7

3.7

4.5

20.6

50.0

1

Private placements include structured bonds and term repurchase agreements (repos).

LIQUIDITY PORTFOLIO
The table below illustrates the Group’s holding of highly liquid 
unencumbered assets. This liquidity is available for deployment at 
immediate notice, subject to complying with regulatory requirements, 
and is a key component of the Group’s liquidity management process.

TABLE 1.24: LIQUIDITY PORTFOLIO
As at 31 December

Primary liquidity1

Secondary liquidity2

Total

2010
£bn 

97.5

62.4

2009 
£bn 

88.4 

62.4 

159.9

150.8 

1

2

Primary liquidity is defined as FSA eligible liquid assets (UK Gilts, US Treasuries, Euro AAA 
government debt; unencumbered cash balances held at central banks).

Secondary liquidity comprises a diversified pool of highly rated unencumbered collateral 
(including retained issuance).

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2

3

4

6

8

10

12

Summary of Group results 

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14

26

52

Board of Directors 

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110

112

114

Five year financial summary 

56 

Directors’ remuneration report  124

Our people 

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57

60
65

Shareholder information 

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Abbreviations 

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284

285

290

291

Report of the independent  
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financial statements 

Consolidated  
financial statements 

Notes to the consolidated  
financial statements 

Report of the independent  
auditors on the parent company 
financial statements 

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statements 

Notes to the parent company 
financial statements 

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146

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272

273

276

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Following the introduction of the FSA’s Individual Liquidity Guidance 
under ILAS, the Group now manages its liquidity position as a coverage 
ratio (proportion of stressed outflows covered by primary liquid assets) 
rather than by reference to a quantum of liquid assets; the liquidity 
position reflects a buffer over the regulatory minimum. The Group 
receives no recognition under ILAS for assets held for secondary 
liquidity purposes.

The following tables reconcile figures reported on page 96.

TABLE 1.25: RECONCILIATION OF GROUP FUNDING FIGURE FROM 
TABLE 1.21 TO THE BALANCE SHEET
As at 31 December 2010

Included in 
funding 
analysis 
(above) 
£bn

Deposits from banks

Debt securities in issue

Subordinated liabilities

Total wholesale funding

Customer deposits

Total

As at 31 December 2009

Deposits from banks

Debt securities in issue

Subordinated liabilities

Total wholesale funding

Customer deposits

Total

26.4

233.7

  37.9

298.0

382.5

680.5

Included in 
funding 
analysis 
(above) 
£bn

48.6 

239.5 

  37.4 

325.5 

371.2 

696.7 

Fair value 
and other 
accounting 
methods
£bn

–

(4.8)

(1.7)

Balance 
Sheet 
£bn 

50.4

228.9

36.2

–

393.6

Fair value 
and other 
accounting 
methods 
£bn

6.3 

(6.0)

(2.7)

Balance 
Sheet 
£bn

82.5 

233.5 

34.7 

406.7 

Repos
£bn

24.0 

– 

  – 

24.0 

11.1

35.1 

Repos 
£bn

27.6 

– 

  – 

27.6 

35.5 

63.1 

CAPITAL RISK

DEFINITION
Capital risk is defined as the risk of the Group having a sub-optimal 
amount or quality of capital or that capital is inefficiently deployed across 
the Group.

RISK APPETITE
Capital risk appetite is set by the Board and reported through various 
metrics that enable the Group to manage capital constraints and market 
expectations. The Group Chief Executive, assisted by the Group Asset 
and Liability Committee, regularly reviews performance against risk 
appetite. A key metric is the Group’s core tier 1 capital ratio. The Group’s 
target for this and other aspects of appetite will be reviewed in 2011 in 
the light of further clarity of regulatory and accounting reforms.

EXPOSURE
A capital exposure arises where the Group has insufficient regulatory 
capital resources to support its strategic objectives and plans, and to 
meet external stakeholder requirements and expectations. The Group’s 
capital management approach is focused on maintaining sufficient 
capital resources to prevent such exposures whilst optimising value 
for shareholders. 

MEASUREMENT
The Group’s regulatory capital is divided into tiers depending on  
level of subordination and ability to absorb losses. Core tier 1 capital  
as defined in the FSA letter to the British Bankers’ Association in May 2009,  
comprises mainly shareholders’ equity and non-controlling interests, 
after deducting goodwill, other intangible assets and 50 per cent of 
the net excess of expected loss over accounting provisions and certain 
securitisation positions. Accounting equity is adjusted in accordance  
with FSA requirements, particularly in respect of pensions and  
Available-for-Sale assets. Tier 1 capital, as defined by the European 
Community Banking Consolidation Directive as implemented in the 
UK by the FSA’s General Prudential Sourcebook (GENPRU), is core 
tier 1 capital plus tier 1 capital securities. Tier 2 capital, defined by 
GENPRU, comprises qualifying subordinated debt after deducting 
50 per cent of the excess of expected loss over accounting provisions, 
and certain securitisation positions. Total capital is the sum of tier 1 and 
tier 2 capital after deducting investments in subsidiaries and associates 
that are not consolidated for regulatory purposes. In the case of 
Lloyds Banking Group, this means that the net assets of its life assurance 
and general insurance businesses and the non-financial entities that are 
held by our private equity (including venture capital) businesses, are 
excluded from its total regulatory capital. 

A number of limits are imposed by the FSA on the proportion of the 
regulatory capital base that can be made up of subordinated debt and 
preferred securities; for example the amount of qualifying tier 2 capital 
cannot exceed that of tier 1 capital. 

The minimum total capital required under pillar 1 of the Basel II 
framework is the Capital Resources Requirement (CRR) calculated as 
8 per cent of risk weighted assets.

In order to address the requirements of pillar 2 of the Basel II framework, 
the FSA currently sets additional minimum requirements through 
the issuance of Individual Capital Guidance (ICG) for each UK bank 
calibrated by reference to the CRR. A key input into the FSA’s ICG 
setting process is each bank’s Internal Capital Adequacy Assessment 
Process. The Group has been given an ICG by the FSA and the Group 
maintains a buffer in addition to this requirement. The FSA has made 

 
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it clear that ICG remains a confidential matter between each bank and 
the FSA.

In addition to the minimum requirements for total capital, the FSA has 
made statements to explain it also operates a framework of targets and 
expected buffers for core tier 1 and tier 1. 

The Group seeks to ensure that the regulatory minimum requirements 
are met at all times and undertakes an extensive series of stress 
analyses during the year to determine the adequacy of the Group’s 
capital resources against the FSA minimum requirements in severe 
economic conditions. 

During 2010 the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision has 
substantially refined the details of the so called ‘Basel III’ reforms for 
an enhanced global capital accord. These include increased minimum 
levels of and quality standards for capital, increased risk weighting 
of assets, and the introduction of a minimum leverage ratio, as well 
as the timing and transitional arrangements for implementation. 
The final details are still to be clarified, particularly as the reforms are 
implemented within the European and UK regulations, which may 
include a countercyclical buffer, requiring higher levels of capital to 
be held at certain points of the economic cycle, and higher capital 
requirements for systemically important financial institutions. 

The effect of the Basel III reforms is uncertain as much will depend on 
business performance and mitigating actions that can be completed, 
even before the transition period comes in to effect. However lower 
risk weighted assets are expected from the planned reduction in the 
non-core balance sheet. Analysis suggests that with no mitigating 
actions the reforms will reduce the Group’s core tier 1 ratio by 
approximately 1.2 per cent in 2013. The additional impact in 2014 of 
deducting the equity investment in insurance in excess of 10 per cent, 
transitioning in at 20 per cent per annum from 1 January 2014, would be 
around 0.3 per cent were the Group to take no further action to mitigate 
this. The Group is confident that it is well positioned to maintain a 
strong capital position, meeting all regulatory requirements as currently 
formulated.

MITIGATION
The Group has developed procedures to ensure that compliance with 
both current and potential future requirements are understood and that 
policies are aligned to its risk appetite. 

The Group is able to accumulate additional capital through profit 
retention, by raising equity via, for example, a rights issue or debt 
exchange and by raising tier 1 and tier 2 capital by issuing subordinated 
liabilities. The cost and availability of additional capital is dependent 
upon market conditions and perceptions at the time.

The Group has in issue as part of tier 2 capital resources, enhanced 
capital notes which will convert to core tier 1 capital in the event that 
Group’s published core tier 1 ratio (as defined by the FSA in May 2009) 
falls below 5 per cent. 

Additional measures which have been used to manage the Group’s 
capital position include seeking to strike an appropriate balance of 
capital held within its insurance and banking subsidiaries and through 
improving the quality of its capital through liability management 
exercises. Regulatory requirements are primarily controlled through 
the quality and volume of lending but are also affected through the 
modelling approaches used to determine risk weighted assets and 
expected losses.

MONITORING
Capital is actively managed and regulatory ratios are a key factor in the 
Group’s budgeting and planning processes. Capital raised takes account 
of expected growth and currency of risk assets. Capital policies and 
procedures are subject to independent oversight. Regular reporting 
of actual and projected ratios, including those that would occur under 
stressed scenarios, is made to the Senior Asset and Liability Committee, 
the Group Asset and Liability Committee and the Board.

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Governance

Financial statements

Other information

Group profile 

Group structure 

Group performance 

Strategy and progress 

Chairman’s statement 

Group Chief Executive’s review 

Addressing the key issues 

Marketplace trends 

1

2

3

4

6

8

10

12

Summary of Group results 

Divisional results 

Other financial information 

14

26

52

Board of Directors 

Directors’ report 

Corporate governance report 

110

112

114

Five year financial summary 

56 

Directors’ remuneration report  124

Our people 

Corporate responsibility 
Risk management 

57

60
65

Shareholder information 

Glossary 

Abbreviations 

Index to annual report 

284

285

290

291

Report of the independent  
auditors on the consolidated  
financial statements 

Consolidated  
financial statements 

Notes to the consolidated  
financial statements 

Report of the independent  
auditors on the parent company 
financial statements 

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statements 

Notes to the parent company 
financial statements 

144

146

153

272

273

276

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TABLE 1.26: CAPITAL RESOURCES
As at 31 December

Core tier 1 

Ordinary share capital and reserves

Regulatory post-retirement benefit adjustments

Available-for-sale revaluation reserve

Cash flow hedging reserve

Other items

Less deductions from core tier 1 

Goodwill and other intangible assets

Other deductions

Core tier 1 capital (audited)

Perpetual non-cumulative preference shares

Preference share capital2

Innovative tier 1 capital instruments

Preferred securities2

Deductions from tier 1 

Other deductions

Total tier 1 capital (audited)

Tier 2 

Available-for-sale revaluation reserve in respect of equities

Undated subordinated debt

Eligible provisions

Dated subordinated debt

Less: deductions from tier 2

Other deductions

Total tier 2 capital (audited)

Supervisory deductions

Unconsolidated investments – life

Unconsolidated investments – general insurance and other

Total supervisory deductions

Total capital resources (audited)

Risk-weighted assets (unaudited)

Ratios (unaudited)

Core tier 1 ratio 

Tier 1 capital ratio 

Total capital ratio 

1

2

Restated to reflect a prior year adjustment to Available-for-Sale revaluation reserves (see note 1 to the financial statements on page 153).

Covered by grandfathering provisions issued by FSA.

2010 
£m 

20091
£m 

46,879

(1,052)

285

391

306  

44,275

434 

783 

305 

231  

46,809

46,028

(5,224)

(214)

41,371

(5,779)

(445)

39,804 

1,507

2,639 

4,338

4,956 

(69)

47,147

462

1,968

2,468

23,167

(283)

27,782

(10,042)

(3,070)

(13,112)

61,817

406,372

10.2%

11.6%

15.2%

–

47,399 

221 

2,575 

2,694 

20,068 

(445)

25,113

(10,015)

(1,551)

(11,566)

60,946

493,307 

8.1% 

9.6% 

12.4% 

 
 
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TIER 2 CAPITAL
Tier 2 capital has increased principally as a result of new issues of tier 2 
debt and favourable foreign exchange rate movements partially offset 
by the redemption of undated subordinated debt described above, 
amortisation for regulatory purposes of dated subordinated debt and 
lower eligible provisions.

SUPERVISORY DEDUCTIONS
Supervisory deductions mainly consist of investments in subsidiary 
undertakings that are not within the banking group for regulatory 
purposes. These investments are primarily the Scottish Widows and 
Clerical Medical life and pensions businesses, together with the 
general insurance business. Supervisory deductions relating to these 
businesses have benefitted from repatriation of capital during the year. 
Also included within deductions for other unconsolidated investments 
at 31 December 2010 are investments in non-financial entities that are 
held by our private equity (including venture capital) businesses. These 
investments were previously risk weighted in accordance with industry 
wide guidance provided by the FSA. This guidance has now expired.

TIER 1 CAPITAL
Core tier 1 capital increased by £1,567 million largely reflecting the issue 
of ordinary shares in exchange for certain preference shares, preferred 
securities and undated subordinated debt issued by the Group. This 
has been partially offset by a deduction in respect of post-retirement 
benefits reflecting the impact of the curtailment gain, which is not 
allowed for capital purposes and a commitment to make increased 
deficit contributions to the HBOS final salary pension scheme following 
the completion of an actuarial valuation. 

Tier 1 capital has decreased by £252 million over the year. The increase 
in core tier 1 capital was more than offset by the redemption of the 
preference shares and preferred securities as part of the liability 
management exercises referred to above.

TABLE 1.27: MOVEMENTS IN CORE TIER 1 AND TIER 1 CAPITAL 
DURING THE YEAR 

At 31 December 2009 

Loss attributable to ordinary shareholders

Issue of ordinary shares

Increase in regulatory post-retirement  
benefit adjustments

Redemption of preference shares and 
preferred securities

Decrease in goodwill, intangible assets and 
other deductions

Other movements

At 31 December 2010

Core tier 1 
£m

Tier 1 
£m 

39,804

47,399

(320)

(320)

2,237

2,237

(1,486)

(1,486)

–

(1,869)

786

350

717

469

41,371 47,147

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Addressing the key issues 

Marketplace trends 

1

2

3

4

6

8

10

12

Summary of Group results 

Divisional results 

Other financial information 

14

26

52

Board of Directors 

Directors’ report 

Corporate governance report 

110

112

114

Five year financial summary 

56 

Directors’ remuneration report  124

Our people 

Corporate responsibility 
Risk management 

57

60
65

Shareholder information 

Glossary 

Abbreviations 

Index to annual report 

284

285

290

291

Report of the independent  
auditors on the consolidated  
financial statements 

Consolidated  
financial statements 

Notes to the consolidated  
financial statements 

Report of the independent  
auditors on the parent company 
financial statements 

Parent company financial 
statements 

Notes to the parent company 
financial statements 

144

146

153

272

273

276

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UNAUDITED INFORMATION

The Group has adopted Foundation IRB as the interim capital calculation 
approach for all non-retail exposures in Wholesale and Wealth and 
International. The Group has adopted the Lloyds TSB relationship 
model and risk appetite and many of its risk management models and 
methodologies and as such, believe that converging on Foundation IRB 
will facilitate integration work. This change has resulted in a reduction in 
risk weighted assets of approximately £23 billion.

TABLE 1.29: ANALYSIS OF CAPITAL RATIOS
As at 31 December 

Lloyds TSB Bank 
Group

BOS Group

Tier 1

Tier 2

2010 
£m

20091
£m

2010 
£m

20091
£m

49,375

18,153 21,470

23,988

21,073

7,700 15,002

14,112

Supervisory deductions

(13,112)

(5,182)

(1,672)

(1,062)

Total capital

57,336

20,671 34,800

37,038

RWAs

Ratios

Core tier 1

Tier 1

Total capital

406,372 174,472 250,598 322,866

10.5%

7.0%

12.2% 10.4%

8.3%

8.6%

7.0%

7.4%

14.1% 11.8% 13.9% 11.5%

1

Restated to reflect a prior year adjustment to Available-for-Sale revaluation reserves (see note 1 
to the financial statements on page 153).

Capital is managed at Group level and surplus capital is retained, 
where possible, at Lloyds Banking Group holding company level as this 
provides the Group with maximum flexibility on how to deploy its capital. 

Capital ratios for Lloyds TSB Bank Group reflect a change in 
shareholding completed during the year whereby HBOS plc and its 
subsidiaries are now subsidiaries of Lloyds TSB Bank plc. Capital ratios of 
both Lloyds TSB Bank Group and BOS Group have improved during the 
year primarily due to reductions in risk weighted assets.

RISK WEIGHTED ASSETS
The following table sets out the Group’s risk weighted assets that 
primarily arise in its banking businesses.

TABLE 1.28: ANALYSIS OF RISK WEIGHTED ASSETS
As at 31 December

2010
£m

2009
£m 

Divisional analysis of risk weighted assets

Retail 

Wholesale

Wealth and International

Group Operations and Central items

Risk type analysis of risk weighted assets

Advanced IRB

Foundation IRB

Retail IRB

Other IRB 

Advanced Approach

Standardised Approach

Credit risk

Operational risk

Market and counterparty risk

Total risk weighted assets

109,254 128,592 

222,716 285,951 

58,714

63,249 

15,688

15,515

406,372 493,307

–

92,076

114,490

67,621

105,475 124,503

  14,483 

  22,418 

234,448 306,618

124,492 145,486

358,940 452,104

31,650

15,782

25,339

15,864

406,372 493,307

Risk weighted assets decreased by £86,935 million to £406,372 million. 
This reflects balance sheet reductions across all banking divisions, 
a revised assessment of Retail secured lending risk weighted assets 
following improvements in the economic outlook and changes 
introduced as a result of continuing the process of integrating the 
two heritage organisations’ regulatory capital approaches which have 
impacted particularly on Wholesale.

The FSA has issued the Group an integrated waiver direction effective 
from 31 December 2010. The principal changes resulting from this are 
to move the heritage HBOS non-retail Advanced IRB portfolios to a 
Foundation IRB approach. All material retail portfolios across the Group 
remain on Retail IRB. In anticipation of moving to The Standardised 
Approach (TSA) for measurement of operational risk, the Group has 
calculated operational risk weighted assets on the basis of TSA.

 
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LIFE INSURANCE BUSINESSES
The business transacted by the life insurance companies within the 
Group comprises unit-linked business, non profit business and  
with-profits business. Several companies transact either unit-linked  
and/or non-profit business, but Scottish Widows plc (Scottish Widows) 
and Clerical Medical Investment Group Limited (Clerical Medical) hold 
the only large With Profit Funds managed by the Group.

BASIS OF DETERMINING REGULATORY CAPITAL OF 
THE LIFE INSURANCE BUSINESSES 

AVAILABLE CAPITAL RESOURCES
Available capital resources represent the excess of assets over liabilities 
calculated in accordance with detailed regulatory rules issued by 
the FSA.

Statutory basis. Assets are generally valued on a basis consistent with 
that used for accounting purposes (with the exception that, in certain 
cases, the value attributed to assets is limited) and which follows a 
market value approach where possible. If the market is not active, 
the Group establishes a fair value by using valuation techniques. 
Liabilities are calculated using a projection of future cash flows after 
making prudent assumptions about matters such as investment return, 
expenses and mortality. Discount rates used to value the liabilities 
are set with reference to the risk adjusted yields on the underlying 
assets in accordance with the FSA rules. Other assumptions are based 
on recent actual experience, supplemented by industry information 
where appropriate. The assessment of liabilities does not include 
future bonuses for with-profits policies that are at the discretion of 
management, but does include a value for policyholder options likely  
to be exercised.

FINANCIAL AND PRUDENTIAL REGULATORY 
REPORTING, DISCLOSURE AND TAX RISK

DEFINITION 
The risk of reputational damage, loss of investor confidence and/or 
financial loss arising from the adoption of inappropriate accounting 
policies, ineffective controls over financial, prudential regulatory and tax 
reporting, failure to manage the associated risks of changes in taxation 
rates, law, ownership or corporate structure and the failure to disclose 
accurate information about the Group on a timely basis.

RISK APPETITE
The risk appetite is set by the Board and reviewed on an annual basis. 
It includes complying with disclosure requirements within prescribed 
timescales and avoiding the need for restatement of published financial, 
prudential regulatory and tax reporting or publicly disclosed information.

EXPOSURE
Exposure represents the sufficiency of the Group’s policies and 
procedures to maintain adequate books and records to support 
statutory, prudential and tax reporting, to prevent and detect financial 
reporting fraud and to manage the Group’s tax position.

MITIGATION
The Group maintains a system of internal controls, which is designed  
to be consistently applied and to enable the preparation and disclosure 
of financial, prudential regulatory and tax reporting in accordance with 
applicable International Financial Reporting Standards, statutory and 
regulatory requirements. The system of internal control is designed to 
ensure that accounting policies are consistently applied, transactions are 
recorded and undertaken in accordance with delegated authorities, that 
assets are safeguarded and liabilities are properly recorded.

MONITORING
The Group has in place a disclosure committee whose responsibility 
is to review all significant disclosures made by the Group and to assist 
the Group Chief Executive and Group Finance Director fulfil their 
responsibilities under the Listing Rules and regulations emanating from 
the US Sarbanes Oxley Act of 2002. A programme of work designed to 
support an annual assessment of the effectiveness of internal controls 
over financial reporting, in accordance with the requirements of section 
404 of the US Sarbanes Oxley Act is undertaken. The Group also has in 
place an assurance mechanism over its prudential regulatory reporting; 
additionally, monitoring activities are designed to identify and maintain 
tax liabilities and to assess the impact of emerging regulation and 
legislation on financial, prudential regulatory and tax reporting.

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Governance

Financial statements

Other information

Group profile 

Group structure 

Group performance 

Strategy and progress 

Chairman’s statement 

Group Chief Executive’s review 

Addressing the key issues 

Marketplace trends 

1

2

3

4

6

8

10

12

Summary of Group results 

Divisional results 

Other financial information 

14

26

52

Board of Directors 

Directors’ report 

Corporate governance report 

110

112

114

Five year financial summary 

56 

Directors’ remuneration report  124

Our people 

Corporate responsibility 
Risk management 

57

60
65

Shareholder information 

Glossary 

Abbreviations 

Index to annual report 

284

285

290

291

Report of the independent  
auditors on the consolidated  
financial statements 

Consolidated  
financial statements 

Notes to the consolidated  
financial statements 

Report of the independent  
auditors on the parent company 
financial statements 

Parent company financial 
statements 

Notes to the parent company 
financial statements 

144

146

153

272

273

276

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REGULATORY CAPITAL REQUIREMENTS
Each life insurance company must retain sufficient capital to meet the 
regulatory capital requirements mandated by the FSA; the basis of 
calculating the regulatory capital requirement is given below. Except 
for Scottish Widows and Clerical Medical, the regulatory capital 
requirement is a combination of amounts held in respect of actuarial 
reserves, sums at risk and maintenance expenses (the Long-Term 
Insurance Capital Requirement) and amounts required to cover various 
stress tests (the Resilience Capital Requirement). The regulatory capital 
requirement is deducted from the available capital resources to give 
‘statutory excess capital’.

For Scottish Widows and Clerical Medical, no Resilience Capital 
Requirement is required. However, a further test is required in respect 
of the With Profit Funds. This involves comparing the statutory basis of 
assessment with a realistic basis of assessment as described below.

‘Realistic’ basis. The FSA requires each life insurance company which 
contains a With Profit Fund in excess of £500 million to also carry out 
a ‘realistic’ valuation of that fund. The Group has two such funds; one 
within Scottish Widows and one within Clerical Medical. The word 
‘realistic’ in this context reflects the fact that assumptions are best-
estimate as opposed to prudent. This realistic valuation is an  
assessment of the financial position of a With Profit Fund calculated 
under a methodology prescribed by the FSA.

The valuation of with-profits assets in a With Profit Fund on a realistic basis 
differs from the valuation on a statutory basis as, in respect of non-profits 
business written in a With Profit Fund (a relatively small amount of business 
in the case of Scottish Widows and Clerical Medical), it includes the 
present value of the anticipated future release of the prudent margins for 
adverse deviation. In addition, the realistic valuation uses the market value 
of assets without the limit affecting the statutory basis noted above.

The realistic valuation of liabilities includes an allowance for future 
bonuses. Options and guarantees are valued using a stochastic 
simulation model which values these liabilities on a basis consistent 
with tradable market option contracts (a ‘market-consistent’ basis). The 
model takes account of policyholder behaviour on a best-estimate basis 

TABLE 1.30: CAPITAL RESOURCES

and includes an adjustment to reflect future uncertainties where the 
exercise of options by policyholders might increase liabilities. Further 
details regarding the stochastic simulation model are given in the 
section entitled ‘Options and guarantees’ on page 107.

The ‘realistic excess capital’ is calculated as the difference between 
realistic assets and realistic liabilities of the With Profit Fund with a 
further deduction to cover various stress tests (the Risk Capital Margin). 
In circumstances where the ‘realistic excess capital’ position is less than 
the ‘statutory excess capital’, the company is required to hold additional 
capital to cover the shortfall. Any additional capital requirement under 
this test is referred to as the With Profit Insurance Capital Component.

The determination of realistic liabilities of the With Profit Funds includes 
the value of internal transfers expected to be made from each With 
Profit Fund to the Non Profit Fund held within the same life insurance 
entity. These internal transfers may include charges on policies where 
the associated costs are borne by the Non Profit Fund. The With Profit 
Insurance Capital Component may be reduced by the value, calculated 
in the stress test scenario, of these internal transfers, but only to the 
extent that credit has not been taken for the value of these charges in 
deriving actuarial reserves for the relevant Non Profit Fund.

CAPITAL STATEMENT
The following table provides more detail regarding the capital resources 
available to meet regulatory capital requirements in the life insurance 
businesses. The figures quoted are based on management’s current 
expectations pending completion of the annual financial returns to the 
FSA. The figures allow for a transfer of £150 million and an anticipated 
transfer of £260 million from the UK non-profit funds to the UK life 
shareholder funds. They also allow for a transfer of £115 million from the 
UK non-profit funds to the Scottish Widows With Profit Fund relating to 
closure under the Scottish Widows’ demutualisation scheme of an account 
in respect of unclaimed compensation payments. Within the With Profit 
Fund the £115 million transfer is fully offset by an increase in liabilities. An 
equal liability is released from the holding company of Scottish Widows 
plc leading to a broadly neutral impact on the Group’s net assets.

Scottish Widows 
With Profit Fund
£m

Clerical Medical  
With Profit Fund
£m

UK Non Profit 
Funds
£m

UK Life 
Shareholder 
Funds
£m

Overseas  

Life Business
£m

Total 
Life Business
£m

As at 31 December 2010 (statutory basis)

Shareholders’ funds:

Held outside the long-term funds

Held within the long-term funds

Total shareholders’ funds

Adjustments onto a regulatory basis:

Unallocated surplus within insurance business

Value of in-force business

Other differences between IFRS and regulatory 
valuation of assets and liabilities

Estimated share of ‘realistic’ liabilities consistent 
with the FSA reporting treatment

Qualifying loan capital

Support arrangement assets

Available capital resources

–

  –

–

322

–

–

(409)

–

344

257

–

  –

–

321

–

–

(58)

–

–

263

–

  8,029

8,029

–

(6,172)

1,414

  –

1,414

–

–

625

(919)

–

–

(344)

2,138

–

1,991

–

2,486

721

  401

1,122

2,135

  8,430

10,565

–

(843)

111

–

–

–

390

643

(7,015)

(183)

(467)

1,991

–

5,534

 
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Scottish Widows 
With Profit Fund
£m

Clerical Medical  
With Profit Fund
£m

UK Non Profit 
Funds
£m

UK Life 
Shareholder 
Funds
£m

Overseas 
Life Business
£m

Total 
Life Business
£m

As at 31 December 2009 (statutory basis)

Shareholders’ funds:

Held outside the long-term funds

Held within the long-term funds

Total shareholders’ funds

Adjustments onto a regulatory basis:

Unallocated surplus within insurance business

Value of in-force business

Other differences between IFRS and regulatory 
valuation of assets and liabilities

Estimated share of ‘realistic’ liabilities consistent 
with the FSA reporting treatment

Qualifying loan capital

Support arrangement assets

Available capital resources

–

– 

–

310

–

–

(407)

–

354

257

Available capital resources for With-Profit Funds are presented in the table 
on a ‘realistic’ basis as this is more onerous than on a regulatory basis.

FORMAL INTRA-GROUP CAPITAL ARRANGEMENTS
Scottish Widows has a formal arrangement with one of its subsidiary 
undertakings, Scottish Widows Unit Funds Limited, whereby the 
subsidiary company can draw down capital from Scottish Widows to 
finance new business which is reinsured from the parent to its subsidiary. 
Scottish Widows has also provided subordinated loans to its fellow 
group undertaking Scottish Widows Bank plc. No such arrangement 
exists for Clerical Medical.

Constraints over available capital resources

SCOTTISH WIDOWS
Scottish Widows was created following the demutualisation of Scottish 
Widows Fund and Life Assurance Society in 2000. The terms of the 
demutualisation are governed by a Court-approved Scheme of Transfer 
(the ‘Scheme’) which, inter alia, created a With Profit Fund and a 
Non-Participating Fund and established protected capital support for 
the with-profits policyholders in existence at the date of demutualisation. 
Much of that capital support is held in the Non-Participating Fund and, 
as such, the capital held in that fund is subject to the constraints noted 
below.

Requirement to maintain a Support Account: The Scheme requires 
the maintenance of a ‘Support Account’ within the Non-Participating 
Fund. The quantum of the Support Account is calculated with reference 
to the value of assets backing current with-profits policies which also 
existed at the date of demutualisation and must be maintained until 
the value of these assets reaches a minimum level. Assets can only be 
transferred from the Non-Participating Fund if the value of the remaining 
assets in the fund exceeds the value of the Support Account. Scottish 
Widows has obtained from the FSA permission to include the value of 
the Support Account (or,if greater, the excess of realistic liabilities for 
business written before demutualisation over the relevant assets) in 
assessing the realistic value of assets available to the With Profit Fund. At 
31 December 2010, the estimated value of surplus admissible assets 

–

–

–

772

–

–

(40)

–

–

732

–

8,011

8,011

–

(5,513)

1,048

–

1,048

–

–

253

(154)

–

–

(354)

2,397

–

1,165

–

2,059

651

405

1,056

–

(793)

108

–

–

–

371

1,699

8,416

10,115

1,082

(6,306)

207

(447)

1,165

–

5,816

in the Non-Participating Fund was £1,693 million (31 December 2009: 
£1,627 million) and the estimated value of the Support Account was 
£197 million (31 December 2009: £222 million). 

Further Support Account: The Further Support Account is an extra 
tier of capital support for the with-profits policies in existence at the 
date of demutualisation. The Scheme requires that assets can only be 
transferred from the Non-Participating Fund if the economic value of 
the remaining assets in the fund exceeds the aggregate of the Support 
Account and Further Support Account. Unlike the Support Account 
test, the economic value used for this test includes both admissible 
assets and the present value of future profits of business written in the 
Non-Participating Fund or by any subsidiaries of that fund. The balance 
of the Further Support Account is expected to reduce to nil by the year 
2030. At 31 December 2010, the estimated net economic value of the 
Non-Participating Fund and its subsidiaries for the purposes of this test 
was £4,322 million (31 December 2009: £3,823 million) and the estimated 
combined value of the Support Account and Further Support Account 
was £2,446 million (31 December 2009: £2,495 million).

Other restrictions in the Non-Participating Fund: In addition to the 
policies which existed at the date of demutualisation, the With Profit 
Fund includes policies which have been written since that date. 
As a result of statements made to policyholders that investment 
policy will usually be the same for both types of business, there is an 
implicit requirement to hold additional regulatory assets in respect 
of the business written after demutualisation. The estimated amount 
required to provide such support at 31 December 2010 is £147 million 
(31 December 2009: £132 million). Scottish Widows has obtained from 
the FSA permission to include the value of this support in assessing 
the realistic value of assets available to the With Profit Fund. There is 
a further test requiring that no amounts can be transferred from the 
Non-Participating Fund of Scottish Widows unless there are sufficient 
assets within the Long Term Fund to meet both policyholders’ 
reasonable expectations in light of liabilities in force at a year end and 
the new business expected to be written over the following year.

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2

3

4

6

8

10

12

Summary of Group results 

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Other financial information 

14

26

52

Board of Directors 

Directors’ report 

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110

112

114

Five year financial summary 

56 

Directors’ remuneration report  124

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57

60
65

Shareholder information 

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284

285

290

291

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financial statements 

Consolidated  
financial statements 

Notes to the consolidated  
financial statements 

Report of the independent  
auditors on the parent company 
financial statements 

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statements 

Notes to the parent company 
financial statements 

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146

153

272

273

276

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CLERICAL MEDICAL
The surplus held in the Clerical Medical With Profit Fund can only 
be applied to meet the requirements of the fund itself or distributed 
according to the prescribed rules of the fund. Shareholders are entitled 
to an amount not exceeding one ninth of the amount distributed 
to policyholders in the form of bonuses on traditional with-profits 
business. The use of capital within the fund is also subject to the terms 
of the scheme of demutualisation effected in 1996 and the conditions 
contained in the Principles and Practices of Financial Management of  
the fund. Capital within the Clerical Medical Non Profit Fund is available 
to meet the With Profit Fund requirements. 

OTHER LIFE INSURANCE BUSINESSES
Except as described above capital held in UK Non Profit Funds is 
potentially transferable to other parts of the Group, subject to meeting 
the regulatory requirements of these businesses. There are no prior 
arrangements in place to allow capital to move freely between life 
insurance entities or other parts of the Group.

Overseas life business includes several life companies outside the UK, 
including Germany and Ireland. In all cases the available capital 
resources are subject to local regulatory requirements, and transfer to 
other parts of the Group is subject to additional complexity surrounding 
the transfer of capital from one country to another.

MOVEMENTS IN REGULATORY CAPITAL

The movements in the Group’s available capital resources in the life business can be analysed as follows:

TABLE 1.31: MOVEMENTS IN AVAILABLE CAPITAL RESOURCES

As at 31 December 2009

Changes in estimations and in  
demographic assumptions used to  
measure life assurance liabilities

Dividends and capital transactions

Change in support arrangements

New business and other factors

As at 31 December 2010

Scottish Widows 
With Profit Fund
£m

Clerical Medical 
With Profit Fund
£m

UK Non Profit 
Funds
£m

UK Life 
Shareholder  
Funds
£m

Overseas 
Life Business
£m

Total 
Life Business
£m

257

732

2,397

2,059

371

5,816

(2)

–

(10)

12

257

2

–

–

(471)

263

(40)

(534)

10

305

11

377

–

39

2,138

2,486

64

(44)

–

(1)

390

35

(201)

–

(116)

5,534

WITH PROFITS FUNDS
Available capital in the Scottish Widows With Profit Fund at 
31 December 2010 is unchanged from 31 December 2009 at an 
estimated £257 million. 

Available capital in the Clerical Medical With Profit Fund has decreased 
from £732 million at 31 December 2009 to an estimated £263 million at 
31 December 2010. The fund commenced a distribution of the excess 
estate from 1 February 2010 by enhancing the level of future expected 
benefit payments

UK LIFE SHAREHOLDER FUNDS
Available capital in the UK Life Shareholder Funds has increased from 
£2,059 million at 31 December 2009 to an estimated £2,486 million 
at 31 December 2010. The receipt of £410 million proposed transfers 
from the UK Non Profit Fund and the £176 million impact of a capital 
restructuring exercise in the Scottish Widows Group to help mitigate  
the potential impacts of Basel III have been partially offset by the 
payment of coupons on subordinated debt and a dividend of 
£210 million from Scottish Widows plc to its parent company.

UK NON PROFIT FUNDS
Available capital in the UK Non Profit Funds has decreased from 
£2,397 million at 31 December 2009 to an estimated £2,138 million at 
31 December 2010. Increases in available capital from new business were 
offset by changes in assumptions and proposed transfers to the UK Life 
Shareholder Funds. A transfer to the Scottish Widows With Profit Fund 
also resulted in a decrease of £115 million in available capital. 

OVERSEAS LIFE BUSINESS
Available capital has increased over 2010 due to profits emerging on  
the in force business partially offset by new business strain.

 
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Analysis of policyholder liabilities reported in the balance sheet in respect of the group’s life insurance business is as follows. With Profit Fund 
liabilities are valued in accordance with FRS 27.

TABLE 1.32: ANALYSIS OF POLICYHOLDER LIABILITIES

As at 31 December 2010

With Profit Fund liabilities

Unit-linked business (excluding that accounted for as 
non-participating investment contracts)

Other life insurance business

Insurance and participating investment contract liabilities

13,845

10,394

Non-participating investment contract liabilities

Total policyholder liabilities

–

–

13,845

10,394

Scottish Widows 
With Profit Fund 
£m

Clerical Medical 
With Profit Fund
£m

UK Non Profit 
Funds
£m

Overseas  

Life Business
£m

Total 
Life Business
£m

13,845

10,394

5

–

24,244

–

  – 

–

  –

38,641

  8,527

47,173

47,058

94,231

8,011

  90

8,101

4,304

12,405

Overseas  
Life Business
£m

46,652

  8,617

79,513

51,362

130,875

Total 
Life business
£m

Scottish Widows 
With Profit Fund
£m

Clerical Medical 
With Profit Fund
£m

UK Non Profit  
Funds
£m 

As at 31 December 2009

With Profit Fund liabilities

Unit-linked business (excluding that accounted for as 
non-participating investment contracts)

Other life insurance business

Insurance and participating investment contract liabilities

Non-participating investment contract liabilities

Total policyholder liabilities

13,347

10,225

5

–

23,577

–

  – 

13,347

–

13,347

–

  –

10,225

–

10,225

32,816

  11,449

44,270

45,328

89,598

6,864

  183

7,047

1,020

8,067

39,680

  11,632

74,889

46,348

121,237

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8

10

12

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52

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110

112

114

Five year financial summary 

56 

Directors’ remuneration report  124

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57

60
65

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Abbreviations 

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284

285

290

291

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financial statements 

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financial statements 

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financial statements 

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statements 

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financial statements 

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146

153

272

273

276

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CAPITAL SENSITIVITIES

OPTIONS AND GUARANTEES

SHAREHOLDERS’ FUNDS
Shareholders’ funds outside the long-term business fund, other than 
those used to match regulatory requirements, are mainly invested in 
assets that are less sensitive to market conditions. 

WITH PROFIT FUNDS
The with-profit realistic liabilities and the available capital for the With-
Profit Funds are sensitive to both market conditions and changes to 
a number of non-economic assumptions that affect the valuation of 
the liabilities of the fund. The available capital resources (and capital 
requirements) are sensitive to the level of the stock market, with 
the position worsening at low stock market levels as a result of the 
guarantees to policyholders increasing in value. However, the exposure 
to guaranteed annuity options increases under rising stock market levels. 
An increase in the level of equity volatility implied by the market cost 
of equity put options also increases the market consistent value of the 
options given to policyholders and worsens the capital position. Various 
hedging strategies are used to manage these exposures.

The most critical non-economic assumptions are the level of take-up 
of options inherent in the contracts (higher take-up rates are more 
onerous), mortality rates (lower mortality rates are generally more 
onerous) and lapses prior to dates at which a guarantee would apply 
(lower lapse rates are generally more onerous where guarantees 
are in the money). The sensitivity of the capital position and capital 
requirements of the With Profit Funds is partly mitigated by the actions 
that can be taken by management.

OTHER LONG-TERM FUNDS
Outside the With Profit Funds, assets backing actuarial reserves 
in respect of policyholder liabilities are invested so that the values 
of the assets and liabilities are broadly matched. The most critical 
non-economic assumptions are mortality rates in respect of annuity 
business written (lower mortality rates are more onerous). Reinsurance 
arrangements are in place to reduce the Group’s exposure to 
deteriorating mortality rates in respect of life insurance contracts. In 
addition, poor cost control would gradually reduce the available capital 
and lead to an increase in the valuation of the liabilities (through an 
increased allowance for future costs).

Assets held in excess of those backing reserves are invested 
predominantly in cash and cash like instruments. The investment 
strategy is determined in line with the policy of Lloyds Banking Group 
to minimise both the profit volatility and the working capital (defined as 
available capital less minimum required capital) required to ensure all 
capital requirements continue to be met under a range of stress tests.

The Group has sold insurance products that contain options and 
guarantees, both within the With Profit Funds and in other funds.

OPTIONS AND GUARANTEES WITHIN THE  
WITH PROFIT FUNDS 
The most significant options and guarantees provided from within the 
With Profit Funds are in respect of guaranteed minimum cash benefits 
on death, maturity, retirement or certain policy anniversaries, and 
guaranteed annuity options on retirement for certain pension policies.

For those policies written in Scottish Widows pre-demutualisation 
containing potentially valuable options and guarantees, under the terms 
of the Scheme a separate memorandum account was set up within 
the With Profit Fund of Scottish Widows called the Additional Account 
which is available, inter alia, to meet any additional costs of providing 
guaranteed benefits in respect of those policies. The Additional Account 
had a value at 31 December 2010 of £1.8 billion (2009: £1.6 billion). The 
eventual cost of providing benefits on policies written both pre and 
post demutualisation is dependent upon a large number of variables, 
including future interest rates and equity values, demographic factors, 
such as mortality, and the proportion of policyholders who seek to 
exercise their options. The ultimate cost will therefore not be known for 
many years.

As noted above, under the realistic capital regime of the FSA, the 
liabilities of both the Clerical Medical and Scottish Widows With Profit 
Funds are valued using a market-consistent stochastic simulation 
model. This model is used in order to place a value on the options and 
guarantees which captures both their intrinsic value and their time value. 

The most significant economic assumptions included in the model are:

 – Risk-free yield. The risk-free yield is defined as spot yields derived from 

the UK gilt yield curve.

 – Investment volatility. The calibration of the stochastic simulation 
model uses implied volatilities of derivatives where possible, or 
historical observed volatility where it is not possible to observe 
meaningful prices. For example, as at 31 December 2010, the 10 year 
equity-implied at-the-money assumption was set at 26.1 per cent 
(31 December 2009: 26.6 per cent). The assumption for property 
volatility was 15 per cent (31 December 2009: 15 per cent). The 
volatility of interest rates has been calibrated to the implied volatility 
of swaptions which was broadly 15 per cent (31 December 2009: 
15 per cent).

The model includes a matrix of the correlations between each of the 
underlying modelled asset types. The correlations used are consistent 
with long-term historical returns. The most significant non-economic 
assumptions included in the model are management actions (in respect 
of investment policy and bonus rates), guaranteed annuity option 
take-up rates and assumptions regarding persistency (both of which are 
based on recent actual experience and include an adjustment to reflect 
future uncertainties where the exercise of options by policyholders might 
increase liabilities), and assumptions regarding mortality (which are 
based on recent actual experience and industry tables).

 
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OPTIONS AND GUARANTEES OUTSIDE THE  
WITH PROFIT FUNDS 
A number of typical guarantees are provided outside the With Profit 
Funds such as guaranteed payments on death (e.g. Term assurance) or 
guaranteed income for life (e.g. annuities). In addition, certain personal 
pension policyholders in Scottish Widows, for whom reinstatement to 
their occupational pension scheme was not an option, have been given 
a guarantee that their pension and other benefits will correspond in 
value to the benefits of the relevant occupational pension scheme. The 
key assumptions affecting the ultimate value of the guarantee are future 
salary growth, gilt yields at retirement, annuitant mortality at retirement, 
marital status at retirement and future investment returns. There is 
currently a provision, calculated on a deterministic basis, of £57 million 
(31 December 2009: £64 million) in respect of those guarantees. If future 
salary growth were 0.5 per cent per annum greater than assumed, the 
liability would increase by some £3 million. If yields were 0.5 per cent 
lower than assumed, the liability would increase by some £10 million.

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114

124

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BOARD OF DIRECTORS

NON-EXECUTIVE DIRECTORS

Sir Winfried Bischoff 
Chairman  

NG Re

Ri

Lord Leitch 
Deputy Chairman 
Independent Director

A NG Re

Anita M Frew 
Independent Director 

A

Ri

Joined the Board and was appointed Chairman in September 
2009. Previously Chairman of Citigroup Inc. from December 
2007 to February 2009. He joined J Henry Schroder & Co in 
January 1966 and became Managing Director of Schroders Asia 
in 1971, Group Chief Executive of Schroders in 1984 and 
Chairman in 1995. Following the acquisition of Schroders’ 
investment banking business by Citigroup in 2000, became 
Chairman of Citigroup Europe before being appointed acting 
Chief Executive Officer of Citigroup in 2007 and subsequently 
as Chairman in the same year. A Non-Executive Director of Eli Lilly 
and Company, and The McGraw Hill Companies Inc. in the 
United States. He is a member of the National Advisory Board of 
UK Career Academy Foundation (Chairman until October 2010) 
and a member of the Akbank International Advisory Board. 
Chairman of the Advisory Council of TheCityUK. Aged 69.

Joined the Board in 2005 and was appointed Deputy Chairman 
in May 2009. Appointed Chairman of Scottish Widows in 2007. 
Held a number of senior and general management 
appointments in Allied Dunbar, Eagle Star and Threadneedle 
Asset Management before the merger of Zurich Group and 
British American Tobacco’s financial services businesses in 
1998. Subsequently served as Chairman and Chief Executive 
Officer of Zurich Financial Services United Kingdom, Ireland, 
Southern Africa and Asia Pacific, until his retirement in 2004. 
Chairman of the Government’s Review of Skills (published in 
December 2006) and Deputy Chairman of the Commonwealth 
Education Fund. Chairman of BUPA and Intrinsic Financial 
Services. Chancellor of Carnegie College. Former Chairman of 
the National Employment Panel and of the ABI. Aged 63. 

Joined the Board on 1 December 2010. Chairman of Victrex, 
the FTSE 250 global manufacturer of high performance 
polymers, having previously been the Senior Independent 
Director. Since 2000, she has held a portfolio of Non-Executive 
Directorships, currently holding positions as Senior 
Non-Executive Director of Aberdeen Asset Management and 
as Non-Executive Director of IMI and Northumbrian Water. 
Prior to this she was Executive Director of Abbott Mead 
Vickers, Director of Corporate Development at WPP Group, 
and has held various investment and marketing roles at 
Scottish Provident and the Royal Bank of Scotland. Aged 53. 

Sir Julian Horn-Smith 
Independent Director  

NG Re

Ri

Glen R Moreno 
Senior Independent Director  

NG

David L Roberts 
Independent Director  

A NG Ri

Re

Joined the Board in 2005. Held a number of senior and general 
management appointments in Vodafone from 1984 to 2006 
including a directorship of that company from 1996, Group 
Chief Operating Officer from 2001 and Deputy Chief Executive 
Officer from 2005. Previously held positions in Philips from 1978 
to 1982 and Mars GB from 1982 to 1984. A Non-Executive 
Director of De La Rue, Digicel Group and Emobile (Japan), a 
Director of Sky Malta, a member of the Altimo International 
Advisory Board and a senior adviser to UBS and CVC Capital 
Partners in relation to the global telecommunications sector. 
Deputy Chairman of Vallar plc. Pro Vice-Chancellor of University 
of Bath. A former Chairman of The Sage Group. Aged 62. 

Joined the Board on 1 March 2010. Chairman of Pearson, the 
media group, since October 2005. A Director of Fidelity 
International, one of the world’s largest fund management 
companies, and Chairman of its Audit Committee. Deputy 
Chairman of The Financial Reporting Council. From 1987 to 
1991 was Chief Executive of Fidelity International. Until mid 
2009, was a Non-Executive Director and Senior Independent 
Director of Man Group, the FTSE 100 financial services group, 
and acting Chairman of UKFI. Former Group Executive of 
Citigroup from 1969 to 1987 and he held a number of senior 
positions at the bank in Europe and Asia. Aged 67. 

Joined the Board on 1 March 2010. Executive Director, member 
of the Group Executive Committee and Chief Executive, 
International Retail and Commercial Banking at Barclays until 
December 2006. Joined Barclays in 1983 and held various 
senior management positions, including Chief Executive, 
Personal Financial Services and Chief Executive, Business 
Banking. Was also a Non-Executive Director of BAA until 
June 2006 and a Non-Executive Director of Absa Group 
Limited, one of South Africa’s largest financial services groups, 
until October 2006. From 2007 to 2009 he was also the 
Chairman and Chief Executive of BAWAG P.S.K. AG, the 
second largest retail bank in Austria. Non-Executive Chairman 
of The Mind Gym. Aged 48. 

T Timothy Ryan, Jr 
Independent Director 

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Martin A Scicluna 
Independent Director  

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Anthony Watson CBE 
Independent Director  

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Joined the Board in March 2009. President and Chief Executive 
of the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association. 
Held a number of senior appointments in JP Morgan Chase 
from 1993 to 2008 including Vice Chairman, financial 
institutions and governments, from 2005. A Director of the 
US-Japan Foundation, Great-West Life Annuity Insurance Co. 
and Putnam Investments and a member of the Global Markets 
Advisory Committee for the National Intelligence Council.  
A former Director in the Office of Thrift Supervison, 
US Department of the Treasury and Koram Bank and the 
International Foundation of Election Systems. Aged 65.

Joined the Board in 2008. Chairman of Deloitte UK from  
1995 to 2007 and a member of the Board from 1991 to 2007. 
Joined the firm in 1973 and was a partner from 1982 until he 
retired in 2008. A member of the Board of directors of  
Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu from 1999 to 2007. Chairman of 
Great Portland Estates. A member of the council of Leeds 
University and a Governor of Berkhamsted School. Aged 60. 

Joined the Board in April 2009. Previously Chief Executive of 
Hermes Pensions Management. Held a number of senior 
appointments in AMP Asset Management from 1991 to 1998. 
A Non-Executive Director of Hammerson, Vodafone and Witan 
Investment Trust, a member of the Norges Bank Investment 
Management Advisory Board and Chairman of Marks and 
Spencer Pension Trust and Lincoln’s Inn Investment 
Committee. A former Chairman of MEPC, the Asian 
Infrastructure Fund and of the Strategic Investment Board 
(Northern Ireland) and a former member of the Financial 
Reporting Council. Aged 65. 

 
 
     
 
   
 
 
 
 
 
   
 
   
Overview

Business review

Governance

Financial statements

Other information

Group profile 

Group structure 

Group performance 

Strategy and progress 

Chairman’s statement 

Group Chief Executive’s review 

Addressing the key issues 

Marketplace trends 

1

2

3

4

6

8

10

12

Summary of Group results 

Divisional results 

Other financial information 

14

26

52

Board of Directors 

Directors’ report 

Corporate governance report 

110

112

114

Five year financial summary 

56 

Directors’ remuneration report  124

Our people 

Corporate responsibility 

Risk management 

57

60

65

Shareholder information 

Glossary 

Abbreviations 

Index to annual report 

284

285

290

291

Report of the independent  
auditors on the consolidated  
financial statements 

Consolidated  
financial statements 

Notes to the consolidated  
financial statements 

Report of the independent  
auditors on the parent company 
financial statements 

Parent company financial 
statements 

Notes to the parent company 
financial statements 

144

146

153

272

273

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EXECUTIVE DIRECTORS

J Eric Daniels
Group Chief Executive  
(Until 28 February 2011)

António Horta-Osório
Group Chief Executive  
(From 1 March 2011)

Archie G Kane
Group Executive Director, Insurance 
(Board Representative for Scotland)

Joined the Board in 2001 as Group Executive Director, UK retail 
banking before his appointment as Group Chief Executive in 
June 2003. Served with Citibank from 1975 and held a number 
of senior and general management appointments in the USA, 
South America and Europe before becoming Chief Operating 
Officer of Citibank Consumer Bank in 1998. Following the 
Citibank/Travelers merger in 1998, he was Chairman and  
Chief Executive Officer of Travelers Life and Annuity until 2000. 
A Non-Executive Director of BT Group. Aged 59. 

Joined the Board on 17 January 2011 as an Executive 
Director and will become Group Chief Executive on 1 March 
2011. Started his career at Citibank Portugal where he was 
head of capital markets. At the same time, was an assistant 
professor at Universidade Catolica Portuguesa. Then worked 
for Goldman Sachs in New York and London. In 1993, joined 
Grupo Santander as Chief Executive of Banco Santander de 
Negocios Portugal and then became Chief Executive Officer 
of Banco Santander Brazil. In 2000, became Chief Executive 
Officer of Santander Totta, and Chairman from 2006 until 2011, 
as well as Executive Vice President of Grupo Santander and a 
member of its Management Committee. He joined Santander 
UK, as a Non-Executive Director in November 2004 and from 
August 2006 until November 2010, was its Chief Executive. 
He is also a Non-Executive Director of the Court of the Bank 
of England until 28 February 2011. Aged 47.

Joined the Group in 1986 and held a number of senior and 
general management appointments before being appointed 
to the Board in 2000, as Group Executive Director, IT and 
Operations. Appointed Group Executive Director, Insurance 
and Investments in October 2003. After some 10 years in the 
accountancy profession, joined General Telephone & 
Electronics Corporation in 1980, serving as Finance Director in 
the UK from 1983 to 1985. ABI Board member (and former 
ABI Chairman, 2007-10). Member of TheCityUK Advisory Council 
and Scottish Government’s Financial Services Advisory Board. 
Aged 58.

G Truett Tate
Group Executive Director, Wholesale  

Tim J W Tookey
Group Finance Director  

Helen A Weir CBE
Group Executive Director, Retail  

Joined the Group in 2003 as Managing Director, Corporate 
Banking before being appointed to the Board in 2004. Served 
with Citigroup from 1972 to 1999, where he held a number of 
senior and general management appointments in the USA, 
South America, Asia and Europe. He was President and 
Chief Executive Officer of eCharge Corporation from 1999 to 
2001 and co-founder and Vice Chairman of the Board of Chase 
Cost Management Inc from 1996 to 2003. A Non-Executive 
Director of BritishAmerican Business Inc and AFME. Chairman 
of Arora Holdings and a Director of Business in the Community 
and a Director and Trustee of In Kind Direct. Aged 60. 

Joined the Group in 2006 as Deputy Group Finance Director, 
before being appointed acting Group Finance Director in 
April 2008. Appointed to the Board in October 2008 as Group 
Finance Director. Previously Finance Director for the UK and 
Europe at Prudential from 2002 to 2006 and Group Finance 
Director of Heath Lambert Group from 1996 to 2002. Prior to 
that, he spent 11 years at KPMG. A member of the British 
Bankers’ Association and Chairman of its Audit Committee and 
Remuneration Committee. Fellow of the Institute of Chartered 
Accountants in England and Wales. Aged 48.

Joined the Board in 2004 as Group Finance Director. 
Appointed as Group Executive Director, UK Retail Banking in 
April 2008. Group Finance Director of Kingfisher from 2000 to 
2004. Previously Finance Director of B&Q, having joined that 
company in 1995, from McKinsey & Co where she was a senior 
manager. Began her career at Unilever. Member of the 
Financial Services Practitioner Panel and the Said Business 
School Advisory Council. Chair of the British Bankers’ 
Association Retail Committee. A former member of the 
Accounting Standards Board. Fellow of the Chartered Institute 
of Management Accountants. Aged 48.

Harry F Baines
Company Secretary  

COMMITTEE ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

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Audit  
Committee
To monitor and review the 
formal arrangements 
established by the Board in 
respect of the financial 
statements and reporting of 
the Group; internal controls 
and the Risk Management 
Framework; internal audit; 
and the Group’s relationship 
with its external auditors.

  Chairman of Committee

Nomination & 
Governance Committee
To keep the Board’s 
governance arrangements 
under review and make 
appropriate 
recommendations to the 
Board to ensure that the 
Company’s arrangements are 
consistent with best practice 
corporate governance 
standards.

Remuneration 
Committee
To set the principles and 
parameters of remuneration 
policy for the Group, and to 
oversee remuneration policy 
and outcomes for those 
colleagues covered by the 
scope of the Committee.

Risk  
Committee 
To review and report its 
conclusions to the Board on 
the Group’s risk appetite and 
Risk Management Framework. 
The Committee has a forward 
looking perspective, 
anticipating changes in 
business conditions.

 
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DIRECTORS’ REPORT

RESULTS
The consolidated income statement shows a loss attributable to equity shareholders for the year ended 31 December 2010 of £320 million.

PRINCIPAL ACTIVITIES, BUSINESS REVIEW, FUTURE DEVELOPMENTS AND FINANCIAL RISK MANAGEMENT 
OBJECTIVES AND POLICIES
The Company is a holding company and its subsidiary undertakings provide a wide range of banking and financial services through branches and 
offices in the UK and overseas. A review of the development and performance of the business during the financial year and an indication of the 
likely future developments are given on pages 3 to 108. Key performance indicators are shown on page 5. Information regarding the financial risk 
management objectives and internal control policies of the Company and its subsidiary undertakings in relation to the preparation of consolidated 
financial statements is given within the risk management report and corporate governance report respectively. Details of the Company’s principal 
risks and uncertainties are set out on pages 70 to 108. The financial risk management objectives and internal control policies in relation to the use  
of financial instruments is given on pages 65 to 108 and in notes 55 and 56 on pages 240 to 265.

POST BALANCE SHEET EVENTS
Details are given in note 59 on page 270.

DIRECTORS
Biographical details of directors are shown on pages 110 and 111. Particulars of their emoluments and interests in shares in the Company are given 
on pages 124 to 141. Changes to the composition of the Board since 1 January 2010 are shown below:

Dr W C G Berndt retired from the Board on 6 May 2010. Mr G R Moreno and Mr D L Roberts joined the Board on 1 March 2010 and Ms A M Frew 
joined the Board on 1 December 2010. Mr A Horta-Osório joined the Board on 17 January 2011. Mr J E Daniels will retire from the Board on 
28 February 2011 and will be succeeded as Group Chief Executive by Mr A Horta-Osório on 1 March 2011.

Ms A M Frew and Mr A Horta-Osório were appointed to the Board after the annual general meeting held in 2010 and will therefore stand for election 
at the forthcoming annual general meeting. Under the articles of association, Sir Julian Horn-Smith and Mr G T Tate are required to retire from the 
Board at the annual general meeting. However, in the interests of good corporate governance and in accordance with the provisions of the UK 
Corporate Governance Code, effective from 2012, the Board has decided that all of the directors will retire voluntarily and submit themselves for  
re-election at the annual general meeting. 

DIRECTORS’ CONFLICTS OF INTEREST
The Board, as permitted by the Company’s articles of association, has authorised all potential conflicts of interest declared by individual directors. 
Decisions regarding these conflicts of interest could only be taken by directors who had no interest in the matter. In taking the decision, the directors 
acted in a way they considered, in good faith, would be most likely to promote the Company’s success. The directors had the ability to impose 
conditions, if thought appropriate, when granting authorisation. Any authorities given will be reviewed at least every 15 months. No director is 
permitted to vote on any resolution or matter where he or she has an actual or potential conflict of interest. The Board confirms that it did not 
authorise any material conflicts during the year. 

DIRECTORS’ INDEMNITIES
The directors, including the former director who retired during the year, have entered into individual deeds of indemnity with the Company which 
constituted ‘qualifying third party indemnity provisions’ and ‘qualifying pension scheme indemnity provisions’ for the purposes of the Companies 
Act 2006. These deeds were in force during the whole of the financial year or from the date of appointment in respect of the directors who joined the 
Board in 2010 and 2011. The indemnities remain in force for the duration of a director’s period of office. Deeds for existing directors are available for 
inspection at the Company’s registered office. 

CORPORATE GOVERNANCE REPORT
The corporate governance report can be found on pages 114 to 123 and forms part of this directors’ report.

SHARE CAPITAL
Information about share capital is shown in note 47 on pages 222 to 224.

CHANGE OF CONTROL
The Company is party to significant contracts that are subject to change of control provisions in the event of a takeover bid.

In addition, the Company is party to a deed of covenant with each of the four Lloyds TSB Foundations (the ‘Foundations’) which hold limited voting 
shares in the Company (the limited voting shares are further described in note 47 on page 224). Under the terms of the deeds of covenant, the 
Company makes an annual payment to each of the Foundations. In the event of a successful offer for more than 50 per cent of the issued ordinary 
share capital of the Company, each limited voting share would convert to an ordinary share under the terms of the Company’s articles of association. 
The payment obligation under the deeds of covenant would come to an end one year following the conversion of the limited voting shares. 

Overview

Business review

Governance

Financial statements

Other information

Group profile 

Group structure 

Group performance 

Strategy and progress 

Chairman’s statement 

Group Chief Executive’s review 

Addressing the key issues 

Marketplace trends 

1

2

3

4

6

8

10

12

Summary of Group results 

Divisional results 

Other financial information 

14

26

52

Board of Directors 
Directors’ report 

Corporate governance report 

110
112

114

Five year financial summary 

56 

Directors’ remuneration report  124

Our people 

Corporate responsibility 

Risk management 

57

60

65

Shareholder information 

Glossary 

Abbreviations 

Index to annual report 

284

285

290

291

Report of the independent  
auditors on the consolidated  
financial statements 

Consolidated  
financial statements 

Notes to the consolidated  
financial statements 

Report of the independent  
auditors on the parent company 
financial statements 

Parent company financial 
statements 

Notes to the parent company 
financial statements 

144

146

153

272

273

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GOING CONCERN
The going concern of the Company and the Group is dependent on successfully funding their respective balance sheets and maintaining adequate 
levels of capital. In order to satisfy themselves that the Company and the Group have adequate resources to continue to operate for the foreseeable 
future, the directors have considered a number of key dependencies which are set out in the risk management section under Principal Risks: Liquidity 
and Funding on page 72 and Financial Soundness on pages 93 to 102 and additionally have considered projections for the Group’s capital and 
funding position. Having considered these, the directors consider that it is appropriate to continue to adopt the going concern basis in preparing 
the accounts.

EMPLOYEES
Lloyds Banking Group is committed to providing employment practices and policies which recognise the diversity of our workforce and ensure 
equality for employees regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation or religious belief.

In the UK, Lloyds Banking Group belongs to the major employer groups campaigning for equality for the above groups of staff, including Employers’ 
Forum on Disability, Employers’ Forum on Age, Stonewall and the Race for Opportunity. Our involvement with these organisations enables us to 
identify and implement best practice for our staff.

Employees are kept closely involved in major changes affecting them through such measures as team meetings, briefings, internal communications 
and opinion surveys. There are well established procedures, including regular meetings with recognised unions, to ensure that the views of 
employees are taken into account in reaching decisions. 

Schemes offering share options or the acquisition of shares are available for most staff, to encourage their financial involvement in 
Lloyds Banking Group.

Lloyds Banking Group is committed to providing employees with comprehensive coverage of the economic and financial issues affecting the Group. 
We have established a full suite of communication channels, including an extensive face-to-face briefing programme which allows us to update our 
employees on our performance and any financial issues throughout the year. 

DONATIONS
The income statement includes a charge for charitable donations totalling £30,750,000 in 2010 (2009: £33,477,000), including £28,228,000 
(2009: £28,228,000) which will be paid under the deeds of covenant to the four Lloyds TSB Foundations during 2011.

POLICY AND PRACTICE ON PAYMENT OF CREDITORS
The Company has signed up to the ‘Prompt Payment Code’ published by the Department for Business Innovation and Skills (BIS), regarding the 
making of payments to suppliers. Information about the ‘Prompt Payment Code’ may be obtained by visiting www.promptpaymentcode.org.uk.

The Company’s policy is to agree terms of payment with suppliers and these normally provide for settlement within 30 days after the date of the 
invoice, except where other arrangements have been negotiated. It is the policy of the Company to abide by the agreed terms of payment, provided 
the supplier performs according to the terms of the contract.

The number of days required to be shown in this report, to comply with the provisions of the Companies Act 2006, is 44. This bears the same 
proportion to the number of days in the year as the aggregate of the amounts owed to trade creditors at 31 December 2010 bears to the aggregate 
of the amounts invoiced by suppliers during the year.

DIRECTORS’ RESPONSIBILITY STATEMENT
Each of the directors, whose names and functions are listed on pages 110 and 111 of this annual report, confirm that, to the best of his or her knowledge:

 –   the Group financial statements, which have been prepared in accordance with IFRSs as adopted by the EU, give a true and fair view of the assets, 

liabilities, financial position and profit or loss of the Company and Group; and

 –   the management report contained in the Business Review includes a fair review of the development and performance of the business and the 

position of the Company and Group, together with a description of the principal risks and uncertainties that they face.

AUDITORS AND AUDIT INFORMATION
Each person who is a director at the date of approval of this report confirms that, so far as the director is aware, there is no relevant audit information 
of which the Company’s auditors are unaware and each director has taken all the steps that he or she ought to have taken as a director to make 
himself or herself aware of any relevant audit information and to establish that the Company’s auditors are aware of that information. This 
confirmation is given and should be interpreted in accordance with the provisions of the Companies Act 2006.

Resolutions concerning the re-appointment of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as auditors and authorising the Audit Committee to set their 
remuneration will be proposed at the annual general meeting.

On behalf of the Board

Harry F Baines 
Company Secretary 
24 February 2011

Company number 95000

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A PERSONAL STATEMENT FROM SIR WINFRIED BISCHOFF

Rebuilding trust in financial institutions generally is central also to achieving our aim of being recognised as the UK’s best bank. We are judged 
on how we do business, and how we respond to our stakeholders’ issues and needs. In particular, we are judged on the effectiveness of our 
decision making. 

We understand the reliance that investors, customers and other stakeholders place on our corporate governance arrangements and the need to 
ensure the integrity of those processes. At the same time, I am aware from discussions with shareholders that there is a strong desire to understand 
more about the Board’s thinking in this area, not just the end result. By way of response, I want to use this statement to explain our approach to 
corporate governance and how we have ensured compliance with all the principles of the Financial Reporting Council’s Combined Code (the Code), 
for our financial year ended 31 December 2010. 

LEADERSHIP AND ACCOUNTABILITY

As Chairman of Lloyds Banking Group plc, a role that I am honoured to perform, I am responsible for leadership of the Board and for ensuring 
its effectiveness. 

We operate a unitary Board with all Directors collectively responsible for the long term success of the Company. The Chairman ensures that Directors 
are kept advised of key developments, that they receive timely and relevant information and are involved in relevant decisions. It is expected that all 
Directors, but particularly the Non-Executive Directors, constructively challenge proposals that come to the Board for decision. 

I meet regularly with the Non-Executive Directors without the Executive Directors being present, either in private sessions held following Board or 
Committee meetings or in separately arranged meetings. The Executive Directors are aware of such meetings through our Board calendar. At the 
same time, we have provision for the Non-Executive Directors to meet with the Group Chief Executive without the Chairman, so that there can be 
feedback both ways. 

I have enjoyed a constructive relationship with Eric Daniels, our Group Chief Executive, and with the wider Board over the last 18 months. I look 
forward to a similar relationship with António Horta-Osório, our new Group Chief Executive, when he takes over on 1 March 2011.

A sound relationship between the Chairman and Group Chief Executive based on a mutual understanding of our respective responsibilities is 
essential to maintaining an open culture with the wider Board. The Group Chief Executive manages the business day to day which in my view is the 
number one priority for any company. The Chairman manages the Board. There are in addition many other areas which we in turn share or to which 
each one of us contributes in varying degree. Of course, responsibilities are clearly defined both in our terms of appointment and in the Board 
Governance Framework which sets out the respective roles and responsibilities of the Chairman, Group Chief Executive, Senior Independent Director 
and Non-Executive Directors. 

The Board Governance Framework is the Board’s operating manual and sets out the matters that the Board has reserved to itself, including the 
development and setting of strategy and long term objectives; approval of the medium term plan and financial budgets; capital and structure of 
capital; significant contracts and various statutory and regulatory approvals. 

In addition to the matters that it reserves to itself, the Board delegates certain matters to its Committees. This delegation ensures that adequate time 
is devoted by Board members to the independent oversight of key controls. 

All Committees act under terms of reference which are proposed by the Nomination & Governance Committee and then approved by the Board 
and reviewed regularly. During 2010, all terms of reference were reviewed and updated. Copies of the current terms of reference are available on our 
website, www.lloydsbankinggroup.com.

Lloyds Banking Group Board

Group 
Chief Executive

Remuneration
Committee

Nomination &
Governance
Committee

Risk
Committee

Audit
Committee

Group 
Executive
Committee

All Committees report to the Board through reports from Committee Chairmen with respect to each meeting. During 2010, the Chairman’s 
Committee was disbanded. Matters previously delegated to the Chairman’s Committee were either transferred to the Nomination & Governance 
Committee which reports to the Board, or a Board agenda review meeting. Further information on the membership, role and activities of each of the 
Committees during 2010 is detailed on pages 120 and 121.

All other matters, including responsibility for managing the business day to day, are delegated to the Group Chief Executive. 

Overview

Business review

Governance

Financial statements

Other information

Group profile 

Group structure 

Group performance 

Strategy and progress 

Chairman’s statement 

Group Chief Executive’s review 

Addressing the key issues 

Marketplace trends 

1

2

3

4

6

8

10

12

Summary of Group results 

Divisional results 

Other financial information 

14

26

52

Board of Directors 

110

Directors’ report 
112
Corporate governance report  114

Five year financial summary 

56 

Directors’ remuneration report  124

Our people 

Corporate responsibility 

Risk management 

57

60

65

Shareholder information 

Glossary 

Abbreviations 

Index to annual report 

284

285

290

291

Report of the independent  
auditors on the consolidated  
financial statements 

Consolidated  
financial statements 

Notes to the consolidated  
financial statements 

Report of the independent  
auditors on the parent company 
financial statements 

Parent company financial 
statements 

Notes to the parent company 
financial statements 

144

146

153

272

273

276

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Through the Executive Governance Framework approved by the Board, the Group Chief Executive reserves certain matters to himself and, 
subject to financial limits, delegates responsibilities to the Executive Directors and his other direct reports who collectively make up the 
Group Executive Committee. 

The frameworks are reviewed by the Board at least annually. In 2010, a comprehensive review of both frameworks was undertaken to ensure that they 
remained appropriate for the enlarged group. Changes were made to ensure that the Board devotes the right amount of time and attention  
to key matters. 

In 2010, we held a total of 17 Board meetings of which nine were scheduled at the start of the year. The much larger number of meetings than 
anticipated reflects the challenging environment in which we continue to operate and the need to keep the Board informed of developments in  
a timely manner. 

Details of attendance at meetings are set out on page 119. When meetings are called at short notice, it is not always possible for all Directors to 
attend. As Chairman, it is my practice to seek to contact any Directors that are unable to attend to obtain their views before any decision is taken. 

All Directors participate in the development of strategy. In addition to discussions at regular Board meetings, we held two strategy development 
sessions in 2010, one in April and the other in November. Each lasted two days. The time spent at these meetings not only enables the Board to 
devote time to its strategic priorities but also to foster closer working relationships between Board members. 

EFFECTIVENESS 

Since joining the Board in September 2009, one of my priorities has been to review the composition of the Board to ensure that the overall Board 
and Committee structure is appropriate for an organisation of the breadth and scale of Lloyds Banking Group. 

I lead the review of the composition of the Board, which is a continuous process, through the Nomination & Governance Committee which I chair. 
The Nomination & Governance Committee makes recommendations to the Board on matters relating to Board membership and governance. 
Membership of the Nomination & Governance Committee at present comprises the Deputy Chairman, the Senior Independent Director, the 
Chairman of the Audit, Remuneration and Risk Committees and one other independent Non-Executive Director. The Group Chief Executive is 
normally asked to attend. This provides a broad perspective of views of the Board and its Committees. The role of the Nomination & Governance 
Committee is explained on pages 120 and 121 and its key areas of activity in 2010 are explained below. 

BOARD COMPOSITION 
In 2010, the Nomination & Governance Committee formulated a board composition policy statement which lays down the principles that are applied 
when reviewing Board composition. The policy has been adopted by the Board and covers matters such as: 

Skills and experience 
In reviewing composition, the Board aims to ensure that its membership represents a mix of backgrounds and experience that will enhance the 
quality of its deliberations and decisions. As part of our ongoing review, we identify specific skills that we look for in prospective new Directors, having 
regard to the skills of the Board overall at the time, and the need to address longer term succession and current business priorities. The annual Board 
evaluation is instrumental in identifying any new skills requirements, as well as possible shortcomings, gaps and inefficiencies. We conducted Board 
evaluations in 2009 and 2010 with the help of outside consultants. 

All Directors are required to have good – and in most cases have deep – experience and understanding of the banking and financial services sector. 
The complexity of the Group means that broader skills are also required. Maintaining the right balance is an ongoing priority. The appointments of 
Glen Moreno and David Roberts in March 2010 enhanced the Board’s collective banking skills with the majority of the Non-Executives, including 
myself, having substantial banking experience. This is complemented by the strong financial, accounting and commercial backgrounds of other 
Non-Executive Directors. The changes made to the Board during 2010 are explained in Board Changes below. 

Diversity
The Board is keen to ensure that, subject to merit, its membership reflects diversity in the broadest sense including diversity of gender, ethnicity and 
background. Appointments made to the Board during 2010 reflect this policy. Further information is provided in Board Changes below. 

As one of the founding Chairmen of The 30% Club, I am committed to improving the representation of women on UK corporate boards, including 
the goal of ensuring at least 30 per cent representation of women on boards by 2015. Chairmen, I believe, have an obligation to speed up the pace 
of change and to influence the board selection process to widen the talent pool for consideration. To do this, we need to champion diversity within 
our own organisations, and as part of that, develop our female talent and be prescriptive with search agencies to work towards an aspirational target 
for better female representation on boards. 

Board size 
Our aim is to ensure that the size of the Board is sufficient to reflect a broad range of views and perspectives whilst allowing all Directors to 
participate effectively in meetings. At year end, the Board comprised 14 directors which is within the range, albeit at the upper end, set by the 
Nomination & Governance Committee. 

Mix of Independent and Executive Directors 
Our Board’s preference is to ensure a strong majority of independent directors. At year end, our Board comprised five Executive Directors, 
eight independent Non-Executive Directors and myself as Chairman. The Code requirement that at least half the Board should be independent 
Non-Executive Directors has been met throughout the year. 

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Independence 
The Nomination & Governance Committee is responsible for assessing the independence of Non-Executive Directors on appointment and annually. 
It is satisfied that throughout the year, all Non-Executive Directors were independent as to both character and judgement. 

In assessing independence, the Committee does not rely solely on the Code criteria but considers whether, in fact, the Non-Executive is 
demonstrably independent and free of relationships and other circumstances that could affect their judgement. It does this with reference to the 
individual performance and conduct in reaching decisions. It also takes account of any relationships that have been disclosed and authorised by the 
Board. In the view of the Nomination & Governance Committee, Glen Moreno, who was between January 2009 and August 2009 acting Chairman 
of United Kingdom Financial Investments which manages the Government’s shareholding in the Group, continues to exercise his own and robustly 
independent judgement at all times.

Succession planning 
This is a key aspect of our overall review of Board composition and is explained fully in Succession Planning below. 

BOARD CHANGES
The Nomination & Governance Committee has overseen a number of changes to the Board during the year. For new Non-Executive Directors, the 
process was conducted by the Nomination & Governance Committee with the support of an executive search firm, JCA Group. The Group Chief 
Executive’s succession process was managed by a special sub-committee; details of which are set out in Group Chief Executive Succession. 

 – Glen Moreno and David Roberts were appointed on 1 March 2010 specifically to enhance the Board’s banking skills and expertise. Glen Moreno 

combines strong financial services and commercial experience gained in both an executive and non-executive capacity in the UK and 
internationally, while David Roberts’ in-depth commercial and retail banking expertise complements the broader perspectives of other 
Non-Executives. 

The appointment of Glen Moreno presented an opportunity to separate the roles of Deputy Chairman and Senior Independent Director both 
previously carried out by Lord Leitch. With effect from 1 March 2010, Glen Moreno was appointed Senior Independent Director; Lord Leitch 
remains Deputy Chairman. 

As Senior Independent Director, Glen Moreno acts as the primary sounding board to me as Chairman and as an intermediary for 
other Non-Executive Directors. He is supported in this latter task by the Deputy Chairman. The Deputy Chairman is also Chairman of 
Scottish Widows Group, the UK’s largest life insurance company and an important component of our Group. 

 – Anita Frew joined the Board on 1 December 2010. In March 2010, after strengthening the banking experience on the Board, it was agreed that 

there was a need for someone with a more diverse financial and commercial background. Anita’s extensive experience of public companies across 
a range of sectors, including manufacturing as well as banking and asset management, has enhanced the diversity of perspectives on the Board. 

 – António Horta-Osório joined the Board as an Executive Director on 17 January 2011 and succeeds Eric Daniels as Group Chief Executive on 

1 March 2011. The process leading to his appointment is explained in Group Chief Executive Succession. 

In addition to the above appointments, the following retirements were announced in the year: 

 – Dr Wolfgang Berndt retired from the Board at the annual general meeting in May 2010. Dr Berndt joined the Board in 2003 and during his tenure 
made a significant contribution to the Group particularly in the areas of strategy and measurement of results. As Chairman of the Remuneration 
Committee, he advocated a constructive and open dialogue with shareholders. He was succeeded as Chairman of the Remuneration Committee 
by Anthony Watson. 

 – In September 2010, consistent with his contractual obligations and entitlements, Eric Daniels gave twelve months notice of his intention to 

retire as Group Chief Executive and director of Lloyds Banking Group plc (and principal subsidiaries). Eric Daniels will retire from the Board on 
28 February 2011, but in line with his contractual obligations, he will remain an employee of the Company for the remainder of his notice period. 
Under this arrangement, I will be able to draw on his knowledge and experience of our operations and customers, and these skills will also be 
available to support the Group, where needed.

Biographies for all current directors can be found on pages 110 and 111.

ELECTION AND RE-ELECTION
Anita Frew and António Horta-Osório were appointed to the Board after the annual general meeting held in 2010 and will therefore stand for election 
at the forthcoming annual general meeting. Under the articles of association, Sir Julian Horn-Smith and Truett Tate are required to retire from the 
Board at the annual general meeting. However, in the interests of good corporate governance and in accordance with provisions of the UK Corporate 
Governance Code, effective from 2012, we have decided that all of the directors will retire voluntarily and submit themselves for re-election at the 
annual general meeting. 

SUCCESSION PLANNING 
The Nomination & Governance Committee oversees the Board’s arrangements for the longer term succession of Board and Committee members. 

Non-Executive succession planning 
Non-Executive succession planning is addressed as part of our ongoing review of Board composition. Our policy takes account of the need regularly 
to refresh our intake of Non-Executives to bring new perspectives, to ensure appropriate representation on each of the Board’s Committees and 

Overview

Business review

Governance

Financial statements

Other information

Group profile 

Group structure 

Group performance 

Strategy and progress 

Chairman’s statement 

Group Chief Executive’s review 

Addressing the key issues 

Marketplace trends 

1

2

3

4

6

8

10

12

Summary of Group results 

Divisional results 

Other financial information 

14

26

52

Board of Directors 

110

Directors’ report 
112
Corporate governance report  114

Five year financial summary 

56 

Directors’ remuneration report  124

Our people 

Corporate responsibility 

Risk management 

57

60

65

Shareholder information 

Glossary 

Abbreviations 

Index to annual report 

284

285

290

291

Report of the independent  
auditors on the consolidated  
financial statements 

Consolidated  
financial statements 

Notes to the consolidated  
financial statements 

Report of the independent  
auditors on the parent company 
financial statements 

Parent company financial 
statements 

Notes to the parent company 
financial statements 

144

146

153

272

273

276

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to plan for longer term succession. The average tenure of our Non-Executive Directors is nearly three years. Non-Executive Directors are currently 
appointed for three year terms. Following the move to annual re-election of Directors, Non-Executive Directors will in future be appointed on a 
rolling 12 months basis. 

Group Chief Executive Succession
As Chairman, I am responsible for the succession arrangements relating to the Group Chief Executive, including process and the production of a 
plan. It is important to maintain a thorough understanding of the market to ensure that the plan is regularly reviewed and refreshed. If not already 
known to me, I take the time to get to know potential candidates so that I can assess their suitability for our Board. 

In September 2010, immediately following the announcement of Eric Daniels’ retirement, a subcommittee of the Board (the Succession  
Committee) was established under my Chairmanship to lead the search for a suitable successor. Other members of the Succession Committee were  
Lord Leitch (Deputy Chairman), Glen Moreno (Senior Independent Director) and Anthony Watson (Chairman of the Remuneration Committee),  
all independent Non-Executive Directors. The Succession Committee met at least once a week between September and November 2010 and was 
supported by the Group HR Director and the Head of Secretariat. 

The Succession Committee’s remit was to appoint a successor who would be capable of leading the Group to the next stage of its development. It 
was agreed that an extensive search should be conducted encompassing internal, external and international candidates. Given the profile, breadth 
and challenges of the role, together with the need to be able successfully to lead the Group in the next phase of its development, it was clear that an 
exceptional candidate was required. 

The starting point for identification of suitable candidates was our Chief Executive Succession plan which included António Horta-Osório. We also 
considered other candidates, including one internal candidate. 

In view of our succession plan, we did not appoint an executive search firm to assist with the search and selection process. The executive search firm, 
JCA Group, was involved in the process which enabled us to appoint our new Group Chief Executive. However I handled the approach to and the 
appointment of, António Horta-Osório in conjunction with the Succession Committee.

António Horta-Osório stood out in an excellent short list. His skills closely match the role specification agreed by the Succession Committee 
including: 

 – strong retail and commercial banking experience gained in the UK and internationally, including experience at chief executive officer level,  

of running large scale, multi-product, multi-brand businesses; 

 – a proven track record of successful integration of retail banks in the UK and in Europe as part of a multi-jurisdictional, multi-brand organisation; 

 – strong understanding of the operational and regulatory environment in which banks operate both in the UK and globally, including a deep 

understanding of capital and liquidity management and the potential impacts of global regulatory change initiatives;

 – the ability to foster a culture of fairness for customers, shareholders and colleagues; and

 – the ability to provide leadership and strategic direction, to deliver growth in tough market conditions. 

Following an intensive interview process and extensive due diligence, António Horta-Osório was named as our new Group Chief Executive in 
November 2010. 

Executive Directors and senior executives
The Nomination & Governance Committee and the Board are responsible for oversight of the process for succession and management 
development of the most senior executives both at and below Board level, including Executive Directors and members of the Group Executive 
Committee. The primary responsibility for this, however, rests with the Group Chief Executive. Arrangements are reviewed at least annually with  
the latest review taking place in June 2010.

THE WALKER REVIEW
In November 2009, Sir David Walker published his ‘Review of corporate governance in UK banks and other financial industry entities’ (the 
Walker Review). The Nomination & Governance Committee was responsible for overseeing the Group’s implementation of the Walker Review 
recommendations. Although not yet fully in force, the Group has agreed to adopt those recommendations that did not require further clarification or 
regulatory pronouncement including with respect to the annual re-election of all Directors. A review of Board procedures was undertaken including: 

Directors’ induction
All Directors are expected to make an informed contribution based on an understanding of the Group’s business model and the key challenges 
facing the Group and its businesses. To ensure they can contribute from an early stage, they undergo an extensive induction on appointment. 

Early in 2010, the Board reviewed and refreshed its induction programme to meet the Walker Review recommendation of a formal, substantive  
and personalised induction. All Directors appointed during 2010 have undertaken a three stage induction process comprising: 

 – a corporate induction, which provides an overview of the Group, its strategy, operational structures and main business activities; 

 – governance and Directors’ responsibilities, which explains the role and statutory duties of a Non-Executive Director including the roles and 

responsibilities owed by banks and other financial services firms to the FSA and other regulatory bodies; and 

 – a bespoke induction plan prepared in consultation with me, tailored to the individual needs of the Director, to the specific role that they will carry 

out, and their skills/experience to date.

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Board training
The Board receives regular refresher training and information sessions to address current business or emerging issues. During 2010, Non-Executives 
undertook approximately five days of training, including 12 hours of structured training during Board meetings. This is delivered through a variety 
of means, including sessions on matters such as liquidity and funding, stress testing, living wills, the Bribery Act and special Board sessions covering 
matters such as the Individual Capital Adequacy Assessment Process and training for Approved Persons. In addition, the Audit Committee arranged 
a series of ‘deep dives’ to which all Board members were invited, and which provided an in-depth review of the operations of each of the business 
divisions and of the latest accounting standards and operating methodologies. Half day sessions were delivered for each division amounting to 
three days in total.

Time commitments
The Nomination & Governance Committee reviewed and formalised the expected time commitments for Non-Executive Directors. The review laid 
down the expected time commitment for the Board, Committees and special responsibilities, eg Senior Independent Director, based on scheduled 
meetings only. 

In 2010, as in 2009, the time commitment demanded of all Non-Executive Directors was considerable and substantially in excess of the time 
envisaged in their terms of appointment. There has been no adjustment to fees to reflect the increased workload since January 2008. I am grateful to 
our Non-Executives for the considerable personal contribution that they make to our Board and for accommodating the additional demands, often 
at short notice and at unsociable hours. 

BOARD EVALUATION AND PERFORMANCE
The Nomination & Governance Committee recommended to the Board that, as in 2009, the 2010 evaluation should again be facilitated externally. 
Given the number of new entrants to this market, we agreed that we should explore the range of services available. Following a tender process and 
interviews, Dr Tracy Long of Boardroom Review was appointed to conduct the 2010 process. Boardroom Review has no other relationship with the 
Company. 

The review was conducted between October 2010 and February 2011 through confidential interviews with all Board directors and the Company 
Secretary, observation of a Board meeting and a review of selected papers. The review was designed to be forward looking, assessing the quality of 
the Board’s decision making and debate, and its overall contribution to, and impact on, the long term health and success of the business. The review 
identified the strengths of the Board and its Committees and highlighted areas for the Board to work on in order to prepare for future challenges. 
The Board evaluation also provides feedback on the individual performance of Directors which informs a general assessment and my assessment 
which is used for individual feedback.

As Senior Independent Director, Glen Moreno leads the review of my performance with the Board and provides feedback in a face-to-face meeting. 

REMUNERATION 

The Remuneration Committee, chaired by Anthony Watson, is responsible for overseeing the Group’s remuneration arrangements and compliance 
with the FSA’s Remuneration Code. The Remuneration Committee’s terms of reference were amended in 2010 to address the recommendation of 
the Walker Review and, more recently, the FSA Remuneration Code, that performance related pay should be more closely aligned to the long term 
interests of the Company and its risk management systems. The Remuneration Committee’s terms of reference are available on our  
website, www.lloydsbankinggroup.com.

An overview of the Remuneration Committee is set out on pages 120 and 121. The work of the Remuneration Committee is explained in the 
Directors’ remuneration report on pages 124 to 141.

SHAREHOLDER ENGAGEMENT 

The Board recognises the importance of promoting mutual understanding between the Company and its shareholders through greater 
engagement. In 2010, there was regular dialogue with institutional shareholders with more than 300 equity investor meetings undertaken in the year. 
Many of these meetings were undertaken by senior management (primarily the Group Chief Executive and Group Finance Director) or Board 
members. As Chairman, I have attended a number of meetings with shareholders to discuss governance and strategic direction. Anthony Watson,  
as Chairman of the Remuneration Committee, regularly meets our larger shareholders to discuss executive remuneration issues while Glen Moreno, 
the Senior Independent Director, separately meets with a range of major shareholders. 

The Board is kept advised of the views of major shareholders by means of regular updates at Board and Committee meetings. It also receives 
monthly reports on market and investor sentiment and shareholder analysis.

Investor Relations has primary responsibility for managing day-to-day communications with institutional shareholders. Supported by the Group Chief 
Executive and Group Finance Director, they achieve this through a combination of briefings to analysts and institutional shareholders (both at results 
briefings and throughout the year), as well as site visits and individual discussions with institutional shareholders. 

The Company Secretary oversees communications with private shareholders. The Group’s annual general meeting provides an opportunity to meet 
the Group’s Directors and to hear more about the strategy of the Group. Shareholders are encouraged to attend the annual general meeting and to 
raise any questions at the meeting or in advance, using the email address shown in the pack which will be sent to shareholders in March 2011. 

Overview

Business review

Governance

Financial statements

Other information

Group profile 

Group structure 

Group performance 

Strategy and progress 

Chairman’s statement 

Group Chief Executive’s review 

Addressing the key issues 

Marketplace trends 

1

2

3

4

6

8

10

12

Summary of Group results 

Divisional results 

Other financial information 

14

26

52

Board of Directors 

110

Directors’ report 
112
Corporate governance report  114

Five year financial summary 

56 

Directors’ remuneration report  124

Our people 

Corporate responsibility 

Risk management 

57

60

65

Shareholder information 

Glossary 

Abbreviations 

Index to annual report 

284

285

290

291

Report of the independent  
auditors on the consolidated  
financial statements 

Consolidated  
financial statements 

Notes to the consolidated  
financial statements 

Report of the independent  
auditors on the parent company 
financial statements 

Parent company financial 
statements 

Notes to the parent company 
financial statements 

144

146

153

272

273

276

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Scottish Widows Investment Partnership, one of Europe’s largest asset managers and a Group company, complies with the principles of the 
Financial Reporting Council’s Stewardship Code, published in July 2010. Details of Scottish Widows Investment Partnership’s approach to 
stewardship and corporate governance can be found on its website, www.swip.com.

In conclusion, I am pleased to confirm that the Group complied with all relevant provisions of the Code throughout the year ending 
31 December 2010. As an early adopter of several of the recommendations contained in the Walker Review, I believe the Group is well placed  
to comply with new provisions contained in the UK Corporate Governance Code which will apply to future reports, and to benefit thereby. 

Sir Winfried Bischoff 
Chairman

ATTENDANCE AT MEETINGS

The attendance of directors at Board meetings and at meetings of the Audit, Nomination & Governance, Remuneration and Risk Committees 
of which they were members during 2010 are shown in the table. Some Directors attended relevant Committee meetings as attendees periodically 
throughout the year, which are not shown below. In addition, the Audit Committee arranged six half day ‘deep dive’ meetings during 2010 which 
were open to and attended by other members of the Board.

Board meetings

Audit Committee

Nomination &  
Governance  
Committee

Remuneration  
Committee

Risk  

Committee

Regular

Ad hoc

Number of meetings during the year

Current directors who served  
during 2010

Sir Winfried Bischoff

J E Daniels

A M Frew1

Sir Julian Horn-Smith

A G Kane

Lord Leitch2

G R Moreno3

D L Roberts4

T T Ryan5

M A Scicluna6

G T Tate

T J W Tookey

Anthony Watson7

H A Weir

Former directors who served  
during 2010

Dr W C G Berndt8

9

9

9

1(1) 

9

9

8

7

7

9

9

9

9

9

9

4

Regular

Ad hoc

Regular

Ad hoc

Regular

Ad hoc

Regular

7

1(1) 

6

5(5) 

7

7

7

1

–

1

1

–

1

1

3

3

1

3

2(2) 

1(2) 

2(2) 

2(2) 

2

2

2

1

1(1)

0(1)

–

–

4

4

3

4

 –

 3(3) 

3(3) 

11

11

6

11

4(5)

7(8)

6(8)

4

–

4

–

4

2(2)

 2(2)

 3(3)

 4

4

3(3) 

7(8)

 2(2)

Total

17

16

16

1

13

16

16

13

13

15

16

17

17

15

17

8

7

7

–

4

7

8

6(7) 

6(7) 

6

7

8

8

6

8

2(3) 

6

1(1) 

2(2)

2(2) 

6(6)

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

Appointed to the Board, Audit and Risk Committees on 1 December 2010.

Stood down from the Risk Committee on 14 April 2010.

Appointed to the Board, Nomination & Governance, Remuneration and Risk Committees on 1 March 2010. Stood down from the Remuneration Committee on 17 June 2010 and the 
Risk Committee on 1 September 2010. 

Appointed to the Board, Audit, Remuneration and Risk Committees on 1 March 2010. Appointed as Chairman of the Risk Committee and to the Nomination & Governance Committee with effect 
from 1 September 2010.

Appointed to the Remuneration Committee on 1 March 2010.

Appointed to the Nomination & Governance Committee on 6 May 2010.

Appointed as Chairman of the Remuneration Committe and to the Nomination & Governance Committee, and stood down from the Risk Committee, on 6 May 2010.

Left the Board on 6 May 2010.

Numbers in brackets show the maximum number of possible meetings that each Director could have attended in 2010 including those ad hoc or 
called at short notice.

 
 
 
 
 
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BOARD COMMITTEES

The table below sets out a summary of the membership and role of each of the Board Committees, along with the activities they performed during 2010. 
There is a standing invitation for all Non-Executive Directors to attend Committee meetings of which they are not members. All Committee terms of 
reference are available from the Company Secretary and are displayed on our website, www.lloydsbankinggroup.com.

Committee

Audit

Chairman

Martin Scicluna

Membership 

Anita Frew
Lord Leitch
David Roberts
Tim Ryan
Anthony Watson

Nomination & 
Governance

Sir Winfried Bischoff

Remuneration

Anthony Watson

Risk

David Roberts

Sir Julian Horn-Smith
Lord Leitch
Glen Moreno
David Roberts
Martin Scicluna
Anthony Watson

Sir Winfried Bischoff
Sir Julian Horn-Smith
Lord Leitch
David Roberts
Tim Ryan

Sir Winfried Bischoff
Anita Frew
Sir Julian Horn-Smith
Anthony Watson
Martin Scicluna

Purpose

To monitor and review the formal 
arrangements established by the 
Board in respect of:

(a) the financial statements and 
reporting of the Group;

(b) internal controls and the risk 
management framework;

(c) internal audit; and

(d) the Group’s relationship with  
its external auditors.

To keep the Board’s governance 
arrangements under review 
and make appropriate 
recommendations to the Board 
to ensure that the Company’s 
arrangements are consistent 
with best practice corporate 
governance standards.

To set the principles and 
parameters of remuneration 
policy for the Group, and to 
oversee remuneration policy and 
outcomes for those colleagues 
specified in the terms of 
reference.

To review and report its 
conclusions to the Board on:

(a) the Group’s risk appetite; and

(b) the Group’s risk management 
framework, 

taking a forward looking 
perspective and anticipating 
changes in business conditions.

Overview

Business review

Governance

Financial statements

Other information

Group profile 

Group structure 

Group performance 

Strategy and progress 

Chairman’s statement 

Group Chief Executive’s review 

Addressing the key issues 

Marketplace trends 

1

2

3

4

6

8

10

12

Summary of Group results 

Divisional results 

Other financial information 

14

26

52

Board of Directors 

110

Directors’ report 
112
Corporate governance report  114

Five year financial summary 

56 

Directors’ remuneration report  124

Our people 

Corporate responsibility 

Risk management 

57

60

65

Shareholder information 

Glossary 

Abbreviations 

Index to annual report 

284

285

290

291

Report of the independent  
auditors on the consolidated  
financial statements 

Consolidated  
financial statements 

Notes to the consolidated  
financial statements 

Report of the independent  
auditors on the parent company 
financial statements 

Parent company financial 
statements 

Notes to the parent company 
financial statements 

144

146

153

272

273

276

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Responsibilities

2010 Activities

 – reviews the financial statements 
published in the name of the 
Board and the quality and 
acceptability of the related 
accounting policies, practices 
and financial reporting 
disclosures;

 – reviews the scope of the work 

of the group audit department, 
reports from that department and 
the adequacy of its resources;

 – reviews the effectiveness of the 
systems for internal control, risk 
management and compliance 
with financial services legislation 
and regulations;

 – approves the external auditors’ 

terms of engagement and 
remuneration;

 – assesses the external auditors’ 
independence and objectivity;

 – recommends the external 
auditors’ appointment, 
re-appointment and removal; 

 – reviews the results of the 
external audit and its cost 
effectiveness; 

 – reviewed and recommended to 
the Board the Group annual and 
interim reports and accounts;

 – reviewed significant accounting 

matters as discussed with 
the auditors;

 – reviewed the Group’s position as 

a going concern;

 – reviews reports from the auditors 

 – reviewed the appointment of 

on audit planning and their 
findings on accounting and 
internal control systems; and

 – reviews procedures for 

handling complaints regarding 
accounting, internal accounting 
controls or auditing matters 
and for staff to raise concerns in 
confidence.

the auditors and approved their 
remuneration;

 – attended six half day ‘deep 

dive’ sessions with each of the 
divisions

 – reviewed litigation and 

regulatory risks;

 – received reports from the 

Divisional Financial Control 
Committees and the Group 
Business Risk Committee;

 – received reports from the 

internal audit department on 
internal controls, including SOX 
reports;

 – reviewed the Group’s key 

finance programmes;

 – reviewed details of the Group’s 
whistle blowing procedures 
and incidents; 

 – discussed the mis-selling of PPI; 

and

 – discussed the level of 

impairments, specifically in 
Ireland, amongst other countries.

 – reviews the structure, size and 

 – oversees the annual evaluation 

composition of the Board;

of the performance of the Board; 

 – oversees the selection process 

 – reviews the Board’s governance 

for prospective Directors;

arrangements; 

 – makes recommendations 
to the Board on potential 
appointments and re-
appointments of Directors at the 
end of their specified term;

 – considers Board succession;

 – oversees the Group’s 

implementation of governance 
requirements; and

 – oversees the process for 
appointments of new 
Non-Executive Directors and 
makes recommendations to 
the Board.

Information about the 
Remuneration Committee’s 
responsibilities is given in the 
Directors’ remuneration report on 
pages 124 to 141.

 – facilitates the involvement 
of Non-Executive Directors 
in risk issues and aids their 
understanding of these issues;

 – oversees adherence to Group 
risk policies and standards 
and considers any material 
amendments to them; and

 – reviews the work of the Group 

risk division.

 – reviewed the Board evaluation 

process and results; and

 – adopted a board composition 

policy statement.

 – reviewed and recommended to 
the Board the appointment of a 
new Group Chief Executive and 
three Non-Executive Directors;

 – adopted a Board Governance 

Framework and Executive 
Governance Framework;

 – reviewed the time commitment 

of Board Directors;

 – reviewed updates on corporate 
governance at each meeting;

Information about the 
Remuneration Committee’s 
activities during 2010 is given in 
the Directors’ remuneration report 
on pages 124 to 141.

 – reviewed the Group 

consolidated risk report and 
received an update  
from the Chief Risk Officer at 
each meeting;

 – reviewed the risk and control 

frameworks;

 – reviewed the Internal Capital 

Adequacy Assessment Process 
report;

 – reviewed the Group’s funding 
plan and stress testing process;

 – participated in ‘deep dives’ in 
conjunction with each division 
and with members of the group 
risk team;

 – reviewed the Group’s risk 
appetite framework; and

 – reviewed the Group’s report on 

financial crime.

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STATEMENT OF DIRECTORS’ RESPONSIBILITIES

The directors are responsible for preparing the Annual Report, the Directors’ remuneration report and the financial statements in accordance with 
applicable law and regulations.

Company law requires the Directors to prepare financial statements for each financial year. Under that law the Directors have prepared the Group 
and parent Company financial statements in accordance with IFRSs as adopted by the European Union. Under company law the Directors must not 
approve the financial statements unless they are satisfied that they give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the Group and the Company and 
of the profit or loss of the Company and Group for that period. In preparing these financial statements, the Directors are required to: select suitable 
accounting policies and then apply them consistently; make judgements and accounting estimates that are reasonable and prudent; state whether 
applicable IFRSs as adopted by the European Union have been followed.

The Directors are responsible for keeping adequate accounting records that are sufficient to show and explain the company’s transactions and 
disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the Company and the Group and enable them to ensure that the financial 
statements and the Directors’ remuneration report comply with the Companies Act 2006 and, as regards the Group financial statements, Article 4 of 
the IAS Regulation. They are also responsible for safeguarding the assets of the Company and the Group and hence for taking reasonable steps for 
the prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities.

A copy of the financial statements is placed on our website www.lloydsbankinggroup.com. The Directors are responsible for the maintenance and 
integrity of the Company’s website. Legislation in the United Kingdom governing the preparation and dissemination of financial statements may 
differ from legislation in other jurisdictions. 

COMPLIANCE WITH THE BRITISH BANKERS’ ASSOCIATION CODE FOR FINANCIAL REPORTING DISCLOSURE

In September 2010, the British Bankers’ Association published a Code for Financial Reporting Disclosure (the ‘Disclosure Code’). The Disclosure 
Code sets out five disclosure principles together with supporting guidance. The principles are that UK banks: commit to providing high quality, 
meaningful and decision-useful disclosures; commit to ongoing review of, and enhancement to, their financial instrument disclosures for key areas 
of interest; will assess the applicability and relevance of good practice recommendations to their disclosures acknowledging the importance of such 
guidance; will seek to enhance the comparability of financial statement disclosures across the UK banking sector; and will clearly differentiate in their 
annual reports between information that is audited and information that is unaudited.

The Group and other major UK banks have voluntarily adopted the Disclosure Code in their 2010 financial statements. The Group’s 2010 financial 
statements have therefore been prepared in compliance with the Disclosure Code’s principles.

INTERNAL CONTROL

The Board of Directors is responsible for the establishment and review of the Group’s system of internal control, which is designed to ensure effective 
and efficient operations, quality of internal and external reporting, internal control, and compliance with laws and regulations. It should be noted, 
however, that such a system is designed to manage, rather than eliminate, the risk of failure to achieve business objectives. In establishing and 
reviewing the system of internal control, the Directors have regard to the nature and extent of relevant risks, the likelihood of a loss being incurred 
and the costs of control. It follows, therefore, that the system of internal control can only provide reasonable but not absolute assurance against the 
risk of material loss.

The Directors and senior management are committed to maintaining a control-conscious culture across all areas of operation. This is communicated 
to all employees by way of published policies and procedures and regular management briefings. A requirement to comply with internal control 
risk policies is a key component of individual staff objectives expressed in the balanced scorecard. Key business risks are identified, and these are 
controlled by means of procedures such as physical controls, credit, trading and other authorisation limits and segregation of duties. In addition, 
there is an annual control self assessment exercise whereby the key businesses and head office functions review specific controls and attest to the 
accuracy of their assessments. The assessment covers all enterprise-wide risk management categories and is in accordance with the principles of the 
Code. As in previous years, this exercise was completed for the year ended 31 December 2010. All returns have been satisfactorily completed and 
appropriately certified.

The effectiveness of the internal control system is reviewed regularly by the Board and the Audit Committee, which also receives reports of 
reviews undertaken around the Group by group risk and group audit. The Audit Committee receives reports from the Company’s auditors, 
PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (which include details of significant internal control matters that they have identified), and has a discussion with the 
auditors at least once a year without executives present, to ensure that there are no unresolved issues of concern. 

There is an ongoing process for identifying, evaluating and managing the significant risks faced by the Company. This process has been in place  
for the year under review and up to the date of the approval of the annual report and is regularly reviewed by the Board. 

Information regarding the main features of the internal control and risk management systems in relation to the financial reporting process is given 
within the risk management report on pages 65 to 108.

Overview

Business review

Governance

Financial statements

Other information

Group profile 

Group structure 

Group performance 

Strategy and progress 

Chairman’s statement 

Group Chief Executive’s review 

Addressing the key issues 

Marketplace trends 

1

2

3

4

6

8

10

12

Summary of Group results 

Divisional results 

Other financial information 

14

26

52

Board of Directors 

110

Directors’ report 
112
Corporate governance report  114

Five year financial summary 

56 

Directors’ remuneration report  124

Our people 

Corporate responsibility 

Risk management 

57

60

65

Shareholder information 

Glossary 

Abbreviations 

Index to annual report 

284

285

290

291

Report of the independent  
auditors on the consolidated  
financial statements 

Consolidated  
financial statements 

Notes to the consolidated  
financial statements 

Report of the independent  
auditors on the parent company 
financial statements 

Parent company financial 
statements 

Notes to the parent company 
financial statements 

144

146

153

272

273

276

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AUDITOR INDEPENDENCE AND REMUNERATION

Both the Board and the external auditors have safeguards in place to protect the independence and objectivity of the external auditors. The Audit 
Committee has a comprehensive policy to regulate the use of auditors for non-audit services. This policy sets out the nature of work the external 
auditors may not undertake, which includes work which will ultimately be subject to external audit, internal audit services and secondments to senior 
management positions in the Group that involve decision-making. It also includes the Group’s policy on hiring former external audit staff. For those 
services that are deemed appropriate for the auditors to carry out, the policy sets out the approval process that must be followed for each type of 
assignment. The Chairman of the Audit Committee must be consulted regarding potential instructions in respect of allowable non-audit services with 
a value above defined fee limits. 

Each year the Audit Committee establishes a limit on the fees that can be paid to the external auditors in respect of non-audit services and monitors 
quarterly the amounts paid to the auditors in this regard. The external auditors also report regularly to the Audit Committee on the actions that they 
have taken to comply with professional and regulatory requirements and current best practice in order to maintain their independence. This includes 
the rotation of key members of the audit team. Total auditor remuneration analysed between audit and other services is shown in note 11 to the 
financial statements on page 177.

The Audit Committee evaluated the performance of the external auditors during the year and will periodically continue to do so. The Audit 
Committee has not considered it necessary to require an independent tender process.

STATUTORY AND REGULATORY DISCLOSURES

Information that is required to be disclosed in the corporate governance report under the Companies Act 2006 and the FSA’s Disclosure and 
Transparency rules can be found in the Directors’ report, on the Shareholder information page and in the share capital note.

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DIRECTORS’ REMUNERATION REPORT

STATEMENT BY THE CHAIRMAN OF THE REMUNERATION COMMITTEE

As the new Chairman of the Group’s Remuneration Committee I am pleased to present the Directors’ remuneration report for 2010, for which we will 
be seeking approval from shareholders at our annual general meeting in May.

Firstly I would like to extend my thanks to Dr Wolfgang Berndt who chaired the Committee admirably through a challenging period and I am delighted 
to be given the opportunity to lead the Committee as we build the trust with all our stakeholders to ensure the best remuneration structure possible. 

During the past year the Committee has undertaken a great deal of work to ensure a continued prudent approach to our remuneration policy 
while recognising the need to attract, incentivise and retain our key people. Shareholders may care to note that of the six current members of the 
Committee, four have joined within the last 18 months.

We have carried out a wide-ranging and considered consultation with shareholders. I have very much enjoyed the opportunity that this has given 
me to exchange views on the Group’s remuneration strategy. We have carefully reflected on the feedback from shareholders and this has directly 
influenced our approach.

There continues to be a high level of interest in remuneration in both the sector as a whole and Lloyds Banking Group arrangements. Throughout the 
year we have sought to take this into account along with shareholders’ views on remuneration, ensuring continued compliance with the FSA Code 
of Practice on Remuneration whilst balancing these factors with what is right for our business. We held fifteen Remuneration Committee meetings 
during the year, at which a wide range of matters were discussed. This gives an indication of the importance we place on ensuring the effectiveness 
of the Group’s remuneration structures.

Our conclusion, following the considerable amount of consultation and an in depth analysis of performance, was that 2010 outcomes should 
demonstrate the exercise of restraint rather than fully reflect improved performance and we should retain a broadly similar structural approach 
for 2011.

2010 REMUNERATION OUTCOMES
The Group has made significant progress during the year. We have also reduced the level of risk in our business in reaction to the economic events 
that had a particularly deep impact on the banking sector and we are endeavouring, as a business, to continue to support the UK’s economic 
recovery.

Our decision making has focussed on balancing shareholders’ views on remuneration with the need to attract, incentivise and retain the right 
people, in light of improved business performance. In reaching a decision on the size of the bonus pool as a whole and for the Executive Directors 
in particular, the Committee took into account the need for adjustments to reflect the Group’s current profitability and current and future risk. The 
Committee worked closely with the Group Risk Committee in making its decision. As a result: 

 – There were no salary increases made to Executive Directors in 2010.

 – We have ensured that any bonuses paid in respect of performance in 2010 have been rigorously tested against targets. The use of risk-adjusted and 

non-financial measures under this plan has been highly successful in promoting a long-term focus within the senior management team.

 – To ensure a prudent approach is applied in practice we have exercised downward discretion on the annual bonuses; the payouts are lower than 

if they were calculated on a purely formulaic basis. Exercising its discretion, the Committee has been mindful, amongst other things, of the 
appropriate balance of profit between shareholders and staff, key balance sheet metrics, share price performance, the quality of profits and future 
risks as well as the competitive environment.

 – Furthermore, 100 per cent of any award will be deferred into shares and will not be released until March 2013 at the earliest. In order to increase 

alignment with shareholders, this will be subject to malus if performance is not sustained. 

 – Awards made in March 2010 under the Long Term Incentive Plan (‘LTIP’) were below 2008 levels by up to 100 per cent of salary and lower than the 

market practice for long-term incentives in our sector. 

The approximate make-up of the main components of our package for Executive Directors on an expected value basis is shown below:

Long-term incentive

Short-term incentive

Salary

40%

30%

30%

Based on a combination of performance targets comprising 
earnings per share, economic profit and the achievement of 
stretching share price targets

Paid in shares after 
three years

Based on financial measures and on a balanced scorecard 
of non-financial measures

Deferred into shares until 
at least March 2013, subject 
to malus

Based on role, market competitiveness, and performance

Paid in cash

(The split in the components in the above chart are for executive directors. Comparable numbers for the Group Chief Executive are: long-term 
incentive 40 per cent, short-term incentive 32 per cent and salary 28 per cent)

Overview

Business review

Governance

Financial statements

Other information

Group profile 

Group structure 

Group performance 

Strategy and progress 

Chairman’s statement 

Group Chief Executive’s review 

Addressing the key issues 

Marketplace trends 

1

2

3

4

6

8

10

12

Summary of Group results 

Divisional results 

Other financial information 

Five year financial summary 

Our people 

Corporate responsibility 

Risk management 

14

26

52

56 

57

60

65

Board of Directors 

Directors’ report 

Corporate governance report 
Directors’ remuneration  
report 

110

112

114

124

Report of the independent  
auditors on the consolidated  
financial statements 

Consolidated  
financial statements 

Notes to the consolidated  
financial statements 

Report of the independent  
auditors on the parent company 
financial statements 

Parent company financial 
statements 

Notes to the parent company 
financial statements 

144

146

153

272

273

276

Shareholder information 

Glossary 

Abbreviations 

Index to annual report 

284

285

290

291

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OUR APPROACH TO REMUNERATION FOR 2011
The changes at Board level, including my appointment as Chairman of this Committee, provided us with an excellent opportunity to review  
the structure and quantum of our remuneration. This review included an open and transparent dialogue with shareholders and I intend to maintain 
the renewed commitment to shareholder engagement that we have demonstrated. 

Our principal focus was to ensure an appropriate alignment between performance and pay in terms of both business strategy and risk profile.

We continue to have concerns that our remuneration framework is uncompetitive and this is an area that will be kept under close and continuous 
review by the committee. However, our approach to remuneration in 2011 remains broadly unchanged from last year:

 – We are proposing increases to Executive Director base salaries for 2011, in line with those for the wider workforce. This will be our first increase 

since 2008.

 – The annual incentive opportunity for 2011 will stay the same as in previous years.

 – The bonus will continue to be based on a combination of Group financial measures and a balanced scorecard of business financial and 

non-financial measures, including customers, people and risk.

 – Awards under the LTIP remain below 2008 levels and will be limited to 300 per cent of salary (except for António Horta-Osório).

 – The performance measures for the LTIP will include Economic Profit and EPS, as in previous years, together with a measure of delivery to 

shareholders using absolute Total Shareholder Return (TSR). 

We are also proposing a change to the delivery of remuneration and shareholders will be asked at the annual general meeting to approve a 
resolution to use newly issued shares to settle deferred bonus and LTIP awards, rather than market purchased shares. In response to concerns about 
the level of risk in the banking sector, we believe that this is an effective way of improving our capital position.

The Board has appointed António Horta-Osório as our new Group Chief Executive who starts on 1 March 2011. He will be undertaking a review of 
strategy. When this is complete we will review the remuneration arrangements to ensure they remain consistent with the strategy and if appropriate 
will consult with shareholders on any changes needed.

CONCLUSION
During the course of 2010 our consultation with shareholders on executive remuneration has helped ensure that: 

 – We are rewarding executives for delivery of the most important drivers of the business, improving both the financial and non-financial health of  

the business and with a medium and longer term focus on risk, capital and liquidity of the business. 

 – We have a prudent approach to remuneration with the structure for 2011 designed to reflect corporate and personal performance. 

 – We strike an appropriate balance by considering both the sensitivity of the current environment and the longer term policy objectives to support 

the Group’s business strategy. 

 – Our approach is fully aligned with the FSA Remuneration Code of Practice.

We therefore recommend this report to shareholders and ask for your support at the forthcoming annual general meeting. 

Anthony Watson CBE 
Chairman, Remuneration Committee

This is a report made by the Board of Lloyds Banking Group plc, on the recommendation of the Remuneration Committee. It covers the current and 
proposed components of the remuneration policy and details the remuneration for each serving Director during 2010.

The Group has complied throughout the period with the requirements of the UK Corporate Governance Code (previously known as the Combined 
Code) in relation to Directors’ remuneration. In addition, the report has been prepared in accordance with the Large and Medium sized Companies 
and Groups (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008.

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DIRECTORS’ REMUNERATION REPORT

GOVERNANCE AND RISK MANAGEMENT

An essential component of our approach to remuneration is the governance process that underpins it. This ensures that our policy is robustly applied 
and risk is managed appropriately.

The overarching purpose of the Remuneration Committee is to consider, agree and recommend to the board an overall remuneration policy and 
philosophy for the Group that is aligned to its long-term business strategy, business objectives, risk appetite and values and recognises the interests 
of relevant stakeholders. The Group has a conservative business model characterised by a risk culture founded on prudence and accountability. 
The remuneration policy and philosophy covers the whole Group, but the Committee pays particular attention to the top management population, 
including the highest paid employees in each division, those colleagues who perform significant influence functions for the Group and those who 
could have a material impact on the Group’s risk profile. The Committee’s role is to ensure that these colleagues are provided with appropriate 
incentives and reward to encourage them to enhance the performance of the Group and that they are recognised for their individual contribution to 
the success of the organisation, whilst ensuring that there is no reward for excessive risk taking.

The Committee determines the pensions policy for the Group and advises on other major changes to employee benefits schemes. It also agrees the 
policy for authorising claims for expenses from the Group Chief Executive and the Chairman. It has delegated power for settling remuneration for the 
Chairman, the Group Executive Directors, the Company Secretary and any group employee whose salary and bonus exceeds a specified amount, 
currently £750,000. To ensure compliance with the FSA Code of Practice, the Committee approves remuneration for remuneration Code Staff and 
that of senior risk and compliance officers.

The Committee monitors the application of the authority delegated to the Group Executive Committee and the divisional Remuneration 
Committees to ensure that policies and principles are being fairly and consistently applied. The Committee liaises closely with the Risk Committee 
and the risk function in relation to risk-adjusted performance measures, including consideration of both current and future risk. Together the 
management of remuneration and risk form an integral part of the Board’s determination of Group corporate strategy.

All the independent Non-Executive Directors are invited to attend meetings and have the opportunity to comment on proposals and have their 
views taken into account before the Committee’s decisions are implemented.

The Committee’s terms of reference are available from the Company Secretary and are displayed on the Group’s website, www.lloydsbankinggroup.com. 
These terms were updated in January 2011 to ensure continued compliance with the FSA Code.

The members of the Committee during 2010 were as follows:

 – Dr Wolfgang Berndt (chairman to 6 May 2010)

 – Anthony Watson (chairman from 6 May 2010)

 – Sir Winfried Bischoff

 – Sir Julian Horn-Smith 

 – Lord Leitch

 – Glen Moreno (from 1 March 2010 to 17 June 2010)

 – David Roberts (from 1 March 2010)

 – Tim Ryan (from 1 March 2010)

During 2010, the Committee met 15 times and considered the following principal matters:

 – Review of remuneration arrangements for senior executives. Upon the appointment of the new Group Chief Executive we have deferred the 

implementation of this work until the completion of the strategy review and will consult shareholders during 2011

 – Determination of the appropriate remuneration packages for the new Group Chief Executive and a number of other senior new hires

 – Determination of bonus pools based on Group performance and risk adjustments

 – Performance conditions for the Long Term Incentive Plan

 – Bonus and salary awards for Executive Directors and key senior managers

 – Approval of remuneration and terms of service that fall within the Committee’s terms of reference, including new executive appointments

 – Feedback from the Remuneration Committee Chairman on his meetings with the FSA and shareholders

We thank all committee members for their commitment during the last year and attendance at meetings.

The Committee appoints independent consultants to provide advice on specific matters according to their particular expertise. During the year, the 
Committee conducted a review of their independent advisors and appointed Deloitte LLP to advise the Committee. Deloitte has voluntarily signed 
up to the Remuneration Consultants’ Code of Conduct and are judged by the Committee to be independent. Kepler Associates were also retained 
by the Committee during 2010 to advise on various matters relating to executive remuneration. 

During 2010, Alithos Limited continued to provide information on behalf of the Committee for the testing of TSR performance conditions for the 
Group’s long-term incentive plans (calculated by reference to both dividends and growth in share price). 

Eric Daniels, Angie Risley (Group HR Director), Liz Jackson (HR Director, Reward from March 2010) and Harriet Kemp (HR Director, Total Reward until 
March 2010) provided guidance to the Committee (other than for their own remuneration). Carol Sergeant (Chief Risk Officer) and Tim Tookey (Group 
Finance Director) also attended the Committee to advise as and when necessary on risk and financial matters.          

Overview

Business review

Governance

Financial statements

Other information

Group profile 

Group structure 

Group performance 

Strategy and progress 

Chairman’s statement 

Group Chief Executive’s review 

Addressing the key issues 

Marketplace trends 

1

2

3

4

6

8

10

12

Summary of Group results 

Divisional results 

Other financial information 

Five year financial summary 

Our people 

Corporate responsibility 

Risk management 

14

26

52

56 

57

60

65

Board of Directors 

Directors’ report 

Corporate governance report 
Directors’ remuneration  
report 

110

112

114

124

Report of the independent  
auditors on the consolidated  
financial statements 

Consolidated  
financial statements 

Notes to the consolidated  
financial statements 

Report of the independent  
auditors on the parent company 
financial statements 

Parent company financial 
statements 

Notes to the parent company 
financial statements 

144

146

153

272

273

276

Shareholder information 

Glossary 

Abbreviations 

Index to annual report 

284

285

290

291

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DIRECTORS’ REMUNERATION POLICY

Following review in 2010, the Group’s remuneration policy continues to support our business values and strategy, based on building long-term 
relationships with our customers and employees and managing the financial consequences of our business decisions across the entire 
economic cycle.

Our policy is intended to ensure that our remuneration offer is both cost effective and enables us to attract and retain Executive Directors and senior 
management of the highest calibre, motivating them to perform to the highest standards. 

Our objective is to align individual reward with the Group’s performance, the interests of its shareholders, and a prudent approach to risk management. 
In this way we balance the requirements of our various stakeholders: our customers, shareholders, employees, and regulators. This approach is in line 
with the Association of British Insurers best practice code on remuneration and the FSA Remuneration Code of Practice, as the policy seeks to reward 
long-term value creation whilst not encouraging excessive risk taking.

We summarise below how each of these policy objectives is met by our remuneration offer.

Policy objective

How achieved

Building long-term 
relationships

We build relationships with our customers and people. Working for Lloyds Banking Group is about more than pay. 
Our relationship with our people means that we want to pay them fairly and competitively, but our pay is positioned 
conservatively against the market and we do not seek to align with the highest payers in the sector. In setting pay for 
Executive Directors and senior managers, we take account of relative pay positioning and target levels of variable 
remuneration opportunity for all levels of employees in the Group. 

Our incentive measures are not just financial. Our Balanced scorecards include objectives that cover effective risk 
management, lending to Corporates including SMEs and retail customers, performance against targets that measure 
how satisfied our customers are and the extent to which our employees feel engaged with and committed to working 
for the Lloyds Banking Group. 

Managing the financial 
consequences of our 
business through the 
economic cycle

Economic profit is a key measure by which we manage our business. This measure takes into account the level of capital 
required to generate profits as well as the risks taken. The same level of profit generated at lower risk results in higher 
economic profit. Economic profit also measures risk based on an assessment of how the business will perform through 
the economic cycle.

Aligning individual 
rewards with Group 
performance and 
shareholders

For example, in good times, when default rates on loans are low, we adjust the economic profit measure downwards 
based on a higher average expected default experience over the economic cycle. This encourages us to avoid business 
and funding strategies that are only profitable during boom times but turn bad in a recession. Economic profit plays a 
prominent role in our incentive plans for executives, with its inclusion in both the annual and LTIP performance measures.

Our executives’ annual and long-term incentives are based on stretching performance objectives and targets in the 
Group Balanced Scorecard. This balanced scorecard is derived from the Medium Term Plan which defines the financial 
and non-financial targets within our agreed risk appetite over a three year period. 

The annual bonus for Executive Directors is deferred into shares and released over a period of not less than two years, 
helping to increase alignment with shareholders. These deferrals are subject to malus in the event of unsustainable 
performance.

Executives are also aligned with shareholders through the LTIP, which pays out in shares to improve alignment with 
shareholders based on performance against Group financial targets over a three year period.

We operate tough contract provisions relative to market practice, whereby no executive has an entitlement to more 
than 12 months’ notice (not taking into account recruitment provisions), pay in lieu of notice is limited to basic salary,  
is paid monthly over 12 months and is mitigated if the executive gets another job. This approach avoids the risk  
of payment for failure. These requirements are among the toughest in the FTSE 100.

A prudent approach to 
risk management

Economic profit measures profit relative to the risk taken to generate that profit. Its use in our incentive plans 
encourages executives to take a prudent approach to risk.

We also have non-financial measures of performance against risk objectives in both the annual and long-term plans 
for executives.

For the 2010 annual incentive plan we increased the alignment to long-term prudent risk management by deferring 
100 per cent of the award subject to malus over two years. If the performance is unsustainable during the deferral 
period some or all of the award may be forfeited. 

We have a robust governance framework with an independent Remuneration Committee reviewing all compensation 
decisions for senior executives. This approach to governance and review is cascaded through the organisation. We 
also ensure that all control function employees are assessed and their remuneration determined jointly by the relevant 
business Director and the control function Director. Senior risk and compliance officers are also reviewed by the 
Remuneration Committee.

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Policy objective

How achieved

Cost effective packages 
to attract and retain 
executives

We aim to ensure that the totality of remuneration for executive directors is competitive against our benchmark groups.  
These groups are other major UK banks and the top 20 companies in the FTSE 100, reflecting practices in large UK 
companies across all sectors. We aim to be competitively but conservatively positioned against the market, although 
for executive directors we have taken the decision to adopt a position that is behind market for 2011 in view of 
public concern.

We select incentive plan targets that are directly linked to the business strategy and priorities, ensuring alignment with 
company performance, targets that are meaningful to executives and incentive packages that are valued by executives 
and cost effective. 

SUMMARY
Following extensive consultation with shareholders, the Remuneration Committee is proposing a package for Executive Directors for 2011 that is 
closely based on the structure and principles of 2010 as follows:

Element

Base salary

Level/design for 2011

Key purpose

Base pay should be set relative to FTSE 20 and banking 
sector competitors

In light of circumstances, there will be increases to base salaries in 
line with the wider population of employees resulting in a lower 
quartile position

Annual incentive

200 per cent of salary maximum (225 per cent for the  
Group Chief Executive)

Long-term  
incentive plan

Based on Group financial targets relating to profit before tax and 
economic profit as well as balanced scorecard measures covering 
divisional financial targets, customers (e.g. SME lending), people, 
risk and building the business

Subject to deferral and malus in line with FSA requirements

Annual awards of up to 300 per cent of salary vesting based 
on financial measures including Economic Profit and EPS and 
alignment with shareholders based on absolute TSR

A higher award will be made to António Horta-Osório as detailed 
on page 129

Pension

Defined contribution pension provision for new entrants

From April 2012, any executive director in office at that time with 
a legacy final salary pension will move to a defined contribution 
pension arrangement 

To provide the basis for a competitive package

Alignment with Group performance 
Motivation of executives 
Pay for performance 
Alignment with sound risk management

Motivation and retention of executives 
Alignment with sound risk management 
Alignment with long-term shareholder interests

Enable executives to build long-term 
retirement savings 
Retention

Overview

Business review

Governance

Financial statements

Other information

Group profile 

Group structure 

Group performance 

Strategy and progress 

Chairman’s statement 

Group Chief Executive’s review 

Addressing the key issues 

Marketplace trends 

1

2

3

4

6

8

10

12

Summary of Group results 

Divisional results 

Other financial information 

Five year financial summary 

Our people 

Corporate responsibility 

Risk management 

14

26

52

56 

57

60

65

Board of Directors 

Directors’ report 

Corporate governance report 
Directors’ remuneration  
report 

110

112

114

124

Report of the independent  
auditors on the consolidated  
financial statements 

Consolidated  
financial statements 

Notes to the consolidated  
financial statements 

Report of the independent  
auditors on the parent company 
financial statements 

Parent company financial 
statements 

Notes to the parent company 
financial statements 

144

146

153

272

273

276

Shareholder information 

Glossary 

Abbreviations 

Index to annual report 

284

285

290

291

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GROUP CHIEF EXECUTIVE TRANSITION

Eric Daniels
On 20 September 2010, Eric Daniels announced his intention to retire from Lloyds Banking Group on 30 September 2011. Mr Daniels will stand down 
from the Board on 28 February 2011. 

He will continue to receive his basic salary, pension contribution and other benefits under the terms of his contract until retirement. 100 per cent of his 
bonus received in respect of 2010 will be deferred into shares in two equal tranches, vesting in March 2013 and March 2014 and subject in part to a 
holding period on vesting. 

His outstanding long-term incentive awards will continue to vest at the end of the relevant three year performance period to the extent the 
performance conditions have been met and will be pro-rated for service.

António Horta-Osório
António Horta-Osório was appointed to the Board on 17 January 2011 and succeeds Eric Daniels as Group Chief Executive on 1 March 2011. In 
line with the Group’s prudent remuneration policy and the current operating environment, his salary was set on recruitment at the same level as the 
outgoing Group Chief Executive’s at £1,035,000. Recognising that this is behind the market, the committee decided to award an increase in line 
with the the other Executive Directors, effective from his start date. He also has a ‘reference salary’ of £1,220,000 that will be used to calculate certain 
elements of long-term remuneration, including his LTIP from 2012 and pension.

He will participate in the Group’s annual incentive scheme for the calendar year 2011. His annual bonus maximum opportunity for 2011 will be 
225 per cent of basic salary. This will be subject to deferral on terms at a minimum in line with the FSA Code and the deferred element will be subject 
to malus if the performance that generated the incentive is found to be unsustainable.

The Group agreed, as a condition of his accepting the appointment of Group Chief Executive on 1 March 2011, to grant him an LTIP award over the 
Group’s shares with a market value equal to 420 per cent of his base salary as at 7 March. 

His award will be made under Listing Rule 9.4(2) of the Listing Rules in order to facilitate his appointment as Group Chief Executive. The Board 
considered that it was essential to the success of the recruitment process to make this LTIP award to him. The award is on similar terms to awards 
granted under the LTIP including the performance conditions which will apply to LTIP awards granted in 2011 described on page 131.

He will be eligible for a pension allowance in respect of future service of 50 per cent of reference salary per annum including his flexible benefit 
allowance. He has the option to take this as a cash allowance or contribution to a pension scheme/vehicle. He has been granted a number of one-off 
awards to compensate him for outstanding share and cash awards forfeited on his resignation from the Santander Group. These include:

 – Performance shares of 1,707,763 due to vest in 2013 subject to the Group’s TSR performance against sector peer group, broadly equivalent to the 

performance conditions of Santander Group

 – Restricted shares of 4,348,029 due to vest between 2011 – 2013 subject to remaining in employment

 – Cash amounting to £516,000 vesting in three equal tranches in 2011 – 2013

The awards above vest in different proportions at different times to reflect the vesting periods of the Santander Group share awards which the awards 
replace. On his resignation from Banco Santander, he suffered significant loss in relation to his previous pension accrual. Lloyds Banking Group will 
compensate him in part for the loss of this income through the provision of an unfunded unapproved retirement benefit scheme (UURBS) up to a 
maximum of 26.5 per cent of base salary. If he achieves the performance conditions described below at the maximum level, the pension accrued 
would still only represent 60 per cent of the pension forfeited by him. This pension is payable from retirement at age 65. 

In order to fully promote alignment with shareholders, this pension provision will accrue over the first six years’ of service and is entirely dependent on 
the achievement of share price targets as follows:

 – At retirement, a percentage of reference salary (or basic salary if higher) for each of the first five calendar years of employment if in the last 90 days 

of that year the average share price of Lloyds Banking Group exceeds 75p (‘Average Share Price’). The percentage applicable is 4 per cent in year 1, 
3.5 per cent in year 2 and 3 per cent in years 3, 4 and 5.

 – Plus an additional 2 per cent for each year if the Average Share Price exceeds:

 – Year 1: 90p

 – Year 2: 102p

 – Years 3-5 inclusive: 114p

 – If at the end of the fifth year of employment the aggregate percentage pension accrued is less than 26.5 per cent, he may accrue up to a further 

4.5 per cent in the sixth year (to an overall maximum of 26.5 per cent of base salary) if the Average Share Price for that year exceeds 75p and up to  
a further 2 per cent if the Average Share Price for that year exceeds 114p.

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DIRECTORS’ REMUNERATION REPORT

BASE SALARY
Base salaries are reviewed annually, taking into account individual performance and market information (which is provided by Towers Watson 
and supplemented with information from Deloitte LLP) and normally adjusted from 1 January of the relevant year. The remuneration committee 
confirmed during the 2010 review that the FTSE 20 was the most appropriate comparator group to use to benchmark overall competitiveness of  
the remuneration package whilst taking particular account of the remuneration practice of our direct competitors, namely the major UK banks. 

Our review showed that salary levels are significantly below market. However, we have continued to show restraint and made a moderate increase  
to base salaries in 2011, in line with the salary increase budget for other employees in the Group.

Name

As at 1 January 2011

As at 1 January 2010

1

With effect from 17 January 2011

J E Daniels

£1,035,000

£1,035,000

António  
Horta-Osório

1
£1,061,000

–

A G Kane

£601,800

£590,000

G T Tate

T J W Tookey

H A Weir

£656,000

£640,000

£615,000

£600,000

£641,000

£625,000

ANNUAL INCENTIVE PLAN
The annual incentive scheme for Executive Directors is designed to reflect specific goals linked to the performance of the business.

Incentive awards for Executive Directors are based upon individual contribution and overall corporate results. Incentive opportunity is driven by 
corporate performance based on profit before tax and economic profit, together with divisional achievement and individual performance. Individual 
targets relevant to improving overall business performance are contained in a balanced scorecard and are grouped under the following headings:

 – Financial 

 – Building the Business

 – Customer service

 – Risk 

 – People development

These targets are weighted differently for each of the Executive Directors, reflecting differing strategic priorities. The non-financial measures include 
key performance indicators relating to risk management, SME lending, process efficiency, service quality and employee engagement.

The remuneration committee believes that the structure of the incentive – in particular the use of risk-adjusted and non-financial measures – has been 
highly successful in promoting a long-term focus within the senior management team. 

The maximum annual incentive opportunity is 200 per cent (225 per cent for the Group Chief Executive) of basic salary for the achievement of 
exceptional performance targets. 

Consistent with the aim of ensuring that short-term financial results are only rewarded if they promote sustainable growth, the 2010 annual incentive 
is subject to deferral in shares until at least March 2013. This deferred amount is subject to malus if the performance that generated the incentive is 
found to be unsustainable.

The committee reserves the right to exercise its discretion in reducing any payment that otherwise would have been earned, if they deem 
this appropriate.

The key achievements of the Group are set out in the Group Chief Executive’s review on pages 8 and 9 of this Annual Report.

The calculation of the annual incentive plan outcomes for Executive Directors, based on the achievement of performance against targets in respect 
of performance in 2010, has been vigorously discussed by the Remuneration Committee. The bonuses awarded to directors are shown in the 
table below:

Name

Maximum Opportunity

% awarded for 2010

Bonus awarded for 2010

J E Daniels

A G Kane

G T Tate

T J W Tookey

H A Weir

225%

140%

200%

130%

200%

164%

200%

157%

200%

140%

£1,450,000

£767,000

£1,050,000

£942,000

£875,000

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Overview

Business review

Governance

Financial statements

Other information

Group profile 

Group structure 

Group performance 

strategy and progress 

chairman’s statement 

Group chief executive’s review 

Addressing the key issues 

marketplace trends 

1

2

3

4

6

8

10

12

summary of Group results 

Divisional results 

other financial information 

Five year financial summary 

our people 

corporate responsibility 

Risk management 

14

26

52

56 

57

60

65

Board of Directors 

Directors’ report 

corporate governance report 

Directors’ remuneration  
report 

110

112

114

124

Report of the independent  
auditors on the consolidated  
financial statements 

consolidated  
financial statements 

notes to the consolidated  
financial statements 

Report of the independent  
auditors on the parent company 
financial statements 

parent company financial 
statements 

notes to the parent company 
financial statements 

144

146

153

272

273

276

shareholder information 

Glossary 

Abbreviations 

index to annual report 

284

285

290

291

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LONG-TERM INCENTIVE AWARD
the current Ltip rules allow for awards to be made of up to 400 per cent of base salary. under normal circumstances, awards can be made of up 
to 300 per cent of salary with the additional 100 per cent available for circumstances that the Remuneration committee deems to be exceptional. 
in 2010, awards were made of up to 275 per cent of base salary to the executive directors. in 2011, the committee intends to make awards of 
300 per cent of salary. As noted, for António Horta-osório his award for 2011 will be 420 per cent of his base salary.

LONG-TERM INCENTIVE PERFORMANCE MEASURES
During the 2010 review, the committee was particularly mindful of driving sustainable performance through the cycle without encouraging excessive 
risk taking. the committee has consulted widely with shareholders on the topic of performance measures and sharing the growth in the company 
appropriately between shareholders and management. the committee believes that the performance measures for the 2011 Ltip award for the 
executive committee should be economic profit (ep), earnings per share (eps) and absolute total shareholder Return. these measures capture risk 
measurement, profit growth and shareholder experience and align shareholder experience and management reward.

At this time the committee is not in a position to determine the metrics that will attach to these performance measures as the new Group chief 
executive is completing a strategic review of the business. We believe it is critical to ensure that the 2011 Ltip is aligned with the new strategic 
direction of the company and the goals we will set for ourselves over the medium term. therefore the committee intends to determine the 
appropriately stretching and challenging metrics following the completion of the strategic review and to consult with shareholders on the metrics 
during the summer prior to communicating them to participants. the committee recognise this is an unusual approach but given the circumstances 
believe it is the best way to align management reward and the strategy over the next three years.

the metrics set by the committee following the strategic review and consultation with major shareholders will be put to the annual general meeting 
in 2012 for approval. 

Details of current Ltip awards are provided on page 139. 

PENSION
executive directors are entitled to participate in the Group’s defined contribution scheme (under which their pension entitlement will be based upon 
both employer and employee contributions). company contributions are 25 per cent of salary, with the exception of António Horta-osório who is 
eligible for 50 per cent of reference salary, including his flexible benefit allowance. these can be taken as cash or pension contributions.

At the date of this report, two executive directors remain in a defined benefit scheme. pension accruals under the defined benefits scheme 
for eric Daniels and Archie Kane will continue until the date of retirement or April 2012 whichever is earlier. thereafter Archie Kane will have 
the opportunity to either participate in a defined contribution scheme or to receive a cash supplement with no compensation for ceasing final 
salary accrual. there is no entitlement to an immediate and unreduced pension should their employment be terminated before the normal date 
of retirement. the defined benefit schemes are closed to new entrants.

Details of pension contributions and accruals are shown on page 135.

OTHER SHARE PLANS
the executive directors are also eligible to participate in the Group’s ‘sharesave’ and ‘share incentive’ plans. these are ‘all-employee’ share plans.

SHAREHOLDING GUIDELINES
executives are required to build up a holding in Lloyds Banking Group shares of value equal to 1.5 times gross salary (2 times gross salary for the 
Group chief executive). they are expected to retain 100 per cent of the net-of-tax proceeds of the 2009 Ltip until they reach this target. in addition 
they are required to retain any shares vesting from the share price performance element of the 2010 Ltip for a further two years post vesting.

CHAIRMAN’S REMUNERATION
the chairman’s remuneration comprises salary and benefits. He does not participate in the annual bonus and long-term incentive arrangements,  
nor is he entitled to pension benefits.

the chairman’s salary was reviewed as part of the remuneration review in 2010. the review took into account market information and also the 
significant amount of time the chairman would be expected to focus on the Group’s activities particularly during the current period. Following  
this review, it was determined to maintain the chairman’s salary at £700,000 per annum. 

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INDEPENDENT NON-EXECUTIVE DIRECTORS’ FEES
The fees of the Independent Non-Executive Directors are agreed by the Board within a total amount determined by the shareholders. Non-Executive 
Directors may also receive fees, agreed by the Board, for membership of Board Committees. The fees are designed to recognise the various 
responsibilities of a Non-Executive Director’s role and to attract individuals with relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The fees are neither 
performance related nor pensionable and are comparable with those paid by other companies. The annual fees were reviewed in 2010 and remain 
unchanged as listed below.

Non-Executive Director – base fee 

Senior Independent Director

Audit Committee Chairmanship 

Audit Committee Membership 

Remuneration Committee Chairmanship 

Remuneration Committee Membership 

Risk Committee Chairmanship

Risk Committee Membership 

Nomination & Governance Committee Membership 

£65,000

£50,000

£50,000

£20,000

£30,000

£15,000 

£40,000

£15,000 

 £5,000

In the case of the Nomination & Governance Committee, membership currently comprises the Deputy Chairman, Senior Independent Director and 
chairs of the Board Committees (the fees for which include membership of the Nomination & Governance Committee) and one other Independent 
Non-Executive Director. Only this director receives an attendance fee, which is £5,000.

Independent Non-Executive Directors who serve on the Boards of subsidiary companies may also receive fees from the subsidiaries.

2010 NON-EXECUTIVE DIRECTORS’ FEES (£)

W C G Berndt  
(until 6 May 2010)

A M Frew  
(from 1 December 2010)

Sir Julian Horn-Smith

Lord Leitch2

G R Moreno  
(from 1 March 2010)

D L Roberts  
(from 1 March 2010)

T T Ryan

M A Scicluna

Anthony Watson3

Scottish Widows Services Limited

Senior  
Independent 
Director

Board 

Audit  
Committee 

 Remunera-
tion 
Committee 

 Nomination &  
Governance 
Committee 

 Risk  
Oversight  
Committee 

SW Board
fees1

2010  
Total

22,698 

5,417 

65,000 

187,494

10,726 

1,497 

1,667 

1,250 

15,000 

5,000 

15,000 

34,921 

8,334 

100,000 

16,666

12,506

90,910

307,576

54,167 

50,000

3,333 

6,667 

20,000 

134,167 

54,167 

65,000 

65,000 

65,000 

16,667

12,500 

20,000 

12,500 

50,000 

20,000 

22,321 

20,833 

15,000 

15,000 

7,500 

104,167

112,500 

130,000 

114,821 

Lord Leitch’s composite fee of £300,000 was amended to a fee of £200,000 from 1 March plus a £60,000 fee for Scottish Widows Services Ltd. The Scottish Widows fee was increased to £120,000 from 
27 April 2010. Lord Leitch stood down as Senior Independent Director on 28 February 2010.

Appointed Chairman of the Remuneration Committee in May 2010. 

DILUTION LIMITS

The following charts illustrate the shares available for the Group’s share plans.

ALL PLANS (10% OF THE ISSUED ORDINARY SHARE CAPITAL OF THE GROUP IN ANY CONSECUTIVE 10 YEARS)

489.2

2009

2010

1,255.1

5,888.3

5,552.3

Shares used (million)

Shares available (million)

EXECUTIVE PLANS (5% OF THE ISSUED ORDINARY SHARE CAPITAL OF THE GROUP IN ANY CONSECUTIVE 10 YEARS)

2009

0.000000

244.0

2010

481.0

2,944.7

2944.699951

2,922.7

Shares used (million)

Shares available (million)

1

2

3

  
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Governance

Financial statements

Other information

Group profile 

Group structure 

Group performance 

Strategy and progress 

Chairman’s statement 

Group Chief Executive’s review 

Addressing the key issues 

Marketplace trends 

1

2

3

4

6

8

10

12

Summary of Group results 

Divisional results 

Other financial information 

Five year financial summary 

Our people 

Corporate responsibility 

Risk management 

14

26

52

56 

57

60

65

Board of Directors 

Directors’ report 

Corporate governance report 
Directors’ remuneration  
report 

110

112

114

124

Report of the independent  
auditors on the consolidated  
financial statements 

Consolidated  
financial statements 

Notes to the consolidated  
financial statements 

Report of the independent  
auditors on the parent company 
financial statements 

Parent company financial 
statements 

Notes to the parent company 
financial statements 

144

146

153

272

273

276

Shareholder information 

Glossary 

Abbreviations 

Index to annual report 

284

285

290

291

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SERVICE AGREEMENTS

The Group’s policy is for Executive Directors to have service agreements with notice periods of no more than one year. All current Executive Directors 
are entitled to receive 12 months’ notice from the Group, but would be required to give six months’ notice if they wished to leave. 

It is the Group’s policy that where compensation on early termination is due, it should be paid on a phased basis, mitigated in the event that 
alternative employment is secured, and that bonus payments should relate to the period of actual service, rather than the full notice period, and will 
be determined on the basis of performance.

Any entitlements under the pension scheme or equity plans will be in accordance with the scheme rules on leaving.

Notice to be given by the Company

Date of service agreement/letter of appointment

Sir Winfried Bischoff

J E Daniels

António Horta-Osório

A G Kane

G T Tate

T J W Tookey

H A Weir

6 months

12 months

24 months

12 months

12 months

12 months

12 months

27 July 2009

22 January 2009

3 November 2010

23 January 2009

9 February 2009

26 January 2009

21 January 2009

António Horta-Osório’s initial contract will be for a two year term, diminishing to 12 months notice over the first year of employment.

Independent Non-Executive Directors do not have service agreements and their appointment may be terminated, in accordance with the articles of 
association, at any time without compensation.

EXTERNAL APPOINTMENTS

The Group recognises that Executive Directors may be invited to become Non-Executive Directors of other companies and that these appointments 
may broaden their knowledge and experience, to the benefit of the Group. Fees are normally retained by the individual directors as the post entails 
personal responsibility.

Executive Directors are generally allowed to accept one Non-Executive Directorship.

During 2010, Eric Daniels received fees of £75,000 which was retained by him, for serving as Non-Executive Director of BT plc.

PERFORMANCE GRAPH

The graph below illustrates the performance of the Group measured by TSR against a ‘broad equity market index’ over the past five years.  
The Group has been a constituent of the FTSE 100 index throughout this five year period.

TOTAL SHAREHOLDER RETURN – FTSE 100 INDEX

150

125

100

75

50

25

0

31 Dec
2005  

31 Dec
2006  

31 Dec
2007  

31 Dec
2008  

31 Dec
2009

31 Dec
2010

Lloyds Banking Group plc

Rebased to 100 on 31 December 2005

FTSE 100 Index

Source: Alithos Limited 

 
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DIRECTORS’ REMUNERATION REPORT 

AUDITED INFORMATION

DIRECTORS’ EMOLUMENTS FOR 2010 

Current directors who served during 2010

Executive Directors

J E Daniels

A G Kane

G T Tate

T J W Tookey

H A Weir

Non-Executive Directors

Sir Winfried Bischoff

A M Frew (from 1 December 2010)

Sir Julian Horn-Smith

Lord Leitch

G R Moreno (from 1 March 2010)

D L Roberts (from 1 March 2010)

T T Ryan

M A Scicluna

Anthony Watson

Former director who served during 2010

W C G Berndt (until 6 May 2010)

Others

Salaries/ 
fees
£000

1,035

590

640

600

625

700

8

100

308

134

104

113

130

115

35

Other benefits

Cash
£0001

Non-cash
 £0002

Performance- 
related 
payments
£0003

9

27

28

1

21

1,450

767

1,050

942

875

78

24

27

36

57

12

2010 
Total
£000

2,572

1,408

1,745

1,579

1,578

712

8

100

308

134

104

113

130

115

35

5,237

234

86

5,084

10,641

2009 
Total
£000

1,121

1,523

1,807

1,736

1,767

211

100

249

83

121

71

100

1,011

9,900

1

2

3

The cash column under ‘other benefits’ includes flexible benefits payments (4 per cent of basic salary), the tax planning allowance for Eric Daniels, payments to certain directors who elect to take cash 
rather than a company car under the car scheme and a spouse’s travel allowance for Truett Tate.

The non cash column includes amounts relating to the use of a company car, use of a company driver and private medical insurance. It also includes the value of any matching shares which are 
received under the terms of Sharematch, through which employees have the opportunity to purchase shares up to a maximum of £125 per month and receive matching shares on a one for one 
basis up to a maximum value of £30 per month, rounded down to the nearest whole share. 

Bonuses awarded in respect of 2010 performance will be subject to 100 per cent deferral into shares until at least March 2013.

Sir Victor Blank was entitled to the use of his company car until 30 April 2010, resulting in a benefit in kind tax charge of £10,490.

 
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Governance

Financial statements

Other information

Group profile 

Group structure 

Group performance 

Strategy and progress 

Chairman’s statement 

Group Chief Executive’s review 

Addressing the key issues 

Marketplace trends 

1

2

3

4

6

8

10

12

Summary of Group results 

Divisional results 

Other financial information 

Five year financial summary 

Our people 

Corporate responsibility 

Risk management 

14

26

52

56 

57

60

65

Board of Directors 

Directors’ report 

Corporate governance report 
Directors’ remuneration  
report 

110

112

114

124

Report of the independent  
auditors on the consolidated  
financial statements 

Consolidated  
financial statements 

Notes to the consolidated  
financial statements 

Report of the independent  
auditors on the parent company 
financial statements 

Parent company financial 
statements 

Notes to the parent company 
financial statements 

144

146

153

272

273

276

Shareholder information 

Glossary 

Abbreviations 

Index to annual report 

284

285

290

291

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AUDITED INFORMATION

DIRECTORS’ PENSIONS

The Executive Directors are currently members of one of the pension schemes provided by Lloyds TSB Group with benefits either on a defined 
benefit or defined contribution basis. Those directors who joined Lloyds TSB Group after 1 June 1989 and are members of a defined benefit scheme 
have pensions provided on salary in excess of the earnings cap through membership of or by an unfunded pension promise. Retirement pensions 
accrue at rates of between 1/60 and 1/30 of basic salary.

For those Directors who are members of a defined benefit pension scheme, pension will continue to accrue until 5 April 2012, or the date of leaving 
if earlier. On 6 April 2012, defined benefit pension accrual will cease and Directors will be offered the option to participate in the defined contribution 
pension scheme in operation at that date. Alternatively, they may choose not to join the scheme and elect to receive a pension cash allowance.

DEFINED CONTRIBUTION SCHEME MEMBERS 
During the year to 31 December 2010 the Group has made the following contributions to the defined contribution scheme:

G T Tate

T J W Tookey

H A Weir

£000

160 

150

125

DEFINED BENEFIT SCHEME MEMBERS 

Accrued 
pension at 
31 December 
2010 
£000 
(a)

210

372

Accrued 
pension at 
31 December 
2009 
£000 
(b)

193

357

Change in 
accrued 
pension 
£000 
(a)-(b)

17

15

Transfer 
value at 
31 December 
2010 
£000 
(c)

5,030

8,657

Transfer 
value at 
31 December 
2009 
£000 
(d)

3,844

6,889

J E Daniels

A G Kane

The disclosures in columns (a) to (d) are as required under section 421 of the Companies Act 2006.

Change in 
transfer 
value 
£000 
(c)-(d)

1,186

1,768

Additional 
pension 
earned to 
31 December 
2010 
£000 
(e)

17

15

Transfer 
value of the 
increase 
£000 
(f)

413

342

Columns (a) and (b) represent the deferred pension to which the directors would have been entitled had they left the Group on 31 December 2010 
and 2009, respectively.

Column (c) is the transfer value of the deferred pension in column (a) calculated as at 31 December 2010 based on factors supplied by the actuary of 
the relevant Lloyds TSB Group pension scheme. 

Column (d) is the equivalent transfer value, but calculated as at 31 December 2009 on the assumption that the director left service at that date.

Column (e) is the increase in pension built up during the year, recognising (i) the accrual rate for the additional service based on the pensionable 
salary in force at the year end, and (ii) where appropriate the effect of pay changes in ‘real’ (inflation adjusted) terms on the pension already earned at 
the start of the year.

Column (f) is the capital value of the pension in column (e).

The disclosures in columns (e) and (f) are as required by the UK Listing Authority listing rules. The requirements of the listing rules differ from those 
of the Companies Act. The listing rules require the additional pension earned over the year to be calculated as the difference between the pension 
accrued at the end of the financial year and the pension accrued at the start of the financial year less the increase in the pension earned over the 
year solely due to inflation. The transfer value in column (f) can differ significantly from the change in transfer value as required by the Companies Act 
because the additional pension accrued over the year calculated in accordance with the listing rules makes allowance for inflation, and the change 
in the transfer value required by the Companies Act will be significantly influenced by changes in the assumptions underlying the transfer value 
calculation at the beginning and end of the financial year.

Members of the Lloyds TSB Group’s pension schemes have the option to pay additional voluntary contributions: neither the contributions nor the 
resulting benefits are included in the above table.

Major changes to the legislation governing the provision of pensions in the UK (known as pension simplification) came into effect in April 2006. 
Benefits from an approved pension scheme will be limited to the Lifetime Allowance, currently £1.8 million which is equivalent to an annual pension 
of £90,000. Any benefit in excess of this amount will incur a tax charge for the individual. The Government has announced that the life time allowance 
will decrease to £1.5 million from April 2012. The Group has agreed that if an Executive Director has benefits in excess of the Lifetime Allowance they 
may cease to accrue benefits in the Scheme and receive a salary supplement as an alternative. This will not cost the Group more than the current 
arrangements. The Group will not compensate any individual in respect of any increased tax liability arising from pension simplification. To date, the 
Executive Directors affected have elected to continue to accrue benefits in the approved scheme.

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DIRECTORS’ REMUNERATION REPORT 

AUDITED INFORMATION

DIRECTORS’ INTERESTS

The beneficial interests, of those who were directors at 31 December 2010 in ordinary shares of Lloyds Banking Group were:

NUMBER OF SHARES 

Executive Directors

J E Daniels

A G Kane

G T Tate

T J W Tookey

H A Weir

Non-Executive Directors

Sir Winfried Bischoff

A M Frew

Sir Julian Horn-Smith

Lord Leitch

G R Moreno

D L Roberts

T T Ryan

M A Scicluna

Anthony Watson

At 1 January 2010 
(or later date of 
appointment)

At 31 December 
2010

At 24 February1
2011

2,557,816

1,224,960

526,061

97,727

425,162

2,560,770

1,227,914

529,015

123,891

428,116

2,561,234

1,228,378

529,480

124,355

428,580

585,000

800,000

–

27,890

55,787

200,000

–

75,877

56,226

51,357

–

227,890

55,787

500,000

378,670

100,877

56,226

226,357

1

The changes in beneficial interests between 31 December 2010 and 24 February 2011 related to ‘partnership’ and ‘matching’ shares acquired under the Lloyds Banking Group Share Incentive Plan. 

 
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Governance

Financial statements

Other information

Group profile 

Group structure 

Group performance 

Strategy and progress 

Chairman’s statement 

Group Chief Executive’s review 

Addressing the key issues 

Marketplace trends 

1

2

3

4

6

8

10

12

Summary of Group results 

Divisional results 

Other financial information 

Five year financial summary 

Our people 

Corporate responsibility 

Risk management 

14

26

52

56 

57

60

65

Board of Directors 

Directors’ report 

Corporate governance report 
Directors’ remuneration  
report 

110

112

114

124

Report of the independent  
auditors on the consolidated  
financial statements 

Consolidated  
financial statements 

Notes to the consolidated  
financial statements 

Report of the independent  
auditors on the parent company 
financial statements 

Parent company financial 
statements 

Notes to the parent company 
financial statements 

144

146

153

272

273

276

Shareholder information 

Glossary 

Abbreviations 

Index to annual report 

284

285

290

291

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AUDITED INFORMATION

INTERESTS IN SHARE OPTIONS

Granted  
during  

the year

Exercised 
during 
 the year

Lapsed  
during  

Share  

the year

adjustment

At  
31 December 
 2010

J E Daniels

A G Kane

G T Tate

At 
1 January 
2010

131,484

430,547

6,906

–

–

–

–

19,399

64,786

11,841

34,759

73,255

247,891

6,906

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

19,399

64,400

27,357

247,891

6,906

–

–

–

–

T J W Tookey

6,906

–

–

19,399

–

19,399

77,868

247,891

6,906

–

–

–

–

19,399

H A Weir

a  Sharesave.

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

133,567

265,051

437,367

867,914

6,906

–

64,786

11,841

–

–

–

–

–

19,399

–

–

–

–

–

35,309

70,068

74,414

147,669

251,818

499,709

6,906

–

–

–

–

6,906

–

6,906

–

–

–

6,906

–

–

–

–

19,399

65,420

129,820

27,790

55,147

251,818

499,709

–

–

–

–

–

19,399

-

19,399

79,100

156,968

251,818

499,709

–

–

–

19,399

Exercise
price

207.97p

235.26p

68.95p

46.78p

549.5p

615.5p

324.92p

207.97p

235.26p

68.95p

46.78p

207.97p

199.91p

235.26p

68.95p

46.78p

68.95p

46.78p

210.70p

235.26p

68.95p

46.78p

Exercise periods

From

To

Notes

18/3/2007

17/3/2014

17/3/2008

16/3/2015

–

–

1/6/2013 30/11/2013

6/3/2003

5/3/2010

8/8/2003

7/8/2010

6/3/2004

5/3/2011

18/3/2007

17/3/2014

17/3/2008

16/3/2015

–

–

1/6/2013 30/11/2013

18/3/2007

17/3/2014

12/8/2007

11/8/2014

17/3/2008

16/3/2015

–

–

1/6/2013 30/11/2013

–

–

1/6/2013 30/11/2013

29/4/2007

28/4/2014

17/3/2008

16/3/2015

–

–

1/6/2013 30/11/2013

c, e, i

d, e, i

a, h

a, g

b, f 

b, f 

b, i

c, e, i

d, e, i

a, h

a, g

c, e, i

c, e, i

d, e, i

a, h

a, g

a, h

a, g

c, e, i

d, e, i

a, h

a, g

b Executive option granted between March 2000 and March 2001.

c  Executive option granted between March 2004 and August 2004.

d Executive option granted from March 2005.

e  Exercisable to the extent at which the performance condition vested.

f  Lapsed on 10th anniversary of date of grant as the performance conditions had not been met.

g Not exercisable as the option has not been held for the period required by the relevant scheme.

h  Options lapsed as sharesave contract was cancelled.

i   Options granted under these plans were adjusted on 13 August 2010, as a result of the capital raising activities of 2009. The adjustment was made using a standard HMRC formula, to negate the 

dilutionary impact of the capital raising events.

None of the other directors at 31 December 2010 had options to acquire shares in Lloyds Banking Group plc or its subsidiaries.

The market price for a share in the Company at 1 January 2010 and 31 December 2010 was 50.69p and 65.70p, respectively. The range of prices  
between 1 January 2010 and 31 December 2010 was 46.58p to 78.40p.

The following table contains information on the performance conditions for executive options granted since 2000. The Remuneration Committee 
chose the relevant performance conditions because they were felt to be challenging, aligned to shareholders’ interests and appropriate at the time.

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DIRECTORS’ REMUNERATION REPORT 

AUDITED INFORMATION

Options granted

Performance conditions 

March 2000 – March 2001

Growth in earnings per share which is equal to the aggregate percentage change in the retail price index 
plus three percentage points for each complete year of the relevant period plus a further condition that the 
Company’s ranking based on TSR over the relevant period should be in the top 50 companies of the FTSE 100.

March 2004 – August 2004

March 2005 – August 2005

As the performance conditions for those options granted in March 2000 and August 2000 were not met, the 
options lapsed in March 2010 and August 2010 respectively.

That the Company’s ranking based on TSR over the relevant period against a comparator group  
(17 UK and international financial services companies including Lloyds Banking Group) must be at least ninth, 
when 14 per cent of the option will be exercisable. If the Company is ranked first in the group, then 100 per cent 
of the option will be exercisable and if ranked tenth or below the performance condition is not met. 

Options granted in 2004 became exercisable as the performance condition was met on the re-test.  
The performance condition vested at 24 per cent for Truett Tate’s March option and at 14 per cent for all other 
options granted to Executive Directors during 2004.

That the Company’s ranking based on TSR over the relevant period against a comparator group (15 companies 
including Lloyds Banking Group) must be at least eighth, when 30 per cent of the option will be exercisable.  
If the Company is ranked first to fourth position in the group, then 100 per cent of the option will be exercisable 
and if ranked ninth or below, the performance condition is not met.

Options granted in 2005 became exercisable as the performance condition was met when tested.  
Grants vested at 82.5 per cent for all options granted to Executive Directors.

LLOYDS TSB EXECUTIVE RETENTION PLAN 2006
On 26 March 2008 (prior to his appointment as an Executive Director), Tim Tookey was granted an award under the Lloyds TSB Executive Retention 
Plan 2006. The award is satisfied in cash only and, subject to continued employment, gives him the right to receive an amount equal to the total value 
of 218,400 Lloyds Banking Group shares on the dates of vesting, as adjusted in August 2010 as a result of various corporate actions in 2009 on the 
same basis as the Lloyds TSB Long Term Incentive Plan. The award vests as to 50 per cent on 26 March 2011 and 50 per cent on 26 March 2013. He 
has agreed to reinvest the cash proceeds into Lloyds Banking Group shares. As an Executive Director, he is no longer eligible to be granted awards 
under this plan.

Overview

Business review

Governance

Financial statements

Other information

Group profile 

Group structure 

Group performance 

Strategy and progress 

Chairman’s statement 

Group Chief Executive’s review 

Addressing the key issues 

Marketplace trends 

1

2

3

4

6

8

10

12

Summary of Group results 

Divisional results 

Other financial information 

Five year financial summary 

Our people 

Corporate responsibility 

Risk management 

14

26

52

56 

57

60

65

Board of Directors 

Directors’ report 

Corporate governance report 
Directors’ remuneration  
report 

110

112

114

124

Report of the independent  
auditors on the consolidated  
financial statements 

Consolidated  
financial statements 

Notes to the consolidated  
financial statements 

Report of the independent  
auditors on the parent company 
financial statements 

Parent company financial 
statements 

Notes to the parent company 
financial statements 

144

146

153

272

273

276

Shareholder information 

Glossary 

Abbreviations 

Index to annual report 

284

285

290

291

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AUDITED INFORMATION

LLOYDS TSB LONG-TERM INCENTIVE PLAN 
The following table shows conditional shares awarded under the plan. Further information regarding this plan can be found on pages 140 and 141. 

At
1 January  
2010

Awarded

 during  
the year

Vested
 during  
the year

Lapsed
 during  
the year

Share 
adjustment

J E Daniels

A G Kane

G T Tate

T J W Tookey

H A Weir

699,725

1,098,372

1,496,843

2,245,265

–

–

–

–

–

5,135,781

400,884

541,252

853,273

1,279,909

–

–

–

–

–

2,927,643

437,328

679,186

925,583

1,388,376

–

–

–

–

–

3,175,748

69,242

93,266

867,735

1,301,603

–

–

–

–

–

2,977,264

419,106

663,267

903,891

1,355,836

–

–

–

–

–

3,101,317

At

31 December  

2010

–

699,725

–

–

–

–

–

400,884

–

–

–

–

437,328

592,385

1,690,757

807,292

2,304,135

1,210,939

3,456,204

–

–

5,135,781

–

291,913

833,165

460,196

1,313,469

690,293

1,970,202

–

–

2,927,643

–

–

–

–

–

366,305

1,045,491

499,195

1,424,778

748,793

2,137,169

–

3,175,748

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

39,339

73,545

37,344

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

419,106

50,301

143,567

467,995

1,335,730

701,994

2,003,597

–

–

2,977,264

–

–

–

–

–

357,720

1,020,987

487,495

1,391,386

731,243

2,087,079

–

3,101,317

Year of 
vesting

Notes

2010

2011

2012

2012

2013

2010

2011

2012

2012

2013

2010

2011

2012

2012

2013

2010

2011

2012

2012

2013

2010

2011

2012

2012

2013

a, b

a, c

a, c

e

a, b

a, c

a, c

e

a, b

a, c

a, c

e

d

a, b

a, c

a, c

e

a, b

a, c

a, c

e

a   Conditional awards of shares made under this plan prior to 2010 were adjusted on 13 August 2010 as a result of the Capitalisation Issue and Rights Issue of 2009. These adjustments were made 

using a standard HMRC formula, to negate the dilutionary impact of the above corporate actions.

b  Award price adjusted to 229.55p from 353.36p.

c   Award price adjusted to 35.93p from 55.31p.

d  Award vested at 31 per cent for Tim Tookey as he was not a director at the time the award was made. At vesting his award was adjusted to 106,586 from 69,242 to reflect the Capitalisation Issue and 
Rights Issue of 2009. The ‘vested during the year’ figure includes 6,298 dividend shares accumulated prior to the stopping of dividend payments. Award price adjusted to 267.3p from 539p. The 
closing market price of the Group’s ordinary shares on the date of release was 64.05p.

e   Share price on date of award 55.42p.

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DIRECTORS’ REMUNERATION REPORT 

AUDITED INFORMATION

The following table contains information on the performance conditions for awards made under the long-term incentive plan. The Remuneration 
Committee chose the relevant performance conditions because they were felt to be challenging, aligned to shareholders’ interests and appropriate 
at the time.

LTIP award 

March 2007

Performance conditions

For 50 per cent of the award (the ‘EPS Award’) – the percentage increase in earnings per share of the Group 
(on a compound annualised basis) over the relevant period needed to be at least an average of 6 percentage 
points per annum greater than the percentage increase (if any) in the retail price index over the same period. 
If it was less than 3 per cent per annum, the EPS Award would lapse. If the increase was more than 3 per cent 
but less than 6 per cent per annum, then the proportion of shares released would be on a straight line basis 
between 17.5 per cent and 100 per cent. The relevant period commenced on 1 January 2007 and ended on 
31 December 2009.

For the other 50 per cent of the award (the ‘TSR Award’) – the Group’s TSR needed to exceed the median of 
a comparator group (14 companies) over the relevant period by an average of 7.5 per cent per annum for the 
TSR Award to vest in full. 17.5 per cent of the TSR Award would vest where the Group’s TSR was equal to median 
and vesting would occur on a straight line basis in between these points. Where the Group’s TSR was below the 
median of the comparator group, the TSR Award would lapse. The relevant period commenced on 8 March 2007 
(the date of award) and ended on 7 March 2010.

At the end of the relevant period, neither of the performance conditions had been met and the Awards lapsed.

Tim Tookey was not an Executive Director when his award was made in 2007, and as such his award vested at 
31 per cent on the same basis as other award recipients below the Group Executive Committee level.

March and April 2008

For 50 per cent of the award (the ‘EPS Award’) – the performance condition was as described for March 2007 with the 
relevant performance period commencing on 1 January 2008 and ending on 31 December 2010. 

For the other 50 per cent of the award (the ‘TSR Award’) – the performance condition was as described for 
March 2007 with the relevant performance period commencing on 6 March 2008 (the date of the March award) 
and ending on 5 March 2011.

April 2009

EPS: The release of 50 per cent of the shares will be dependent on the extent to which growth in EPS achieves 
cumulative EPS targets over the three year period from January 2009 to December 2011.

Economic profit: The release of the remaining 50 per cent of shares will be dependent on the extent to which the 
Group achieves cumulative Economic Profit targets over the three year period from January 2009 to December 2011.

As indicated in last year’s report, and as a consequence of the Group’s non participation in GAPS, in June 2010 
the Remuneration Committee determined that it was appropriate for the performance measures relative to those 
conditions to be restated: 

EPS

Threshold 

Maximum

Economic profit

Threshold 

Maximum

Vesting %

25%

100%

Growth in EPS

26%

36%

Vesting %

Absolute improvement in adjusted EP 

25%

100%

100%

202%

Overview

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Governance

Financial statements

Other information

Group profile 

Group structure 

Group performance 

Strategy and progress 

Chairman’s statement 

Group Chief Executive’s review 

Addressing the key issues 

Marketplace trends 

1

2

3

4

6

8

10

12

Summary of Group results 

Divisional results 

Other financial information 

Five year financial summary 

Our people 

Corporate responsibility 

Risk management 

14

26

52

56 

57

60

65

Board of Directors 

Directors’ report 

Corporate governance report 
Directors’ remuneration  
report 

110

112

114

124

Report of the independent  
auditors on the consolidated  
financial statements 

Consolidated  
financial statements 

Notes to the consolidated  
financial statements 

Report of the independent  
auditors on the parent company 
financial statements 

Parent company financial 
statements 

Notes to the parent company 
financial statements 

144

146

153

272

273

276

Shareholder information 

Glossary 

Abbreviations 

Index to annual report 

284

285

290

291

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AUDITED INFORMATION

April 2009 
Integration Award

March 2010

Synergy Savings: The release of 50 per cent of the shares will be dependent on the achievement of target 
run-rate synergy savings in 2009 and 2010 as well as the achievement of sustainable synergy savings of at least 
£1.5 billion by the end of 2011. The award will be broken down into three equally weighted annual tranches. 
Performance will be assessed at the end of each year against annual performance targets based on a trajectory 
to meet the 2011 target. The extent to which targets have been achieved will determine the proportion of shares 
to be banked each year. Any release of shares will be subject to the Remuneration Committee judging the overall 
success of the delivery of the integration programme.

Integration Balanced Scorecard: The release of the remaining 50 per cent of the shares will be dependent on 
the outcome of a Balanced Scorecard of non-financial measures of the success of the integration in each of 2009, 
2010 and 2011. The Balanced Scorecard element will be broken down into three equally weighted tranches. 
The tranches will be crystallised and banked for each year of the performance cycle subject to separate annual 
performance targets across the four measurement categories of Building the Business, Customer, Risk and 
People and Organisation Development.

Performance for each of the first two years of the award has been assessed and all targets have been met or 
exceeded.

EPS: Relevant to 36 per cent of the award. Performance will be measured based on absolute improvement in 
adjusted EPS over the three financial years starting on 1 January 2010 relative to an adjusted fully diluted 2009 
EPS base.

Economic Profit: Relevant to 36 per cent of the award. Performance will be measured based on the compound 
annual growth rate of adjusted Economic Profit over the three financial years starting on 1 January 2010 relative 
to 2009 adjusted Economic Profit base.

Absolute Share Price: Relevant to 28 per cent of the award. Performance will be measured based on the 
Absolute Share Price on 26 March 2013, being the third anniversary of the award date.

The targets are:

EPS

Threshold 

Maximum

Vesting between threshold and maximum will be on a straight line basis.

Economic profit

Threshold 

Maximum

Vesting between threshold and maximum will be on a straight line basis.

Absolute Share Price

Threshold 

Maximum

Vesting %

Absolute improvement in adjusted EPS

25%

100%

158%

180%

Vesting %

Compound annual growth rate of adjusted EP 

25%

100%

Vesting %

0%

100%

57% p.a.

77% p.a.

Absolute Share Price 

75p

114p

Vesting between threshold and maximum will be on a straight line basis, provided that shares comprised in the Absolute Share Price element of 
the award may only be released if both the EPS and Economic Profit performance measures have been satisfied at the threshold level or above.

Alithos Limited provided information for the testing of the TSR performance conditions for the Company’s long-term incentive plan. EPS is the 
Group’s normalised earnings per share as shown in the Group’s report and accounts, subject to such adjustments as the Remuneration Committee 
regards as necessary for consistency.

None of those who were Directors at the end of the year had any other interest in the capital of Lloyds Banking Group plc or its subsidiaries. 

The register of Directors’ interests, which is open to inspection, contains full particulars of Directors’ shareholdings and options to acquire shares 
in Lloyds Banking Group.

On behalf of the Board

Harry F Baines
Company Secretary 
24 February 2011

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OTHER REMUNERATION DISCLOSURE

EMOLUMENTS OF THE FIVE HIGHEST PAID SENIOR EXECUTIVES

Fixed

Cash based

Total fixed

Variable1

Upfront cash

Deferred cash

Upfront shares

Deferred shares

Long term incentive plan

Total variable pay

Pension cost2

Total remuneration

1
£000

500

500

2

0

0

3,998

  205

4,205

125

4,830

2
£000

735

735

2

0

0

1,200

  927

2,129

184

3,048

Employee

3
£000

300

300

2

0

0

1,498

  92

1,592

75

1,967

4
£000

480

480

2

0

0

658

  263

923

120

1,523

5
£000

335

335

2

0

0

848

  137

987

84

1,406

1

2

Variable pay in respect of performance year 2010.

Pension cost based on an average pension cost of 25 per cent of salary.

There were no sign-on or severance payments made in respect of this group

The aggregate remuneration of Directors and Senior Management (being members of the Group Executive Committee) for the year ended 
31 December 2010 was £16,466,363

The aggregate amount set aside or accrued to provide pension, retirement or similar benefits for Directors and Senior Management for the year 
ended 31 December 2010 was £1,273,750 based on average pension cost of 25 per cent of salary.

Executive Directors and members of Senior Management are generally subject to notice periods of up to 12 months. António Horta-Osório has a 
notice period of 24 months diminishing to 12 months over the first year of his employment.

Overview

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Financial statements

Other information

Group profile 

Group structure 

Group performance 

Strategy and progress 

Chairman’s statement 

Group Chief Executive’s review 

Addressing the key issues 

Marketplace trends 

1

2

3

4

6

8

10

12

Summary of Group results 

Divisional results 

Other financial information 

14

26

52

Board of Directors 

Directors’ report 

Corporate governance report 

110

112

114

Five year financial summary 

56 

Directors’ remuneration report  124

Our people 

Corporate responsibility 

Risk management 

57

60

65

Shareholder information 

Glossary 

Abbreviations 

Index to annual report 

284

285

290

291

Report of the independent  
auditors on the consolidated  
financial statements 

Consolidated  
financial statements 

Notes to the consolidated  
financial statements 

Report of the independent  
auditors on the parent company 
financial statements 

Parent company financial 
statements 

Notes to the parent company 
financial statements 

144

146

153

272

273

276

143

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SUMMARY OF GROUP RESULTS

FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

Report of the independent  auditors on the consolidated  financial statements  144Consolidated income statement  146Consolidated statement of  comprehensive income 147Consolidated balance sheet 148Consolidated statement of changes  in equity  150Consolidated cash flow statement 152Notes to the consolidated financial statements 1531.  Basis of preparation2.  Accounting policies3.   Critical accounting estimates and judgements4.  Segmental analysis 5.  Net interest income6.  Net fee and commission income7.  Net trading income8.  Insurance premium income9.  Other operating income10.  Insurance claims11.  Operating expenses12.  Impairment 13.   Investments in joint ventures and associates14.  Gain on acquisition in 200915.  Loss on disposal of businesses16.  Taxation17.  Earnings per share18.  Trading and other financial assets at fair value  through profit or loss19.  Derivative financial instruments20.  Loans and advances to banks21.  Loans and advances to customers22.  Securitisations and covered bonds23.  Special purpose entities24.  Debt securities classified as loans and receivables25.   Allowance for impairment losses on loans  and receivables26.  Available-for-sale financial assets27.  Held-to-maturity investments 28.  Investment properties29.  Goodwill30.  Value of in-force business31.  Other intangible assets32.  Tangible fixed assets33.  Other assets34.  Deposits from banks35.  Customer deposits36.   Trading and other financial liabilities at fair  value through profit or loss37.  Debt securities in issue38.   Liabilities arising from insurance contracts  and participating investment contracts39.  Life insurance sensitivity analysis40.   Liabilities arising from non-participating  investment contracts 41.   Unallocated surplus within insurance businesses42.  Other liabilities 43.  Retirement benefit obligations44.  Deferred tax45.  Other provisions 46.  Subordinated liabilities47.  Share capital48.  Share premium account49.  Other reserves50.  Retained profits51.  Ordinary dividends52.  Share-based payments53.  Related party transactions54.  Contingent liabilities and commitments55.  Financial instruments56.  Financial risk management57.  Consolidated cash flow statement58.  Future accounting developments59.  Post balance sheet events60.  Approval of financial statementsReport of the independent  auditors on the parent company  financial statements  272Parent company balance sheet 273Parent company statement of  changes in equity  274Parent company cash flow  statement 275Notes to the parent company  financial statements 2761.  Accounting policies2.  Deferred tax asset3.  Amounts due from subsidiaries4.  Share capital and share premium5.  Other reserves6.  Retained profits7.  Subordinated liabilities 8.  Debt securities in issue9.  Related party transactions10.  Financial instruments11.  Post balance sheet events12.   Approval of the financial statements  and other information 144

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REPORT OF THE INDEPENDENT AUDITORS ON THE 
CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

INDEPENDENT AUDITORS’ REPORT TO THE MEMBERS OF LLOYDS BANKING GROUP PLC 
We have audited the group financial statements of Lloyds Banking Group plc for the year ended 31 December 2010 which comprise the 
consolidated income statement, the consolidated statement of comprehensive income, the consolidated balance sheet, the consolidated statement 
of changes in equity, the consolidated cash flow statement and the related notes. The financial reporting framework that has been applied in their 
preparation is applicable law and International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRSs) as adopted by the European Union.

RESPECTIVE RESPONSIBILITIES OF DIRECTORS AND AUDITORS 
As explained more fully in the Directors’ Responsibilities Statement on page 122, the directors are responsible for the preparation of the group 
financial statements and for being satisfied that they give a true and fair view. Our responsibility is to audit and express an opinion on the group 
financial statements in accordance with applicable law and International Standards on Auditing (UK and Ireland). Those standards require us to 
comply with the Auditing Practices Board’s Ethical Standards for Auditors. 

This report, including the opinions, has been prepared for and only for the Company’s members as a body in accordance with Chapter 3 of Part 16 of 
the Companies Act 2006 and for no other purpose. We do not, in giving these opinions, accept or assume responsibility for any other purpose or to 
any other person to whom this report is shown or into whose hands it may come save where expressly agreed by our prior consent in writing.

SCOPE OF THE AUDIT OF THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS 
An audit involves obtaining evidence about the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements sufficient to give reasonable assurance that the 
financial statements are free from material misstatement, whether caused by fraud or error. This includes an assessment of: whether the accounting 
policies are appropriate to the group’s circumstances and have been consistently applied and adequately disclosed; the reasonableness of significant 
accounting estimates made by the directors; and the overall presentation of the financial statements.

OPINION ON FINANCIAL STATEMENTS 
In our opinion the group financial statements: 

 – give a true and fair view of the state of the group’s affairs as at 31 December 2010 and of its loss and cash flows for the year then ended; 
 – have been properly prepared in accordance with IFRSs as adopted by the European Union; and 
 – have been prepared in accordance with the requirements of the Companies Act 2006 and Article 4 of the lAS Regulation. 

OPINION ON OTHER MATTERS PRESCRIBED BY THE COMPANIES ACT 2006 
In our opinion:

 – the information given in the Directors’ Report for the financial year for which the group financial statements are prepared is consistent with the 

group financial statements; and

 – the information given in the Corporate Governance Statement set out on pages 114 to 123 with respect to internal control and risk management 

systems and about share capital structures is consistent with the financial statements. 

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Governance

Financial statements

Other information

Group profile 

Group structure 

Group performance 

Strategy and progress 

Chairman’s statement 

Group Chief Executive’s review 

Addressing the key issues 

Marketplace trends 

1

2

3

4

6

8

10

12

Summary of Group results 

Divisional results 

Other financial information 

14

26

52

Board of Directors 

Directors’ report 

Corporate governance report 

110

112

114

Five year financial summary 

56 

Directors’ remuneration report  124

Our people 

Corporate responsibility 

Risk management 

57

60

65

Shareholder information 

Glossary 

Abbreviations 

Index to annual report 

284

285

290

291

Report of the independent  
auditors on the consolidated  
financial statements 

Consolidated  
financial statements 

Notes to the consolidated  
financial statements 

144

146

153

Report of the independent  
auditors on the parent company 
financial statements 

Parent company financial 
statements 

Notes to the parent company 
financial statements 

272

273

276

145

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and Accounts 2010

MATTERS ON WHICH WE ARE REQUIRED TO REPORT BY EXCEPTION 
We have nothing to report in respect of the following: 

Under the Companies Act 2006 we are required to report to you if, in our opinion: 

 – certain disclosures of directors’ remuneration specified by law are not made; or 
 – we have not received all the information and explanations we require for our audit; or
 – a corporate governance statement has not been prepared by the parent company.

Under the Listing Rules we are required to review: 

 – the directors’ statement, on page 113, in relation to going concern; 
 – the part of the Corporate Governance Statement relating to the company’s compliance with the nine provisions of the June 2008 Combined Code 

specified for our review; and

 – certain elements of the report to shareholders by the Board on directors’ remuneration. 

OTHER MATTER 
We have reported separately on the parent company financial statements of Lloyds Banking Group plc for the year ended 31 December 2010 and on 
the information in the Directors’ Remuneration Report that is described as having been audited. 

Ian Rankin  
Senior Statutory Auditor 
for and on behalf of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP 
Chartered Accountants and Statutory Auditors 
Edinburgh 
24 February 2011

(a) 

 The maintenance and integrity of the Lloyds Banking Group plc website is the responsibility of the directors; the work carried out by the auditors 
does not involve consideration of these matters and, accordingly, the auditors accept no responsibility for any changes that may have occurred 
to the financial statements since they were initially presented on the website.

(b)   Legislation in the United Kingdom governing the preparation and dissemination of financial statements may differ from legislation in other 

jurisdictions.

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CONSOLIDATED INCOME STATEMENT
for the year ended 31 December 2010

Interest and similar income

Interest and similar expense

Net interest income

Fee and commission income

Fee and commission expense

Net fee and commission income

Net trading income

Insurance premium income

Other operating income

Other income

Total income

Insurance claims

Total income, net of insurance claims

Operating expenses

Trading surplus

Impairment 

Share of results of joint ventures and associates

Gain on acquisition

Loss on disposal of businesses

Profit before tax

Taxation

(Loss) profit for the year

Profit attributable to non-controlling interests

(Loss) profit attributable to equity shareholders

(Loss) profit for the year

Basic earnings per share

Diluted earnings per share

Dividend per share for the year

Dividend for the year

The accompanying notes are an integral part of the consolidated financial statements.

Note

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

12

13

14

15

16

17

17

51

2010
£ million

29,340

(16,794)

12,546

4,415

  (1,682)

2,733

15,724

8,148

4,316

30,921

43,467

(18,511)

24,956

(13,270)

11,686

(10,952)

(88)

–

(365)

281

(539)

(258)

62

(320)

(258)

(0.5)

p

(0.5)

p

–

–

2009
£ million

28,238

(19,212)

9,026

4,254

  (1,517)

2,737

19,098

8,946

5,490

36,271

45,297

(22,019)

23,278

(15,984)

7,294

(16,673)

(752)

11,173

–

1,042

1,911

2,953

126

2,827

2,953

7.5p

7.5p

–

–

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Addressing the key issues 

Marketplace trends 

1

2

3

4

6

8

10

12

Summary of Group results 

Divisional results 

Other financial information 

14

26

52

Board of Directors 

Directors’ report 

Corporate governance report 

110

112

114

Five year financial summary 

56 

Directors’ remuneration report  124

Our people 

Corporate responsibility 

Risk management 

57

60

65

Shareholder information 

Glossary 

Abbreviations 

Index to annual report 

284

285

290

291

Report of the independent  
auditors on the consolidated  
financial statements 
Consolidated  
financial statements 

Notes to the consolidated  
financial statements 

144

146

153

Report of the independent  
auditors on the parent company 
financial statements 

Parent company financial 
statements 

Notes to the parent company 
financial statements 

272

273

276

CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF COMPREHENSIVE INCOME
for the year ended 31 December 2010

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(Loss) profit for the year

Other comprehensive income

Movements in revaluation reserve in respect of available-for-sale financial assets:

Change in fair value

Income statement transfers in respect of disposals

Income statement transfers in respect of impairment

Other income statement transfers

Taxation

Movement in cash flow hedging reserve:

Effective portion of changes in fair value taken to other comprehensive income

Net income statement transfers

Taxation

Currency translation differences:

Currency translation differences, before tax

Taxation

Other comprehensive income for the year, net of tax

Total comprehensive income for the year

Total comprehensive income attributable to non-controlling interests

Total comprehensive income attributable to equity shareholders

Total comprehensive income for the year

2010
£ million

(258)

2009
£ million

2,953

1,231

(399)

114

(110)

  (343)

493

(1,048)

932

  30

(86)

(129)

  –

(129)

278

20

57

(37)

20

2,234

(97)

621

(93)

  (417)

2,248

(530)

121

  119

(290)

(37)

  (182)

(219)

1,739

4,692

107

4,585

4,692

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CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEET
at 31 December 2010

Assets

Cash and balances at central banks

Items in the course of collection from banks

Trading and other financial assets at fair value through profit or loss

Derivative financial instruments

Loans and receivables:

Loans and advances to banks

Loans and advances to customers

Debt securities

Available-for-sale financial assets

Held-to-maturity investments

Investment properties

Investments in joint ventures and associates

Goodwill 

Value of in-force business

Other intangible assets

Tangible fixed assets

Current tax recoverable

Deferred tax assets

Retirement benefit assets

Other assets

Total assets

The accompanying notes are an integral part of the consolidated financial statements.

The directors approved the consolidated financial statements on 24 February 2011.

Sir Winfried Bischoff 
Chairman 

J Eric Daniels 
Group Chief Executive 

Tim J W Tookey
Group Finance Director

Note

2010
£ million

2009
£ million

38,115

1,368

156,191

50,777

30,272

592,597

   25,735

648,604

42,955

7,905

5,997

429

2,016

7,367

3,496

8,190

621

4,164

736

38,994

1,579

150,011

49,928

35,361

626,969

  32,652

694,982

46,602

–

4,757

479

2,016

6,685

4,087

9,224

680

5,006

–

12,643

991,574

12,225

1,027,255

18

19

20

21

24

26

27

28

13

29

30

31

32

44

43

33

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1

2

3

4

6

8

10

12

Summary of Group results 

Divisional results 

Other financial information 

14

26

52

Board of Directors 

Directors’ report 

Corporate governance report 

110

112

114

Five year financial summary 

56 

Directors’ remuneration report  124

Our people 

Corporate responsibility 

Risk management 

57

60

65

Shareholder information 

Glossary 

Abbreviations 

Index to annual report 

284

285

290

291

Report of the independent  
auditors on the consolidated  
financial statements 
Consolidated  
financial statements 

Notes to the consolidated  
financial statements 

144

146

153

Report of the independent  
auditors on the parent company 
financial statements 

Parent company financial 
statements 

Notes to the parent company 
financial statements 

272

273

276

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and Accounts 2010

CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEET
at 31 December 2010

Equity and liabilities

Liabilities

Deposits from banks

Customer deposits

Items in course of transmission to banks

Trading and other financial liabilities at fair value through profit or loss

Derivative financial instruments

Notes in circulation

Debt securities in issue

Liabilities arising from insurance contracts and participating investment contracts

Liabilities arising from non-participating investment contracts

Unallocated surplus within insurance businesses

Other liabilities

Retirement benefit obligations

Current tax liabilities

Deferred tax liabilities

Other provisions

Subordinated liabilities

Total liabilities

Equity

Share capital

Share premium account

Other reserves 

Retained profits

Shareholders’ equity

Non-controlling interests

Total equity

Total equity and liabilities

The accompanying notes are an integral part of the consolidated financial statements.

1

 Restated (see note 1).

Note

2010
£ million

20091
£ million

34

35

36

19

37

38

40

41

42

43

44

45

46

47

48

49

50

50,363

393,633

802

26,762

42,158

1,074

82,452

406,741

1,037

28,271

40,485

981

228,866

233,502

80,729

51,363

643

29,696

423

149

247

1,532

36,232

944,672

6,815

16,291

11,575

   11,380

46,061

841

46,902

991,574

76,179

46,348

1,082

29,320

780

51

209

983

34,727

983,148

10,472

14,472

7,217

  11,117 

43,278

829

44,107

1,027,255

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CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF CHANGES IN EQUITY

Balance at 1 January 2010

Comprehensive income

(Loss) profit for the year

Other comprehensive income

Movements in revaluation reserve in respect  
of available-for-sale financial assets, net of tax

Movement in cash flow hedging reserve,  
net of tax

Currency translation differences, net of tax

Total other comprehensive income

Total comprehensive income

Transactions with owners

Dividends

Issue of ordinary shares

Redemption of preference shares

Cancellation of deferred shares

Purchase/sale of treasury shares

Employee share option schemes:

  Value of employee services

Change in non-controlling interests

Total transactions with owners

Balance at 31 December 2010

Attributable to equity shareholders

Share capital
and premium
£ million

24,944

Other
reserves
£ million

7,217

Retained
profits
£ million

11,117

Total
£ million

43,278

– 

 (320)

(320)

– 

– 

– 

  – 

– 

– 

–

2,237

11

(4,086)

–

–

 –

 498

(86)

   (129)

283

283

–

–

(11)

4,086

–

–

 –

–

– 

  – 

– 

 (320)

–

–

–

–

429

154

 –

583

11,380

498

(86)

   (129)

283

(37)

–

2,237

–

–

429

154

 –

2,820

46,061

(1,838)

23,106

4,075

11,575

Non-controlling
interests
£ million

829

62

(5)

– 

   –

(5)

57

(47)

–

–

–

–

–

 2

Total
£ million

44,107

(258)

493

(86)

   (129)

278

20

(47)

2,237

–

–

429

154

 2

(45)

841

2,775

46,902

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1

2

3

4

6

8

10

12

Summary of Group results 

Divisional results 

Other financial information 

14

26

52

Board of Directors 

Directors’ report 

Corporate governance report 

110

112

114

Five year financial summary 

56 

Directors’ remuneration report  124

Our people 

Corporate responsibility 

Risk management 

57

60

65

Shareholder information 

Glossary 

Abbreviations 

Index to annual report 

284

285

290

291

Report of the independent  
auditors on the consolidated  
financial statements 
Consolidated  
financial statements 

Notes to the consolidated  
financial statements 

144

146

153

Report of the independent  
auditors on the parent company 
financial statements 

Parent company financial 
statements 

Notes to the parent company 
financial statements 

272

273

276

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CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF CHANGES IN EQUITY

Attributable to equity shareholders

Retained
profits1
£ million

Total
£ million

Non-controlling
interests
£ million

Total
£ million

Share capital
and premium
£ million

3,609 

– 

3,609 

Other
reserves1
£ million

(2,476)

131 

(2,345)

8,260 

(131)

8,129 

9,393 

– 

9,393 

Balance at 1 January 2009:

  As previously stated

  Prior year adjustment1

Restated

Comprehensive income

Profit for the year

Other comprehensive income

Movements in revaluation reserve in respect  
of available-for-sale financial assets, net of tax

Movement in cash flow hedging reserve,  
net of tax

Currency translation differences, net of tax

Total other comprehensive income

Total comprehensive income

Transactions with owners

Dividends

Issue of ordinary shares:

  Placing and open offer

Issued on acquisition of HBOS

 Placing and compensatory  
open offer

  Rights issue

Issued to Lloyds TSB Foundations

Adjustment on acquisition

Transfer to merger reserve

Redemption of preference shares

Purchase/sale of treasury shares

Employee share option schemes:

  Value of employee services

Extinguishment of non-controlling interests

Total transactions with owners

Balance at 31 December 20091

1

 Restated (see note 1).

– 

– 

– 

  – 

– 

– 

– 

649 

1,944 

3,905 

13,112 

41 

– 

(1,000)

2,684 

– 

– 

  – 

21,335 

24,944 

– 

2,827 

2,827 

2,248 

(290)

  (200)

1,758 

1,758 

– 

3,781 

5,707 

– 

– 

– 

– 

1,000 

(2,684)

– 

– 

  – 

7,804 

7,217 

– 

– 

  – 

– 

2,827 

– 

– 

– 

– 

– 

– 

– 

– 

– 

45 

116 

  – 

161 

11,117 

2,248 

(290)

  (200)

1,758 

4,585 

– 

4,430 

7,651 

3,905 

13,112 

41 

– 

– 

– 

45 

116 

  – 

29,300 

43,278 

306 

– 

306 

126 

– 

– 

  (19)

(19)

107 

(116)

– 

– 

– 

– 

– 

5,567 

– 

– 

– 

– 

  (5,035)

416 

829 

9,699 

– 

9,699 

2,953 

2,248 

(290)

  (219)

1,739 

4,692 

(116)

4,430 

7,651 

3,905 

13,112 

41 

5,567 

– 

– 

45 

116 

  (5,035)

29,716 

44,107 

 
 
 
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CONSOLIDATED CASH FLOW STATEMENT
for the year ended 31 December 2010

Profit before tax

Adjustments for:

Change in operating assets

Change in operating liabilities

Non-cash and other items

Tax received

Net cash used in operating activities

Cash flows from investing activities

Purchase of available-for-sale financial assets

Proceeds from sale and maturity of available-for-sale financial assets

Purchase of held-to-maturity investments

Purchase of fixed assets

Proceeds from sale of fixed assets

Acquisition of businesses, net of cash acquired

Disposal of businesses, net of cash disposed

Net cash (used in) provided by investing activities

Cash flows from financing activities

Dividends paid to non-controlling interests

Interest paid on subordinated liabilities

Proceeds from issue of subordinated liabilities

Proceeds from issue of ordinary shares

Repayment of subordinated liabilities 

Change in stake of non-controlling interests

Net cash provided by financing activities

Effects of exchange rate changes on cash and cash equivalents

Change in cash and cash equivalents

Cash and cash equivalents at beginning of year

Cash and cash equivalents at end of year

The accompanying notes are an integral part of the consolidated financial statements. 

Note

57(A)

57(B)

57(C)

57(F)

57(G)

57(E)

57(E)

57(E)

57(E)

57(D)

2010
£ million

281

31,860

(45,683)

11,173

332

(2,037)

(42,662)

45,999

(4,228)

(3,216)

1,354

(73)

428

(2,398)

(47)

(1,942)

3,237

–

(684)

2

566

479

(3,390)

65,690

62,300

2009
£ million

1,042

61,942

(105,927)

8,907

301

(33,735)

(455,816)

490,561

–

(2,689)

2,129

16,227

411

50,823

(116)

(2,622)

4,187

21,533

(6,897)

(33)

16,052

(210)

32,930

32,760

65,690

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4

6

8

10

12

Summary of Group results 

Divisional results 

Other financial information 

14

26

52

Board of Directors 

Directors’ report 

Corporate governance report 

110

112

114

Five year financial summary 

56 

Directors’ remuneration report  124

Our people 

Corporate responsibility 

Risk management 

57

60

65

Shareholder information 

Glossary 

Abbreviations 

Index to annual report 

284

285

290

291

Report of the independent  
auditors on the consolidated  
financial statements 

Consolidated  
financial statements 
Notes to the consolidated  
financial statements 

Report of the independent  
auditors on the parent company 
financial statements 

Parent company financial 
statements 

Notes to the parent company 
financial statements 

144

146

153

272

273

276

NOTES TO THE CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

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1 BASIS OF PREPARATION

The consolidated financial statements of Lloyds Banking Group plc have been prepared in accordance with International Financial Reporting 
Standards as adopted by the European Union (EU). IFRS comprises accounting standards prefixed IFRS issued by the International Accounting 
Standards Board (IASB) and those prefixed IAS issued by the IASB’s predecessor body as well as interpretations issued by the International Financial 
Reporting Interpretations Committee (IFRIC) and its predecessor body. The EU endorsed version of IAS 39 Financial Instruments: Recognition and 
Measurement relaxes some of the hedge accounting requirements; the Group has not taken advantage of this relaxation, and therefore there is no 
difference in application to the Group between IFRS as adopted by the EU and IFRS as issued by the IASB.

The financial information has been prepared under the historical cost convention, as modified by the revaluation of investment properties, 
available-for-sale financial assets, trading securities and certain other financial assets and liabilities at fair value through profit or loss and all derivative 
contracts. As stated on page 113, the directors consider that it is appropriate to continue to adopt the going concern basis in preparing the accounts.

During 2010, the International Financial Reporting Interpretations Committee clarified the treatment of amounts previously recognised in equity 
in respect of assets that were transferred from the available-for-sale category to the loans and receivables category. When an impairment loss is 
recognised in respect of such transferred financial assets, the unamortised balance of any available-for-sale revaluation reserve that remains in 
equity should be transferred to the income statement and recorded as part of the impairment loss. The Group has changed its accounting policy 
to reflect this clarification. Under the Group’s previous accounting policy, when such a transferred financial asset became impaired, not all of the 
unamortised amounts previously transferred to equity were recycled to the income statement and therefore continued to be accreted over the 
expected remaining life of the financial asset. This change is applied retrospectively and the effect has been to reduce retained profits and increase 
available-for-sale revaluation reserves by £131 million at 1 January 2009; shareholders’ equity is unchanged. There was no material effect on the 
Group’s income statement during 2009.

Also during 2010, the Group has classified assets as held-to-maturity for the first time. Purchases of government debt securities of £4,228 million 
made in the second half of 2010 were classified as held-to-maturity on acquisition, were initially recognised at fair value including direct 
and incremental transaction costs and are being measured subsequently at amortised cost, using the effective interest method. Further, on 
1 November 2010, government debt securities with a carrying value of £3,601 million, previously classified as available-for-sale, were reclassified to 
held-to-maturity. Unrealised gains on the transferred securities of £223 million previously taken to equity continue to be held in the available-for-sale 
revaluation reserve and will be amortised to the income statement over the remaining lives of the securities using the effective interest method or 
until the assets become impaired. 

The Group has adopted the following new standards and amendments to standards which became effective for financial years beginning on or after 
1 January 2010. None of these standards or amendments have had a material impact on these financial statements.

(i) 

 IFRS 3 Business Combinations. This revised standard applies prospectively to business combinations from 1 January 2010. The revised standard 
continues to require the use of the acquisition method of accounting for business combinations. All payments to purchase a business are to be 
recorded at fair value at the acquisition date, some contingent payments are subsequently remeasured at fair value through income, goodwill 
may be calculated based on the parent’s share of net assets or it may include goodwill related to the non-controlling interest, and all transaction 
costs are expensed (other than those in relation to the issuance of debt instruments or share capital).

(ii) 

 IAS 27 Consolidated and Separate Financial Statements. Requires the effects of all transactions with non-controlling interests to be recorded in 
equity if there is no change in control; any remaining interest in an investee is remeasured to fair value in determining the gain or loss recognised 
in profit or loss where control over the investee is lost.

(iii)   IFRIC 17 Distributions of Non-cash Assets to Owners. Provides accounting guidance for non-reciprocal distributions of non-cash assets to owners 

(and those in which owners may elect to receive a cash alternative).

(iv)   Amendment to IAS 39 Financial Instruments: Recognition and Measurement – ‘Eligible Hedged Items’. Clarifies how the principles underlying 

hedge accounting should be applied in particular situations.

(v) 

Improvements to IFRSs (issued April 2009). Sets out minor amendments to IFRS standards as part of the annual improvements process.

Details of those IFRS pronouncements which will be relevant to the Group but which were not effective at 31 December 2010 and which have not 
been applied in preparing these financial statements are given in note 58.

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NOTES TO THE CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

2 ACCOUNTING POLICIES

The Group’s accounting policies are set out below.

(A) CONSOLIDATION
The assets, liabilities and results of Group undertakings (including special purpose entities) are included in the financial statements on the basis of 
accounts made up to the reporting date. Group undertakings include subsidiaries, associates and joint ventures.

(1) Subsidiaries
Subsidiaries include entities over which the Group has the power to govern the financial and operating policies which generally accompanies 
a shareholding of more than one half of the voting rights. The existence and effect of potential voting rights that are currently exercisable or 
convertible are considered when assessing whether the Group controls another entity. Subsidiaries are fully consolidated from the date on which 
control is transferred to the Group; they are de-consolidated from the date that control ceases. Details of the principal subsidiaries are given in  
note 9 to the parent company financial statements. 

Investment vehicles, such as Open Ended Investment Companies (OEICs), where the Group has control, typically through acting as fund manager 
and the life funds having a beneficial interest greater than 50 per cent, are consolidated. The non-controlling unitholders’ interest is reported in 
other liabilities.

Special purpose entities (SPEs) are consolidated if, in substance, the Group controls the entity. A key indicator of such control, amongst others,  
is where the Group is exposed to the risks and benefits of the SPE.

The treatment of transactions with non-controlling interests depends on whether, as a result of the transaction, the Group loses control of the 
subsidiary. Change in the parent’s ownership interest in a subsidiary that do not result in a loss of control are accounted for as equity transactions; 
any difference between the amount by which the non-controlling interests are adjusted and the fair value of the consideration paid or received is 
recognised directly in equity and attributed to the owners of the parent entity. Where the group loses control of the subsidiary, at the date when 
control is lost the amount of any non-controlling interest in that former subsidiary is derecognised and any investment retained in the former 
subsidiary is remeasured to its fair value; the gain or loss that is recognised in profit or loss on the partial disposal of the subsidiary includes the  
gain or loss on the remeasurement of the retained interest.

Intercompany transactions, balances and unrealised gains and losses on transactions between Group companies are eliminated.

The acquisition method of accounting is used to account for business combinations by the Group. The consideration for the acquisition of a 
subsidiary is the fair value of the assets transferred, the liabilities incurred and the equity interests issued by the Group. The consideration includes 
the fair value of any asset or liability resulting from a contingent consideration arrangement. Acquisition related costs are expensed as incurred 
except those relating to the issuance of debt instruments (see (E)(5) below) or share capital (see (R)(1) below). Identifiable assets acquired and 
liabilities assumed in a business combination are measured initially at their fair value at the acquisition date.

(2) Joint ventures and associates
Joint ventures are entities over which the Group has joint control under a contractual arrangement with other parties. Associates are entities over 
which the Group has significant influence, but not control or joint control, over the financial and operating policies. Significant influence is the 
power to participate in the financial and operating policy decisions of the entity and is normally achieved through holding between 20 per cent and 
50 per cent of the voting share capital of the entity.

The Group utilises the venture capital exemption for investments where significant influence or joint control is present and the business unit 
operates as a venture capital business. These investments are designated at initial recognition at fair value through profit or loss. Otherwise, the 
Group’s investments in joint ventures and associates are accounted for by the equity method of accounting and are initially recorded at cost and 
adjusted each year to reflect the Group’s share of the post-acquisition results of the joint venture or associate based on audited accounts which are 
coterminous with the Group or made up to a date which is not more than three months before the Group’s reporting date. The share of any losses  
is restricted to a level that reflects an obligation to fund such losses.

(B) GOODWILL
Goodwill arises on business combinations, including the acquisition of subsidiaries, and on the acquisition of interests in joint ventures and 
associates; goodwill represents the excess of the cost of an acquisition over the fair value of the Group’s share of the identifiable assets, liabilities and 
contingent liabilities acquired. Where the fair value of the Group’s share of the identifiable assets, liabilities and contingent liabilities of the acquired 
entity is greater than the cost of acquisition, the excess is recognised immediately in the income statement.

Goodwill is recognised as an asset at cost and is tested at least annually for impairment. If an impairment is identified the carrying value of the 
goodwill is written down immediately through the income statement and is not subsequently reversed. Goodwill arising on acquisitions of associates 
and joint ventures is included in the Group’s investment in joint ventures and associates. At the date of disposal of a subsidiary, the carrying value of 
attributable goodwill is included in the calculation of the profit or loss on disposal except where it has been written off directly to reserves in the past.

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2

3

4

6

8

10

12

Summary of Group results 

Divisional results 

Other financial information 

14

26

52

Board of Directors 

Directors’ report 

Corporate governance report 

110

112

114

Five year financial summary 

56 

Directors’ remuneration report  124

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Corporate responsibility 

Risk management 

57

60

65

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Abbreviations 

Index to annual report 

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291

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financial statements 

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financial statements 
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financial statements 

Report of the independent  
auditors on the parent company 
financial statements 

Parent company financial 
statements 

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financial statements 

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(C) OTHER INTANGIBLE ASSETS
Other intangible assets include brands, core deposit intangibles, purchased credit card relationships, customer-related intangibles and capitalised 
software enhancements. Intangible assets which have been determined to have a finite useful life are amortised on a straight line basis over their 
estimated useful life as follows:

Capitalised software enhancements

Brands (which have been assessed as having finite lives) 

Customer-related intangibles 

Core deposit intangibles 
Purchased credit card relationships 

up to 5 years

10-15 years

up to 10 years

up to 8 years 
5 years

Intangible assets with finite useful lives are reviewed at each reporting date to assess whether there is any indication that they are impaired.  
If any such indication exists the recoverable amount of the asset is determined and in the event that the asset’s carrying amount is greater than its 
recoverable amount, it is written down immediately. Certain brands have been determined to have an indefinite useful life and are not amortised. 
Such intangible assets are reassessed annually to reconfirm that an indefinite useful life remains appropriate. In the event that an indefinite life is 
inappropriate a finite life is determined and an impairment review is performed on the asset. 

(D) REVENUE RECOGNITION
Interest income and expense are recognised in the income statement for all interest-bearing financial instruments using the effective interest method, 
except for those classified at fair value through profit or loss. The effective interest method is a method of calculating the amortised cost of a financial 
asset or liability and of allocating the interest income or interest expense over the expected life of the financial instrument. The effective interest 
rate is the rate that exactly discounts the estimated future cash payments or receipts over the expected life of the financial instrument or, when 
appropriate, a shorter period, to the net carrying amount of the financial asset or financial liability. 

The effective interest rate is calculated on initial recognition of the financial asset or liability by estimating the future cash flows after considering  
all the contractual terms of the instrument but not future credit losses. The calculation includes all amounts expected to be paid or received by the 
Group including expected early redemption fees and related penalties and premiums and discounts that are an integral part of the overall return. 
Direct incremental transaction costs related to the acquisition, issue or disposal of a financial instrument are also taken into account in the calculation. 
Once a financial asset or a group of similar financial assets has been written down as a result of an impairment loss, interest income is recognised 
using the rate of interest used to discount the future cash flows for the purpose of measuring the impairment loss (see (H) below).

Fees and commissions which are not an integral part of the effective interest rate are generally recognised when the service has been provided.  
Loan commitment fees for loans that are likely to be drawn down are deferred (together with related direct costs) and recognised as an adjustment 
to the effective interest rate on the loan once drawn. Where it is unlikely that loan commitments will be drawn, loan commitment fees are recognised 
over the life of the facility. Loan syndication fees are recognised as revenue when the syndication has been completed and the Group retains no part 
of the loan package for itself or retains a part at the same effective interest rate for all interest-bearing financial instruments, including loans  
and advances, as for the other participants.

Dividend income is recognised when the right to receive payment is established.

Revenue recognition policies specific to life insurance and general insurance business are detailed below (see (O) below).

(E) FINANCIAL ASSETS AND LIABILITIES
On initial recognition, financial assets are classified into fair value through profit or loss, available-for-sale financial assets, held-to-maturity investments 
or loans and receivables. Financial liabilities are measured at amortised cost, except for trading liabilities and other financial liabilities designated 
at fair value through profit or loss on initial recognition which are held at fair value. Purchases and sales of securities and other financial assets and 
trading liabilities are recognised on trade date, being the date that the Group is committed to purchase or sell an asset. 

(1) Financial instruments at fair value through profit or loss
Financial instruments are classified at fair value through profit or loss where they are trading securities or where they are designated at fair value 
through profit or loss by management. Derivatives are carried at fair value (see (F) below). 

Trading securities are debt securities and equity shares acquired principally for the purpose of selling in the short term or which are part of a portfolio 
which is managed for short-term gains. Such securities are classified as trading securities and recognised in the balance sheet at their fair value. Gains 
and losses arising from changes in their fair value together with interest coupons and dividend income are recognised in the income statement within 
net trading income in the period in which they occur.

Other financial assets and liabilities at fair value through profit or loss are designated as such by management upon initial recognition. Such assets 
and liabilities are carried in the balance sheet at their fair value and gains and losses arising from changes in fair value together with interest coupons 
and dividend income are recognised in the income statement within net trading income in the period in which they occur. Financial assets and 
liabilities are designated at fair value through profit or loss on acquisition in the following circumstances:

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 –  it eliminates or significantly reduces the inconsistent treatment that would otherwise arise from measuring the assets and liabilities or recognising 
gains or losses on different bases. The main type of financial assets designated by the Group at fair value through profit or loss are assets backing 
insurance contracts and investment contracts issued by the Group’s life insurance businesses. Fair value designation allows changes in the fair 
value of these assets to be recorded in the income statement along with the changes in the value of the associated liabilities, thereby significantly 
reducing the measurement inconsistency had the assets been classified as available-for-sale financial assets. 

 –  the assets and liabilities are part of a group which is managed, and its performance evaluated, on a fair value basis in accordance with a 

documented risk management or investment strategy, with management information also prepared on this basis. As noted in (A)(2) above certain of 
the Group’s investments are managed as venture capital investments and evaluated on the basis of their fair value and these assets are designated 
at fair value through profit or loss. 

 –   where the assets and liabilities contain one or more embedded derivatives that significantly modify the cash flows arising under the contract and 

would otherwise need to be separately accounted for. 

The fair values of assets and liabilities traded in active markets are based on current bid and offer prices respectively. If the market is not active the 
Group establishes a fair value by using valuation techniques. These include the use of recent arm’s length transactions, reference to other instruments 
that are substantially the same, discounted cash flow analysis, option pricing models and other valuation techniques commonly used by market 
participants. Refer to note 3 (Critical accounting estimates and judgements: Fair value of financial instruments) and note 55(3) (Financial instruments:  
Fair values of financial assets and liabilities) for details of valuation techniques and significant inputs to valuation models.

The Group is permitted to reclassify, at fair value at the date of transfer, non-derivative financial assets (other than those designated at fair value 
through profit or loss by the entity upon initial recognition) out of the trading category if they are no longer held for the purpose of being sold or 
repurchased in the near term, as follows:

 –  if the financial assets would have met the definition of loans and receivables (but for the fact that they had to be classified as held for trading at 
initial recognition), they may be reclassified into loans and receivables where the Group has the intention and ability to hold the assets for the 
foreseeable future or until maturity; 

 –  if the financial assets would not have met the definition of loans and receivables, they may be reclassified out of the held for trading category into 

available-for-sale financial assets in ‘rare circumstances’. 

(2) Available-for-sale financial assets
Debt securities and equity shares that are not classified as trading securities, at fair value through profit or loss, held-to-maturity investments or 
as loans and receivables are classified as available-for-sale financial assets and are recognised in the balance sheet at their fair value, inclusive of 
transaction costs. Available-for-sale financial assets are those intended to be held for an indeterminate period of time and may be sold in response to 
needs for liquidity or changes in interest rates, exchange rates or equity prices. Gains and losses arising from changes in the fair value of investments 
classified as available-for-sale are recognised directly in other comprehensive income, until the financial asset is either sold, becomes impaired or 
matures, at which time the cumulative gain or loss previously recognised in other comprehensive income is recognised in the income statement. 
Interest calculated using the effective interest method and foreign exchange gains and losses on debt securities denominated in foreign currencies 
are recognised in the income statement.

The Group is permitted to transfer a financial asset from the available-for-sale category to the loans and receivables category where that asset would 
have met the definition of loans and receivables at the time of reclassification (if the financial asset had not been designated as available-for-sale) 
and where there is both the intention and ability to hold that financial asset for the foreseeable future. Reclassification of a financial asset from 
the available-for-sale category to the held-to-maturity category is permitted when the Group has the ability and intent to hold that financial asset 
to maturity. 

Reclassifications are made at fair value as of the reclassification date. Fair value becomes the new cost or amortised cost as applicable. Effective 
interest rates for financial assets reclassified to the loans and receivables and held-to-maturity categories are determined at the reclassification 
date. Any previous gain or loss on a transferred asset that has been recognised in equity is amortised to profit or loss over the remaining life of 
the investment using the effective interest method or until the asset becomes impaired. Any difference between the new amortised cost and the 
expected cash flows is also amortised over the remaining life of the asset using the effective interest method.

When an impairment loss is recognised in respect of available-for-sale assets transferred, the unamortised balance of any available-for-sale reserve 
that remains in equity is transferred to the income statement and recorded as part of the impairment loss.

(3) Loans and receivables
Loans and receivables include loans and advances to banks and customers and eligible assets including those transferred into this category out 
of the fair value through profit or loss or available-for-sale financial assets categories. Loans and receivables are initially recognised when cash is 
advanced to the borrowers at fair value inclusive of transaction costs or, for eligible assets transferred into this category, their fair value at the date  
of transfer. Financial assets classified as loans and receivables are accounted for at amortised cost using the effective interest method (see (D) above)  
less provision for impairment (see (H) below). 

The Group has entered into securitisation and similar transactions to finance certain loans and advances to customers. These loans and advances  
to customers continue to be recognised by the Group, together with a corresponding liability for the funding. 

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(4) Held-to-maturity investments 
Held-to-maturity investments are non-derivative financial assets with fixed or determinable payments and fixed maturities that the Group’s 
management has the positive intention and ability to hold to maturity other than:

 – those that the Group designates upon initial recognition as at fair value through profit or loss;

 – those that the Group designates as available-for-sale; and

 – those that meet the definition of loans and receivables.

These are initially recognised at fair value including direct and incremental transaction costs and measured subsequently at amortised cost, using  
the effective interest method, less any provision for impairment.

(5) Borrowings 
Borrowings (which include deposits from banks, customer deposits, debt securities in issue and subordinated liabilities) are recognised initially at fair 
value, being their issue proceeds net of transaction costs incurred. These instruments are subsequently stated at amortised cost using the effective 
interest method.

Preference shares and other instruments which carry a mandatory coupon or are redeemable on a specific date are classified as financial liabilities. 
The coupon on these instruments is recognised in the income statement as interest expense.

An exchange of financial liabilities on substantially different terms is accounted for as an extinguishment of the original financial liability and the 
recognition of a new financial liability. The difference between the carrying amount of a financial liability extinguished and the new financial liability  
is recognised in profit or loss together with any related costs or fees incurred.

When a financial liability is exchanged for an equity instrument, the new equity instrument is recognised at fair value and any difference between 
the original carrying value of the liability and the fair value of the new equity is recognised in the profit or loss together with any related costs or 
fees incurred.

(6) Sale and repurchase agreements
Securities sold subject to repurchase agreements (repos) continue to be recognised on the balance sheet where substantially all of the risks and 
rewards are retained. Funds received under these arrangements are included in deposits from banks, customer deposits, or trading liabilities. 
Conversely, securities purchased under agreements to resell (reverse repos), where the Group does not acquire substantially all of the risks and 
rewards of ownership, are recorded as loans and receivables or trading securities. The difference between sale and repurchase price is treated  
as interest and accrued over the life of the agreements using the effective interest method.

Securities lent to counterparties are retained in the financial statements. Securities borrowed are not recognised in the financial statements, unless 
these are sold to third parties, in which case the obligation to return them is recorded at fair value as a trading liability.

(7) Derecognition of financial assets and liabilities
Financial assets are derecognised when the contractual right to receive cash flows from those assets has expired or when the Group has transferred 
its contractual right to receive the cash flows from the assets and either:

 –  substantially all of the risks and rewards of ownership have been transferred; or

 –  the Group has neither retained nor transferred substantially all of the risks and rewards, but has transferred control.

Financial liabilities are derecognised when they are extinguished (ie when the obligation is discharged), cancelled or expire.

(F) DERIVATIVE FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS AND HEDGE ACCOUNTING
All derivatives are recognised at their fair value. Fair values are obtained from quoted market prices in active markets, including recent market 
transactions, and using valuation techniques, including discounted cash flow and option pricing models, as appropriate. Derivatives are carried in the 
balance sheet as assets when their fair value is positive and as liabilities when their fair value is negative. Refer to note 3 (Critical accounting estimates 
and judgements: Fair value of financial instruments) and note 55(3) (Financial instruments: Fair values of financial assets and liabilities) for details of 
valuation techniques and significant inputs to valuation models.

Changes in the fair value of any derivative instrument that is not part of a hedging relationship are recognised immediately in the income statement.

Derivatives embedded in financial instruments and insurance contracts (unless the embedded derivative is itself an insurance contract) are treated 
as separate derivatives when their economic characteristics and risks are not closely related to those of the host contract and the host contract is not 
carried at fair value through profit or loss. These embedded derivatives are measured at fair value with changes in fair value recognised in the income 
statement. In accordance with IFRS 4 Insurance Contracts, a policyholder’s option to surrender an insurance contract for a fixed amount is not treated 
as an embedded derivative.

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The method of recognising the movements in the fair value of derivatives depends on whether they are designated as hedging instruments and, if 
so, the nature of the item being hedged. Hedge accounting allows one financial instrument, generally a derivative such as a swap, to be designated 
as a hedge of another financial instrument such as a loan or deposit or a portfolio of the same. At the inception of the hedge relationship, formal 
documentation is drawn up specifying the hedging strategy, the hedged item and the hedging instrument and the methodology that will be used 
to measure the effectiveness of the hedge relationship in offsetting changes in the fair value or cash flow of the hedged risk. The effectiveness of 
the hedging relationship is tested both at inception and throughout its life and if at any point it is concluded that it is no longer highly effective in 
achieving its documented objective, hedge accounting is discontinued.

The Group designates certain derivatives as either: (1) hedges of the fair value of the particular risks inherent in recognised assets or liabilities (fair 
value hedges); (2) hedges of highly probable future cash flows attributable to recognised assets or liabilities (cash flow hedges); or (3) hedges of net 
investments in foreign operations (net investment hedges). These are accounted for as follows:

(1) Fair value hedges
Changes in the fair value of derivatives that are designated and qualify as fair value hedges are recorded in the income statement, together with 
the changes in the fair value of the hedged asset or liability that are attributable to the hedged risk; this also applies if the hedged asset is classified 
as an available-for-sale financial asset. If the hedge no longer meets the criteria for hedge accounting, changes in the fair value of the hedged item 
attributable to the hedged risk are no longer recognised in the income statement. The cumulative adjustment that has been made to the carrying 
amount of the hedged item is amortised to the income statement using the effective interest method over the period to maturity. 

(2) Cash flow hedges
The effective portion of changes in the fair value of derivatives that are designated and qualify as cash flow hedges is recognised in other 
comprehensive income in the cash flow hedge reserve. The gain or loss relating to the ineffective portion is recognised immediately in the income 
statement. Amounts accumulated in equity are reclassified to the income statement in the periods in which the hedged item affects profit or loss. 
When a hedging instrument expires or is sold, or when a hedge no longer meets the criteria for hedge accounting, any cumulative gain or loss 
existing in equity at that time remains in equity and is recognised in the income statement when the forecast transaction is ultimately recognised 
in the income statement. When a forecast transaction is no longer expected to occur, the cumulative gain or loss that was reported in equity is 
immediately transferred to the income statement.

(3) Net investment hedges
Hedges of net investments in foreign operations are accounted for similarly to cash flow hedges. Any gain or loss on the hedging instrument relating 
to the effective portion of the hedge is recognised in other comprehensive income, the gain or loss relating to the ineffective portion is recognised 
immediately in the income statement. Gains and losses accumulated in equity are included in the income statement when the foreign operation is 
disposed of. The hedging instrument used in net investment hedges may include non-derivative liabilities as well as derivative financial instruments.

(G) OFFSET
Financial assets and liabilities are offset and the net amount reported in the balance sheet when there is a legally enforceable right of set-off and 
there is an intention to settle on a net basis, or realise the asset and settle the liability simultaneously. In certain situations, even though master netting 
agreements exist, the lack of management intention to settle on a net basis results in the financial assets and liabilities being reported gross on the 
balance sheet. 

(H) IMPAIRMENT OF FINANCIAL ASSETS

(1) Assets accounted for at amortised cost
At each balance sheet date the Group assesses whether, as a result of one or more events occurring after initial recognition of the financial asset and 
prior to the balance sheet date, there is objective evidence that a financial asset or group of financial assets has become impaired.

Where such an event has had an impact on the estimated future cash flows of the financial asset or group of financial assets, an impairment allowance 
is recognised. The amount of impairment allowance is the difference between the asset’s carrying amount and the present value of estimated future 
cash flows discounted at the asset’s original effective interest rate. If the asset has a variable rate of interest, the discount rate used for measuring the 
impairment allowance is the current effective interest rate.

Subsequent to the recognition of an impairment loss on a financial asset or a group of financial assets, interest income continues to be recognised 
on an effective interest rate basis, on the asset’s carrying value net of impairment provisions. If, in a subsequent period, the amount of the impairment 
loss decreases and the decrease can be related objectively to an event occurring after the impairment was recognised, such as an improvement in 
the borrower’s credit rating, the allowance is adjusted and the amount of the reversal is recognised in the income statement.

Impairment allowances are assessed individually for financial assets that are individually significant. Such individual assessment is used primarily for 
the Group’s wholesale lending portfolios in the Wholesale and Wealth and International divisions. Impairment allowances for portfolios of smaller 
balance homogenous loans such as most residential mortgages, personal loans and credit card balances in the Group’s retail portfolios in both the 
Retail and Wealth and International divisions that are below the individual assessment thresholds, and for loan losses that have been incurred but not 
separately identified at the balance sheet date, are determined on a collective basis.

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INDIVIDUAL ASSESSMENT
In respect of individually significant financial assets in the Group’s wholesale lending portfolios, assets are reviewed on a regular basis and those 
showing potential or actual vulnerability are placed on a watch list where greater monitoring is undertaken and any adverse or potentially adverse 
impact on ability to repay is used in assessing whether an asset should be transferred to a dedicated Business Support Unit. Specific examples of 
trigger events that would lead to the initial recognition of impairment allowances against lending to corporate borrowers (or the recognition of 
additional impairment allowances) include (i) trading losses, loss of business or major customer of a borrower, (ii) material breaches of the terms 
and conditions of a loan facility, including non-payment of interest or principal, or a fall in the value of security such that it is no longer considered 
adequate, (iii) disappearance of an active market because of financial difficulties, or (iv) restructuring a facility with preferential terms to aid recovery  
of the lending (such as a debt for equity swap).

For such individually identified financial assets, a review is undertaken of the expected future cash flows which requires significant management 
judgement as to the amount and timing of such cash flows. Where the debt is secured, the assessment reflects the expected cash flows from the 
realisation of the security, net of costs to realise, whether or not foreclosure or realisation of the collateral is probable.

For impaired debt instruments which are held at amortised cost, impairment losses are recognised in subsequent periods when it is determined that 
there has been a further negative impact on expected future cash flows. A reduction in fair value caused by general widening of credit spreads would 
not, of itself, result in additional impairment.

COLLECTIVE ASSESSMENT
In respect of portfolios of smaller balance, homogenous loans, the asset is included in a group of financial assets with similar risk characteristics 
and collectively assessed for impairment. Segmentation takes into account factors such as the type of asset, geographical location, collateral type, 
past-due status and other relevant factors. These characteristics are relevant to the estimation of future cash flows for groups of such assets as they 
are indicative of the borrower’s ability to pay all amounts due according to the contractual terms of the assets being evaluated.

Generally, the impairment trigger used within the impairment calculation for a loan, or group of loans, is when they reach a pre-defined level of 
delinquency or where the customer is bankrupt. Loans where the Group provides arrangements that forgive a portion of interest or principal are  
also deemed to be impaired and loans that are originated to refinance currently impaired assets are also defined as impaired.

In respect of the Group’s secured mortgage portfolios, the impairment allowance is calculated based on a definition of impaired loans which are 
those six months or more in arrears (or where the borrower is bankrupt or is in possession). The estimated cash flows are calculated based on 
historical experience and are dependent on estimates of the expected value of collateral which takes into account expected future movements  
in house prices, less costs to sell.

For unsecured personal lending portfolios, the impairment trigger is generally when the balance is two or more instalments in arrears or where 
the customer has exhibited one or more of the impairment characteristics noted above. While the trigger is based on the payment performance 
or circumstances of each individual asset, the assessment of future cash flows uses historical experience of cohorts of similar portfolios such that 
the assessment is considered to be collective. Future cash flows are estimated on the basis of the contractual cash flows of the assets in the cohort 
and historical loss experience for similar assets. Historical loss experience is adjusted on the basis of current observable data to reflect the effects 
of current conditions that did not affect the period on which the historical loss experience is based and to remove the effects of conditions in the 
historical period that do not exist currently. The methodology and assumptions used for estimating future cash flows are reviewed regularly by the 
Group to reduce any differences between loss estimates and actual loss experience.

The collective provision also includes provision for inherent losses, that is losses that have been incurred but have not been identified at the balance 
sheet date. The loans that are not currently recognised as impaired are grouped into homogenous portfolios by key risk drivers. An assessment is 
made, based on statistical techniques, of the likelihood of each account becoming recognised as impaired within an emergence period, with the 
economic loss that each portfolio is likely to generate were it to become impaired. The emergence period is the time between the loss event and the 
date the impairment is recognised. The emergence period is determined by local management for each portfolio. In general the periods used across 
the Group vary between one month and twelve months based on historical experience.

LOAN RENEGOTIATIONS AND FORBEARANCE
In certain circumstances, the Group will renegotiate the original terms of a customer’s loan, either as part of an ongoing customer relationship or 
in response to adverse changes in the circumstances of the borrower. There are a number of different types of loan renegotiation, including the 
capitalisation of arrears, payment holidays, interest rate adjustments and extensions of the due date of payment. Where the renegotiated payments 
of interest and principal will not recover the original carrying value of the asset, the asset continues to be reported as past due and is considered 
impaired. Where the renegotiated payments of interest and principal will recover the original carrying value of the asset, the loan is no longer 
reported as past due or impaired provided that payments are made in accordance with the revised terms. In other cases, renegotiation may lead to  
a new agreement, which is treated as a new loan.

WRITE OFFS
A loan or advance is normally written off, either partially or in full, against the related allowance when the proceeds from realising any available 
security have been received or there is no realistic prospect of recovery and the amount of the loss has been determined. Subsequent recoveries  
of amounts previously written off decrease the amount of impairment losses recorded in the income statement.

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DEBT FOR EQUITY EXCHANGES
Equity securities acquired in exchange for loans in order to achieve an orderly realisation are accounted for as a disposal of the loan and an 
acquisition of equity securities. Where control is obtained over an entity as a result of the transaction, the entity is consolidated; where the Group has 
significant influence over an entity as a result of the transaction, the investment is accounted for by the equity method of accounting (see (A) above). 
Any subsequent impairment of the assets or business acquired is treated as an impairment of the relevant asset or business and not as an impairment 
of the original instrument.

(2) Available-for-sale financial assets
The Group assesses, at each balance sheet date, whether there is objective evidence that an available-for-sale financial asset is impaired. In addition 
to the criteria for financial assets accounted for at amortised cost set out above, this assessment involves reviewing the current financial circumstances 
(including creditworthiness) and future prospects of the issuer assessing the future cash flows expected to be realised and, in the case of equity 
shares, considering whether there has been a significant or prolonged decline in the fair value of the asset below its cost. If an impairment loss has 
been incurred, the cumulative loss measured as the difference between the acquisition cost (net of any principal repayment and amortisation) and 
the current fair value, less any impairment loss on that asset previously recognised, is reclassified from equity to the income statement. For impaired 
debt instruments, impairment losses are recognised in subsequent periods when it is determined that there has been a further negative impact on 
expected future cash flows; a reduction in fair value caused by general widening of credit spreads would not, of itself, result in additional impairment. 
If, in a subsequent period, the fair value of a debt instrument classified as available-for-sale increases and the increase can be objectively related 
to an event occurring after the impairment loss was recognised, an amount not greater than the original impairment loss is credited to the income 
statement; any excess is taken to other comprehensive income. Impairment losses recognised in the income statement on equity instruments are not 
reversed through the income statement.

(I) INVESTMENT PROPERTY
Investment property comprises freehold and long leasehold land and buildings that are held either to earn rental income or for capital appreciation 
or both. The Group’s investment property primarily relates to property held for long-term rental yields and capital appreciation within the life 
insurance funds. Investment property is carried in the balance sheet at fair value, being the open market value as determined in accordance with the 
guidance published by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors. If this information is not available, the Group uses alternative valuation methods 
such as discounted cash flow projections or recent prices. These valuations are reviewed at least annually by an independent valuation expert. 
Investment property being redeveloped for continuing use as investment property, or for which the market has become less active, continues to be 
measured at fair value. Changes in fair value are recognised in the income statement as net trading income.

(J) TANGIBLE FIXED ASSETS
Tangible fixed assets are included at cost less accumulated depreciation. The value of land (included in premises) is not depreciated. Depreciation on 
other assets is calculated using the straight-line method to allocate the difference between the cost and the residual value over their estimated useful 
lives, as follows:

Premises (excluding land):

 –  Freehold/long and short leasehold premises: shorter of 50 years and the remaining period of the lease 

 –  Leasehold improvements: shorter of 10 years and, if lease renewal is not likely, the remaining period of the lease 

Equipment:

 –  Fixtures and furnishings: 10-20 years 

 –  Other equipment and motor vehicles: 2-8 years 

The assets’ residual values and useful lives are reviewed, and adjusted if appropriate, at each balance sheet date.

Assets are reviewed for impairment whenever events or changes in circumstances indicate that the carrying amount may not be recoverable.  
In the event that an asset’s carrying amount is determined to be greater than its recoverable amount it is written down immediately. The recoverable 
amount is the higher of the asset’s fair value less costs to sell and its value in use.

(K) LEASES

(1) As lessee
The leases entered into by the Group are primarily operating leases. Operating lease rentals payable are charged to the income statement on a 
straight-line basis over the period of the lease.

When an operating lease is terminated before the end of the lease period, any payment made to the lessor by way of penalty is recognised as an 
expense in the period of termination.

(2) As lessor
Assets leased to customers are classified as finance leases if the lease agreements transfer substantially all the risks and rewards of ownership to the 
lessee but not necessarily legal title. All other leases are classified as operating leases. When assets are subject to finance leases, the present value 
of the lease payments, together with any unguaranteed residual value, is recognised as a receivable, net of provisions, within loans and advances to 

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banks and customers. The difference between the gross receivable and the present value of the receivable is recognised as unearned finance lease 
income. Finance lease income is recognised in interest income over the term of the lease using the net investment method (before tax) so as to give 
a constant rate of return on the net investment in the leases. Unguaranteed residual values are reviewed regularly to identify any impairment. 

Operating lease assets are included within tangible fixed assets at cost and depreciated over their estimated useful lives, which equates to the lives 
of the leases, after taking into account anticipated residual values. Operating lease rental income is recognised on a straight-line basis over the life  
of the lease.

The Group evaluates non-lease arrangements such as outsourcing and similar contracts to determine if they contain a lease which is then accounted 
for separately.

(L) PENSIONS AND OTHER POST-RETIREMENT BENEFITS
The Group operates a number of post-retirement benefit schemes for its employees including both defined benefit and defined contribution 
pension plans. A defined benefit scheme is a pension plan that defines an amount of pension benefit that an employee will receive on retirement, 
dependent on one or more factors such as age, years of service and salary. A defined contribution plan is a pension plan into which the Group pays 
fixed contributions; there is no legal or constructive obligation to pay further contributions.

Full actuarial valuations of the Group’s principal defined benefit schemes are carried out every three years with interim reviews in the intervening 
years; these valuations are updated to 31 December each year by qualified independent actuaries, or in the case of the Scottish Widows Retirement 
Benefits Scheme, by a qualified actuary employed by Scottish Widows. For the purposes of these annual updates scheme assets are included at their 
fair value and scheme liabilities are measured on an actuarial basis using the projected unit credit method adjusted for unrecognised actuarial gains 
and losses. The defined benefit scheme liabilities are discounted using rates equivalent to the market yields at the balance sheet date on high-quality 
corporate bonds that are denominated in the currency in which the benefits will be paid, and that have terms to maturity approximating to the terms 
of the related pension liability.

The Group’s income statement charge includes the current service cost of providing pension benefits, the expected return on the schemes’ assets, 
net of expected administration costs, and the interest cost on the schemes’ liabilities. Actuarial gains and losses arising from experience adjustments 
and changes in actuarial assumptions are not recognised unless the cumulative unrecognised gain or loss at the end of the previous reporting 
period exceeds the greater of 10 per cent of the scheme assets or liabilities (‘the corridor approach’). In these circumstances the excess is charged or 
credited to the income statement over the employees’ expected average remaining working lives. Past service costs are charged immediately to the 
income statement, unless the charges are conditional on the employees remaining in service for a specified period of time (the vesting period). In this 
case, the past service costs are amortised on a straight-line basis over the vesting period.

The Group’s balance sheet includes the net surplus or deficit, being the difference between the fair value of scheme assets and the discounted value 
of scheme liabilities at the balance sheet date adjusted for any cumulative unrecognised actuarial gains or losses. Surpluses are only recognised to 
the extent that they are recoverable through reduced contributions in the future or through refunds from the schemes.

The Group recognises the effect of material changes to the terms of its defined benefit pension plans which reduce future benefits as curtailments; 
gains and losses are recognised in the income statement when the curtailments occur.

The costs of the Group’s defined contribution plans are charged to the income statement in the period in which they fall due.

(M) SHARE-BASED COMPENSATION
The Group operates a number of equity-settled, share-based compensation plans in respect of services received from certain of its employees.  
The value of the employee services received in exchange for equity instruments granted under these plans is recognised as an expense over the 
vesting period of the instruments, with a corresponding increase in equity. This expense is determined by reference to the fair value of the number  
of equity instruments that are expected to vest. The fair value of equity instruments granted is based on market prices, if available, at the date of 
grant. In the absence of market prices, the fair value of the instruments at the date of grant is estimated using an appropriate valuation technique, 
such as a Black-Scholes option pricing model. The determination of fair values excludes the impact of any non-market vesting conditions, which 
are included in the assumptions used to estimate the number of options that are expected to vest. At each balance sheet date, this estimate is 
reassessed and if necessary revised. Any revision of the original estimate is recognised in the income statement over the remaining vesting period, 
together with a corresponding adjustment to equity. Cancellations by employees of contributions to the Group’s Save As You Earn plans are treated 
as non-vesting conditions and in accordance with IFRS 2 (Revised) the Group recognises, in the year of cancellation, the amount of the expense that 
would have otherwise been recognised over the remainder of the vesting period. Modifications are assessed at the date of modification and any 
incremental charges are charged to the income statement over any remaining vesting period.

(N) TAXATION
Current income tax which is payable on taxable profits is recognised as an expense in the period in which the profits arise.

For the Group’s long-term insurance businesses, the tax charge is analysed between tax that is payable in respect of policyholders’ returns and tax 
that is payable on equity holders’ returns. This allocation is based on an assessment of the rates of tax which will be applied to the returns under 
current UK tax rules.

Deferred tax is provided in full, using the liability method, on temporary differences arising between the tax bases of assets and liabilities and their 
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or liability in a transaction other than a business combination that at the time of the transaction affects neither accounting nor taxable profit or loss. 
Deferred tax is determined using tax rates that have been enacted or substantially enacted by the balance sheet date which are expected to apply 
when the related deferred tax asset is realised or the deferred tax liability is settled.

Deferred tax assets are recognised where it is probable that future taxable profit will be available against which the temporary differences can be 
utilised. Income tax payable on profits is recognised as an expense in the period in which those profits arise. The tax effects of losses available for 
carry forward are recognised as an asset when it is probable that future taxable profits will be available against which these losses can be utilised. 
Deferred and current tax related to gains and losses on the fair value re-measurement of available-for-sale investments and cash flow hedges, where 
these gains and losses are recognised in other comprehensive income, is also recognised in other comprehensive income. Such tax is subsequently 
transferred to the income statement together with the gain or loss.

Deferred and current tax assets and liabilities are offset when they arise in the same tax reporting group and where there is both a legal right of offset 
and the intention to settle on a net basis or to realise the asset and settle the liability simultaneously.

(O) INSURANCE
The Group undertakes both life insurance and general insurance business.

Products sold by the life insurance business are classified into three categories:

Insurance contracts – these contracts transfer significant insurance risk and may also transfer financial risk. The Group defines significant insurance risk 
as the possibility of having to pay benefits on the occurrence of an insured event which are significantly more than the benefits payable if the insured 
event were not to occur. These contracts may or may not include discretionary participation features.

Investment contracts containing a discretionary participation feature (participating investment contracts) – these contracts do not transfer significant 
insurance risk, but contain a contractual right which gives the holder the right to receive, in addition to the guaranteed benefits, further additional 
discretionary benefits or bonuses that are likely to be a significant proportion of the total contractual benefits and the amount and timing of which 
is at the discretion of the Group, within the constraints of the terms and conditions of the instrument and based upon the performance of specified 
assets. 

Non-participating investment contracts – these contracts do not transfer significant insurance risk or contain a discretionary participation feature.

The general insurance business issues only insurance contracts.

(1) Life insurance business

(i) ACCOUNTING FOR INSURANCE AND PARTICIPATING INVESTMENT CONTRACTS 

Premiums and claims
Premiums received in respect of insurance and participating investment contracts are recognised as revenue when due except for unit-linked 
contracts on which premiums are recognised as revenue when received. Claims are recorded as an expense on the earlier of the maturity date or the 
date on which the claim is notified.

Liabilities
 – Insurance and participating investment contracts in the Group’s with-profit funds

Liabilities of the Group’s with-profit funds, including guarantees and options embedded within products written by these funds, are stated at their 
realistic values in accordance with the Financial Services Authority’s realistic capital regime, except that projected transfers out of the funds into other 
Group funds are recorded in the unallocated surplus (see below). Further details on the realistic capital regime are given on page 103. Changes in the 
value of these liabilities are recognised through insurance claims.

 – Insurance and participating investment contracts which are not unit-linked or in the Group’s with-profit funds

A liability for contractual benefits that are expected to be incurred in the future is recorded when the premiums are recognised. The liability is 
calculated by estimating the future cash flows over the duration of in-force policies and discounting them back to the valuation date allowing for 
probabilities of occurrence. The liability will vary with movements in interest rates and with the cost of life insurance and annuity benefits where future 
mortality is uncertain.

Assumptions are made in respect of all material factors affecting future cash flows, including future interest rates, mortality and costs.

Changes in the value of these liabilities are recognised in the income statement through insurance claims.

 – Insurance and participating investment contracts which are unit-linked

Liabilities for unit-linked insurance contracts and participating investment contracts are stated at the bid value of units plus an additional allowance 
where appropriate (such as for any excess of future expenses over charges). The liability is increased or reduced by the change in the unit prices and 
is reduced by policy administration fees, mortality and surrender charges and any withdrawals. Changes in the value of the liability are recognised 
in the income statement through insurance claims. Benefit claims in excess of the account balances incurred in the period are also charged through 
insurance claims. Revenue consists of fees deducted for mortality, policy administration and surrender charges. 

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Five year financial summary 

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Directors’ remuneration report  124

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Risk management 

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Unallocated surplus
Any amounts in the with-profit funds not yet determined as being due to policyholders or shareholders are recognised as an unallocated surplus 
which is shown separately from liabilities arising from insurance contracts and participating investment contracts.

(ii) ACCOUNTING FOR NON-PARTICIPATING INVESTMENT CONTRACTS
The Group’s non-participating investment contracts are primarily unit-linked. These contracts are accounted for as financial liabilities whose value is 
contractually linked to the fair values of financial assets within the Group’s unitised investment funds. The value of the unit-linked financial liabilities 
is determined using current unit prices multiplied by the number of units attributed to the contract holders at the balance sheet date. Their value 
is never less than the amount payable on surrender, discounted for the required notice period where applicable. Investment returns (including 
movements in fair value and investment income) allocated to those contracts are recognised in insurance claims.

Deposits and withdrawals are not accounted for through the income statement but are accounted for directly in the balance sheet as adjustments  
to the non-participating investment contract liability.

The Group receives investment management fees in the form of an initial adjustment or charge to the amount invested. These fees are in respect 
of services rendered in conjunction with the issue and management of investment contracts where the Group actively manages the consideration 
received from its customers to fund a return that is based on the investment profile that the customer selected on origination of the contract. 
These services comprise an indeterminate number of acts over the lives of the individual contracts and, therefore, the Group defers these fees and 
recognises them over the estimated lives of the contracts, in line with the provision of investment management services.

Costs which are directly attributable and incremental to securing new non-participating investment contracts are deferred. This asset is subsequently 
amortised over the period of the provision of investment management services and is reviewed for impairment in circumstances where its carrying 
amount may not be recoverable. If the asset is greater than its recoverable amount it is written down immediately through fee and commission 
expense in the income statement. All other costs are recognised as expenses when incurred.

(iii) VALUE OF IN-FORCE BUSINESS
The Group recognises as an asset the value of in-force business in respect of insurance contracts and participating investment contracts. The asset 
represents the present value of the shareholders’ interest in the profits expected to emerge from those contracts written at the balance sheet date. 
This is determined after making appropriate assumptions about future economic and operating conditions such as future mortality and persistency 
rates and includes allowances for both non-market risk and for the realistic value of financial options and guarantees. Each cash flow is valued using 
the discount rate consistent with that applied to such a cash flow in the capital markets. The asset in the consolidated balance sheet is presented 
gross of attributable tax and movements in the asset are reflected within other operating income in the income statement.

The Group’s contractual rights to benefits from providing investment management services in relation to non-participating investment contracts 
acquired in business combinations and portfolio transfers are measured at fair value at the date of acquisition. The resulting asset is amortised over 
the estimated lives of the contracts. At each reporting date an assessment is made to determine if there is any indication of impairment. Where 
impairment exists, the carrying value of the asset is reduced to its recoverable amount and the impairment loss recognised in the income statement. 

(2) General insurance business
The Group both underwrites and acts as intermediary in the sale of general insurance products. Underwriting premiums are included in insurance 
premium income, net of refunds, in the period in which insurance cover is provided to the customer; premiums received relating to future periods are 
deferred in the balance sheet within liabilities arising from insurance contracts and participating investment contracts and only credited to the income 
statement when earned. Broking commission are recognised when the underwriter accepts the risk of providing insurance cover to the customer. 
Where appropriate, provision is made for the effect of future policy terminations based upon past experience.

The underwriting business makes provision for the estimated cost of claims notified but not settled and claims incurred but not reported at the 
balance sheet date. The provision for the cost of claims notified but not settled is based upon a best estimate of the cost of settling the outstanding 
claims after taking into account all known facts. In those cases where there is insufficient information to determine the required provision, statistical 
techniques are used which take into account the cost of claims that have recently been settled and make assumptions about the future development 
of the outstanding cases. Similar statistical techniques are used to determine the provision for claims incurred but not reported at the balance sheet 
date. Claims liabilities are not discounted.

(3) Liability adequacy test
At each balance sheet date liability adequacy tests are performed to ensure the adequacy of insurance and participating investment contract 
liabilities net of related deferred cost assets and value of in-force business. In performing these tests current best estimates of discounted future 
contractual cash flows and claims handling and policy administration expenses, as well as investment income from the assets backing such liabilities, 
are used. Any deficiency is immediately charged to the income statement, initially by writing off the relevant assets and subsequently by establishing 
a provision for losses arising from liability adequacy tests.

(4) Reinsurance
Contracts entered into by the Group with reinsurers under which the Group is compensated for losses on one or more contracts issued by the Group 
and that meet the classification requirements for insurance contracts are classified as reinsurance contracts held. 

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The benefits to which the Group is entitled under its reinsurance contracts held are recognised as reinsurance assets. These assets consist of 
short-term balances due from reinsurers as well as longer term receivables that are dependent on the expected claims and benefits arising under 
the related reinsured contracts. Amounts recoverable from or due to reinsurers are measured consistently with the amounts associated with the 
reinsured contracts and in accordance with the terms of each reinsurance contract and are regularly reviewed for impairment. Premiums payable for 
reinsurance contracts are recognised as an expense when due within insurance premium income. Changes in the reinsurance recoverable assets are 
recognised in the income statement through insurance claims.

(P) FOREIGN CURRENCY TRANSLATION
Items included in the financial statements of each of the Group’s entities are measured using the currency of the primary economic environment in 
which the entity operates (the functional currency). The consolidated financial statements are presented in sterling, which is the Company’s functional 
and presentation currency.

Foreign currency transactions are translated into the appropriate functional currency using the exchange rates prevailing at the dates of the 
transactions. Foreign exchange gains and losses resulting from the settlement of such transactions and from the translation at year end exchange 
rates of monetary assets and liabilities denominated in foreign currencies are recognised in the income statement, except when recognised in other 
comprehensive income as qualifying cash flow or net investment hedges. Non-monetary assets that are measured at fair value are translated using 
the exchange rate at the date that the fair value was determined. Translation differences on equities and similar non-monetary items held at fair value 
through profit and loss are recognised in profit or loss as part of the fair value gain or loss. Translation differences on available-for-sale non-monetary 
financial assets, such as equity shares, are included in the fair value reserve in equity unless the asset is a hedged item in a fair value hedge.

The results and financial position of all group entities that have a functional currency different from the presentation currency are translated into the 
presentation currency as follows:

 –  The assets and liabilities of foreign operations, including goodwill and fair value adjustments arising on the acquisition of a foreign entity, are 

translated into sterling at foreign exchange rates ruling at the balance sheet date. 

 –  The income and expenses of foreign operations are translated into sterling at average exchange rates unless these do not approximate to the 

foreign exchange rates ruling at the dates of the transactions in which case income and expenses are translated at the dates of the transactions. 

Foreign exchange differences arising on the translation of a foreign operation are recognised in other comprehensive income and accumulated 
in a separate component of equity together with exchange differences arising from the translation of borrowings and other currency instruments 
designated as hedges of such investments (see (F)(3) above). On disposal of a foreign operation, the cumulative amount of exchange differences 
relating to that foreign operation are reclassified from equity and included in determining the profit or loss arising on disposal.

(Q) PROVISIONS AND CONTINGENT LIABILITIES
Provisions are recognised in respect of present obligations arising from past events where it is probable that outflows of resources will be required to 
settle the obligations and they can be reliably estimated.

The Group recognises provisions in respect of vacant leasehold property where the unavoidable costs of the present obligations exceed anticipated 
rental income.

Contingent liabilities are possible obligations whose existence depends on the outcome of uncertain future events or those present obligations 
where the outflows of resources are uncertain or cannot be measured reliably. Contingent liabilities are not recognised in the financial statements but 
are disclosed unless they are remote.

(R) SHARE CAPITAL

(1) Share issue costs
Incremental costs directly attributable to the issue of new shares or options or to the acquisition of a business are shown in equity as a deduction, net 
of tax, from the proceeds.

(2) Dividends
Dividends paid on the Group’s ordinary shares are recognised as a reduction in equity in the period in which they are paid.

(3) Treasury shares
Where the Company or any member of the Group purchases the Company’s share capital, the consideration paid is deducted from shareholders’ 
equity as treasury shares until they are cancelled. Where such shares are subsequently sold or reissued, any consideration received is included in 
shareholders’ equity.

(S) CASH AND CASH EQUIVALENTS
For the purposes of the cash flow statement, cash and cash equivalents comprise cash and non-mandatory balances with central banks and amounts 
due from banks with a maturity of less than three months.

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Group performance 

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Addressing the key issues 

Marketplace trends 

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3

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3 CRITICAL ACCOUNTING ESTIMATES AND JUDGEMENTS

The preparation of the Group’s financial statements in accordance with IFRS requires management to make judgements, estimates and assumptions 
in applying the accounting policies that affect the reported amounts of assets, liabilities, income and expenses. Due to the inherent uncertainty in 
making estimates, actual results reported in future periods may be based upon amounts which differ from those estimates. Estimates, judgements 
and assumptions are continually evaluated and are based on historical experience and other factors, including expectations of future events that are 
believed to be reasonable under the circumstances.

The significant judgements made by management in applying the Group’s accounting policies and the key sources of estimation uncertainty in these 
financial statements, which together are deemed critical to the Group’s results and financial position, are as follows.

The estimates and judgements applied to these areas in the preparation of the Group’s financial statements are summarised below.

ALLOWANCE FOR IMPAIRMENT LOSSES ON LOANS AND RECEIVABLES
At 31 December 2010 gross loans and receivables totalled £667,555 million (2009: £710,362 million) against which impairment allowances of 
£18,951 million (2009: £15,380 million) had been made (see note 25). The Group’s accounting policy for losses arising on financial assets classified as 
loans and receivables is described in note 2(H)(1); this note also provides an overview of the methodologies applied.

The allowance for impairment losses on loans and receivables is management’s best estimate of losses incurred in the portfolio at the balance sheet 
date. Impairment allowances are made up of two components, those determined individually and those determined collectively.

Individual impairment allowances are generally established against the Group’s wholesale lending portfolios. The determination of individual 
impairment allowances requires the exercise of considerable judgement by management involving matters such as local economic conditions and 
the resulting trading performance of the customer, and the value of the security held, for which there may not be a readily accessible market. In 
particular, significant judgement is required by management in the current economic environment in assessing the borrower’s cash flows and debt 
servicing capability together with the realisable value of real estate collateral. The actual amount of the future cash flows and their timing may differ 
significantly from the assumptions made for the purposes of determining the impairment allowances and consequently these allowances can be 
subject to variation as time progresses and the circumstances of the customer become clearer.

Collective impairment allowances are generally established for smaller balance homogenous portfolios. The collective impairment allowance is also 
subject to estimation uncertainty and in particular is sensitive to changes in economic and credit conditions, including the interdependency of house 
prices, unemployment rates, interest rates, borrowers’ behaviour, and consumer bankruptcy trends. It is, however, inherently difficult to estimate how 
changes in one or more of these factors might impact the collective impairment allowance.

Given the relative size of the mortgage portfolio, a key variable is UK house prices which determine the collateral value supporting loans in such 
portfolios. The value of this collateral is estimated by applying changes in house price indices to the original assessed value of the property.  
If average house prices were 10 per cent lower than those estimated at 31 December 2010, the Retail division’s impairment charge would increase by 
approximately £250 million.

In addition, a collective unimpaired provision is made for loan losses that have been incurred but have not been separately identified at the balance 
sheet date. This provision is sensitive to changes in the time between the loss event and the date the impairment is specifically identified. This period 
is known as the loss emergence period. In the Wholesale division, an increase of one month in the loss emergence period in respect of the loan 
portfolio assessed for collective unimpaired provisions would result in an increase in the collective unimpaired provision of approximately £333 million.

UNWIND OF HBOS ACQUISITION FAIR VALUE ADJUSTMENTS 
The acquisition of HBOS in January 2009 required the Group to recognise the identifiable assets acquired and liabilities assumed at their  
acquisition-date fair values. The overall effect was to increase the book value of HBOS’s net assets by £1,241 million primarily reflecting a reduction in 
the value of HBOS’s debt securities and subordinated liabilities of £15,439 million, partially offset by a reduction in the carrying value of HBOS’s loans 
and receivables of £14,880 million, including loans and advances to customers of £13,512 million (see note 14).

In the periods subsequent to the acquisition, many of the fair value adjustments unwind and are recognised in the Group’s income statement. The 
fair value adjustments made to debt securities and subordinated liabilities unwind over the expected remaining life of the related securities except 
in the event that the liability is extinguished, in which case the remaining unamortised fair value adjustment is recognised in the income statement 
immediately. The fair value adjustment relating to loans and receivables broadly comprises two elements; an element reflecting expected future 
impairment losses at the date of acquisition and an element reflecting market liquidity. The element relating to market liquidity unwinds to the 
income statement over the estimated useful lives of the related assets. However, significant management judgement is required to determine the 
timing of the unwind of the element relating to future credit losses. This includes the identification of losses which were expected at the date of 
acquisition and assessing whether anticipated losses will still be incurred. In 2010, a net credit of £3,118 million to the income statement relates to the 
unwind of HBOS acquisition fair value adjustments. Of that amount, £2,229 million relates to impairment losses incurred which were expected at the 
date of acquisition and £845 million relates to a reassessment of future credit losses.

FAIR VALUE OF FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS 
In accordance with IFRS 7, the Group categorises financial instruments carried on the balance sheet at fair value using a three level hierarchy. 
Financial instruments categorised as level 1 are valued using quoted market prices and therefore there is minimal judgement applied in determining 
fair value. However, the fair value of financial instruments categorised as level 2 and, in particular, level 3 is determined using valuation techniques 
including discounted cash flow analysis and valuation models. These require management judgement and contain significant estimation uncertainty.

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In particular, significant judgement is required by management in determining appropriate assumptions to be used for level 3 financial instruments. 
At 31 December 2010, the Group classified £7,468 million of financial assets and £257 million of financial liabilities as level 3. The effect of applying 
reasonably possible alternative assumptions in determining the fair value of the Group’s level 3 financial assets is set out in note 55. 

RECOVERABILITY OF DEFERRED TAX ASSETS
At 31 December 2010 the Group carried deferred tax assets on its balance sheet of £4,164 million (2009: £5,006 million) and deferred tax liabilities 
of £247 million (2009: £209 million) (note 44). This presentation takes into account the ability of the Group to net deferred tax assets and liabilities 
only where there is a legally enforceable right of offset. Note 44  presents the Group’s deferred tax assets and liabilities by type. The largest category 
of deferred tax asset relates to tax losses carried forward. At 31 December 2010, the Group recognised a deferred tax asset of £6,572 million 
(2009 £5,925 million) in respect of tax losses carried forward.

The recognition of a deferred tax asset in respect of tax losses is permitted only to the extent that it is probable that future taxable profits will be 
available to utilise the tax losses carried forward. The assessment of future taxable profits involves significant estimation uncertainty, principally 
relating to management’s projections of future taxable income which are based on business plans. These projections include assumptions about the 
future strategy of the Group, the economic and regulatory environment in which the Group operates, future tax legislation, customer behaviour, and 
the ability of the Group to deliver expected integration benefits, amongst other variables. At 31 December 2010, management has concluded that 
future taxable profits generated by the Group companies with tax losses carried forward are expected to be sufficient to utilise the tax losses carried 
forward in full.

RETIREMENT BENEFIT OBLIGATIONS
The net asset recognised in the balance sheet at 31 December 2010 in respect of the Group’s retirement benefit obligations was £313 million 
(comprising an asset of £736 million and a liability of £423 million) (2009: a liability of £780 million) of which an asset of £479 million (2009: a liability of 
£619 million) related to defined benefit pension schemes. As explained in note 2(L), the Group adopts the corridor approach to the recognition of  
actuarial gains and losses in respect of its pension schemes and as a consequence has not recognised actuarial losses of £959 million (2009: £2,936 million).  
The defined benefit pension schemes’ gross deficit totalled £480 million (2009: £3,555 million) representing the difference between the schemes’ 
liabilities and the fair value of the related assets at the balance sheet date.

The value of the Group’s defined benefit pension schemes’ liabilities requires significant management judgement in determining the appropriate 
assumptions to be used. The key areas of estimation uncertainty are the discount rate applied to future cash flows and the expected lifetime of 
the schemes’ members. The size of the deficit is sensitive to changes in the discount rate, which is affected by market conditions and therefore 
potentially subject to significant variation. The cost of the benefits payable by the schemes will also depend upon the longevity of the members. 
Assumptions are made regarding the expected lifetime of scheme members based upon recent experience, however given the rate of advance 
in medical science and increasing levels of obesity, it is uncertain whether they will ultimately reflect actual experience. Assumptions used by 
management reflect recent longevity experience and extrapolate the improving trend.

The effect on the gross defined benefit pension scheme asset or liability and on the pension charge in the Group’s income statement of changes  
to the principal actuarial assumptions is set out in note 43.

VALUATION OF ASSETS AND LIABILITIES ARISING FROM LIFE INSURANCE BUSINESS 
At 31 December 2010, the Group recognised a value in-force business asset of £5,898 million (2009: £5,140 million) and an acquired value in-force 
business asset of £1,469 million (2009: £1,545 million). The value in-force business asset represents the present value of future profits expected to 
arise from the portfolio of in-force life insurance and participating investment contracts. The acquired value in-force business asset represents the 
contractual rights to benefits from providing investment management services in relation to non-participating investment contracts acquired in 
business combinations and portfolio transfers. The methodology used to value these assets is set out in note 2(O)(1). The valuation or recoverability 
of these assets requires assumptions to be made about future economic and operating conditions which are inherently uncertain and changes could 
significantly affect the value attributed to these assets. The key assumptions that have been made in determining the carrying value of the value  
in-force business assets at 31 December 2010 are set out in note 30.
At 31 December 2010, the Group carried liabilities arising from insurance contracts and participating investment contracts of £80,729 million 
(2009: £76,179 million). The methodology used to value these liabilities is described in note 2(O)(1). Elements of the liability valuations require 
assumptions to be made about future investment returns, future mortality rates and future policyholder behaviour and are subject to significant 
management judgement and estimation uncertainty. The key assumptions that have been made in determining the carrying value of  
these liabilities are set out in note 38.

The effect on the Group’s profit before tax and shareholders’ equity of changes in key assumptions used in determining the life insurance assets and 
liabilities is set out in note 39.

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Marketplace trends 

1

2

3

4

6

8

10

12

Summary of Group results 

Divisional results 

Other financial information 

14

26

52

Board of Directors 

Directors’ report 

Corporate governance report 

110

112

114

Five year financial summary 

56 

Directors’ remuneration report  124

Our people 

Corporate responsibility 

Risk management 

57

60

65

Shareholder information 

Glossary 

Abbreviations 

Index to annual report 

284

285

290

291

Report of the independent  
auditors on the consolidated  
financial statements 

Consolidated  
financial statements 
Notes to the consolidated  
financial statements 

Report of the independent  
auditors on the parent company 
financial statements 

Parent company financial 
statements 

Notes to the parent company 
financial statements 

144

146

153

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4 SEGMENTAL ANALYSIS

Lloyds Banking Group provides a wide range of banking and financial services in the UK and in certain locations overseas.

The Group Executive Committee has been determined to be the chief operating decision maker for the Group. The Group’s operating segments 
reflect its organisational and management structures. The Group Executive Committee reviews the Group’s internal reporting based around these 
segments in order to assess performance and allocate resources. This assessment includes a consideration of each segment’s net interest revenue 
and consequently the total interest income and expense for all reportable segments is presented on a net basis. The segments are differentiated by 
the type of products provided, by whether the customers are individuals or corporate entities and by the geographical location of the customer. 

The Group’s activities continue to be organised into four financial reporting segments: Retail, Wholesale, Wealth and International and Insurance. 
The segmental results and comparatives are presented on the basis reviewed by the chief operating decision maker and as a consequence the 
comparatives for 2009 include the pre-acquisition results of HBOS for the period from 1 January 2009 to 16 January 2009. 

Retail offers a broad range of retail financial service products in the UK, including current accounts, savings, personal loans, credit cards and 
mortgages. It is also a major general insurance and bancassurance distributor, selling a wide range of long-term savings, investment and general 
insurance products. 

The Wholesale division serves in excess of a million businesses ranging from start-ups and small enterprises to global corporations, with a range of 
propositions segmented according to customer need. The division comprises Corporate Markets, Treasury and Trading and Asset Finance. 

Wealth and International was created in 2009 to give increased focus and momentum to the Group’s private banking and asset management 
activities and to closely co-ordinate the management of its international businesses. Wealth comprises the Group’s private banking, wealth and asset 
management businesses in the UK and overseas. International comprises corporate, commercial, asset finance and retail businesses, principally in 
Australia and Continental Europe. 

The Insurance division provides long-term savings, investment and protection products distributed through the retail branch network, intermediary 
and direct channels in the UK. It is also a distributor of home insurance in the UK with products sold through the retail branch network, direct channels 
and strategic corporate partners. The division consists of three business units: Life, Pensions and Investments UK; Life, Pensions and Investments 
Europe; and General Insurance. 

Other includes the results of managing the Group’s technology platforms, branch and head office property estate, operations (including payments, 
banking operations and collections) and procurement services, the costs of which are predominantly recharged to the other divisions. It also reflects 
other items not recharged to the divisions, including hedge ineffectiveness and certain capital and wholesale liquidity funding costs.

Inter-segment services are generally recharged at cost, with the exception of the internal commission arrangements between the UK branch  
and other distribution networks and the insurance product manufacturing businesses within the Group, where a profit margin is also charged. 
Inter-segment lending and deposits are generally entered into at market rates, except that non-interest bearing balances are priced at a rate that 
reflects the external yield that could be earned on such funds.

For those derivative contracts entered into by business units for risk management purposes, the business unit retains the amount that would have 
been recognised on an accrual accounting basis (an amount equal to the interest element of the next payment on the swap) and transfers the 
remainder of the fair value of the swap to the central group segment where the resulting accounting volatility is managed though the establishment 
of hedge accounting relationships. Any change in fair value of the hedged instrument attributable to the hedged risk is also recorded within the 
central group segment. This allocation of the fair value of the swap and change in fair value of the hedged instrument attributable to the hedged risk 
avoids accounting asymmetry in segmental results and records volatility in the central group segment where it is managed.

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NOTES TO THE CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

Year ended 31 December 2010

Net interest income

Other income (net of fee and  
commission expense)

Total income

Insurance claims

Total income, net of insurance claims

Costs:

  Operating expenses

Impairment of tangible fixed assets

Trading surplus

Impairment

Share of results of joint ventures and associates

Profit (loss) before tax and fair value unwind

Fair value unwind

Profit (loss) before tax

External revenue

Inter-segment revenue

Segment revenue

Segment external assets

Segment customer deposits

Other segment items reflected in income 
statement above:

Depreciation and amortisation

Increase in value of in-force business

Defined benefit scheme charges

Other segment items:

Additions to tangible fixed assets

Investments in joint ventures and associates at 
end of year

Retail
£m

Wholesale
£m

Wealth and
International
£m

Insurance
£m

Other
£m

Reported basis
total
£m

9,378

4,426

1,176

(263)

(895)

13,822

1,607

10,985

–

10,985

(4,644)

   –

(4,644)

6,341

(2,747)

17

3,611

1,105

4,716

13,603

(2,618)

10,985

370,708

235,591

384

–

176

126

139

4,136

8,562

–

8,562

(3,744)

   (150)

(3,894)

4,668

(4,446)

(95)

127

3,130

3,257

3,969

4,593

8,562

355,582

124,262

1,133

–

89

1,708

1,160

2,336

–

2,336

(1,536)

   –

(1,536)

800

(5,988)

(8)

(5,196)

372

(4,824)

3,000

(664)

2,336

85,158

32,784

87

2

36

20

127

158

2,814

2,551

(542)

2,009

(854)

   –

(854)

1,155

–

(10)

1,145

(43)

1,102

3,180

(629)

2,551

144,540

–

135

787

28

585

–

447

(448)

–

(448)

(150)

   –

(150)

(598)

–

5

(593)

(1,446)

(2,039)

234

(682)

(448)

35,586

996

64

–

126

777

5

10,164

23,986

(542)

23,444

(10,928)

   (150)

(11,078)

12,366

(13,181)

(91)

(906)

3,118

2,212

23,986

–

23,986

991,574

393,633

1,803

789

455

3,216

429

 
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1

2

3

4

6

8

10

12

Summary of Group results 

Divisional results 

Other financial information 

14

26

52

Board of Directors 

Directors’ report 

Corporate governance report 

110

112

114

Five year financial summary 

56 

Directors’ remuneration report  124

Our people 

Corporate responsibility 

Risk management 

57

60

65

Shareholder information 

Glossary 

Abbreviations 

Index to annual report 

284

285

290

291

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financial statements 
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financial statements 

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auditors on the parent company 
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statements 

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financial statements 

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146

153

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273

276

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Year ended 31 December 2009

Net interest income

Other income (net of fee and  
commission expense)

Total income

Insurance claims

Total income, net of insurance claims

Operating expenses

Trading surplus

Impairment

Share of results of joint ventures and associates

Profit (loss) before tax and fair value unwind

Fair value unwind

Profit (loss) before tax

External revenue

Inter-segment revenue

Segment revenue

Segment external assets

Segment customer deposits

Other segment items reflected in income 
statement above:

Depreciation and amortisation

 (Decrease) increase in value of  
in-force business

Defined benefit scheme charges

Other segment items:

Additions to tangible fixed assets

Investments in joint ventures and associates at 
end of year

Retail
£m

Wholesale
£m

Wealth and
International
£m

Insurance
£m

Other
£m

Reported basis
total
£m

7,970

4,710

1,217

(287)

(884)

12,726

1,804

9,774

–

9,774

(4,566)

5,208

(4,227)

(6)

975

407

1,382

14,221

(4,447)

9,774

383,588

224,149

196

–

190

65

30

4,199

8,909

–

8,909

(4,106)

4,803

(15,683)

(720)

(11,600)

6,897

(4,703)

4,165

4,744

8,909

401,836

153,389

1,284

–

112

2,969

189

1,128

2,345

–

2,345

(1,544)

801

(4,078)

(21)

(3,298)

942

(2,356)

2,859

(514)

2,345

86,272

29,037

84

(5)

40

53

123

2,944

2,657

(637)

2,020

(974)

1,046

–

(22)

1,024

(49)

975

3,780

(1,123)

2,657

135,814

–

152

1,097

39

255

(14)

1,800

916

–

916

(419)

497

–

2

499

(2,097)

(1,598)

(424)

1,340

916

19,745

166

147

–

156

487

151

11,875

24,601

(637)

23,964

(11,609)

12,355

(23,988)

(767)

(12,400)

6,100

(6,300)

24,601

–

24,601

1,027,255

406,741

1,863

1,092

537

3,829

479

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NOTES TO THE CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

4 SEGMENTAL ANALYSIS  continued

RECONCILIATION OF REPORTED BASIS TO STATUTORY RESULTS
The reported basis is the basis on which financial information is presented to the chief operating decision maker which excludes certain items 
included in the statutory results. The table below reconciles the statutory results to the reported basis. 

Lloyds 
Banking
Group
statutory
£m

Acquisition
related items, 
including pension, 
curtailment gain1
£m

Volatility arising
in insurance
businesses
£m

12,546

30,921

43,467

(18,511)

24,956

(13,068)

   (202)

(13,270)

11,686

(10,952)

(88)

(365)

–

–

–

–

–

1,320

   52

1,372

1,372

–

–

–

–

26

(332)

(306)

–

(306)

–

   –

–

(306)

–

–

–

–

281

1,372

(306)

Removal of:

Insurance
gross up
£m

949

(19,162)

(18,213)

17,967

(246)

246

   –

246

–

–

–

–

–

–

Customer  
goodwill  
payments  
provision and  
loss on  
disposal 
of businesses
£m

–

–

–

–

–

500

   –

500

500

–

–

365

–

865

Fair value
unwind
£m

Reported
basis
£m

301

(1,263)

(962)

2

13,822

10,164

23,986

(542)

(960)

23,444

74

   –

74

(886)

(10,928)

   (150)

(11,078)

12,366

(2,229)

(13,181)

(3)

–

3,118

–

(91)

–

3,118

2,212

Year ended 31 December 2010

Net interest income

Other income

Total income

Insurance claims

Total income, net of insurance claims

Costs:

  Operating expenses

Impairment of tangible fixed assets

Trading surplus (deficit)

Impairment

Share of results of joint ventures and associates

Loss on disposal of businesses

Fair value unwind

Profit (loss) before tax

1

Comprises the pension curtailment gain (£910 million, see note 43), integration costs (£1,653 million) and amortisation of purchased intangibles (£629 million).

Year ended 31 December 2009

Net interest income

Other income

Total income

Insurance claims

Lloyds  
Banking
Group
statutory
£m

9,026

36,271

45,297

(22,019)

Total income, net of insurance claims

23,278

Operating expenses

Trading surplus (deficit)

Impairment

Share of results of joint ventures and 
associates

Gain on acquisition

Fair value unwind

Profit (loss) before tax

(15,984)

7,294

(16,673)

(752)

11,173

–

1,042

Removal of:

Government  
Asset Protection  
Scheme fee
and acquisition
related items1
£m

Volatility arising
in insurance
businesses
£m

Pre-acquisition
results of HBOS
£m

Insurance
gross up
£m

Fair value
unwind
£m

Reported
basis
£m

243

(1,123)

(880)

1,349

469

(293)

176

(456)

–

–

–

(280)

–

–

–

–

–

4,589

4,589

–

–

(11,173)

–

(6,584)

11

(479)

(468)

–

(468)

–

(468)

–

(10)

–

–

(478)

1,280

(21,659)

(20,379)

20,318

(61)

61

–

–

–

–

–

–

2,166

(1,135)

1,031

(285)

746

18

764

(6,859)

(5)

–

6,100

–

12,726

11,875

24,601

(637)

23,964

(11,609)

12,355

(23,988)

(767)

–

6,100

(6,300)

1

 Comprises the gain on acquisition (£11,173 million), the Government Asset Protection Scheme fee (£2,500 million), integration costs (£1,096 million), amortisation of purchased intangibles (£753 million)
and goodwill impairment (£240 million).

 
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2

3

4

6

8

10

12

Summary of Group results 

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Other financial information 

14

26

52

Board of Directors 

Directors’ report 

Corporate governance report 

110

112

114

Five year financial summary 

56 

Directors’ remuneration report  124

Our people 

Corporate responsibility 

Risk management 

57

60

65

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Abbreviations 

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285

290

291

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financial statements 
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financial statements 

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4 SEGMENTAL ANALYSIS  continued

GEOGRAPHICAL AREAS
The Group’s activities are focused in the UK and the analyses of income and assets below are based on the location of the branch or entity recording 
the income or assets.

Total income

Total assets

UK
£m

39,263

873,138

2010

Non-UK
£m

4,204

118,436

Total
£m

43,467

991,574

UK
£m

42,572

916,734

2009

Non-UK
£m

2,725

Total
£m

45,297

110,521

1,027,255

There was no individual non-UK country contributing more than 5 per cent of total income or total assets. 

5 NET INTEREST INCOME

Weighted average
effective interest rate

Interest and similar income:

Loans and advances to customers, excluding lease and hire purchase receivables

Loans and advances to banks

Debt securities held as loans and receivables

Lease and hire purchase receivables

Interest receivable on loans and receivables

Available-for-sale financial assets

Held-to-maturity investments

Total interest and similar income

Interest and similar expense:

Deposits from banks, excluding liabilities under sale and repurchase transactions

Customer deposits, excluding liabilities under sale and repurchase transactions

Debt securities in issue

Subordinated liabilities

Liabilities under sale and repurchase agreements

Interest payable on liabilities held at amortised cost

Other

Total interest and similar expense

Net interest income

2010
%

4.28

0.72

4.41

6.74

3.96

2.88

2.51

3.89

0.78

1.51

2.49

10.98

1.18

2.19

6.97

2.27

2009
%

3.58

1.18

3.68

6.01

3.43

1.78

–

3.32

0.95

1.23

2.56

10.05

1.95

2.13

14.92

2.30

2010
£m

25,459

512

1,377

626

27,974

1,311

55

29,340

(319)

(5,381)

(5,833)

(3,619)

(744)

(15,896)

(898)

(16,794)

12,546

2009
£m

24,171

769

1,469

852

27,261

977

–

28,238

(883)

(4,410)

(6,318)

(4,325)

(1,655)

(17,591)

(1,621)

(19,212)

9,026

Included within interest and similar income is £1,288 million (2009: £971 million) in respect of impaired financial assets. Net interest income also 
includes a charge of £932 million (2009: charge of £121 million) transferred from the cash flow hedging reserve (see note 49).

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NOTES TO THE CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

6 NET FEE AND COMMISSION INCOME

Fee and commission income:

Current accounts

Credit and debit card fees

Other

Total fee and commission income

Fee and commission expense

Net fee and commission income

2010
£m

1,086

812

2,517

4,415

(1,682)

2,733

2009
£m

1,088

765

2,401

4,254

(1,517)

2,737

As discussed in note 2, fees and commissions which are an integral part of the effective interest rate form part of net interest income shown in note 5. 
Fees and commissions relating to instruments that are held at fair value through profit or loss are included within net trading income shown in note 7.

7  NET TRADING INCOME

Foreign exchange translation gains

Gains on foreign exchange trading transactions

Total foreign exchange

Investment property gains (losses) (note 28)

Securities and other gains (see below)

Net trading income

2010
£m

70

377

447

434

14,843

15,724

2009
£m

283

488

771

(214)

18,541

19,098

Securities and other gains comprise net gains arising on assets and liabilities held at fair value through profit or loss and for trading as follows:

Net income arising on assets held at fair value through profit or loss:

Debt securities, loans and advances

Equity shares

Total net income arising on assets held at fair value through profit or loss

Net expense arising on liabilities held at fair value through profit or loss – debt securities in issue

Total net gains arising on assets and liabilities held at fair value through profit or loss

Net gains on financial instruments held for trading

Securities and other gains 

2010
£m

2009
£m

2,292

  10,333

12,625

(231)

12,394

2,449

14,843

4,297

  11,475 

15,772

(125)

15,647

2,894

18,541

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2

3

4

6

8

10

12

Summary of Group results 

Divisional results 

Other financial information 

14

26

52

Board of Directors 

Directors’ report 

Corporate governance report 

110

112

114

Five year financial summary 

56 

Directors’ remuneration report  124

Our people 

Corporate responsibility 

Risk management 

57

60

65

Shareholder information 

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Abbreviations 

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284

285

290

291

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financial statements 
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financial statements 

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8 INSURANCE PREMIUM INCOME

Life insurance

Gross premiums

Ceded reinsurance premiums

Net earned premiums

Non-life insurance

Gross written premiums

Ceded reinsurance premiums

Net written premiums

Change in provision for unearned premiums (note 38(2))

Change in provision for ceded unearned premiums (note 38(2))

Net earned premiums

Total net earned premiums

Life insurance gross premiums can be further analysed as follows:

Life and pensions

Annuities

Other

Gross premiums

Non-life insurance gross written premiums can be further analysed as follows:

Credit protection

Home

Health

Gross written premiums

2010
£m

7,026

   (253)

6,773

1,332

   (104)

1,228

156

    (9)

1,375

8,148

2010
£m

6,428

583

15

7,026

2010
£m

363

964

5

2009
£m

7,768

  (308) 

7,460

1,390

   (101)

1,289

171

  26

1,486

8,946

2009
£m

7,070

685

13

7,768

2009
£m

417

968

5

1,332

1,390

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NOTES TO THE CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

9 OTHER OPERATING INCOME

Operating lease rental income

Rental income from investment properties (note 28)

Other rents receivable

Gains less losses on disposal of available-for-sale financial assets (note 49)

Movement in value of in-force business (note 30)

Gains on capital transactions

Other income

Total other operating income

2010
£m

1,410

337

41

399

789

423

917

4,316

2009
£m

1,509

358

51

97

1,169

1,498

808

5,490

GAINS ON CAPITAL TRANSACTIONS
During 2010 and 2009, as part of the Group’s management of capital, the Group exchanged certain existing subordinated debt securities for new 
securities. These exchanges resulted in a gain on extinguishment of the existing liabilities of £423 million (2009: £1,498 million), being the difference 
between the carrying amount of the securities extinguished and the fair value of the new securities issued together with related fees and costs.

On 18 February 2010, as part of the Group’s recapitalisation and exit from its proposed participation in the Government Asset Protection Scheme, 
Lloyds Banking Group plc issued 3,141 million ordinary shares in exchange for certain existing preference shares and preferred securities. 
This exchange resulted in a gain of £85 million.

During March 2010 the Group entered into a bilateral exchange, under which certain Enhanced Capital Notes denominated in Japanese yen were 
exchanged for an issue of new Enhanced Capital Notes denominated in US dollars; the securities subject to the exchange were cancelled and a 
profit of £20 million arose.

In addition, during May and June 2010 the Group completed the exchange of a number of outstanding capital securities issued by Lloyds Banking 
Group plc and certain of its subsidiaries for ordinary shares in Lloyds Banking Group plc, generating additional core tier 1 capital for the Group. 
The securities subject to exchange were cancelled, generating a total profit of £318 million for the Group.

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10

12

Summary of Group results 

Divisional results 

Other financial information 

14

26

52

Board of Directors 

Directors’ report 

Corporate governance report 

110

112

114

Five year financial summary 

56 

Directors’ remuneration report  124

Our people 

Corporate responsibility 

Risk management 

57

60

65

Shareholder information 

Glossary 

Abbreviations 

Index to annual report 

284

285

290

291

Report of the independent  
auditors on the consolidated  
financial statements 

Consolidated  
financial statements 
Notes to the consolidated  
financial statements 

Report of the independent  
auditors on the parent company 
financial statements 

Parent company financial 
statements 

Notes to the parent company 
financial statements 

144

146

153

272

273

276

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10 INSURANCE CLAIMS

Insurance claims comprise:

Life insurance and participating investment contracts

Claims and surrenders:

Gross

Reinsurers’ share

Change in insurance and participating investment contract liabilities (note 38(1)):

Change in gross liabilities

Change in reinsurers’ share of liabilities

Change in non-participating investment contract liabilities:

Change in gross liabilities

Change in reinsurers’ share of liabilities

Change in unallocated surplus (note 41)

Total life insurance and participating investment contracts

Non-life insurance

Claims and claims paid:

Gross

Reinsurers’ share

Change in liabilities (note 38(2)):

Gross

Reinsurers’ share

Total non-life insurance

Total insurance claims

Life insurance and participating investment contracts gross claims can also be analysed as follows:

Deaths

Maturities

Surrenders

Annuities

Other

Total life insurance gross claims

A non-life insurance claims development table is included in note 38.

2010
£m

2009
£m

(9,397)

   159

(9,238)

(4,622)

256 

(4,366)

(4,872)

  65

(4,807)

439

(8,010)

  146 

(7,864)

(5,922)

   177

(5,745)

(7,458)

   –

(7,458)

(318)

(17,972)

(21,385)

(470)

    11

(459)

(82)

    2

(80)

(539)

(542)

   16 

(526)

(111)

    3 

(108)

(634)

(18,511)

(22,019)

(662)

(1,763)

(5,904)

(741)

(327)

(9,397)

(637)

(2,107)

(4,225)

(710)

(331)

(8,010)

 
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NOTES TO THE CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

11 OPERATING EXPENSES

Staff costs:

Salaries 

Social security costs

Pensions and other post-retirement benefit schemes (note 43):

Curtailment gain1

Other

Restructuring costs

Other staff costs

Premises and equipment:

Rent and rates

Hire of equipment

Repairs and maintenance

Other

Other expenses: 

Communications and data processing

Advertising and promotion

Professional fees

Customer goodwill payments provision (note 45)

Other

Depreciation and amortisation:

Depreciation of tangible fixed assets (note 32)

Amortisation of acquired value of in-force non-participating investment contracts (note 30)

Amortisation of other intangible assets (note 31)

Impairment of tangible fixed assets2 (note 32)

Goodwill impairment (note 29)

Total operating expenses excluding Government Asset Protection Scheme fee

Government Asset Protection Scheme fee

Total operating expenses

The average number of persons on a headcount basis employed by the Group during the year was as follows:

UK

Overseas

Total

2010
£m

4,220

396

(910)

   628

(282)

119

    1,016

5,469

601

18

199

    407

1,225

891

362

742

500

2009
£m

4,369

383

–

   744

  744

412

    767

6,675

569

20

226

    341

1,156

668

335

540

–

   1,447

3,942

    1,310 

2,853

1,635

76

    721

2,432

202

–

13,270

–

13,270

2010

118,149

4,830

122,979

1,716

75 

    769

2,560

–

240

13,484

2,500

15,984

2009

125,109

6,891

132,000

1

 Following changes by the Group to the terms of its defined benefit pension schemes, all future increases to pensionable salary will be capped each year at the lower of: Retail Prices Index inflation; 
each employee’s actual percentage increase in pay; and 2 per cent of pensionable pay. In addition to this, during the second half of the year there was a change in commutation factors in certain 
defined benefit schemes. The combined effect of these changes is a reduction in the Group’s defined benefit obligation of £1,081 million and a reduction in the Group’s unrecognised actuarial losses 
of £171 million, resulting in a net curtailment gain of £910 million recognised in the income statement and a reduction in the balance sheet liability. 

2

 £52 million of the impairment of tangible fixed assets relates to integration activities.

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4

6

8

10

12

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14

26

52

Board of Directors 

Directors’ report 

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110

112

114

Five year financial summary 

56 

Directors’ remuneration report  124

Our people 

Corporate responsibility 

Risk management 

57

60

65

Shareholder information 

Glossary 

Abbreviations 

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284

285

290

291

Report of the independent  
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Consolidated  
financial statements 
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financial statements 

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financial statements 

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statements 

Notes to the parent company 
financial statements 

144

146

153

272

273

276

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11 OPERATING EXPENSES  continued

Fees payable for the audit of the Company’s current year annual report

Fees payable for other services:

Audit of the Company’s subsidiaries pursuant to legislation

Other services supplied pursuant to legislation

Total audit fees

Other services – audit related fees

Total audit and audit related fees

Services relating to taxation

Other non-audit fees:

Services relating to corporate finance transactions

Other services

Total other non-audit fees

Total fees payable to the Company’s auditors by the Group

2010
£m

1.9

17.9

     6.2

26.0

1.8

27.8

1.0

1.9

     9.7

11.6

40.4

2009
£m

2.2

18.8

   4.2

25.2

5.3

30.5

1.0

0.3

  8.9 

9.2

40.7

Other non-audit fees include the costs associated with the Group’s preparations for ensuring that the heritage HBOS businesses complied fully with 
the requirements of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act by 31 December 2010.

The following types of services are included in the categories listed above:

Audit fees: This category includes fees in respect of the audit of the Group’s annual financial statements and other services in connection with 
regulatory filings. Other services supplied pursuant to legislation relate primarily to the costs associated with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act audit 
requirements together with the cost of the audit of the Group’s Form 20-F filing.
Audit related fees: This category includes fees in respect of services for assurance and related services that are reasonably related to the 
performance of the audit or review of the financial statements, for example acting as reporting accountants in respect of prospectuses and circulars 
required by the UKLA listing rules.
Services relating to taxation: This category includes tax compliance and tax advisory services.
Other non-audit fees: This category includes due diligence relating to corporate finance, including venture capital transactions and other assurance 
and advisory services.

It is the Group’s policy to use the auditors on assignments in cases where their knowledge of the Group means that it is neither efficient nor cost 
effective to employ another firm of accountants. Such assignments typically relate to the provision of advice on tax issues, assistance in transactions 
involving the acquisition and disposal of businesses and accounting advice. 

The Group has procedures that are designed to ensure auditor independence, including that fees for audit and non-audit services are approved in 
advance. This approval can be obtained either on an individual engagement basis or, for certain types of non-audit services, particularly those of a 
recurring nature, through the approval of a fee cap covering all engagements of that type provided the fee is below that cap. All statutory audit work 
as well as non-audit assignments where the fee is expected to exceed the relevant fee cap must be pre-approved by the Audit Committee on an 
individual engagement basis. On a quarterly basis, the Audit Committee receives a report detailing all pre-approved services and amounts paid to 
the auditors for such pre-approved services.

During the year, the auditors also earned fees payable by entities outside the consolidated Lloyds Banking Group in respect of the following:

Audits of Group pension schemes

Audits of the unconsolidated Open Ended Investment Companies managed by the Group

Reviews of the financial position of corporate and other borrowers

Acquisition due diligence and other work performed in respect of potential venture capital investments

2010
£m

0.3

0.8

17.2

1.2

2009
£m

0.3

0.6

19.3

1.4

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NOTES TO THE CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

12 IMPAIRMENT

Impairment losses on loans and receivables:

Loans and advances to banks

Loans and advances to customers

Debt securities classified as loans and receivables

Total impairment losses on loans and receivables (note 25)

Impairment of available-for-sale financial assets

Other credit risk provisions (note 45)

Total impairment charged to the income statement

2010
£m

(13)

10,727

  57

10,771

106

75

2009
£m

(3)

15,783

  248 

16,028

602

43

10,952

16,673

13 INVESTMENTS IN JOINT VENTURES AND ASSOCIATES

The Group’s share of results of and investments in joint ventures and associates comprises:

Joint ventures

Associates

Total

Share of income statement amounts:

Income

Expenses

Impairment

Insurance claims

Loss before tax

Tax

Share of post-tax results

Share of balance sheet amounts:

Current assets

Non-current assets

Current liabilities

Non-current liabilities

Share of net assets at 31 December

Movement in investments over the year:

At 1 January

Adjustment on acquisition

Additional investments

Acquisitions

Disposals

Share of post-tax results

Dividends paid

Exchange and other adjustments

Share of net assets at 31 December 

2010
£m

318

(209)

(126)

–

(17)

(22)

(39)

3,370

2,868

(588)

(5,324)

326

370

–

71

–

(68)

(39)

–

(8)

326

2009
£m

708

(544)

(272)

(465)

(573)

24

(549)

2,754

4,662

(2,175)

(4,871)

370

55

956

140

3

(199)

(549)

(21)

(15)

370

2010
£m

135

(91)

(92)

–

(48)

(1)

(49)

378

1,184

(433)

(1,026)

103

109

–

6

–

(2)

(49)

(1)

40

103

2009
£m

5

(96)

(114)

–

(205)

2

(203)

605

1,611

(494)

(1,613)

109

–

219

12

60

(39)

(203)

–

60

109

2010
£m

453

(300)

(218)

–

(65)

(23)

(88)

3,748

4,052

(1,021)

(6,350)

429

479

–

77

–

(70)

(88)

(1)

32

429

2009
£m

713

(640)

(386)

(465)

(778)

26

(752)

3,359

6,273

(2,669)

(6,484)

479

55

1,175

152

63

(238)

(752)

(21)

45

479

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2

3

4

6

8

10

12

Summary of Group results 

Divisional results 

Other financial information 

14

26

52

Board of Directors 

Directors’ report 

Corporate governance report 

110

112

114

Five year financial summary 

56 

Directors’ remuneration report  124

Our people 

Corporate responsibility 

Risk management 

57

60

65

Shareholder information 

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Abbreviations 

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284

285

290

291

Report of the independent  
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Consolidated  
financial statements 
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financial statements 

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auditors on the parent company 
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statements 

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financial statements 

144

146

153

272

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276

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13 INVESTMENTS IN JOINT VENTURES AND ASSOCIATES  continued

The Group’s unrecognised share of losses of associates for the year is £8 million (2009: £64 million) and of joint ventures is £180 million 
(2009: £424 million). For entities making losses, subsequent profits earned are not recognised until previously unrecognised losses are extinguished. 
The Group’s unrecognised share of losses net of unrecognised profits on a cumulative basis of associates is £104 million (2009: £64 million) and of 
joint ventures is £339 million (2009: £424 million).

The Group’s principal joint venture investment at 31 December 2010 was in Sainsbury’s Bank plc; the Group owns 50 per cent of the ordinary share 
capital of Sainsbury’s Bank plc, whose business is banking and principal area of operation is the UK. Sainsbury’s Bank plc is incorporated in the UK 
and the Group’s interest is held by a subsidiary.

Where entities have statutory accounts drawn up to a date other than 31 December management accounts are used when accounting for them  
by the Group.

14 GAIN ON ACQUISITION IN 2009

On 16 January 2009, the Group acquired 100 per cent of the ordinary share capital of HBOS plc, which together with its subsidiaries undertakes 
banking, insurance and other financial services related activities in the UK and in certain overseas locations.

The table below sets out the fair value of the identifiable net assets acquired.

At the time of the recommended offer for HBOS in September 2008, it had become increasingly difficult for HBOS to raise funds in wholesale 
markets and their Board sought to restore confidence and stability through an agreement to be acquired by Lloyds TSB Group plc announced on 
18 September 2008 at the original terms of 0.833 Lloyds TSB Group plc shares for each HBOS share. However turbulence in the markets continued 
and the UK Government decided in October 2008 that it would be appropriate for the UK banking sector to increase its level of capitalisation. As a 
consequence of the recapitalisation of HBOS and the impact of the deteriorating market conditions the terms of the final agreed offer were revised 
down to a ratio of 0.605 per HBOS share.

As the fair value of the identifiable net assets acquired was greater than the total consideration paid, negative goodwill arose on the acquisition. 
The negative goodwill was recognised as a ‘Gain on acquisition’ in the income statement for the year ended 31 December 2009. In accordance with 
accounting requirements, the measurement period for the fair values of the acquired assets and liabilities ended on 15 January 2010 (one year from 
the date of acquisition); no further fair value adjustments were made beyond those reflected in the Group’s 31 December 2009 financial statements.

Assets

Cash and balances at central banks 

Items in the course of collection from banks 

Trading and other financial assets at fair value through profit or loss 

Derivative financial instruments

Loans and receivables:

Loans and advances to banks 

Loans and advances to customers 

Debt securities

Available-for-sale financial assets

Investment properties 

Investments in joint ventures and associates 

Value of in-force business 

Other intangible assets 

Tangible fixed assets 

Current tax recoverable 

Deferred tax assets

Other assets 

Total assets

Book value
as at
16 January
2009
£m

2,123

523

83,857

54,840

15,751

450,351

39,819

27,151

3,002

1,152

3,152

104

5,721

1,050

2,556

7,601

Fair value
adjustments
£m

–

–

–

(808)

43

(13,512)

(1,411)

–

–

23

561

4,650

(14)

–

(602)

(905)

Fair value
as at
16 January
2009
£m

2,123

523

83,857

54,032

15,794

436,839

38,408

27,151

3,002

1,175

3,713

4,754

5,707

1,050

1,954

6,696

698,753

(11,975)

686,778

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NOTES TO THE CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

Liabilities

Deposits from banks

Customer deposits

Items in course of transmission to banks

Trading and other financial liabilities at fair value through profit or loss 

Derivative financial instruments 

Notes in circulation 

Debt securities in issue 

Liabilities arising from insurance contracts and participating investment contracts 

Liabilities arising from non-participating investment contracts 

Unallocated surplus within insurance businesses 

Other liabilities

Retirement benefit obligations

Current tax liabilities 

Deferred tax liabilities

Other provisions

Subordinated liabilities 

Total liabilities

Net assets acquired

Fair value of net assets acquired 

Adjust for:

Preference shares1 

Non-controlling interests 

Adjusted net assets of HBOS acquired 

Consideration inclusive of acquisition costs:

Issue of 7,776 million ordinary shares of 25p in Lloyds Banking Group plc 2

Fees and expenses related to the transaction 

Total consideration 

Gain on acquisition in 2009

Book value
as at
16 January
2009
£m

87,731

223,859

521

16,360

45,798

936

Fair value
adjustments
£m

109

835

–

–

–

–

Fair value
as at
16 January
2009
£m

87,840

224,694

521

16,360

45,798

936

191,566

(6,247)

185,319

36,405

28,168

526

14,732

(474)

58

245

146

29,240

675,817

22,936

282

13

–

(312)

832

–

(142)

606

(9,192)

(13,216)

1,241

36,687

28,181

526

14,420

358

58

103

752

20,048

662,601

24,177

24,177

(3,917)

  (1,300)

18,960

(7,651)

  (136)

(7,787)

11,173

1

2

On 16 January 2009, the Group cancelled the following HBOS preference share issuances in exchange for preference shares issued by Lloyds Banking Group plc: 6.475 per cent non-cumulative 
preference shares of £1 each, 6.3673 per cent non-cumulative fixed to floating preference shares of £1 each and 6.0884 per cent non-cumulative preference shares of £1 each. The fair value of the 
Lloyds Banking Group preference shares issued was deducted from the net assets acquired for the purposes of calculating the gain arising on acquisition.

The calculation of consideration was based on the closing price of Lloyds TSB ordinary shares of 98.4p on 16 January 2009; 12,852 million HBOS shares were exchanged for Lloyds Banking Group 
shares at a ratio of 0.605 shares per HBOS share. 

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4

6

8

10

12

Summary of Group results 

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Other financial information 

14

26

52

Board of Directors 

Directors’ report 

Corporate governance report 

110

112

114

Five year financial summary 

56 

Directors’ remuneration report  124

Our people 

Corporate responsibility 

Risk management 

57

60

65

Shareholder information 

Glossary 

Abbreviations 

Index to annual report 

284

285

290

291

Report of the independent  
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financial statements 
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financial statements 

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statements 

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146

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272

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276

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15 LOSS ON DISPOSAL OF BUSINESSES

During 2009, the Group acquired an oil drilling rig construction business through a previous lending relationship and consolidated the results and net 
assets of the business from the date it exercised control.

In the first half of 2010, as a result of a deteriorating market, the Group impaired the oil drilling rigs under construction held by the business by 
£150 million to reflect their reduced value in use. This impairment was recognised in the Wholesale segment.

In the second half of 2010, the Group reached agreement to dispose of its interests in the two wholly-owned subsidiary companies through which this 
business operates; the sale was completed in January 2011. These companies, which had gross assets of £860 million, were sold to Seadrill Limited; a 
loss of £365 million arose on disposal.

The Group extended vendor financing, on normal commercial terms and negotiated on an arms length basis, to Seadrill to facilitate the acquisition 
of the rig holding companies. The loan is not contingent on the performance of the oil rigs under construction. Accordingly, as at 31 December 2010, 
the subsidiaries were derecognised.

16 TAXATION

(A)  ANALYSIS OF TAX (CHARGE) CREDIT FOR THE YEAR

UK corporation tax:

Current tax on profit for the year

Adjustments in respect of prior years

Double taxation relief

Foreign tax:

Current tax on profit for the year

Adjustments in respect of prior years

Current tax credit (charge)

Deferred tax (note 44):

Origination and reversal of temporary differences

Reduction in UK corporation tax rate

Adjustments in respect of prior years

Tax (charge) credit

The (charge) credit for tax on the profit for 2010 and 2009 is based on a UK corporation tax rate of 28.0 per cent. 
The above income tax (charge) credit is made up as follows:

Tax charge attributable to policyholders

Shareholder tax (charge) credit

Tax (charge) credit

2010
£m

(146)

    310

164

1

165

(82)

 49

(33)

132

(393)

(137)

   (141)

(671)

(539)

2010
£m

(315)

(224)

(539)

2009
£m

(227)

  (310) 

(537)

10

(527)

(221)

  40 

(181)

(708)

2,429

–

   190

2,619

1,911

2009
£m

(410)

2,321

1,911

 
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NOTES TO THE CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

(B)  FACTORS AFFECTING THE TAX (CHARGE) CREDIT FOR THE YEAR
A reconciliation of the charge that would result from applying the standard UK corporation tax rate to profit before tax to the tax (charge) credit for 
the year is given below:

Profit before tax

Tax charge thereon at UK corporation tax rate of 28.0 per cent (2009: 28.0 per cent)

Factors affecting charge:

UK corporation tax rate change

Goodwill

Disallowed and non-taxable items

Overseas tax rate differences

Gains exempted or covered by capital losses 

Policyholder interests 

Tax losses where no deferred tax provided

Adjustments in respect of previous years

Effect of results of joint ventures and associates

Other items

Tax (charge) credit on profit on ordinary activities

17 EARNINGS PER SHARE

(Loss) profit attributable to equity shareholders – basic and diluted

Weighted average number of ordinary shares in issue – basic

Adjustment for share options and awards

Weighted average number of ordinary shares in issue – diluted

Basic earnings per share

Diluted earnings per share

2010
£m

281

(79)

(137)

–

5

134

65

(227)

(487)

218

(25)

(6)

(539)

2010
£m

(320)

2010
million

67,117

–

67,117

(0.5)p

(0.5)p

2009
£m

1,042

(292)

–

3,061

408

(352)

(14)

(295)

(332)

(66)

(211)

4

1,911

2009
£m

2,827

2009
million

37,674

255

37,929

7.5p

7.5p

Basic earnings per share are calculated by dividing the net profit attributable to equity shareholders by the weighted average number of ordinary 
shares in issue during the year, which has been calculated after deducting 8 million (2009: 10 million) ordinary shares representing the Group’s 
holdings of own shares in respect of employee share schemes.

For the calculation of diluted earnings per share the weighted average number of ordinary shares in issue is adjusted to assume conversion of all 
dilutive potential ordinary shares, if any, that arise in respect of share options and awards granted to employees. The number of shares that could 
have been acquired at the average annual share price of the Company’s shares based on the monetary value of the subscription rights attached to 
outstanding share options and awards is determined. This is deducted from the number of shares issuable under such options and awards to leave 
a residual bonus amount of shares which are added to the weighted-average number of ordinary shares in issue, but no adjustment is made to the 
profit attributable to equity shareholders.

In December 2009, as part of the Group’s recapitalisation and exit from the Government Asset Protection Scheme, the Group entered into an 
agreement with holders of certain existing liabilities to exchange these for ordinary shares or for cash on 18 February 2010. The weighted average 
number of anti-dilutive shares arising from this transaction that have been excluded from the calculation of diluted earnings per share was 294 million 
at 31 December 2009. On 18 February 2010, the above exchange completed and 3,141 million new ordinary shares in Lloyds Banking Group plc 
were issued.
The weighted-average number of anti-dilutive share options and awards excluded from the calculation of diluted earnings per share was 92 million 
at 31 December 2010 (2009: 393 million). 

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14

26

52

Board of Directors 

Directors’ report 

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110

112

114

Five year financial summary 

56 

Directors’ remuneration report  124

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Risk management 

57

60

65

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291

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financial statements 
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financial statements 

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statements 

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financial statements 

144

146

153

272

273

276

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18 TRADING AND OTHER FINANCIAL ASSETS AT FAIR VALUE THROUGH PROFIT OR LOSS

These assets are comprised as follows:

Loans and advances to customers

Loans and advances to banks

Debt securities:

Government securities

Other public sector securities

Bank and building society certificates of deposit

Asset-backed securities:

Mortgage-backed securities

Other asset-backed securities

2010

Other financial 
assets at fair 
value through
profit or loss
£m 

325

–

22,217

919

606

422

1,592

Trading
assets
£m

9,486

2,734

1,623

–

3,692

–

1,020

Total
£m 

9,811

2,734

23,840

919

4,298

422

2,612

2009

Other financial 
assets at fair
value through
profit or loss
£m

166

635

17,025

700

–

520

1,999

Trading
assets
£m

13,579

4,702

2,936

6

2,034

–

891

Total
£m

13,745

5,337

19,961

706

2,034

520

2,890

Corporate and other debt securities

  4,919

  16,190  

  21,109 

  3,097 

  17,571 

  20,668

Equity shares:

Listed

Unlisted

Treasury and other bills

Total

11,254

41,946

53,200

8,964

37,815

46,779

–

  6

6

227

50,227

50,227

  39,986

  39,992  

90,213

–

90,219

227

–

  –

–

–

55,685

55,685

  28,465 

  28,465

84,150

–

84,150

–

23,707

132,484

156,191

27,245

122,766

150,011

Other financial assets at fair value through profit or loss include the following assets designated into that category:

(i) 

(ii) 

 financial assets backing insurance contracts and investment contracts of £129,702 million (31 December 2009: £118,573 million) which are so 
designated because the related liabilities either have cash flows that are contractually based on the performance of the assets or are contracts 
whose measurement takes account of current market conditions and where significant measurement inconsistencies would otherwise arise;

 loans and advances to customers of £109 million (31 December 2009: £166 million) which are economically hedged by interest rate derivatives 
which are not in hedge accounting relationships and where significant measurement inconsistencies would otherwise arise if the related 
derivatives were treated as trading liabilities and the loans and advances were carried at amortised cost; and

(iii)   private equity investments of £1,733 million (31 December 2009: £1,880 million) that are managed, and evaluated, on a fair value basis in 
accordance with a documented risk management or investment strategy and reported to key management personnel on that basis.

The maximum exposure to credit risk at 31 December 2010 of the loans and advances to banks and customers designated at fair value through 
profit or loss was £325 million (2009: £166 million); the Group does not hold any credit derivatives or other instruments in mitigation of this risk. There 
was no significant movement in the fair value of these loans attributable to changes in credit risk which is determined by reference to the publicly 
available credit ratings of the instruments involved.

The Group’s Wholesale division had exposure to negative basis asset-backed securities of £1,067 million (31 December 2009: £1,174 million) of which 
£1,067 million (31 December 2009: £970 million) were protected by monoline financial guarantors (note 56). 

Included in the amounts reported above are assets subject to repurchase agreements with a carrying value of £824 million (2009: £3,250 million); the 
value of the related liability is £828 million (2009: £3,009 million). In all cases the transferee has the right to sell or repledge the assets concerned.

Included in the amounts reported above are reverse repurchase agreements treated as collateralised loans with a carrying value of £12,211 million 
(2009: £17,991 million). Collateral is held with a fair value of £14,299 million (2009: £21,462 million), all of which the Group is able to repledge. 
At 31 December 2010, £3,161 million had been repledged (2009: £14,963 million).

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19 DERIVATIVE FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS

The Group holds derivatives as part of the following strategies:

 – Customer driven, where derivatives are held as part of the provision of risk management products to Group customers;

 – To manage and hedge the Group’s interest rate and foreign exchange risk arising from normal banking business. The hedge accounting strategy 
adopted by the Group is to utilise a combination of fair value, cash flow and net investment hedge approaches as described in note 56; and

 – Derivatives held in policyholder funds as permitted by the investment strategies of those funds,

Derivatives are classified as trading except those designated as effective hedging instruments which meet the criteria under IAS 39. Derivatives are 
held at fair value on the Group’s balance sheet. A description of the methodology used to determine the fair value of derivative financial instruments 
and the effect of using reasonably possible alternative assumptions for those derivatives valued using unobservable inputs is set out in note 55.

The principal derivatives used by the Group are as follows: 

 – Interest rate related contracts include interest rate swaps, forward rate agreements and options. An interest rate swap is an agreement between two 
parties to exchange fixed and floating interest payments, based upon interest rates defined in the contract, without the exchange of the underlying 
principal amounts. Forward rate agreements are contracts for the payment of the difference between a specified rate of interest and a reference rate, 
applied to a notional principal amount at a specific date in the future. An interest rate option gives the buyer, on payment of a premium, the right, 
but not the obligation, to fix the rate of interest on a future loan or deposit, for a specified period and commencing on a specified future date. 

 – Exchange rate related contracts include forward foreign exchange contracts, currency swaps and options. A forward foreign exchange contract is 
an agreement to buy or sell a specified amount of foreign currency on a specified future date at an agreed rate. Currency swaps generally involve the 
exchange of interest payment obligations denominated in different currencies; the exchange of principal can be notional or actual. A currency option 
gives the buyer, on payment of a premium, the right, but not the obligation, to sell specified amounts of currency at agreed rates of exchange on or 
before a specified future date. 

 – Credit derivatives, principally credit default swaps, are used by the Group as part of its trading activity and to manage its own exposure to credit 
risk. A credit default swap is a swap in which one counterparty receives a premium at pre-set intervals in consideration for guaranteeing to make 
a specific payment should a negative credit event take place. The Group also uses credit default swaps to securitise, in combination with external 
funding, £4,149 million (2009: £6,455 million) of corporate and commercial banking loans. 
 – Equity derivatives are also used by the Group as part of its equity based retail product activity to eliminate the Group’s exposure to fluctuations in 
various international stock exchange indices. Index-linked equity options are purchased which give the Group the right, but not the obligation, to buy 
or sell a specified amount of equities, or basket of equities, in the form of published indices on or before a specified future date. 

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2

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4

6

8

10

12

Summary of Group results 

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Other financial information 

14

26

52

Board of Directors 

Directors’ report 

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110

112

114

Five year financial summary 

56 

Directors’ remuneration report  124

Our people 

Corporate responsibility 

Risk management 

57

60

65

Shareholder information 

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Index to annual report 

284

285

290

291

Report of the independent  
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financial statements 

Consolidated  
financial statements 
Notes to the consolidated  
financial statements 

Report of the independent  
auditors on the parent company 
financial statements 

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statements 

Notes to the parent company 
financial statements 

144

146

153

272

273

276

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19 DERIVATIVE FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS  continued

The fair values and notional amounts of derivative instruments are set out the following table:

Contract/notional
amount
£m

Fair value
assets
£m

Fair value
liabilities
£m

31 December 2010

Trading and other

Exchange rate contracts:

Spot, forwards and futures

Currency swaps

Options purchased

Options written

Interest rate contracts:

Interest rate swaps

Forward rate agreements

Options purchased 

Options written

Futures

Credit derivatives

Embedded equity conversion feature

Equity and other contracts

212,832

108,216

18,096

   19,387

358,531

1,397,157

718,227

59,578

60,828

   23,361

2,259,151

7,108

–

22,597

2,513

5,696

602

   –

8,811

28,448

309

2,371

–

   3

31,131

256

1,177

1,996

Total derivative assets/liabilities – trading and other 

2,647,387

43,371

Hedging

Derivatives designated as fair value hedges:

Currency swaps

Interest rate swaps

Derivatives designated as cash flow hedges:

Interest rate swaps

Futures

Currency swaps

Derivatives designated as net investment hedges:

Cross currency swaps

Total derivative assets/liabilities – hedging

Total recognised derivative assets/liabilities

9,418

  75,831

85,249

112,507

1,299

  17,745

131,551

86

216,886

2,864,273

606

4,366

4,972

2,199

1

  232

2,432

2

7,406

50,777

2,242

1,773

–

   536

4,551

29,202

287

–

2,180

   1

31,670

207

–

1,332

37,760

35

1,200

1,235

3,042

–

  121

3,163

–

4,398

42,158

The principal amount of the contract does not represent the Group’s real exposure to credit risk which is limited to the current cost of replacing 
contracts with a positive value to the Group should the counterparty default. To reduce credit risk the Group uses a variety of credit enhancement 
techniques such as netting and collateralisation, where security is provided against the exposure. Further details are provided in note 56(3). 

The embedded equity conversion feature of £1,177 million (31 December 2009: £1,797 million) reflects the value of the equity conversion feature 
contained in the Enhanced Capital Notes issued by the Group in 2009; the loss of £620 million arising from the change in fair value over 2010 
(2009: loss of £427 million) is included within net gains on financial instruments held for trading within net trading income (note 7).

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NOTES TO THE CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

31 December 2009

Trading and other

Exchange rate contracts:

Spot, forwards and futures

Currency swaps

Options purchased

Options written

Interest rate contracts:

Interest rate swaps

Forward rate agreements

Options purchased 

Options written

Futures

Credit derivatives

Embedded equity conversion feature

Equity and other contracts

Total derivative assets/liabilities – trading and other 

Hedging

Derivatives designated as fair value hedges:

Currency swaps

Interest rate swaps

Options written

Derivatives designated as cash flow hedges:

Interest rate swaps

Futures

Currency swaps

Options purchased

Derivatives designated as net investment hedges:

Cross currency swaps

Total derivative assets/liabilities – hedging

Total recognised derivative assets/liabilities

Contract/notional
amount
£m

Fair value
assets
£m

Fair value
liabilities
£m

149,701

130,954

11,130

   11,072

302,857

1,092,319

840,539

68,267

57,772

   12,938

2,071,835

19,673

–

27,391

2,421,756

26,162

80,085

  628

106,875

222,548

5,137

8,937

  2,754

239,376

2,507

348,758

2,770,514

1,675

6,853

678

   –

9,206

23,799

441

1,700

–

   2

25,942

1,711

1,797

1,842

40,498

635

   3,989

   –

4,624

4,749

1

8

  4

4,762

44

9,430

49,928

1,695

1,787

–

   431

3,913

24,153

400

–

1,656

   7

26,216

444

–

1,225

31,798

107

985

   144

1,236

7,285

3

144

  –

7,432

19

8,687

40,485

 
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2

3

4

6

8

10

12

Summary of Group results 

Divisional results 

Other financial information 

14

26

52

Board of Directors 

Directors’ report 

Corporate governance report 

110

112

114

Five year financial summary 

56 

Directors’ remuneration report  124

Our people 

Corporate responsibility 

Risk management 

57

60

65

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Abbreviations 

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284

285

290

291

Report of the independent  
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financial statements 
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financial statements 

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statements 

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financial statements 

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146

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273

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19 DERIVATIVE FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS  continued

HEDGED CASH FLOWS 
For designated cash flow hedges the following table shows when the Group’s hedged cash flows are expected to occur and when they will affect 
income.

2010

Hedged forecast cash flows expected  
to occur:

Forecast receivable cash flows 

Forecast payable cash flows 

Hedged forecast cash flows affect  
profit or loss:

Forecast receivable cash flows 

Forecast payable cash flows 

2009

Hedged forecast cash flows expected  
to occur: 

Forecast receivable cash flows 

Forecast payable cash flows 

Hedged forecast cash flows affect  
profit or loss: 

Forecast receivable cash flows 

Forecast payable cash flows 

0-1 years 
£m 

1-2 years 
£m 

2-3 years 
£m 

3-4 years 
£m

4-5 years 
£m

5-10 years 
£m 

10-20 years 
£m 

Over 20 
years 
£m 

Total 
£m

223

(70)

223

(70)

328

(44)

560

(165)

445

(97)

443

(113)

434

(93)

434

(93)

310

(67)

451

(616)

445

(916)

160

2,911

(200)

(2,171)

310

(67)

466

(675)

435

(884)

155

2,911

(172)

(2,171)

0-1 years 
£m 

1-2 years 
£m 

2-3 years 
£m 

3-4 years 
£m

4-5 years 
£m

5-10 years 
£m 

10-20 years 
£m 

Over 20 
years 
£m 

Total 
£m

14

(336)

14

(336)

33

(698)

33

(698)

–

(304)

–

(419)

3

(258)

8

(206)

47

(121)

68

(81)

424

(409)

435

(444)

374

(694)

341

(647)

140

(111)

1,035

(2,931)

136

(100)

1,035

(2,931)

20 LOANS AND ADVANCES TO BANKS

Lending to banks

Money market placements with banks

Total loans and advances to banks before allowance for impairment losses

Allowance for impairment losses (note 25)

Total loans and advances to banks

2010
£m

1,042

29,250

30,292

(20)

30,272

2009
£m

3,705

31,805

35,510

(149)

35,361

Included in the amounts reported above are reverse repurchase agreements treated as collateralised loans with a carrying value of £4,185 million 
(2009: £4,188 million). Collateral is held with a fair value of £3,909 million (2009: £4,167 million), all of which the Group is able to repledge. 

Included in the amounts reported above are collateral balances in the form of cash provided in respect of reverse repurchase agreements amounting 
to £4 million (2009: £19 million).

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21 LOANS AND ADVANCES TO CUSTOMERS

Agriculture, forestry and fishing

Energy and water supply

Manufacturing

Construction

Transport, distribution and hotels

Postal and telecommunications

Property companies

Financial, business and other services

Personal:

Mortgages

Other

Lease financing

Hire purchase

Total loans and advances to customers before allowance for impairment losses

Allowance for impairment losses (note 25)

Total loans and advances to customers

2010
£m

5,558

3,576

11,495

7,904

34,176

1,908

78,263

59,363

356,261

36,967

8,291

7,208

610,970

(18,373)

592,597

2009
£m

5,130

3,031

14,912

10,830

31,820

1,662

83,820

66,923

362,667

42,958

9,307

8,710

641,770

(14,801)

626,969

Included in the amounts reported above are reverse repurchase agreements treated as collateralised loans with a carrying value of £3,096 million 
(2009: £1,108 million). Collateral is held with a fair value of £2,987 million (2009: £1,102 million), all of which the Group is able to repledge.  
Included in the amounts reported above are collateral balances in the form of cash provided in respect of reverse repurchase agreements amounting 
to £42 million (2009: £22 million).

Loans and advances to customers include finance lease receivables, which may be analysed as follows:

Gross investment in finance leases, receivable:

Not later than 1 year

Later than 1 year and not later than 5 years

Later than 5 years

Unearned future finance income on finance leases

Rentals received in advance

Commitments for expenditure in respect of equipment to be leased

Net investment in finance leases

The net investment in finance leases represents amounts recoverable as follows:

Not later than 1 year

Later than 1 year and not later than 5 years

Later than 5 years

Net investment in finance leases

2010
£m

1,358

2,522

7,218

11,098

(2,603)

(183)

(21)

8,291

2010
£m

986

1,965

5,340

8,291

2009
£m

1,374

3,577

7,911

12,862

(3,428)

(119)

(8)

9,307

2009
£m

1,008

2,403

5,896

9,307

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12

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14

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52

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110

112

114

Five year financial summary 

56 

Directors’ remuneration report  124

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57

60

65

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Abbreviations 

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284

285

290

291

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financial statements 
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21 LOANS AND ADVANCES TO CUSTOMERS  continued

Equipment leased to customers under finance leases primarily relates to structured financing transactions to fund the purchase of aircraft, ships and 
other large individual value items. During 2010 and 2009 no contingent rentals in respect of finance leases were recognised in the income statement. 
The allowance for uncollectable finance lease receivables included in the allowance for impairment losses is £287 million (2009: £123 million).

The unguaranteed residual values included in finance lease receivables were as follows:

Not later than 1 year

Later than 1 year and not later than 5 years

Later than 5 years

Total unguaranteed residual values

22 SECURITISATIONS AND COVERED BONDS

2010
£m

11

44

6

61

2009 
£m

4

46

5

55

SECURITISATION PROGRAMMES
Loans and advances to customers and debt securities classified as loans and receivables include loans securitised under the Group’s securitisation 
programmes, the majority of which have been sold by subsidiary companies to bankruptcy remote special purpose entities (SPEs). As the SPEs 
are funded by the issue of debt on terms whereby the majority of the risks and rewards of the portfolio are retained by the subsidiary, the SPEs are 
consolidated fully and all of these loans are retained on the Group’s balance sheet, with the related notes in issue included within debt securities  
in issue. In addition to the SPEs described below, the Group sponsors four conduit programmes, Argento, Cancara, Grampian and Landale.

COVERED BOND PROGRAMMES
Certain loans and advances to customers have been assigned to bankruptcy remote limited liability partnerships to provide security for issues of 
covered bonds by the Group. The Group retains all of the risks and rewards associated with these loans and the partnerships are consolidated fully 
with the loans retained on the Group’s balance sheet and the related covered bonds in issue included within debt securities in issue.

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22 SECURITISATIONS AND COVERED BONDS  continued

The Group’s principal securitisation and covered bond programmes, together with the balances of the advances subject to securitisation and the 
carrying value of the notes in issue at 31 December, are listed below. The notes in issue are reported in note 37.

Securitisation programmes1

UK residential mortgages

Commercial loans

Irish residential mortgages

Credit card receivables

Dutch residential mortgages

Personal loans

PFI/PPP and project finance loans

Corporate loans and revolving credit facilities

Motor vehicle loans

Less held by the Group

Total securitisation programmes (note 37)

Covered bond programmes

Residential mortgage-backed 

Social housing loan-backed

Less held by the Group

Total covered bond programmes (note 37)

Total securitisation and covered bond programmes

1

Includes securitisations utilising a combination of external funding and credit default swaps.

Gross assets
securitised
£m

146,200

11,860

6,007

7,327

4,526

3,012

776

–

926

180,634

93,651

  3,317

96,968

2010

2009

Notes
in issue
£m

Gross assets
securitised
£m

152,443

13,071

6,522

5,155

4,800

3,730

877

595

443

187,636

99,753

  3,356

103,109

114,428

8,936

6,191

3,856

4,316

2,011

110

–

975

140,823

(100,081)

40,742

73,458

  2,181

75,639

(43,489)

32,150

72,892

Notes
in issue
£m

129,698

8,266

6,585

2,699

4,663

2,613

45

7

470

155,046

(117,489)

37,557

76,636

  2,735

79,371

(52,060)

27,311

64,868

Cash deposits of £36,579 million (31 December 2009: £31,480 million) held by the Group are restricted in use to repayment of the debt securities 
issued by the SPEs, the term advances relating to covered bonds and other legal obligations.

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26

52

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112

114

Five year financial summary 

56 

Directors’ remuneration report  124

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Corporate responsibility 

Risk management 

57

60

65

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Abbreviations 

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284

285

290

291

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financial statements 

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financial statements 
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financial statements 

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statements 

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financial statements 

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23 SPECIAL PURPOSE ENTITIES

In addition to the special purpose entities discussed in note 22, which are used for securitisation and covered bond programmes, the Group 
sponsors four asset-backed conduits, Argento, Cancara, Grampian and Landale, which invest in debt securities and client receivables. All the external 
assets in these conduits are consolidated in the Group’s financial statements and are included in the credit market exposures set out in note 56. The 
total consolidated exposures in these conduits are set out in the table below:

Argento
£m

Cancara
£m

Grampian
£m

Landale
£m

At 31 December 2010

Loans and advances

Debt securities classified as loans and receivables:

Asset-backed securities

Corporate and other debt securities

Debt securities classified as available-for-sale financial assets (note 26):

Asset-backed securities

Corporate and other debt securities

Total assets

At 31 December 2009

Loans and advances

Debt securities classified as loans and receivables

Debt securities classified as available-for-sale financial assets (note 26):

Asset-backed securities

Total assets

–

3,957

–

1,448

  202

1,650

1,436

  463

1,899

3,549

–

–

–

–

–

  –

–

2,587

  –

2,587

6,544

3,681

15

5,382

9,078

6,957

  –

6,957

–

  –

–

6,957

–

9,867

–

9,867

–

–

  –

–

–

  –

–

–

–

698

–

698

Total
£m

3,957

8,405

  202

8,607

4,023

  463

4,486

17,050

3,681

10,580

5,382

19,643

OTHER SPECIAL PURPOSE ENTITIES
During 2009, the Group established Lloyds TSB Pension ABCS (No 1) LLP and Lloyds TSB Pension ABCS (No 2) LLP and transferred approximately 
£5 billion of assets, primarily comprising notes in certain of the Group’s securitisation programmes, in aggregate to these entities. Further details are 
provided in note 43. 

24 DEBT SECURITIES CLASSIFIED AS LOANS AND RECEIVABLES

Debt securities accounted for as loans and receivables comprise:

Asset-backed securities:

Mortgage-backed securities

Other asset-backed securities

Corporate and other debt securities

Total debt securities classified as loans and receivables before allowance for impairment losses

Allowance for impairment losses (note 25)

Total debt securities classified as loans and receivables

2010
£m

11,650

12,827

1,816

26,293

(558)

25,735

2009
£m

13,322

17,137

2,623

33,082

(430)

32,652

Included in the amounts reported above are assets subject to repurchase agreements with a carrying value of £1,386 million (2009: £11,752 million); 
the value of the related liability is £1,043 million (2009: £7,970 million). In all cases the transferee has the right to sell or repledge the assets concerned.

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25 ALLOWANCE FOR IMPAIRMENT LOSSES ON LOANS AND RECEIVABLES

Balance at 1 January 2009

Exchange and other adjustments

Advances written off

Recoveries of advances written off in previous years

Unwinding of discount

Charge (release) to the income statement (note 12)

At 31 December 2009

Exchange and other adjustments

Advances written off

Recoveries of advances written off in previous years

Unwinding of discount

Charge (release) to the income statement (note 12)

At 31 December 2010

Loans and
advances
to customers
£m

Loans and 
advances
to banks
£m

Debt
securities
£m

3,459

95

(4,200)

110

(446)

15,783

14,801

(2)

(6,966)

216

(403)

10,727

18,373

135

17

–

–

–

(3)

149

(5)

(111)

–

–

(13)

20

133

49

–

–

–

248

430

119

(48)

–

–

57

558

Total
£m

3,727

161

(4,200)

110

(446)

16,028

15,380

112

(7,125)

216

(403)

10,771

18,951

Of the total allowance in respect of loans and advances to customers, £15,585 million (2009: £12,756 million) related to lending that had been 
determined to be impaired (either individually or on a collective basis) at the reporting date.
Of the total allowance in respect of loans and advances to customers, £6,076 million (2009:£5,297 million) was assessed on a collective basis.

26 AVAILABLE-FOR-SALE FINANCIAL ASSETS

Debt securities:

Government securities

Other public sector securities

Bank and building society certificates of deposit

Asset-backed securities:

Mortgage-backed securities

Other asset-backed securities

Corporate and other debt securities

Equity shares:

Listed

Unlisted

Treasury bills and other bills:

Treasury bills and similar securities

Conduits
£m

–

–

–

3,203

820

463 

4,486

–

–   

–

–

Total available-for-sale financial assets

4,486

2010

Other
£m

Total
£m

Conduits
£m

12,552

12,552

29

407

1,090

4,399

11,669 

30,146

72

   2,183

2,255

6,068

38,469

29

407

4,293

5,219

12,132 

34,632

72

   2,183

2,255

6,068

42,955

–

–

–

3,481

1,901

  –

5,382

–

  – 

–

–

5,382

2009

Other
£m

8,669

31

1,014

1,300

5,739

Total
£m

8,669

31

1,014

4,781

7,640

  19,904 

36,657

  19,904 

42,039

102

  1,929 

2,031

2,532

41,220

102

  1,929 

2,031

2,532

46,602

Details of the Group’s asset-backed conduits shown in the table above are included in note 23.

Included within asset-backed securities are £9,392 million (31 December 2009: £12,421 million) managed by the Wholesale division. Further 
information on these exposures is provided in note 56.

Included in the amounts reported above are assets subject to repurchase agreements with a carrying value of £1,467 million (2009: £7,438 million); the 
value of the related liability is £1,378 million (2009: £6,834 million). In all cases the transferee has the right to sell or repledge the assets concerned.

  
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26 AVAILABLE-FOR-SALE FINANCIAL ASSETS  continued

All assets have been individually assessed for impairment. The criteria used to determine whether an impairment loss has been incurred are 
disclosed in note 2(H). Included in available-for-sale financial assets at 31 December 2010 are debt securities individually determined to be impaired 
whose gross amount before impairment allowances was £2 million (31 December 2009: £144 million) and in respect of which no collateral was held. 

On 1 November 2010, the Group reclassified £3,601 million of government securities from available-for-sale financial assets to held-to-maturity 
investments (note 27). Further information on the reclassification of financial assets is provided in note 55.

27 HELD-TO-MATURITY INVESTMENTS

Debt securities: government securities

2010
£m

7,905

2009
£m

–

On 1 November 2010, the Group reclassified £3,601 million of government securities from available-for-sale financial assets to held-to-maturity investments.

28 INVESTMENT PROPERTIES

At 1 January

Exchange and other adjustments

Adjustment on acquisition

Additions:

Acquisitions of new properties

Consolidation of new subsidiary undertakings

Additional expenditure on existing properties

Total additions

Disposals

Changes in fair value (note 7)

At 31 December 

2010
£m

4,757

(6)

–

398

921

  52

1,371

(559)

434

5,997

The investment properties are valued at least annually at open-market value, by independent, professionally qualified valuers, who have recent 
experience in the location and categories of the investment properties being valued.

In addition, the following amounts have been recognised in the income statement:

Rental income (note 9)

Direct operating expenses arising from investment properties that generate rental income

Capital expenditure in respect of investment properties:

Capital expenditure contracted for at the balance sheet date but not recognised in the financial statements

2010
£m

337

77

2010
£m

86

2009
£m

2,631

(15)

3,002

151

–

  67 

218

(865)

(214)

4,757

2009
£m

358

64

2009
£m

57

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29 GOODWILL

At 1 January

Impairment charged to the income statement

At 31 December

Cost1

Accumulated impairment losses

At 31 December

2010
£m

2,016

–

2,016

2,362

(346)

2,016

2009
£m

2,256

(240)

2,016

2,362

(346)

2,016

1

For acquisitions made prior to 1 January 2004, the date of transition to IFRS, cost is included net of amounts amortised up to 31 December 2003.

The goodwill held in the Group’s balance sheet is tested at least annually for impairment. For the purposes of impairment testing the goodwill  
is allocated to the appropriate cash generating unit; of the total balance of £2,016 million (31 December 2009: £2,016 million), £1,836 million  
(or 91 per cent of the total) has been allocated to Scottish Widows in the Group’s Insurance division and £170 million (or 8 per cent of the total) to 
Asset Finance in the Group’s Wholesale division.

The recoverable amount of Scottish Widows has been based on a value in use calculation. The calculation uses projections of future cash flows based 
upon budgets and plans approved by management covering a five-year period, and a discount rate of 12 per cent (gross of tax). The budgets and 
plans are based upon past experience adjusted to take into account anticipated changes in sales volumes, product mix and margins having regard 
to expected market conditions and competitor activity. The discount rate is determined with reference to internal measures and available industry 
information. Cash flows beyond the five-year period have been extrapolated using a steady 3 per cent growth rate which does not exceed the  
long-term average growth rate for the life assurance market. Management believes that any reasonably possible change in the key assumptions 
would not cause the recoverable amount of Scottish Widows to fall below its balance sheet carrying value.

In 2009, the markets in which the Consumer Finance unit of Asset Finance operates had deteriorated further with both macroeconomic and market 
conditions worsening, leading to a fall off in demand and increasing arrears. This, together with continuing uncertainties over the likely short-term 
macroeconomic environment, had resulted in a reassessment of the carrying value of the consumer finance cash generating unit and the recognition 
of a goodwill impairment charge of £240 million during 2009, reflecting the write down of the entire balance of goodwill allocated to the Consumer 
Finance unit of Asset Finance and leaving goodwill of £170 million in the Autolease unit of Asset Finance.

The recoverable amount of Asset Finance has also been based on a value in use calculation using cash flow projections based on financial budgets 
and plans approved by management covering a five-year period and a discount rate of 15 per cent (gross of tax). The cash flows beyond the five-year 
period are extrapolated using a growth rate of 0.5 per cent which does not exceed the long-term average growth rates for the markets in which Asset 
Finance participates.

30 VALUE OF IN-FORCE BUSINESS

The gross value of in-force business asset in the consolidated balance sheet is as follows:

Acquired value of in-force non-participating investment contracts

Value of in-force insurance and participating investment contracts

Total value of in-force business

The movement in the acquired value of in-force non-participating investment contracts over the year is as follows:

At 1 January

Adjustment on acquisition

Amortisation taken to income statement (note 11)

At 31 December

2010 
£m

1,469

5,898

7,367

2010 
£m

1,545

–

(76)

1,469

2009 
£m

1,545

5,140

6,685

2009 
£m

–

1,620

(75)

1,545

The acquired value of in-force non-participating investment contracts includes £356 million (2009: £379 million) in relation to OEIC business.

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114

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65

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30 VALUE OF IN-FORCE BUSINESS  continued

The movement in the value of in-force insurance and participating investment contracts over the year is as follows:

At 1 January

Adjustment on acquisition

Exchange and other adjustments

Movements in the year:

New business

Existing business:

Expected return

Experience variances

Non-economic assumption changes

Economic variance

Movement in the value of in-force business taken to income statement (note 9)

At 31 December

2010 
£m

5,140

–

(31)

2009 
£m

1,893

2,093

(15)

497

563

(400)

85

306

  301

789

5,898

(456)

84

135

  843

1,169

5,140

This breakdown shows the movement in the value of in-force business only, and does not represent the full contribution that each item in the 
breakdown contributes to profit before tax, which would also contain changes in the other assets and liabilities of the relevant businesses. Economic 
variance is the element of earnings which is generated from changes to economic experience in the period and to economic assumptions over time. 
The presentation of economic variance includes the impact of financial market conditions being different at the end of the reporting period from 
those included in assumptions used to calculate new and existing business returns.

The principal features of the methodology and process used for determining key assumptions used in the calculation of the value of in-force business 
are set out below:

ECONOMIC ASSUMPTIONS
Each cash flow is valued using the discount rate consistent with that applied to such a cash flow in the capital markets. In practice, to achieve the 
same result, where the cash flows are either independent of or move linearly with market movements, a method has been applied known as the 
‘certainty equivalent’ approach whereby it is assumed that all assets earn a risk-free rate and all cash flows are discounted at a risk-free rate.

A market consistent approach has been adopted for the valuation of financial options and guarantees, using a stochastic option pricing technique 
calibrated to be consistent with the market price of relevant options at each valuation date. The risk-free rate used for the value of financial 
options and guarantees is defined as the spot yield derived from the relevant government bond yield curve in line with FSA realistic balance 
sheet assumptions. Further information on options and guarantees can be found on page 107.

The liabilities in respect of the Group’s UK annuity business are matched by a portfolio of fixed interest securities, including a large proportion  
of corporate bonds. The value of the in-force business asset for UK annuity business has been calculated after taking into account an estimate  
of the market premium for illiquidity in respect of these corporate bond holdings. The illiquidity premium is estimated to be 75 basis points as 
at 31 December 2010 (31 December 2009: 75 basis points). 

The risk-free rate assumed in valuing the non-annuity in-force business is the 15 year government bond yield for the appropriate territory.  
The risk-free rate assumed in valuing the in-force asset for the UK annuity business is presented as a single risk-free rate to allow a better comparison 
to the rate used for other business. That single risk-free rate has been derived to give the equivalent value to the UK annuity book, had that book 
been valued using the UK gilt yield curve increased to reflect the illiquidity premium described above.

The table below shows the resulting range of yields and other key assumptions at 31 December for UK business:

Risk-free rate (value of in-force non-annuity business)

Risk-free rate (value of in-force annuity business)

Risk-free rate (financial options and guarantees)

Retail price inflation

Expense inflation

2010 
%

3.99

4.66

2009 
%

4.45

5.05

0.63 to 4.50

0.87 to 4.76

3.56

4.20

3.64

4.42

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30 VALUE OF IN-FORCE BUSINESS  continued

NON-MARKET RISK s
An allowance for non-market risk is made through the choice of best estimate assumptions based upon experience, which generally will give the mean 
expected financial outcome for shareholders and hence no further allowance for non-market risk is required. However, in the case of operational risk, 
reinsurer default and the with-profit funds these can be asymmetric in the range of potential outcomes for which an explicit allowance is made.

NON-ECONOMIC ASSUMPTIONS
Future mortality, morbidity, lapse and paid-up rate assumptions are reviewed each year and are based on an analysis of past experience and on 
management’s view of future experience. These assumptions are intended to represent a best estimate of future experience.

Further information about the effect of changes in key assumptions is given in note 39.

31 OTHER INTANGIBLE ASSETS

Cost:

At 1 January 2009

Adjustment on acquisition

Additions

Disposals of businesses

At 31 December 2009

Additions

Disposals

At 31 December 2010

Accumulated amortisation:

At 1 January 2009

Charge for the year

Disposals of businesses

At 31 December 2009

Charge for the year

Disposals

At 31 December 2010

Balance sheet amount at 31 December 2010

Balance sheet amount at 31 December 2009

Brands
£m

Core deposit 
intangible
£m

Purchased  
credit card  

relationships
£m

Customer- 
related intangibles
£m

Capitalised 
 software  

enhancements
£m

–

596

–

–

596

–

–

596

–

21

–

21

25

–

46

550

575

–

2,770

–

–

2,770

–

–

2,770

–

393

–

393

400

–

793

1,977

2,377

–

300

–

–

300

–

–

300

–

58

–

58

60

–

118

182

242

63

984

–

(170)

877

–

–

877

12

237

(12)

237

161

–

398

479

640

320

104

63

–

487

153

(30)

610

174

60

–

234

75

(7)

302

308

253

Total
£m

383

4,754

63

(170)

5,030

153

(30)

5,153

186

769

(12)

943

721

(7)

1,657

3,496

4,087

Included within brands above are assets of £380 million (31 December 2009: £380 million) that have been determined to have indefinite useful 
lives and are not amortised. These brands use the Bank of Scotland name which has been in existence for over 300 years. These brands are well 
established financial services brands and there are no indications that they should not have an indefinite useful life.

The customer-related intangibles include customer lists and the benefits of customer relationships that generate recurring income. The purchased 
credit card relationships represent the benefit of recurring income generated from the portfolio of credit cards purchased and the core deposit 
intangible is the benefit derived from a large stable deposit base that has low interest rates.

Capitalised software enhancements principally comprise identifiable and directly associated internal staff and other costs. 

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114

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32 TANGIBLE FIXED ASSETS

Cost:

At 1 January 2009

Exchange and other adjustments

Adjustment on acquisition

Additions

Disposals

At 31 December 2009

Exchange and other adjustments

Additions

Disposals

Disposal of businesses

At 31 December 2010

Accumulated depreciation and impairment:

At 1 January 2009

Exchange and other adjustments

Depreciation charge for the year

Disposals

At 31 December 2009

Exchange and other adjustments

Impairment charged to the income statement

Depreciation charge for the year

Disposals

Disposal of businesses

At 31 December 2010

Balance sheet amount at 31 December 2010

Balance sheet amount at 31 December 2009

Premises
£m

Equipment
£m

Operating
lease assets
£m

Total tangible
fixed assets
£m

1,516

19

966

113

(153)

2,461

26

175

(222)

–

2,440

789

(19)

132

(18)

884

2

–

146

(31)

–

1,001

1,439

1,577

3,148

(38)

825

1,317

(130)

5,122

34

766

(338)

(1,005)

4,579

2,208

(12)

450

(49)

2,597

(3)

202

535

(341)

(145)

2,845

1,734

2,525

1,564

281

3,916

1,949

(1,326)

6,384

(76)

1,672

(1,693)

–

6,287

266

113

1,134

(251)

1,262

30

–

954

(976)

–

1,270

5,017

5,122

2010
£m

1,168

1,791

638

3,597

6,228

262

5,707

3,379

(1,609)

13,967

(16)

2,613

(2,253)

(1,005)

13,306

3,263

82

1,716

(318)

4,743

29

202

1,635

(1,348)

(145)

5,116

8,190

9,224

2009
£m

845

1,939

88

2,872

At 31 December the future minimum rentals receivable under non-cancellable operating leases were as follows:

Receivable within 1 year

1 to 5 years

Over 5 years

Total future minimum rentals receivable

Equipment leased to customers under operating leases primarily relates to vehicle contract hire arrangements. During 2010 and 2009 no contingent 
rentals in respect of operating leases were recognised in the income statement. 

In addition, total future minimum sub-lease income of £55 million at 31 December 2010 (£79 million at 31 December 2009) is expected to be received 
under non-cancellable sub-leases of the Group’s premises.

The impairment charge of £202 million comprises £150 million relating to oil drilling rigs under construction acquired from a previous lending 
relationship in Wholesale (note 15) and £52 million relating to integration activities (note 11).

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33 OTHER ASSETS

Assets arising from reinsurance contracts held (note 38 and note 40)

Deferred acquisition and origination costs (see below)

Settlement balances

Other assets and prepayments

Total other assets

Deferred acquisition and origination costs:

At 1 January

Adjustment on acquisition

Costs deferred, net of amounts amortised to the income statement

Exchange and other adjustments

At 31 December

34 DEPOSITS FROM BANKS

Liabilities in respect of securities sold under repurchase agreements

Other deposits from banks

Deposits from banks

2010
£m

2,146

602

985

8,910

12,643

2010
£m

533

–

69

–

602

2010
£m

24,017

 26,346

50,363

2009
£m

1,875

533

1,587

8,230

12,225

2009
£m

196

422

(84)

(1)

533

2009
£m

27,558

54,894

82,452

Included in the amounts reported above are deposits held as collateral for facilities granted, with a carrying value of £22,420 million (2009: £28,924 million) 
and a fair value of £25,626 million (2009: £36,016 million). 

Included in the amounts reported above are collateral balances in the form of cash provided in respect of repurchase agreements amounting to £nil 
(2009: £19 million). 

35 CUSTOMER DEPOSITS

Non-interest bearing current accounts

Interest bearing current accounts

Savings and investment accounts

Liabilities in respect of securities sold under repurchase agreements

Other customer deposits

Customer deposits

2010
£m

22,897

77,785

222,226

11,145

59,580

393,633

2009
£m

9,264

93,887

207,474

35,554

60,562

406,741

Included in the amounts reported above are deposits held as collateral for facilities granted, with a carrying value of £11,112 million (2009: £35,504 million) 
and a fair value of £11,278 million (2009: £35,468 million). 

Included in the amounts reported above are collateral balances in the form of cash provided in respect of repurchase agreements amounting to 
£122 million (2009: £203 million).

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36 TRADING AND OTHER FINANCIAL LIABILITIES AT FAIR VALUE THROUGH PROFIT OR LOSS

Liabilities held at fair value through profit or loss (debt securities)

Trading liabilities:

Liabilities in respect of securities sold under repurchase agreements

Short positions in securities

Other

Trading and other financial liabilities at fair value through profit or loss

2010
£m

6,665

14,612

1,755

    3,730

20,097

26,762

2009
£m

6,160

21,389

202

  520

22,111

28,271

The amount contractually payable on maturity of the debt securities held at fair value through profit or loss at 31 December 2010 was £6,607 million, 
which was £58 million lower than the balance sheet carrying value (31 December 2009: £5,866 million, which was £294 million lower than the balance 
sheet carrying value). At 31 December 2010 there was a cumulative £11 million increase in the fair value of these liabilities attributable to changes in 
credit spread risk; this is determined by reference to the quoted credit spreads of Lloyds TSB Bank plc, the issuing entity within the Group. Of the 
£11 million increase, none arose in 2010 and £11 million arose in 2009.

Liabilities designated at fair value through profit or loss represent debt securities in issue which either contain substantive embedded derivatives 
which would otherwise need to be recognised and measured at fair value separately from the related debt securities, or which are accounted for 
at fair value to significantly reduce an accounting mismatch.

37 DEBT SECURITIES IN ISSUE

Medium-term notes issued

Covered bonds (note 22)

Certificates of deposit issued

Securitisation notes (note 22)

Commercial paper

Total debt securities in issue

2010
£m

80,975

32,150

42,276

40,742

32,723

2009
£m

82,876

27,311

50,858

37,557

34,900

228,866

233,502

38 LIABILITIES ARISING FROM INSURANCE CONTRACTS AND PARTICIPATING INVESTMENT CONTRACTS

Insurance contract and participating investment contract liabilities are comprised as follows:

Gross
£m

2010

Reinsurance1
£m

Net
£m

Gross
£m

2009

Reinsurance1
£m

Life insurance (see (1) below):

Insurance contracts

Participating investment contracts

Non-life insurance contracts (see (2) below):

Unearned premiums

Claims outstanding

Total

1

Reinsurance balances are reported within other assets (note 33).

61,871

17,642   

79,513

632

584   

1,216

80,729

(2,044)

59,827

   –

   17,642

(2,044)

77,469

(22)

    (15)

(37)

(2,081)

610

569  

1,179

78,648

56,800

  18,089 

74,889

788

  502 

1,290

76,179

Net
£m

54,969

  18,089 

73,058

757

  489 

1,246

(1,831)

  – 

(1,831)

(31)

  (13) 

(44)

(1,875)

74,304

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(1) LIFE INSURANCE
The movement in life insurance contract and participating investment contract liabilities over the year can be analysed as follows:

At 1 January 2009

New business

Changes in existing business

Change in liabilities charged to the income statement (note 10)

Adjustment on acquisition

Exchange and other adjustments

At 31 December 2009

New business

Changes in existing business

Change in liabilities charged to the income statement (note 10)

Exchange and other adjustments

At 31 December 2010

Insurance 
contracts

21,518

4,455

     971

5,426

29,996

(140)

56,800

3,807

     1,348

5,155

(84)

Participating 
investment 
contracts

11,619

122

Gross 
 £m

33,137

4,577

     374

     1,345

496

5,996

(22)

18,089

325

(858)

(533)

86

5,922

35,992

(162)

74,889

4,132

     490

4,622

2

Reinsurance  

£m

(380)

(28)

(149)

(177)

(1,367)

93

(1,831)

(48)

(208)   

(256)

43

61,871

17,642

79,513

(2,044)

Net 
£m

32,757

4,549

     1,196

5,745

34,625

(69)

73,058

4,084

     282

4,366

45

77,469

Liabilities for insurance contracts and participating investment contracts can be split into with-profit fund liabilities, accounted for using the 
FSA’s realistic capital regime (realistic liabilities) and non-profit fund liabilities, accounted for using a prospective actuarial discounted cash flow 
methodology, as follows:

Insurance contracts

Participating investment contracts

Total

With-profit fund realistic liabilities

With-profit 
fund 
£m

13,598

10,647

24,245

2010

Non-profit 
fund 
£m

48,273

6,995

55,268

Total 
£m

61,871

17,642

79,513

With-profit 
fund 
£m

12,066

11,506

23,572

2009

Non-profit 
fund 
£m

44,734

6,583

51,317

Total 
£m

56,800

18,089

74,889

(I) BUSINESS DESCRIPTION
The Group has with-profit funds within Scottish Widows plc and Clerical Medical Investment Group Limited containing both insurance contracts  
and participating investment contracts. 

The primary purpose of the conventional and unitised business written in the with-profit funds is to provide a long-term smoothed investment  
vehicle to policyholders, protecting them against short-term market fluctuations. With-profit policyholders are entitled to at least 90 per cent of  
the distributed profits, with the shareholders receiving the balance. The policyholders are also usually insured against death and the policy may  
carry a guaranteed annuity option at maturity.

(II) METHOD OF CALCULATION OF LIABILITIES
With-profit liabilities are stated at their realistic value, the main components of which are:

 – With-profit benefit reserve, the total asset shares for with-profit policies;

 – Cost of options and guarantees;

 – Deductions levied against asset shares; 

 – Planned enhancements to with-profits benefits reserve; and

 – Impact of the smoothing policy.

The realistic assessment is carried out using a stochastic simulation model which values liabilities on a market consistent basis. The calculation of 
realistic liabilities uses best estimate assumptions for mortality, persistency rates and expenses. These are calculated in a similar manner to those 
used for the value of in-force business as discussed in note 30. 

    
    
 
 
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(III) ASSUMPTIONS
Key assumptions used in the calculation of with-profit liabilities, and the processes for determining these, are:

Investment returns and discount rates
The realistic capital regime dictates that with-profit fund liabilities are valued on a market-consistent basis. This is achieved by the use of a valuation 
model which values liabilities on a basis calibrated to tradable market option contracts and other observable market data. The with-profit fund 
financial options and guarantees are valued using a stochastic simulation model where all assets are assumed to earn, on average, the risk-free yield 
and all cash flows are discounted using the risk-free yield. The risk-free yield is defined as the spot yield derived from the relevant government bond 
yield curve. Further information on significant options and guarantees is given on page 107.

Guaranteed annuity option take-up rates
Certain pension contracts contain guaranteed annuity options that allow the policyholder to take an annuity benefit on retirement at annuity rates 
that were guaranteed at the outset of the contract. For contracts that contain such options, key assumptions in determining the cost of options are 
economic conditions in which the option has value, mortality rates and take up rates of other options. The financial impact is dependent on the value 
of corresponding investments, interest rates and longevity at the time of the claim. 

Investment volatility
The calibration of the stochastic simulation model uses implied volatilities of derivatives where possible, or historical volatility where it is not possible 
to observe meaningful prices.

Mortality
The mortality assumptions, including allowances for improvements in longevity for annuitants, are set with regard to the Group’s actual experience 
where this is significant, and relevant industry data otherwise. 

Lapse rates (persistency)
Lapse rates refer to the rate of policy termination or the rate at which policyholders stop paying regular premiums due under the contract. 

Historical persistency experience is analysed using statistical techniques. As experience can vary considerably between different product types and 
for contracts that have been in force for different periods, the data is broken down into broadly homogenous groups for the purposes of this analysis. 

The most recent experience is considered along with the results of previous analyses and management’s views on future experience, taking into 
consideration potential changes in future experience that may result from guarantees and options becoming more valuable under adverse market 
conditions, in order to determine a ‘best estimate’ view of what persistency will be. In determining this best estimate view a number of factors are 
considered, including the credibility of the results (which will be affected by the volume of data available), any exceptional events that have occurred 
during the period under consideration, any known or expected trends in underlying data and relevant published market data. 

Non-profit fund liabilities

(I) BUSINESS DESCRIPTION
The Group principally writes the following types of life insurance contracts within its non-profit funds. Shareholder profits on these types of business 
arise from management fees and other policy charges.

Unit-linked business – This includes unit-linked pensions and unit-linked bonds, the primary purpose of which is to provide an investment vehicle 
where the policyholder is also insured against death.

Life insurance – The policyholder is insured against death or permanent disability, usually for predetermined amounts. Such business includes whole 
of life and term assurance and long-term creditor policies.

Annuities – The policyholder is entitled to payments for the duration of their life and is therefore insured against surviving longer than expected.

German insurance business is written through the Group’s subsidiary Heidelberger Leben and comprises policies similar to the UK definitions above, 
except that there is participation by the policyholder in the investment, insurance and expense profits of Heidelberger Leben. A minimum level of 
policyholder participation is prescribed by German law. The following types of life insurance contracts are written:

 – Traditional and unit linked endowment or pensions business; and

 – Life insurance business.

(II) METHOD OF CALCULATION OF LIABILITIES
The non-profit fund liabilities are determined on the basis of recognised actuarial methods and consistent with the approach required by regulatory 
rules. The methods used involve estimating future policy cash flows over the duration of the in-force book of policies, and discounting the cash flows 
back to the valuation date allowing for probabilities of occurrence. 

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(III) ASSUMPTIONS
Generally, assumptions used to value non-profit fund liabilities are prudent in nature and therefore contain a margin for adverse deviation. This 
margin for adverse deviation is based on management’s judgement and reflects management’s views on the inherent level of uncertainty. The key 
assumptions used in the measurement of non-profit fund liabilities are:

Interest rates
The rates used are derived in accordance with the guidelines set by local regulatory bodies. These limit the rates of interest that can be used by 
reference to a number of factors including the redemption yields on fixed interest assets at the valuation date.

Margins for risk are allowed for in the assumed interest rates. These are derived from the limits in the guidelines set by local regulatory bodies, including 
reductions made to the available yields to allow for default risk based upon the credit rating of the securities allocated to the insurance liability. 

Mortality and morbidity
The mortality and morbidity assumptions, including allowances for improvements in longevity for annuitants, are set with regard to the Group’s 
actual experience where this provides a reliable basis, and relevant industry data otherwise, and include a margin for adverse deviation. For German 
business appropriate industry tables have been considered.

Lapse rates (persistency)
Lapse rates are allowed for on some non-profit fund contracts. The process for setting these rates is as described for with-profit liabilities, however  
a prudent scenario is assumed by the inclusion of a margin for adverse deviation within the non-profit fund liabilities. 

Maintenance expenses
Allowance is made for future policy costs explicitly. Expenses are determined by reference to an internal analysis of current and expected future costs 
plus a margin for adverse deviation. Explicit allowance is made for future expense inflation. For German business appropriate cost assumptions have 
been set in accordance with the rules of the local regulatory body.

Key changes in assumptions
A detailed review of the Group’s assumptions in 2010 resulted in the following key impacts on profit before tax:
 – Change in persistency assumptions (£38 million decrease)
 – Change in the assumption in respect of future mortality rates (£40 million increase)

These amounts include the impacts of movements in liabilities and value of the in-force business in respect of insurance contracts and participating 
investment contracts.

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26

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114

Five year financial summary 

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65

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285

290

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financial statements 

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financial statements 

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(2)  NON-LIFE INSURANCE
Gross non-life insurance contract liabilities are analysed by line of business as follows:

Credit protection

Home

Health

2010
£m

380

833

3

2009
£m

533

754

3

Total gross non-life insurance contract liabilities

1,216

1,290

For non-life insurance contracts, the methodology and assumptions used in relation to determining the bases of the earned premium and claims 
provisioning levels are derived for each individual underwritten product. Assumptions are intended to be neutral estimates of the most likely or 
expected outcome. There has been no significant change in the assumptions and methodologies used for setting reserves.

The reserving methodology and associated assumptions are set out below:

The unearned premium reserve is determined on a basis that reflects the length of time for which contracts have been in force and the projected 
incidence of risk over the term of each contract.

Claims outstanding comprise those claims that have been notified and those that have been incurred but not reported. Claims incurred but not 
reported are determined based on the historical emergence of claims and their average cost. The notified claims element represents the best 
estimate of the cost of claims reported using projections and estimates based on historical experience.

The movements in non-life insurance contract liabilities and reinsurance assets over the year have been as follows:

Provisions for unearned premiums

At 1 January 2009

Adjustment on acquisition

Increase in the year

Release in the year

Change in provision for unearned premiums charged to income statement (note 8)

Exchange and other adjustments

At 31 December 2009

Increase in the year

Release in the year

Change in provision for unearned premiums charged to income statement (note 8)

Exchange and other adjustments

At 31 December 2010

Gross
£m

Reinsurance
£m

472

487

1,267

(1,438)  

(171)

–

788 

1,230

    (1,386)

(156)

–

632

–

(4)

(101)

75  

(26)

(1)

(31) 

(104)

    113

9

–

(22)

Net
£m

472

483

1,166

(1,363)  

(197)

(1)

757 

1,126

(1,273)    

(147)

–

610

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38 LIABILITIES ARISING FROM INSURANCE CONTRACTS AND PARTICIPATING INVESTMENT CONTRACTS  continued

These provisions represent the liability for short-term insurance contracts for which the Group’s obligations are not expired at the year end.

Gross
£m

Reinsurance
£m

Claims outstanding

Notified claims

Incurred but not reported

At 1 January 2009

Adjustment on acquisition

Cash paid for claims settled in the year

Increase (decrease) in liabilities:

Arising from current year claims

Arising from prior year claims

Change in liabilities charged to income statement (note 10)

At 31 December 2009

Cash paid for claims settled in the year

Increase (decrease) in liabilities:

Arising from current year claims

Arising from prior year claims

Change in liabilities charged to income statement (note 10)

At 31 December 2010

Notified claims

Incurred but not reported

At 31 December 2010

Notified claims

Incurred but not reported

At 31 December 2009

160

23

183

208

(513)

623

   1

111

502

(467)

581

    (32)

82

584

420

164

584

289

213

502

(5)

–

(5)

(5)

14

(15)

   (2)

(3)

(13)

11

(12)

     (1)

(2)

(15)

(4)

(11)

(15)

(9)

(4)

(13)

Net
£m

155

23

178

203

(499)

608

   (1)

108

489

(456)

569

    (33)

80

569

416

153

569

280

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114

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NON-LIFE INSURANCE CLAIMS DEVELOPMENT TABLE
The development of insurance liabilities provides a measure of the Group’s ability to estimate the ultimate value of claims. The top half of the  
table below illustrates how the Group’s estimate of total claims outstanding for each accident year shown has changed at successive year ends.  
The bottom half of the table reconciles the cumulative claims to the amount appearing in the balance sheet. The accident year basis is considered 
the most appropriate for the business written by the Group.

NON-LIFE INSURANCE ALL RISKS – GROSS

Accident year

Estimate of ultimate claims costs:

At end of accident year

One year later

Two years later

Three years later

Four years later

Five years later

Current estimate in respect of 
above claims

Current estimate of claims 
relating to general insurance 
business acquired in 2009

Current estimate of cumulative 
claims

Cumulative payments to date

Liability recognised in the 
balance sheet

Liability in respect of earlier 
years1

Total liability included in the 
balance sheet

2005
£m

211

207

204

202

201

201

201

284

485

(472)

13

2006
£m

208

206

204

204

205

205

326

531

(520)

11

2007
£m

317

311

299

292

2008
£m

205

199

195

2009
£m

639

539

2010
£m

Total
£m

609

2,189

292

195

539

609

2,041

394

686

(671)

15

263

458

(430)

28

–

539

(443)

96

–

1,267

609

(226)

383

3,308

(2,762)

546

22

568

1

This balance includes £2 million of claims relating to general insurance business acquired during 2009.

The liability of £568 million shown in the above table excludes £16 million of unallocated claims handling expenses.

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39 LIFE INSURANCE SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS

The following table demonstrates the effect of changes in key assumptions on profit before tax and equity disclosed in these financial statements 
assuming that the other assumptions remain unchanged. In practice this is unlikely to occur, and changes in some assumptions may be correlated. 
These amounts include movements in assets, liabilities and the value of the in-force business in respect of insurance contracts and participating 
investment contracts. The impact is shown in one direction but can be assumed to be reasonably symmetrical.

As at 31 December 2010

Non-annuitant mortality1

Annuitant mortality2

Lapse rates3

Future maintenance and investment expenses4

Risk-free rate5

Guaranteed annuity option take up6

Equity investment volatility7

Widening of credit default spreads on corporate bonds8

Increase in illiquidity premia9

As at 31 December 2009

Non-annuitant mortality1

Annuitant mortality2

Lapse rates3

Future maintenance and investment expenses4

Risk-free rate5

Guaranteed annuity option take up6

Equity investment volatility7

Widening of credit default spreads on corporate bonds8

Increase in illiquidity premia9

Increase 
 (reduction) in
profit before tax
£m

Increase
 (reduction) in
equity
£m

Change in
variable

5% reduction

5% reduction

10% reduction

10% reduction

0.25% reduction

5% addition

1% addition

0.25% addition

0.10% addition

64

(131)

163

201

61

(4)

(8)

(152)

78

46

(96)

117

145

44

(3)

(6)

(110)

56

Increase  
(reduction) in  
profit before tax 
£m 

Increase  
(reduction) in 
 equity 
£m

Change in  
variable

5% reduction

5% reduction

10% reduction

10% reduction

0.25% reduction

5% addition

1% addition

0.25% addition

0.10% addition

80

(120)

168

207

56

(7)

(13)

(144)

78

58

(86)

121

149

40

(5)

(9)

(104)

56

Assumptions have been flexed on the basis used to calculate the value of in-force business and the realistic and statutory reserving bases.

This sensitivity shows the impact of reducing mortality and morbidity rates on non-annuity business to 95 per cent of the expected rate.

This sensitivity shows the impact on the annuity and deferred annuity business of reducing mortality rates to 95 per cent of the expected rate.

This sensitivity shows the impact of reducing lapse and surrender rates to 90 per cent of the expected rate.

This sensitivity shows the impact of reducing maintenance expenses and investment expenses to 90 per cent of the expected rate.

This sensitivity shows the impact on the value of in-force business, financial options and guarantee costs, statutory reserves and asset values of reducing the risk-free rate by 25 basis points.

This sensitivity shows the impact of a flat 5 per cent addition to the expected rate.

This sensitivity shows the impact of a flat 1 per cent addition to the expected rate.

This sensitivity shows the impact of a 25 basis point increase in credit default spreads on corporate bonds and the corresponding reduction in market values. Government bond yields, the risk-free 
rate and illiquidity premia are all assumed to be unchanged.

This sensitivity shows the impact of a 10 basis point increase in the allowance for illiquidity premia. It assumes the overall corporate bond spreads are unchanged and hence market values are 
unchanged. Government bond yields and the non-annuity risk-free rate are both assumed to be unchanged. The increased illiquidity premium increases the annuity risk-free rate.

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

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40 LIABILITIES ARISING FROM NON-PARTICIPATING INVESTMENT CONTRACTS

The movement in liabilities arising from non-participating investment contracts may be analysed as follows:

At 1 January 2009

Adjustment on acquisition

New business

Changes in existing business

Exchange and other adjustments

At 31 December 2009

New business

Changes in existing business

Exchange and other adjustments

At 31 December 2010

Gross
£m

14,243

28,181

3,498

430

(4)

46,348

3,953

1,070

(8)

51,363

Reinsurance
£m

–

–

–

–

–

–

(65)

–

–

Net
£m

14,243

28,181

3,498

430

(4)

46,348

3,888

1,070

(8)

(65)

51,298

41 UNALLOCATED SURPLUS WITHIN INSURANCE BUSINESSES

The movement in the unallocated surplus within long-term insurance businesses over the year can be analysed as follows:

At 1 January

Adjustment on acquisition

Change in unallocated surplus recognised in the income statement (note 10) 

Exchange and other adjustments

At 31 December

42 OTHER LIABILITIES

Settlement balances

Unitholders’ interest in Open Ended Investment Companies

Other creditors and accruals

Other liabilities

2010
£m

1,082

–

(439)

–

643

2010
£m

1,269

15,617

12,810

29,696

2009
£m

270

526

318

(32)

1,082

2009
£m

2,070

12,415

14,835

29,320

 
 
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43 RETIREMENT BENEFIT OBLIGATIONS

Charge to the income statement 

Defined benefit pension schemes1

Other post-retirement benefit schemes

Total defined benefit schemes

Defined contribution pension schemes

Total charge to the income statement

2010
£m

(467)

12

(455)

173

(282)

1

In 2010, the amount is shown net of a credit of £910 million following the Group’s decision to cap all future increases to pensionable salary in its principal UK defined benefit pension schemes, 
together with a change in commutation factors in certain schemes (note 11).

Amounts recognised in the balance sheet 

Defined benefit pension schemes

Other post-retirement benefit schemes

Total amounts recognised in the balance sheet

Amounts recognised in the balance sheet

Retirement benefit assets

Retirement benefit obligations

Total amounts recognised in the balance sheet

PENSION SCHEMES

2010
£m

479

(166)

313

2010
£m

736

(423)

313

2009
£m

529

7

536

208

744

2009
£m

(619)

(161)

(780)

2009
£m

–

(780)

(780)

Defined benefit schemes
The Group has established a number of defined benefit pension schemes in the UK and overseas, the three most significant being the defined 
benefit sections of the Lloyds TSB Group Pension Schemes No’s 1 and 2 and the HBOS Final Salary Pension Scheme. These schemes provide 
retirement benefits calculated as a percentage of final salary depending upon the length of service; the minimum retirement age under the rules of 
the schemes at 31 December 2010 was generally 55 although certain categories of member are deemed to have a contractual right to retire at 50.

The latest full valuations of the two Lloyds TSB schemes were carried out as at 30 June 2008; the latest full valuation of the HBOS scheme was carried 
out as at 31 December 2008. The results have been updated to 31 December 2010 by qualified independent actuaries. The last full valuations of 
other Group schemes were carried out on a number of different dates; these have been updated to 31 December 2010 by qualified independent 
actuaries or, in the case of the Scottish Widows Retirement Benefits Scheme, by a qualified actuary employed by Scottish Widows.

The Group’s obligations in respect of its defined benefit schemes are funded. During 2009, the Group’s contributions to its defined benefit schemes 
of £1,859 million included one-off contributions to the Lloyds TSB Group Pension Scheme No 1 and Lloyds TSB Group Pension Scheme No 2 of 
approximately £1 billion in aggregate. These contributions took the form of interests in limited liability partnerships for each of the two schemes 
which contained assets of approximately £5 billion in aggregate entitling the schemes to annual payments of approximately £215 million in 
aggregate until 31 December 2014. Thereafter, assuming that all distributions have been made, the value of the partnership interests will equate to a 
nominal amount. At 31 December 2010, the limited liability partnerships held assets of approximatey £4.9 billion; cash payments of £215 million were  
made to the pension schemes during the year. The limited liability partnerships are fully consolidated in the Group’s balance sheet (see note 23).

The Group currently expects to pay contributions of approximately £625 million to its defined benefit schemes in 2011.

 
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4

6

8

10

12

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14

26

52

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110

112

114

Five year financial summary 

56 

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60

65

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291

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financial statements 
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financial statements 

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financial statements 

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43 RETIREMENT BENEFIT OBLIGATIONS  continued

Amount included in the balance sheet 

Present value of funded obligations

Fair value of scheme assets

Unrecognised actuarial losses

Net amount recognised in the balance sheet

Movements in the defined benefit obligation 

At 1 January

Adjustment on acquisition

Current service cost

Employee contributions

Interest cost

Actuarial gains (losses) 

Benefits paid

Past service cost

Curtailments

Settlements

Exchange and other adjustments

At 31 December

Changes in the fair value of scheme assets 

At 1 January

Adjustment on acquisition

Expected return

Employer contributions

Employee contributions

Actuarial gains

Benefits paid

Settlements

Exchange and other adjustments

At 31 December

Actual return on scheme assets

2010
£m

2009
£m

(26,862)

26,382

(480)

959

479

2010
£m

(27,073)

–

(384)

(4)

(1,474)

140

950

(46)

1,081

6

(58)

(27,073)

23,518

(3,555)

2,936

(619)

2009
£m

(15,617)

(7,046)

(395)

(2)

(1,383)

(3,568)

932

(67)

–

8

65

(26,862)

(27,073)

2010
£m

23,518

–

1,507

648

4

1,624

(950)

(9)

40

26,382

3,131

2009
£m

13,693

6,743

1,320

1,859

2

886

(932)

(12)

(41)

23,518

2,206

 
 
 
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43 RETIREMENT BENEFIT OBLIGATIONS  continued

ASSUMPTIONS
The principal actuarial and financial assumptions used in valuations of the defined benefit pension schemes were as follows:

Discount rate

Rate of inflation:

Retail Prices Index

Consumer Price Index

Rate of salary increases

Rate of increase for pensions in payment

Life expectancy for member aged 60, on the valuation date:

Men

Women

Life expectancy for member aged 60, 15 years after the valuation date:

Men

Women

2010
%

5.50

3.40

2.90

2.00

3.20

Years

27.2

28.3

28.2

29.9

2009
%

5.70

3.40

–

3.75

3.20

Years

27.1

28.2

28.7

29.8

The mortality assumptions used in the scheme valuations are based on standard tables published by the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries which 
were adjusted in line with the actual experience of the relevant schemes. The table shows that a member retiring at age 60 as at 31 December 
2010 is assumed to live for, on average, 27.2 years for a male and 28.3 years for a female. In practice there will be much variation between individual 
members but these assumptions are expected to be appropriate across all members. It is assumed that younger members will live longer in 
retirement than those retiring now. This reflects the expectation that mortality rates will continue to fall over time as medical science and standards of 
living improve. To illustrate the degree of improvement assumed the table also shows the life expectancy for members aged 45 now, when they retire 
in 15 years time at age 60.

SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS
The effect of changes in key assumptions on the pension charge in the Group’s income statement and on the gross defined benefit pension scheme 
asset or liability is set out below:

Inflation:1

Increase of 0.2 per cent

Decrease of 0.2 per cent 

Discount rate:2

Increase of 0.2 per cent

Decrease of 0.2 per cent 

Expected life expectancy of members:

Increase of one year

Decrease of one year

1

2

At 31 December 2010, the assumed rate of inflation is 3.4 per cent (31 December 2009 3.4 per cent).

At 31 December 2010, the assumed discount rate is 5.5 per cent (31 December 2009 5.7 per cent).

Increase (decrease) in the 
income statement charge

Increase (decrease) in the 
net defined benefit  
pension scheme asset

2010
£m

14

(15)

(20)

15 

40

(41)

2009
£m

69

(60)

(68)

82 

79

(76)

2010
£m

(791)

754

930

(976) 

(620)

632

2009
£m

(795)

763

937

(985)

(590)

603

 
 
 
 
 
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8

10

12

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14

26

52

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110

112

114

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56 

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60

65

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financial statements 

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43 RETIREMENT BENEFIT OBLIGATIONS  continued

The expected return on scheme assets has been calculated using the following assumptions:

Equities and alternative assets

Fixed interest gilts

Index linked gilts

Non-Government bonds

Property

Money market instruments and cash

The expected return on scheme assets in 2011 will be calculated using the following assumptions:

Equities and alternative assets

Fixed interest gilts

Index linked gilts

Non-Government bonds

Property

Money market instruments and cash

Composition of scheme assets:

Equities

Fixed interest gilts

Index linked gilts

Non-Government bonds

Property

Money market instruments, cash and other assets and liabilities

At 31 December

2010
%

8.3

4.5

4.1

6.0

7.5

4.3

2010
£m

11,856

2,237

4,159

2,922

1,654

3,554

2009
%

8.4

3.7

4.0

6.7

6.4

3.8

2011
%

8.3

4.0

3.9

4.9

7.3

3.9

2009
£m

10,934

2,038

2,917

2,148

1,577

3,904

26,382

23,518

The assets of all the funded plans are held independently of the Group’s assets in separate trustee administered funds. 

The expected return on plan assets was determined by considering the expected returns available on the assets underlying the current investment 
policy. Expected yields on fixed interest investments are based on gross redemption yields at the balance sheet date at a term and credit rating 
broadly appropriate for the bonds held. Expected returns on equity and property investments are long-term rates based on the views of the plan’s 
independent investment consultants. The expected return on equities allows for the different expected returns from the private equity, infrastructure 
and hedge fund investments held by some of the funded plans. Some of the funded plans also invest in certain money market instruments and the 
expected return on these investments has been assumed to be the same as cash.

Experience adjustments history:

Present value of defined benefit obligation

Fair value of scheme assets

Experience gains (losses) on scheme liabilities

Experience gains (losses) on scheme assets

2010
£m

(26,862)

26,382

(480)

496

1,624

2009
£m

(27,073)

23,518

(3,555)

31

886

2008
£m

(15,617)

13,693

(1,924)

(39)

(3,520)

2007
£m

(16,795)

16,112

(683)

(185)

139

2006
£m

(17,378)

15,279

(2,099)

(50)

314

 
 
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43 RETIREMENT BENEFIT OBLIGATIONS  continued

The expense recognised in the income statement for the year ended 31 December comprises:

Current service cost

Interest cost

Expected return on scheme assets

Net actuarial losses recognised in year

Curtailments (see below)

Settlements

Past service cost

Total defined benefit pension expense

2010
£m

384

1,474

(1,507)

43

(910)

3

46

(467)

2009
£m

395

1,383

(1,320)

–

–

4

67

529

Following changes by the Group to the terms of its principal UK defined benefit pension schemes, all future increases to pensionable salary will be 
capped each year at the lower of: Retail Prices Index inflation; each employee’s actual percentage increase in pay; and 2 per cent of pensionable 
pay. In addition to this, during the second half of the year there was a change in the commutation factors in certain defined benefit schemes. 
The combined effect of these changes is a reduction in the Group’s defined benefit obligation of £1,081 million and a reduction in the Group’s 
unrecognised actuarial losses of £171 million, resulting in a net curtailment gain of £910 million recognised in the income statement and an 
equivalent reduction in the balance sheet liability.

Defined contribution schemes
The Group operates a number of defined contribution pension schemes in the UK and overseas, principally the defined contribution sections of the 
Lloyds TSB Group Pension Schemes No’s 1 and 2. 

During the year ended 31 December 2010 the charge to the income statement in respect of defined contribution schemes was £173 million 
(2009: £208 million), representing the contributions payable by the employer in accordance with each scheme’s rules.

OTHER POST-RETIREMENT BENEFIT SCHEMES
The Group operates a number of schemes which provide post-retirement healthcare benefits and concessionary mortgages to certain employees, 
retired employees and their dependants. The principal scheme relates to former Lloyds Bank staff and under this scheme the Group has undertaken 
to meet the cost of post-retirement healthcare for all eligible former employees (and their dependants) who retired prior to 1 January 1996. The 
Group has entered into an insurance contract to provide these benefits and a provision has been made for the estimated cost of future insurance 
premiums payable.

For the principal post-retirement healthcare scheme, the latest actuarial valuation of the liability was carried out at 30 June 2008; this valuation has 
been updated to 31 December 2010 by qualified independent actuaries. The principal assumptions used were as set out above, except that the rate 
of increase in healthcare premiums has been assumed at 7.54 per cent (2009: 7.33 per cent).

Amount included in the balance sheet:

Present value of unfunded obligations

Unrecognised actuarial losses

Retirement benefit obligation recognised in the balance sheet

Movements in the other post-retirement benefits obligation:

At 1 January

Exchange and other adjustments

Adjustment on acquisition

Actuarial loss  

Insurance premiums paid

Charge for the year

At 31 December

2010
£m

(175)

9

(166)

2010
£m

(170)

2

–

–

5

(12)

(175)

2009
£m

(170)

9

(161)

2009
£m

(118)

7

(55)

(5)

8

(7)

(170)

 
 
 
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114

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56 

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57

60

65

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44 DEFERRED TAX

The movement in the net deferred tax balance is as follows:

Asset at 1 January

Exchange and other adjustments

Adjustment on acquisition

Disposals

Income statement (charge) credit (note 16):

Due to change in UK corporation tax rate

Other

Amount (charged) credited to equity:

Available-for-sale financial assets (note 49)

Net investment hedges (note 49)

Cash flow hedges (note 49)

Share-based compensation

Asset at 31 December

2010
£m

4,797

68

–

–

(137)

   (534) 

(671)

(330)

–

33

   20

(277)

3,917

2009
£m

833

107

1,851

16

–

   2,619

2,619

(395)

(358)

119

   5

(629)

4,797

The statutory position reflects the deferred tax assets and liabilities as disclosed in the consolidated balance sheet and takes account of the inability 
to offset assets and liabilities where there is no legally enforceable right of offset. The tax disclosure of deferred tax assets and liabilities ties to the 
amounts outlined in the table below which splits the deferred tax assets and liabilities by type.

Statutory position

Deferred tax assets

Deferred tax liabilities

Asset at 31 December

2010 
£m

4,164

(247)

3,917

2009 
£m

5,006

(209)

4,797

Tax disclosure

Deferred tax assets

Deferred tax liabilities

Asset at 31 December

2010 
£m

8,513

(4,596)

3,917

2009 
£m

8,579

(3,782)

4,797

 
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NOTES TO THE CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

44 DEFERRED TAX  continued

The deferred tax (charge) credit in the income statement comprises the following temporary differences:

Accelerated capital allowances

Pensions and other post-retirement benefits

Long-term assurance business

Allowances for impairment losses

Trading losses

Tax on fair value of acquired assets

Other temporary differences

Deferred tax (charge) credit in the income statement

Deferred tax assets and liabilities are comprised as follows:

Deferred tax assets:

Pensions and other post-retirement benefits

Allowances for impairment losses 

Other provisions

Derivatives

Available-for-sale asset revaluation

Tax losses carried forward

Other temporary differences

Total deferred tax assets

Deferred tax liabilities:

Accelerated capital allowances

Long-term assurance business

Tax on fair value of acquired assets

Effective interest rates

Other temporary differences

Total deferred tax liabilities

2010
£m

(470)

(391)

(110)

73

873

(715)

69

(671)

2010
£m

33

612

231

221

519

6,572

325

8,513

2010
£m

(562)

(1,630)

(2,097)

(74)

(233)

2009
£m

1,039

(199)

(188)

(128)

4,000

(2,022)

117

2,619

2009
£m

424

474

232

155

936

5,925

433

8,579

2009
£m

(92)

(1,530)

(1,913)

(88)

(159)

(4,596)

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12

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14

26

52

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112

114

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56 

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44 DEFERRED TAX  continued

The Finance (No. 2) Act 2010 includes legislation to reduce the main rate of corporation tax from 28 per cent to 27 per cent with effect from 1 April 
2011. This resulted in a reduction in the Group’s net deferred tax asset at 31 December 2010 of £132 million.

The proposed further reductions in the rate of corporation tax by 1 per cent per annum to 24 per cent by 1 April 2014 are expected to be enacted 
separately each year starting in 2011. The effect of these further changes upon the Group’s deferred tax balances and leasing business cannot be 
reliably quantified at this stage.

DEFERRED TAX ASSETS
Deferred tax assets are recognised for tax losses carried forward to the extent that the realisation of the related tax benefit through future taxable 
profits is probable. Group companies have recognised deferred tax assets of £6,572 million (2009: £5,925 million) in relation to trading tax losses 
carried forward. After reviews of medium-term profit forecasts, the Group considers that there will be sufficient profits in the future against which 
these losses will be offset. 

Deferred tax assets of £396 million (31 December 2009: £487 million) have not been recognised in respect of capital losses carried forward as there 
are no predicted future capital profits. Capital losses can be carried forward indefinitely. 

Deferred tax assets of £227 million (31 December 2009: £349 million) have not been recognised in respect of trading losses carried forward, mainly  
in certain overseas companies as there are limited predicted future trading profits. Trading losses can be carried forward indefinitely.

In addition, deferred tax assets have not been recognised in respect of unrelieved foreign tax carried forward as at 31 December 2010 of £62 million 
(31 December 2009: £53 million), as there are no predicted future taxable profits against which the unrelieved foreign tax credits can be utilised. 
These tax credits can be carried forward indefinitely.

DEFERRED TAX LIABILITIES
Future transfers from Scottish Widows plc’s long-term business funds to its Shareholder Fund will be subject to a shareholder tax charge. Under 
IAS 12, no provision is required to be made to the extent that the timing of such transfers is under Scottish Widows plc’s control. Accordingly, 
deferred tax liabilities of £90 million (2009: £90 million) have not been recognised. 

Scottish Widows plc has a taxable difference of £152 million (2009: £152 million) in respect of its holding of a life insurance subsidiary. No deferred tax 
liability is required to be recognised in respect of this taxable temporary difference under IAS 12 as Scottish Widows plc does not intend to dispose 
of this subsidiary company.

45 OTHER PROVISIONS

At 1 January 2010

Exchange and other 
adjustments 

Transfers

Provisions applied

Charge for the year

At 31 December 2010

Provisions for
contingent
liabilities and
commitments
£m

Customer 
remediation
provisions
£m

Customer
goodwill
payments
£m

Restructuring
provisions
£m

72

16

–

(9)

75

154

460

(26)

49

(222)

83

344

–

–

–

–

500

500

116

(1)

–

(16)

23

122

Vacant 
 leasehold
property
£m

108

4

–

(1)

35

146

Other
£m

227

9

–

(5)

35

266

Total
£m

983

2

49

(253)

751

1,532

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45 OTHER PROVISIONS  continued

PROVISIONS FOR CONTINGENT LIABILITIES AND COMMITMENTS
Provisions are held in cases where the Group is irrevocably committed to advance additional funds, but where there is doubt as to the customer’s 
ability to meet its repayment obligations.

CUSTOMER REMEDIATION PROVISIONS
The Group establishes provisions for the estimated cost of making redress payments to customers in respect of past product sales, in those cases 
where the original sales processes have been found to be deficient. During 2010 management has again reviewed the adequacy of the provisions 
held having regard to current complaint volumes and the level of payments being made and £83 million has been charged to the income statement. 
At 31 December 2010 the remaining provisions held relate to past sales of a number of products, including mortgage endowment policies, sold 
through the branch networks.

CUSTOMER GOODWILL PAYMENTS
Lloyds Banking Group has been in discussion with the FSA regarding the application of an interest variation clause in certain Bank of Scotland plc 
variable rate mortgage contracts where the wording in the offer documents received by certain customers had the potential to cause confusion.  
The relevant mortgages were written between 2004 and 2007 by Bank of Scotland plc under the ‘Halifax’ brand. In February 2011, the Group reached 
agreement with the FSA in relation to initiating a customer review and contact programme and making goodwill payments to affected customers. 
In order to make these goodwill payments, Bank of Scotland plc has applied for a Voluntary Variation of Permission to carry out the customer 
review and contact programme to bring it within section 404F(7) of FSMA 2000. The Group has made a provision of £500 million in relation to 
this programme.

RESTRUCTURING
Provisions are made for staff and other costs related to Group restructuring initiatives at the point at which the Group becomes irrevocably 
committed to the expenditure.

VACANT LEASEHOLD PROPERTY
Vacant leasehold property provisions are made by reference to a prudent estimate of expected sub-let income, compared to the head rent, and the 
possibility of disposing of the Group’s interest in the lease, taking into account conditions in the property market. These provisions are reassessed on 
a biennial basis and will normally run off over the period of under-recovery of the leases concerned, currently averaging five years; where a property is 
disposed of earlier than anticipated, any remaining balance in the provision relating to that property is released.

OTHER
Other provisions include the provisions which the Group carries in respect of its obligations arising from the liquidation of UIC Insurance Company 
Limited (UIC). The Group has indemnified a third party against losses arising from a reinsurance contract written by UIC which is subject to asbestos 
and pollution claims in the US. The ultimate cost and timing of payments under the indemnity remain uncertain. The provision held represents 
management’s current best estimate of the cost after having regard to actuarial estimates of future losses.

45 OTHER PROVISIONS

46 SUBORDINATED LIABILITIES

Preference shares

Preferred securities

Undated subordinated liabilities

Enhanced capital notes

Dated subordinated liabilities

Total subordinated liabilities

2010
£m

1,165

4,538

2,002

9,235

19,292

36,232

2009
£m

1,983

5,078

2,665

9,047

15,954

34,727

The securities in this note will, in the event of the winding-up of the issuer, be subordinated to the claims of depositors and all other creditors of the 
issuer, other than creditors whose claims rank equally with, or are junior to, the claims of the holders of the subordinated liabilities. The subordination 
of specific subordinated liabilities is determined in respect of the issuer and any guarantors of that liability. The claims of holders of preferred shares  
and securities are generally junior to those of the holders of undated subordinated liabilities, which in turn are junior to the claims of holders of the 
dated subordinated liabilities. The subordination of the dated enhanced capital notes ranks equally with that of the dated subordinated liabilities. 
The Group has not had any defaults of principal, interest or other breaches with respect to its subordinated liabilities during the year (2009: none).  
No repayment or purchase by the issuer of the subordinated liabilities may be made prior to their stated maturity without the consent of the  
Financial Services Authority. 

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financial statements 

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auditors on the parent company 
financial statements 

Parent company financial 
statements 

Notes to the parent company 
financial statements 

144

146

153

272

273

276

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46 SUBORDINATED LIABILITIES  continued

The movement in subordinated liabilities during the year was as follows:

At 1 January 2010

Issued during the year

Repurchases and redemptions during the year

Foreign exchange and other movements

At 31 December 2010

Preference shares

6% Non-cumulative Redeemable Preference Shares

6.267% Fixed/Floating Rate Non-Cumulative Callable Preference Shares callable 2016 
(US$1,000 million)

9¼% Non-cumulative Irredeemable £1 preference shares (£300 million)

9¾% Non-cumulative Irredeemable £1 preference shares (£100 million)

6.413% Fixed-to-Floating Rate US$1 series A preference shares (US$750 million)

5.92% Fixed-to-Floating Rate US$1 series B preference shares (US$750 million)

6.657% Fixed-to-Floating rate US$1 preference shares (US$750 million)

7.875% Non-cumulative callable preference shares (US$1,250 million) 
7.875% Non-cumulative callable preference shares (€500 million)

6.475% fixed rate non-cumulative callable preference shares (£186 million)

6.0884% fixed-to-floating rate non-cumulative callable preference shares (£745 million)

6.3673% fixed-to-floating non-cumulative callable preference shares (£335 million)

£m

34,727

3,511

(3,618)

1,612

36,232

2009
£m

–

327

197

72

115

90

28

680

417

45

10

2

Note

a

d, e

e

b, c, e

e

d, e

e

b, e

b, e

b, c, e

b, e

b, e

2010
£m

–

269

235

30

113

9

5

277

182

34

9

2

Total preference shares

1,165

1,983

a   Since 2004, the Company has had in issue 400 6 per cent non-cumulative preference shares of 25p each. The shares, which are redeemable at the option of the Company at any time, carry the 

rights to a fixed rate non-cumulative preferential dividend of 6 per cent per annum; no dividend shall be payable in the event that the directors determine that prudent capital ratios would not be 
maintained if the dividend were paid. Upon winding up, the shares rank equally with any other preference shares issued by the Company. The holder of the 400 25p 6 per cent preference shares has 
waived its right to payment for the period from 1 March 2010 to 1 March 2012.

b  As part of the Group’s recapitalisation and exit from the Government Asset Protection Scheme, following an exchange offer, on 1 December , 10 December and 15 December 2009, certain holders 

of certain series elected to exchange some or all of the preference shares they held for equity issued by Lloyds Banking Group plc on 18 February 2010.

c   Following an invitation to certain eligible retail holders on 15 December 2009, certain holders of certain series elected to sell some or all of the preference shares they held to 

Lloyds Banking Group plc in January 2010.

d  Following conclusion of a limited number of privately negotiated bilateral exchanges on 7 May 2010, certain holders of certain series elected to exchange some or all of the preference shares they 

held for equity issued by Lloyds Banking Group plc.

e   In November 2009, as part of the state aid restructuring plan, the Group agreed to suspend the payment of coupons on these instruments for the two year period from 31 January 2010 to 

31 January 2012.

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46 SUBORDINATED LIABILITIES  continued

Preferred securities

6.90% Perpetual Capital Securities (US$1,000 million)
7.375% Euro Step-up Non-Voting Non-Cumulative Preferred Securities callable 2012 (€430 million)
6.35% Step-up Perpetual Capital Securities callable 2013 (€500 million)

7.834% Sterling Step-up Non-Voting Non-Cumulative Preferred Securities callable 2015 (£250 million)
4.385% Step-up Perpetual Capital Securities callable 2017 (€750 million)

13.00% Step-up Perpetual Capital Securities callable 2019 (£784 million)
13.00% Euro Step-up Perpetual Capital Securities callable 2019 (€532 million)

12% Fixed to Floating Rate Perpetual Tier 1 Capital Securities callable 2024 (US$2,000 million)

13.00% Sterling Step-up Perpetual Capital Securities callable 2029 (£700 million)

6.071% Non-cumulative Perpetual Preferred Securities of US$1,000 each (US$750 million)

6.85% Non-cumulative Perpetual Preferred Securities of US$1,000 each (US$1,000 million)

6.461% Guaranteed Non-voting Non-cumulative Perpetual Preferred Securities Series A of  
£1,000 each (£600 million)

8.117% Non-cumulative Perpetual Preferred Securities Series 1 of £1,000 each (Class A) (£250 million)

7.754% Non-cumulative Perpetual Preferred Securities Series 2 of £1,000 each (Class B) (£150 million)

7.881% Guaranteed Non-voting Non-cumulative Preferred Securities (£245 million)
7.627% Fixed to Floating Rate Guaranteed Non-voting Non-cumulative Preferred Securities (€415 million)
4.939% Non-voting Non-cumulative Perpetual Preferred Securities (€750 million)

Perpetual Regulatory Tier One Securities (£300 million)

Total preferred securities 

Note

a, c

a, b

a

a, b

a, b

a, b

b

a, b

c

c, d

c

b

2010
£m

249

16

241

4

85

10

56

2009
£m

645

306

456

43

82

9

47

1,288

1,235

662

336

107

421

253

98

173

308

17

214

666

240

–

398

234

93

151

259

10

204

4,538

5,078

a   As part of the Group’s recapitalisation and exit from the Government Asset Protection Scheme, following an exchange offer, on 1 December 2009, 10 December and 15 December 2009 certain 

holders of certain series elected to exchange some or all of the notes they held for equity issued by Lloyds Banking Group plc on 18 February 2010.

b  In November 2009, as part of the state aid restructuring plan, the Group agreed to suspend the payment of coupons on these instruments for the two year period from  

31 January 2010 to 31 January 2012.

c   These securities are callable at specific dates as per the terms of the securities at the option of the issuer and with approval from the FSA. In November 2009, as part of the state aid restructuring 

plan, the Group agreed not to exercise any call options on these instruments for the two year period from 31 January 2010 to 31 January 2012.

d  The fixed rate on this security was reset from 8.117 per cent to 6.059 per cent with effect from 31 May 2010.

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1

2

3

4

6

8

10

12

Summary of Group results 

Divisional results 

Other financial information 

14

26

52

Board of Directors 

Directors’ report 

Corporate governance report 

110

112

114

Five year financial summary 

56 

Directors’ remuneration report  124

Our people 

Corporate responsibility 

Risk management 

57

60

65

Shareholder information 

Glossary 

Abbreviations 

Index to annual report 

284

285

290

291

Report of the independent  
auditors on the consolidated  
financial statements 

Consolidated  
financial statements 
Notes to the consolidated  
financial statements 

Report of the independent  
auditors on the parent company 
financial statements 

Parent company financial 
statements 

Notes to the parent company 
financial statements 

144

146

153

272

273

276

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46 SUBORDINATED LIABILITIES  continued

Undated subordinated liabilities

Primary Capital Undated Floating Rate Notes:

Series 1 (US$750 million)

Series 2 (US$500 million)

Series 3 (US$600 million)

11¾% Perpetual Subordinated Bonds (£100 million)

65/8% Undated Subordinated Step-up Notes callable 2010 (£410 million)

5.125% Step-up Perpetual Subordinated Notes callable 2015 (£560 million) (Scottish Widows plc)

5.125% Undated Subordinated Step-up Notes callable 2016 (£500 million)

6½% Undated Subordinated Step-up Notes callable 2019 (£270 million)

8% Undated Subordinated Step-up Notes callable 2023 (£200 million)

6½% Undated Subordinated Step-up Notes callable 2029 (£450 million)

6% Undated Subordinated Step-up Guaranteed Bonds callable 2032 (£500 million)

5.625% Cumulative Callable Fixed to Floating Rate Undated Subordinated Notes (£500 million)
4.875% Undated Subordinated Fixed to Floating Rate Instruments (€750 million)
Floating Rate Undated Subordinated Notes (€500 million)
5.375% Undated Fixed to Floating Rate Subordinated Notes (US$1,000 million)
5.125% Undated Subordinated Fixed to Floating Notes (€750 million)
5.75% Undated Subordinated Step-up Notes (£600 million)
6.05% Fixed to Floating Rate Undated Subordinated Notes (€500 million)
7.5% Undated Subordinated Step-up Notes (£300 million) 

3.50% Undated Subordinated Yen Step-up Notes (JPY 42.5 billion)

8.625% Perpetual Subordinated Notes (£200 million)

7.375% Undated Subordinated Guaranteed Bonds (£200 million) (Clerical Medical Finance plc)
Floating Rate Undated Subordinated Step-up Notes (€300 million)
Floating Rate Primary Capital Notes (US$250 million)

10.25% Subordinated Undated Instruments (£100 million)

12% Perpetual Subordinated Bonds (£100 million)

8.75% Perpetual Subordinated Bonds (£100 million)

13.625% Perpetual Subordinated Bonds (£75 million)

9.375% Perpetual Subordinated Bonds (£50 million)

5.75% Undated Subordinated Step-up Notes (£500 million)
4.25% Perpetual Fixed/Floating Rate Reset Subordinated Guaranteed Notes (€750 million) 
(Clerical Medical Finance plc)

7.375% Subordinated Undated Instruments (£150 million)

Total undated subordinated liabilities

Note

b, c, d

b, c, d

b, c, d

b, d, e

a

b

b

b

b

b

b

b

b

b

b

d

c

b

d

2010
£m

173

181

232

102

6

550

–

1

–

–

10

–

65

42

12

47

3

57

3

–

21

35

63

b, c, d

118

b

b

b

b

b

b

1

21

4

20

16

3

215

1

2,002

2009
£m

408

262

326

102

5

547

–

–

–

–

10

1

60

41

3

39

2

50

4

267

18

35

58

146

1

22

6

33

26

3

190

–

2,665

a   Scottish Widows plc may elect to defer interest on these securities although in that event Scottish Widows plc cannot declare or pay a dividend on any ordinary share capital until any deferred 

payments have been made.

b  In November 2009, as part of the state aid restructuring plan, the Group agreed to suspend the payment of coupons on these instruments for the two year period from 31 January 2010 to 

31 January 2012.

c   Following an exchange offer, on 28 May 2010 and 14 June 2010, certain holders elected to exchange some or all of the notes they held for equity issued by Lloyds Banking Group plc.

d  These securities are callable at specific dates as per the terms of the securities at the option of the issuer and with approval from the FSA. In November 2009, as part of the state aid restructuring 

plan, the Group agreed not to exercise any call options on these instruments for the two year period from 31 January 2010 to 31 January 2012.

e   The fixed rate on this security was reset from 6.625 per cent to 4.6482 per cent with effect from 15 July 2010.

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NOTES TO THE CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

46 SUBORDINATED LIABILITIES  continued

With the exception of the two series identified in note b, the ECNs were issued in lower tier 2 format and are convertible into ordinary shares on 
the breach of a defined trigger. The trigger on the ECNs offered in the exchange will be if the published core tier 1 ratio of the Group falls below 
5 per cent (as defined by the Financial Services Authority in May 2009).

Enhanced capital notes

7.5884% Enhanced Capital Notes due 2020 (Series 1) (£732 million)

7.8673% Enhanced Capital Notes due 2019 (Series 2) (£331 million)

7.975% Enhanced Capital Notes due 2024 (Series 3) (£102 million)

7.869% Enhanced Capital Notes due 2020 (Series 8) (£596 million)
8.875% Enhanced Capital Notes due 2020 (Series 12) (€125 million)

9.334% Enhanced Capital Notes due 2020 (Series 14) (£208 million)
6.439% Enhanced Capital Notes due 2020 (Series 15) (€710 million)
6.385% Enhanced Capital Notes due 2020 (Series 18) (€662 million)

11.04% Enhanced Capital Notes due 2020 (Series 19) (£736 million)

15% Enhanced Capital Notes due 2019 (Series 21) (£775 million)
15% Enhanced Capital Notes due 2019 (Series 22) (€487 million)

15% Enhanced Capital Notes due 2029 (Series 23) (£68 million)

9.125% Enhanced Capital Notes due 2020 (Series 27) (£148 million)

11.125% Enhanced Capital Notes due 2020 (Series 31) (£39 million)
7.375% Enhanced Capital Notes due 2020 (Series 32) (€95 million)
Floating Rate Enhanced Capital Notes due 2020 (Series 33) (€53 million)

12.75% Enhanced Capital Notes due 2020 (Series 34) (£57 million)

8.07% Enhanced Capital Notes due 2020 (Series 35) (¥20,000 million)
7.625% Enhanced Capital Notes due 2020 (Series 36) (€226 million)

6.75% Enhanced Capital Notes due 2020 (Series 37) (¥17,000 million)

7.625% Enhanced Capital Notes due 2019 (Series 39) (£151 million)

9% Enhanced Capital Notes due 2019 (Series 40) (£97 million)

8.125% Enhanced Capital Notes due 2019 (Series 41) (£4 million)

14.5% Enhanced Capital Notes due 2022 (Series 42) (£79 million)

9.875% Enhanced Capital Notes due 2023 (Series 44) (£57 million)

11.25% Enhanced Capital Notes due 2023 (Series 45) (£95 million)

10.5% Enhanced Capital Notes due 2023 (Series 46) (£69 million)

11.875% Enhanced Capital Notes due 2024 (Series 47) (£35 million)

9% Enhanced Capital Notes due 2029 (Series 49) (£107 million)

8.5% Enhanced Capital Notes due 2032 (Series 50) (£104 million)

16.125% Enhanced Capital Notes due 2024 (Series 52) (£61 million)

7.875% Enhanced Capital Notes due 2020 (US$986 million)

8% Fixed to Floating Rate Undated Enhanced Capital Notes callable 2022 (US$1,259 million)

8.5% Undated Enhanced Capital Notes callable 2021 (Series 2) (US$277 million)

7.875% Enhanced Capital Notes due 2020 (US$408 million)

Total enhanced capital notes

a   Interest is payable quarterly in arrears at a rate of 3 month EURIBOR  plus 3.1 per cent per annum.

b Issued in upper tier 2 format.

Note

a

c

c

b

b

2010
£m

694

336

98

589

116

233

562

525

872

2009
£m

690

316

96

572

117

218

557

517

871

1,145

1,125

635

111

158

45

82

41

75

–

189

–

142

103

4

115

67

115

79

45

112

105

99

631

674

150

288

646

108

153

45

80

42

74

156

193

121

142

100

4

115

62

115

78

45

108

100

100

599

639

143

–

9,235

9,047

c   Following conclusion of a privately negotiated bilateral exchange on 19 March 2010, certain holders elected to exchange some or all of the notes they held for enhanced capital notes issued by 

Lloyds Banking Group Capital No. 2 plc.

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Marketplace trends 

1

2

3

4

6

8

10

12

Summary of Group results 

Divisional results 

Other financial information 

14

26

52

Board of Directors 

Directors’ report 

Corporate governance report 

110

112

114

Five year financial summary 

56 

Directors’ remuneration report  124

Our people 

Corporate responsibility 

Risk management 

57

60

65

Shareholder information 

Glossary 

Abbreviations 

Index to annual report 

284

285

290

291

Report of the independent  
auditors on the consolidated  
financial statements 

Consolidated  
financial statements 
Notes to the consolidated  
financial statements 

Report of the independent  
auditors on the parent company 
financial statements 

Parent company financial 
statements 

Notes to the parent company 
financial statements 

144

146

153

272

273

276

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and Accounts 2010

46 SUBORDINATED LIABILITIES  continued

Dated subordinated liabilities
6 1/4% Subordinated Notes 2010 (€400 million)
12% Guaranteed Subordinated Bonds 2011 (£100 million)
7.70% Notes 2010 (US$500 million)
9 1/8% Subordinated Bonds 2011 (£150 million) 
4 3/4% Subordinated Notes 2011 (€850 million)
6.50% Notes 2011 (US$150 million)
5.50% Subordinated Fixed Rate Notes 2012 (€750 million)
6.25% Instruments 2012 (€12.8 million)
6.125% Notes 2013 (€325 million)
4.25% Subordinated Guaranteed Notes 2013 (US$1,000 million)
5 7/8% Subordinated Guaranteed Bonds 2014 (€750 million)
5 7/8% Subordinated Notes 2014 (£150 million)
11% Subordinated Bonds 2014 (£250 million)
6 5/8% Subordinated Notes 2015 (£350 million)
4.875% Subordinated Notes 2015 (€1,000 million)
Subordinated Step-up Floating Rate Notes 2016 callable 2011 (£300 million)
Subordinated Step-up Floating Rate Notes 2016 callable 2011 (€500 million)
Callable Floating Rate Subordinated Notes 2016 (€500 million)
Subordinated Notes 2016 (€500 million)
Notes 2016 (US$750 million)
Subordinated Lower Tier II Notes 2017 (€1,000 million)
Subordinated Callable Notes 2017 (US$1,000 million)
Subordinated Callable Floating Rate Instruments 2017 (Aus$400 million)
6.75% Subordinated Callable Fixed/Floating Rate Instruments 2017 (Aus$200 million)
5.109% Callable Fixed to Floating Rate Notes 2017 (Can$500 million)
6.305% Lower Tier II Subordinated Notes 2017 (£500 million)
5.625% Subordinated Fixed to Floating Rate Notes due 2018 callable 2013 (€1,000 million)
10.5% Subordinated Bonds 2018 (£150 million)
6.75% Subordinated Fixed Rate Notes 2018 (US$2,000 million)
6.375% Instruments 2019 (£250 million)
4.375% Callable Fixed to Floating Rate Subordinated Notes 2019 (€750 million)
6.5% Dated Subordinated Notes 2020 (€1,500 million)
6.9625% Subordinated Fixed to Floating Rate Notes due 2020 callable 2015 (£750 million)
Subordinated Floating Rate Notes 2020 (€100 million)
7.375% Dated Subordinated Notes 2020
6.5% Subordinated Fixed Rate Notes 2020 (US$2,000 million)
9.375% Subordinated Bonds 2021 (£500 million)
5.374% Subordinated Fixed Rate Notes 2021 (€160 million)
6.45% Fixed/Floating Subordinated Guaranteed Bonds 2023 (€400 million)
(Clerical Medical Finance plc)
7.07% Subordinated Fixed Rate Notes 2023 (€175 million)
5.75% Subordinated Step-up Notes 2025 callable 2020 (£350 million)
95/8% Subordinated Bonds 2023 (£300 million)
4.50% Fixed Rate Step-up Subordinated Notes due 2030 (€750 million)
7.625% Dated Subordinated Notes 2025 (£750 million)
6.00% Subordinated Notes 2033 (US$750 million)
Total dated subordinated liabilities

a  Issued by a group undertaking under the Company’s subordinated guarantee.

Note

a

b

b

b

b

b

2010
£m

–
109
–
147
764
99
657
10
289
619
739
149
297
343
838
296
432
401
417
440
758
548
255
127
305
486
946
171
1,176
236
600
1,353
715
86
4
1,202
647
139

173
162
324
332
463
763
275
19,292

2009
£m

375
108
327
152
771
102
654
10
296
594
768
154
304
335
875
296
445
374
389
367
704
464
209
101
263
474
979
165
917
227
602
–
755
89
–
–
268
132

171
128
322
333
478
–
477
15,954

b   These securities are callable at specific dates as per the terms of the securities at the option of the issuer and with approval of the FSA. In November 2009, as part of the state aid restructuring plan, 

the Group agreed not to exercise any call options on these instruments for the two year period from 31 January 2010 to 31 January 2012.

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NOTES TO THE CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

47 SHARE CAPITAL

(1) AUTHORISED SHARE CAPITAL
As permitted by the Companies Act 2006, the Company removed references to authorised share capital from its articles of association at the annual 
general meeting on 5 June 2009. This change took effect from 1 October 2009. 

(2) ISSUED AND FULLY PAID SHARE CAPITAL

Ordinary shares of 10p (formerly 25p) each

At 1 January

Issued on redemption of preference shares and other  
subordinated liabilities in 2010

Placing and open offer 

Issued on acquisition of HBOS

Capitalisation issue

Placing and compensatory open offer 

Subdivision

Rights issue

Issued to the Lloyds TSB Foundations

Issued under employee share schemes

At 31 December

Limited voting ordinary shares of 10p (formerly 25p) each

At 1 January

Capitalisation issue

Subdivision

At 31 December

Deferred shares of 15p each

At 1 January

Subdivision of ordinary shares

Subdivision of limited voting ordinary shares

Cancellation of deferred shares

At 31 December

Total issued share capital

2010
Number of shares

2009
Number of shares

2010
£m

63,774,511,536

5,972,855,669

6,378

4,299,422,579

–

429

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

2,596,653,203

7,775,694,993

407,943,501

10,408,535,000

–

36,505,088,579

107,740,591

195,339

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

68,074,129,454

63,774,511,536

6,807

80,921,051

–

–

78,947,368

1,973,683

–

80,921,051

80,921,051

8

–

–

8

27,242,603,417

–

4,086

–

–

27,161,682,366

80,921,051

(27,242,603,417)

–

–

27,242,603,417

–

–

(4,086)

–

6,815

2009
£m

1,493

–

649

1,944

102

2,602

(4,074)

3,651

11

–

6,378

20

–

(12)

8

–

4,074

12

–

4,086

10,472

On 5 November 2010 the Company cancelled all of its deferred shares and an amount of £4,086 million was credited to the capital redemption reserve.

Share subdivision in 2009
At the general meeting held on 26 November 2009 the Company’s shareholders approved the subdivision of the ordinary shares with each ordinary 
share of 25 pence subdivided into one ordinary share of 10 pence and a deferred share of 15 pence. In addition, the shareholders approved the 
subdivision of the limited voting ordinary shares with each share of 25 pence subdivided into one limited voting ordinary share of 10 pence and a 
deferred share of 15 pence.

 
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1

2

3

4

6

8

10

12

Summary of Group results 

Divisional results 

Other financial information 

14

26

52

Board of Directors 

Directors’ report 

Corporate governance report 

110

112

114

Five year financial summary 

56 

Directors’ remuneration report  124

Our people 

Corporate responsibility 

Risk management 

57

60

65

Shareholder information 

Glossary 

Abbreviations 

Index to annual report 

284

285

290

291

Report of the independent  
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financial statements 

Consolidated  
financial statements 
Notes to the consolidated  
financial statements 

Report of the independent  
auditors on the parent company 
financial statements 

Parent company financial 
statements 

Notes to the parent company 
financial statements 

144

146

153

272

273

276

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47 SHARE CAPITAL  continued

Share issuances
On 18 February 2010, the Company issued 3,141 million ordinary shares as consideration for the redemption of certain preference shares and 
preferred securities. 

During May and June 2010, the Company issued a further 1,158 million ordinary shares in relation to three separate exchanges for preference shares 
and other subordinated liabilities issued by the Group.

(3) SHARE CAPITAL AND CONTROL
There are no restrictions on the transfer of shares in the Company other than as set out in the articles of association and:

 – certain restrictions which may from time to time be imposed by law and regulations (for example, insider trading laws);

 – pursuant to the UK Listing Authority’s listing rules where directors and certain employees of the Company require the approval of the Company to 
deal in the Company’s shares; and

 – pursuant to the rules of some of the Company’s employee share plans where certain restrictions may apply while the shares are subject to the plans.

Where, under an employee share plan operated by the Company, participants are the beneficial owners of shares but not the registered owners, the 
voting rights are normally exercised by the registered owner at the direction of the participant. Outstanding awards and options would normally vest 
and become exercisable on a change of control, subject to the satisfaction of any performance conditions at that time.

In addition, the Company is not aware of any agreements between shareholders that may result in restrictions on the transfer of securities and/or 
voting rights.

Information regarding significant direct or indirect holdings of shares in the Company can be found on page 284.

The directors have authority to allot and issue ordinary and preference shares and to make market purchases of ordinary and preference shares as 
granted at the annual general meeting on 6 May 2010. The authority to issue shares and the authority to make market purchases of shares will expire 
at the annual general meeting. Shareholders will be asked, at the annual general meeting, to give similar authorities.

Subject to any rights or restrictions attached to any shares, on a show of hands at a general meeting of the Company every holder of shares present 
in person or by proxy and entitled to vote has one vote and on a poll every member present and entitled to vote has one vote for every share held.

Further details regarding voting at the annual general meeting can be found in the notes to the notice of the annual general meeting.

Ordinary shares
The holders of ordinary shares (excluding the limited voting ordinary shares), who held 99.9 per cent of the total ordinary share capital as at  
31 December 2010, are entitled to receive the Company’s report and accounts, attend, speak and vote at general meetings and appoint proxies to 
exercise voting rights. Holders of ordinary shares (excluding the limited voting ordinary shares) may also receive a dividend (subject to the provisions 
of the Company’s articles of association and the restrictions noted below) and on a winding up may share in the assets of the Company.

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47 SHARE CAPITAL  continued

In November 2009, as part of the restructuring plan that was a requirement for European Commission approval of state aid received by the Group, 
the Group agreed to suspend the payment of coupons and dividends on certain of the Group’s preference shares and preferred securities for the 
two-year period from 31 January 2010 to 31 January 2012. Consequently, the terms of these instruments prevent the Company from making dividend 
payments on ordinary shares. 

Limited voting ordinary shares
The limited voting ordinary shares are held by the Lloyds TSB Foundations (the Foundations). The holders of the limited voting ordinary shares, who 
held 0.1 per cent of the total ordinary shares as at 31 December 2010, are entitled to receive copies of every circular or other document sent out by 
the Company to the holders of other ordinary shares. These shares carry no rights to dividends but rank pari passu with the ordinary shares in respect 
of other distributions and in the event of winding up. These shares do not have any right to vote at general meetings other than on resolutions 
concerning acquisitions or disposals of such importance that they require shareholder consent, or for the winding up of the Company, or for a 
variation in the class rights of the limited voting ordinary shares. In the event of an offer for more than 50 per cent of the issued ordinary share capital 
of the Company, each limited voting ordinary share will convert into an ordinary share and shall rank equally with the ordinary shares in all respects 
from the date of conversion. 

Preference shares
The Company has in issue various classes of preference shares which are all classified as liabilities under IFRS and details of which are shown in 
note 46.

48 SHARE PREMIUM ACCOUNT

At 1 January

Shares issued on redemption and exchange of preference shares  
and other subordinated liabilities1

Capitalisation issue

Placing and Compensatory Open Offer of ordinary shares

Transfer to merger reserve2

Rights issue

Issued to Lloyds TSB Foundations

Redemption of preference shares3

At 31 December

2010
£m

14,472

1,808

–

–

–

–

–

11

16,291

2009
£m

2,096

–

(102)

1,303

(1,000)

9,461

30

2,684

14,472

1

2

3

On 18 February 2010, the Company issued 3,141 million ordinary shares as consideration for the redemption of certain preference shares and preferred securities; and during May and June 2010, 
the Company issued a further 1,158 million ordinary shares in relation to three separate exchanges for preference shares and other subordinated liabilities issued by the Group. A total share premium 
of £1,808 million was recorded in respect of these transactions.

Distributable reserves of £1,000 million arose on the issue of preference shares in January 2009 which were classified as debt. In June 2009, these preference shares were redeemed out of the 
proceeds of the placing and compensatory open offer of ordinary shares and the distributable element of this issue was transferred from the share premium account to the merger reserve.

In January 2010, the Company repurchased and cancelled certain preference shares amounting to £14 million. This resulted in a transfer of £3 million from the merger reserve to the capital 
redemption reserve and a transfer of £11 million from the merger reserve to the share premium account. In December 2009, the Group redeemed eight issues of preference shares in exchange for the 
issuance of enhanced capital notes. This resulted in a transfer of £26 million from the merger reserve to the capital redemption reserve and a transfer of £2,684 million from the merger reserve to the 
share premium account. 

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2

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6

8

10

12

Summary of Group results 

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Other financial information 

14

26

52

Board of Directors 

Directors’ report 

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110

112

114

Five year financial summary 

56 

Directors’ remuneration report  124

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57

60

65

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49 OTHER RESERVES

Other reserves comprise:

Merger reserve

Capital redemption reserve

Revaluation reserve in respect of available-for-sale financial assets

Cash flow hedging reserve 

Foreign currency translation reserve

At 31 December

1

Restated (see note 1).

2010
£m

8,107

4,115

(285)

(391)

29

11,575

20091
£m

8,121

26

(783)

(305)

158

7,217

The merger reserve primarily comprises the premium on shares issued on 13 January 2009 under the placing and open offer and shares issued on 
16 January 2009 on the acquisition of HBOS plc.

The capital redemption reserve represents transfers from the merger reserve in accordance with companies’ legislation and amounts transferred from 
share capital following the cancellation of the deferred shares.

The revaluation reserve in respect of available-for-sale financial assets represents the cumulative after tax unrealised change in the fair value of 
financial assets classified as available-for-sale since initial recognition, or in the case of available-for-sale financial assets obtained on acquisitions of 
businesses, since the date of acquisition.

The cash flow hedging reserve represents the cumulative after tax gains and losses on effective cash flow hedging instruments that will be reclassified 
to the income statement in the periods in which the hedged item affects profit or loss. 

The foreign currency translation reserve represents the cumulative after-tax gains and losses on the translation of foreign operations and exchange 
differences arising on financial instruments designated as hedges of the Group’s net investment in foreign operations.

Movements in other reserves were as follows:

Merger reserve

At 1 January

Placing and open offer

Shares issued on acquisition of HBOS

Issue of preference shares1

Redemption of preference shares2

At 31 December

Capital redemption reserve

At 1 January

Cancellation of deferred shares (note 47)

Redemption of preference shares2

At 31 December

2010
£m

8,121

–

–

–

(14)

8,107

2010
£m

26

4,086

3

4,115

2009
£m

343

3,781

5,707

1,000

(2,710)

8,121

2009
£m

–

–

26

26

1

2

Distributable reserves of £1,000 million arose on the issue of preference shares in January 2009 which were classified as debt. In June 2009, these preference shares were redeemed out of the 
proceeds of the placing and compensatory open offer of ordinary shares and the distributable element of this issue was transferred to the merger reserve.

In January 2010, the Company repurchased and cancelled certain preference shares amounting to £14 million. This resulted in a transfer of £3 million from the merger reserve to the capital 
redemption reserve and a transfer of £11 million from the merger reserve to the share premium account. Details of the preference shares repurchased are set out in note 46. In December 2009, the 
Group redeemed eight issues of preference shares in exchange for the issuance of enhanced capital notes. This resulted in a transfer of £26 million from the merger reserve to the capital redemption 
reserve and a transfer of £2,684 million from the merger reserve to the share premium account. 

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49 OTHER RESERVES  continued

Revaluation reserve in respect of available-for-sale financial assets

At 1 January:

As previously stated

Prior year adjustment

Restated (note 1)

Change in fair value of available-for-sale financial assets

Change in fair value attributable to non-controlling interests

Deferred tax

Current tax

Income statement transfers:

Disposals (note 9)

Deferred tax

Impairment

Deferred tax

Other transfers

Deferred tax

At 31 December 

Cash flow hedging reserve

At 1 January 

Change in fair value of hedging derivatives

Deferred tax 

Current tax

Income statement transfer (note 5)

Deferred tax

At 31 December 

Foreign currency translation reserve
At 1 January 
Currency translation differences arising in the year
Foreign currency losses on net investment hedges
Current tax
Deferred tax

At 31 December 

2010
£m

2009
£m

(2,982)

  131

(2,851)

2,035

(1)

(276)

   (2) 

1,756

(97)

  23

(74)

621

    (168)

453

(93)

    26

(67)

(783)

2009
£m

(15)

(530)

148 

  –

(382)

121

  (29) 

92

(305)

2009
£m

178
(652)
814
176
  (358) 

632
158

(783)

1,231

–

(460)

(8)  

763

(399)

 106

(293)

114

(5)

109

(110)

    29

(81)

(285)

2010
£m

(305)

(1,048)

272 

(3)  

(779)

932

(239)

693

(391)

2010
£m

158
33
(162)
–
–    

(162)
29

   
   
   
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6

8

10

12

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14

26

52

Board of Directors 

Directors’ report 

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110

112

114

Five year financial summary 

56 

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60

65

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50 RETAINED PROFITS

At 1 January:

As previously stated

Prior year adjustment

Restated (note 1)

(Loss) profit for the year

Purchase/sale of treasury shares

Employee share option schemes – value of employee services

At 31 December 

2010
£m

11,117

(320)

429

154

2009
£m

8,260

  (131)

8,129

2,827

45

116

11,380

11,117

Retained profits are stated after deducting £47 million (2009: £48 million) representing 49 million (2009: 49 million) treasury shares held.

Value of employee services includes a credit of £134 million (2009: £111 million) reflecting the income statement charge in respect of SAYE and 
executive options, together with a related tax credit of £20 million (2009: tax credit £5 million). Purchase/sale of treasury shares includes a credit 
of £409 million (2009: £128 million) relating to the cost of other share scheme awards.

51 ORDINARY DIVIDENDS

No dividends were paid on ordinary shares during 2009 or 2010 and the directors do not propose to pay a final dividend in respect of 2010; in 
November 2009, as part of the restructuring plan that was a requirement for European Commission approval of state aid received by the Group,  
the Group agreed to suspend the payment of coupons and dividends on certain of the Group’s preference shares and preferred securities, for the 
two year period from 31 January 2010 to 31 January 2012. Consequently, the terms of these instruments prevent the Company from making  
dividend payments on ordinary shares.

In addition, the trustees of the following holdings of Lloyds Banking Group plc shares in relation to employee share schemes retain the right to 
receive dividends but chose to waive their entitlement to the dividends on those shares as indicated: the Lloyds Banking Group Share Incentive 
Plan (holding at 31 December 2010: 5,744,722 shares, at 31 December 2009: 3,028,623 shares, waived right to all dividends), the Lloyds TSB Group 
Employee Share Ownership Trust (holding at 31 December 2010: 283,109,984 shares, at 31 December 2009: 1,301,968 shares, waived right to 
all dividends), Lloyds TSB Group Holdings (Jersey) Limited (holding at 31 December 2010: 42,846 shares, at 31 December 2009: 42,846 shares, 
waived right to all but a nominal amount of 1 penny in total) and the Lloyds TSB Qualifying Employee Share Ownership Trust (holding at 
31 December 2010: 1,398 shares, at 31 December 2009: 1,398 shares, waived right to all but a nominal amount of 1 penny in total).

52 SHARE-BASED PAYMENTS

CHARGE TO THE INCOME STATEMENT
The charge to the income statement is set out below:

Deferred bonus plan

Executive and SAYE plans:

Options granted in the year

Options granted in prior years

Share plans:

Shares granted in the year

Shares granted in prior years

Total charge to the income statement

2010
£m

390

59

    75

134

3

    49

52

576

2009
£m

18

13

  98 

111

26

  102 

128

257

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52 SHARE-BASED PAYMENTS  continued

During the year ended 31 December 2010 the Group operated the following share-based payment schemes, all of which are equity settled.

DEFERRED BONUS PLANS
Bonuses in respect of the performance in 2010 of employees within certain of the Group’s bonus plans have been recognised in these financial 
statements in full. The amounts to be settled in shares are included within the total charge to the income statement detailed above.

LLOYDS BANKING GROUP EXECUTIVE SHARE OPTION SCHEMES
The executive share option schemes were long-term incentive schemes available to certain senior executives of the Group, with grants usually made 
annually. Options were granted within limits set by the rules of the schemes relating to the number of shares under option and the price payable on 
the exercise of options. The last grant of executive options was made in August 2005. These options were granted without a performance multiplier 
and the maximum limit for the grant of options in normal circumstances was three times annual salary. Between April 2001 and August 2004, the 
aggregate value of the award based upon the market price at the date of grant could not exceed four times the executive’s annual remuneration and, 
normally, the limit for the grant of options to an executive in any one year would be equal to 1.5 times annual salary with a maximum performance 
multiplier of 3.5. Prior to 18 April 2001, the normal limit was equal to one year’s remuneration and no performance multiplier was applied.

Performance conditions for executive options

FOR OPTIONS GRANTED UP TO MARCH 2001
The performance condition was that growth in earnings per share must be equal to the aggregate percentage change in the Retail Prices Index plus 
three percentage points for each complete year of the relevant period together with a further condition that Lloyds Banking Group plc’s ranking 
based on total shareholder return (calculated by reference to both dividends and growth in share price) over the relevant period should be in the top 
fifty companies of the FTSE 100.

The relevant period for the performance conditions began at the end of the financial year preceding the date of grant and continued until the end of 
the third subsequent year following commencement or, if not met, the end of such later year in which the conditions were met. Once the conditions 
were satisfied the options remained exercisable without further conditions. If they were not satisfied by the tenth anniversary of the grant the options 
would lapse.

FOR OPTIONS GRANTED FROM AUGUST 2001 TO AUGUST 2004
The performance condition was linked to the performance of Lloyds Banking Group plc’s total shareholder return (calculated by reference to both 
dividends and growth in share price) against a comparator group of 17 companies including Lloyds Banking Group plc.

The performance condition was measured over a three year period which commenced at the end of the financial year preceding the grant of the 
option and continued until the end of the third subsequent year. If the performance condition was not then met, it was measured at the end of the 
fourth financial year. If the condition was not then met, the options would lapse. 

To meet the performance conditions, the Group’s ranking against the comparator group was required to be at least ninth. The full grant of options 
only became exercisable if the Group was ranked first. A performance multiplier (of between nil and 100 per cent) was applied below this level to 
calculate the number of shares in respect of which options granted to Executive Directors would become exercisable, and were calculated on a 
sliding scale. If Lloyds Banking Group plc was ranked below median the options would not be exercisable.

Options granted to senior executives other than Executive Directors were not so highly leveraged and, as a result, different performance multipliers 
were applied to their options. For the majority of executives, options were granted with the performance condition but with no performance 
multiplier.

Options granted in 2004 became exercisable as the performance condition was met on the re-test. The performance condition vested at 14 per cent 
for Executive Directors, 24 per cent for Managing Directors, and 100 per cent for all other executives.

FOR OPTIONS GRANTED IN 2005
The same conditions applied as for grants made up to August 2004, except that:

 –  the performance condition was linked to the performance of Lloyds Banking Group plc’s total shareholder return (calculated by reference to both 

dividends and growth in share price) against a comparator group of 15 companies including Lloyds Banking Group plc;

 – if the performance condition was not met at the end of the third subsequent year, the options would lapse; and

 – the full grant of options became exercisable only if the Group was ranked in the top four places of the comparator group. A sliding scale applied 
between fourth and eighth positions. If Lloyds Banking Group was ranked below the median (ninth or below) the options would lapse.

Options granted in 2005 became exercisable as the performance condition was met when tested. The performance condition vested at 82.5 per cent 
for all options granted.

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52 SHARE-BASED PAYMENTS  continued

Movements in the number of share options outstanding under the executive share option schemes during 2009 and 2010 are set out below:

Outstanding at 1 January

Rebasement adjustment1

Exercised

Forfeited 

Outstanding at 31 December

Exercisable at 31 December

2010

2009

Number of
options

8,784,978

7,523,547

–

(2,945,224)

13,363,301

13,363,301

Weighted average
exercise price
 (pence)

Number of
options 

Weighted average
exercise price
 (pence)

476.56

(26.43)

–

296.36

233.09

233.09

11,203,628

490.05

–

–

(2,418,650)

8,784,978

8,784,978

–

–

536.46

476.56

476.56

1

Options granted under this plan were adjusted on 13 August 2010 as a result of the Capitalisation Issue, the Placing and Compensatory Open Offer and the Rights Issue of 2009. The adjustment was 
made using a standard Her Majesty’s Revenue & Customs (HMRC) formula, to negate the dilutionary impact of these corporate actions.

No options were exercised during 2010 or 2009. The weighted average remaining contractual life of options outstanding at the end of the year was 
3.6 years (2009: 4.3 years).

SAVE-AS-YOU-EARN SCHEMES
Eligible employees may enter into contracts through the Save-As-You-Earn schemes to save up to £250 per month and, at the expiry of a fixed term 
of three, five or seven years, have the option to use these savings within six months of the expiry of the fixed term to acquire shares in the Group at a 
discounted price of no less than 80 per cent of the market price at the start of the invitation.

Movements in the number of share options outstanding under the SAYE schemes are set out below:

Outstanding at 1 January

Adjustment on acquisition

Rebasement adjustment1

Granted 

Exercised

Forfeited

Cancelled

Expired

Outstanding at 31 December

Exercisable at 31 December

2010

2009

Number of
options

Weighted average
exercise price
 (pence)

Number of
options 

Weighted average
exercise price
 (pence)

130,133,992

177.60

190,478,449

–

–

53,755,275

22,382,641

(416.83)

655,712,663

(195,339)

(13,922,185)

(107,144,275)

46.78

49.30

57.34

66.53

–

–

–

(9,581,800)

(93,599,380)

(18,923,463)

179.35

(10,918,552)

668,044,034

49.59

130,133,992

663,942

172.93

754,554

152.54

415.21

–

–

–

400.93

206.07

470.16

177.60

317.32

1

Options granted under these plans were adjusted on 13 August 2010 as a result of the Capitalisation Issue, the Placing and Compensatory Open Offer and the Rights Issue of 2009. The adjustment 
was made using a standard HMRC formula, to negate the dilutionary impact of these corporate actions.

The weighted average share price at the time that the options were exercised during 2010 was £0.69 (2009: £nil). The weighted average remaining 
contractual life of options outstanding at the end of the year was 2.7 years (2009: 2.7 years).

The weighted average fair value of SAYE options granted during 2010 was £0.33 (2009: £nil). The values for the SAYE options have been determined 
using a standard Black-Scholes model.

For the HBOS sharesave plan, no options were exercised during 2010 or 2009. The options outstanding at 31 December 2010 had an exercise price of 
£1.8066 (2009: £3.64) and a weighted average remaining contractual life of 2.9 years (2009: 4.0 years).

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52 SHARE-BASED PAYMENTS  continued

OTHER SHARE OPTION PLANS

Lloyds Banking Group Executive Share Plan 2003
The plan was adopted in December 2003 and under the plan share options may be granted to senior employees. Options under this plan have been 
granted specifically to facilitate recruitment and as such were not subject to any performance conditions. The plan’s usage has now been extended to 
not only compensate new recruits for any lost share awards but also to make grants to key individuals for retention purposes with, in some instances, 
the grant being made subject to individual performance conditions.

Outstanding at 1 January

Granted 

Rebasement adjustment1

Exercised

Forfeited

Outstanding at 31 December

Exercisable at 31 December

2010

2009

Number of
options

Weighted average
exercise price
 (pence)

26,099,185

13,429,561

12,501,246

(2,661,703)

(1,673,532)

47,694,757

–

Nil

Nil

Nil

Nil

Nil

Nil

Nil

Number of
options 

857,611

24,704,070

1,876,005

(157,105)

(1,181,396)

26,099,185

33,794

Weighted average
exercise price
 (pence)

Nil

Nil

Nil

Nil

Nil

Nil

Nil

1

Options granted under this plan were adjusted on 2 July 2009 as a result of the Placing and Compensatory Open Offer and on 13 August 2010 as a 
result of the Capitalisation Issue and Rights Issue of 2009. The adjustments were made, where applicable, using a standard HMRC formula, to negate 
the dilutionary impact of these corporate actions.

The weighted average fair value of options granted in the year was £0.63 (2009: £0.68). The weighted average share price at the time that the options 
were exercised during 2010 was £0.63 (2009: £0.71). The weighted average remaining contractual life of options outstanding at the end of the year 
was 2.4 years (2009: 3.0 years).

HBOS share option plans 
The table below details the outstanding options for the HBOS Share Option Plan, the St James’s Place Share Option Plan, and the 1995 and 
1996 Bank of Scotland Executive Stock Option schemes. The final award under the HBOS Share Option Plan was made in 2004. Under this plan, 
options over shares, at market value with a face value equal to 20 per cent of salary, were granted to employees with the exception of certain senior 
executives. A separate option plan exists for some partners of St James’s Place, which grants options in respect of Lloyds Banking Group plc shares. 
The final award under the St James’s Place Share Option Plan was made in 2009. Movements in the number of share options outstanding under 
these schemes are set out below:

Outstanding at 1 January (16 January 2009)

Rebasement adjustment1

Granted

Forfeited

Outstanding at 31 December

Exercisable at 31 December

2010

2009

Weighted average

Number of  

exercise price  

options

14,301,748

12,899,990

–

(2,506,244)

24,695,494

15,320,780

(pence)

880.27

(61.23)

–

611.90

415.70

593.79

Number of  
options

Weighted average
exercise price  
(pence)

13,040,430

1,167.26

–

4,040,555

(2,779,237)

14,301,748

9,198,557

–

104.50

1,099.02

880.27

1,169.14

1

Options granted under these plans were adjusted on 13 August 2010 as a result of the Capitalisation Issue, the Placing and Compensatory Open 
Offer and the Rights Issue of 2009. The adjustment was made using a standard HMRC formula, to negate the dilutionary impact of these corporate 
actions.

No options were exercised during 2010 or 2009. The options outstanding under the HBOS Share Option Plan and St James’s Place Share Option 
Plan at 31 December 2010 had exercise prices in the range of £0.5183 to £8.7189 (2009: £1.05 to £17.576) and a weighted average remaining 
contractual life of 3.0 years.

No options were outstanding under the Bank of Scotland Executive Stock Option schemes at 31 December 2010. Options outstanding at 
31 December 2009 had exercise prices in the range of £8.834 to £10.009 and a weighted average remaining contractual life of 0.8 years. 

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14

26

52

Board of Directors 

Directors’ report 

Corporate governance report 

110

112

114

Five year financial summary 

56 

Directors’ remuneration report  124

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57

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65

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52 SHARE-BASED PAYMENTS  continued

OTHER SHARE PLANS

Lloyds Banking Group Long-Term Incentive Plan
The Long-Term Incentive Plan (LTIP) introduced in 2006 is aimed at delivering shareholder value by linking the receipt of shares to an improvement 
in the performance of the Group over a three year period. Awards are made within limits set by the rules of the plan, with the limits determining the 
maximum number of shares that can be awarded equating to three times annual salary. In exceptional circumstances this may increase to four times 
annual salary.

The performance conditions for awards made in March and August 2007 are as follows:

(i) 

(ii) 

 For 50 per cent of the award (the EPS Award) – the percentage increase in earnings per share of the Group (on a compound annualised basis) 
over the relevant period needed to be at least an average of 6 percentage points per annum greater than the percentage increase (if any) in 
the Retail Prices Index over the same period. If it was less than 3 per cent per annum the EPS Award would lapse. If the increase was more than 
3 per cent but less than 6 per cent per annum then the proportion of shares released would be on a straight line basis between 17.5 per cent and 
100 per cent. The relevant period commenced on 1 January 2007 and ended on 31 December 2009.

 For the other 50 per cent of the award (the TSR Award) – it was necessary for the Group’s total shareholder return (calculated by reference to both 
dividends and growth in share price) to exceed the median of a comparator group (14 companies) over the relevant period by an average of 
7.5 per cent per annum for the TSR Award to vest in full. 17.5 per cent of the TSR Award would vest where the Group’s total shareholder return was 
equal to median and vesting would occur on a straight line basis in between these points. Where the Group’s total shareholder return was below 
the median of the comparator group, the TSR Award would lapse. The relevant period commenced on 8 March 2007 and ended on 7 March 2010.

As a consequence of the acquisition of HBOS and the general market turmoil, in March 2009 the Remuneration Committee decided that 
the performance test for the 2007 awards should be based on the performance of the Group up to 17 September 2008, the date prior to the 
announcement of the HBOS acquisition. The performance test was on a fair value basis, on the estimated probability, as at that date, of achieving 
the performance conditions. As a consequence, for all participants, other than those who were Executive Directors at the time the award was granted 
and a small number of other senior executives, the share awards vested at 31 per cent in March 2010.

The performance conditions for awards made in March, April and August 2008 are as follows:

(i) 

(ii) 

 For 50 per cent of the award (the EPS Award) – the performance condition is as described for the 2007 awards with the relevant performance 
period commencing on 1 January 2008 and ending on 31 December 2010.

 For the other 50 per cent of the award (the TSR Award) – the performance condition is as described for the 2007 awards, except that the 
comparator group comprises of 13 companies, with the relevant performance period commencing on 6 March 2008 (the date of the first award) 
and ending on 5 March 2011.

The current LTIP rules allow for awards to be made of up to 400 per cent of base salary. Under normal circumstances awards are made of 300 per cent 
of salary with the additional 100 per cent available for circumstances that the Remuneration Committee deems to be exceptional. In 2008, awards 
were made of 375 per cent of base salary to the Group Chief Executive and two of the Executive Directors for retention purposes, and in light of data 
reviewed by the committee which showed total remuneration to be behind median both for the FTSE 20, and the other major UK banks.

As for the 2007 LTIP awards, as a consequence of the acquisition of HBOS and the general market turmoil, in March 2009 the Remuneration 
Committee decided that the performance test for the 2008 awards should be based on the performance of the Group up to 17 September 2008, the 
date prior to the announcement of the HBOS acquisition. The performance test was on a fair value basis, on the estimated probability, as at that date, 
of achieving the performance conditions. As a consequence, for all participants, other than those who were Executive Directors at the time the award 
was granted and a small number of other senior executives, the share awards will vest at 29 per cent in March 2011.

The performance conditions for awards made in April, May and September 2009 are as follows:

(i) 

 EPS: relevant to 50 per cent of the award. Performance will be measured based on EPS growth over a three-year period from the baseline EPS 
of 2008. 

 If the growth in EPS reaches 26 per cent, 25 per cent of this element of the award, being the threshold, will vest. If growth in EPS reaches 
36 per cent, 100 per cent of this element will vest.

(ii)    Economic Profit: relevant to 50 per cent of the award. Performance will be measured based on the extent to which cumulative Economic Profit 

targets are achieved over the three-year period.

 If the absolute improvement in adjusted Economic Profit reaches 100 per cent, 25 per cent of this element of the award, being the threshold, will 
vest. If the absolute improvement in adjusted Economic Profit reaches 202 per cent, 100 per cent of this element will vest.

The EPS and economic profit performance measures applying to this 2009 LTIP award were set on the basis that the Group would enter into 
the Government Asset Protection Scheme. As the Group is not participating in the Government Asset Protection Scheme, in June 2010 the 
Remuneration Committee approved restated performance measures on a basis consistent with the EPS and economic profit measures used for the 
2010 LTIP awards.

 
  
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52 SHARE-BASED PAYMENTS  continued

An additional discretionary award was made in April, May and September 2009. The performance conditions for those awards are as follows:

(i) 

(ii) 

 Synergy savings: The release of 50 per cent of the shares will be dependent on the achievement of target run-rate synergy savings in 2009 and 
2010 as well as the achievement of sustainable synergy savings of at least £1.5 billion by the end of 2011. The award will be broken down into three 
equally weighted annual tranches. Performance will be assessed at the end of each year against annual performance targets based on a trajectory 
to meet the 2011 target. The extent to which targets have been achieved will determine the proportion of shares to be banked each year. Any 
release of shares will be subject to the Remuneration Committee judging the overall success of the delivery of the integration programme.

 Integration balanced scorecard: The release of the remaining 50 per cent of the shares will be dependent on the outcome of a Balanced 
Scorecard of non-financial measures of the success of the integration in each of 2009, 2010 and 2011. The Balanced scorecard element will be 
broken down into three equally weighted tranches. The tranches will be crystallised and banked for each year of the performance cycle subject 
to separate annual performance targets across the four measurement categories of Building the Business, Customer, Risk and People and 
Organisation Development.

Performance against the first two years of the award has been assessed and all targets have been met or exceeded.

The performance conditions for awards made in March and August 2010 are as follows:

(i) 

 EPS: relevant to 50 per cent of the award. Performance will be measured based on EPS growth over a three-year period from the baseline 
EPS of 2009.

 If the absolute improvement in adjusted EPS reaches 158 per cent, 25 per cent of this element of the award, being the threshold, will vest.  
If absolute improvement in adjusted EPS reaches 180 per cent, 100 per cent of this element will vest.

Vesting between threshold and maximum will be on a straight line basis.

(ii) 

 Economic Profit:  relevant to 50 per cent of the award. Performance will be measured based on the compound annual growth rate of adjusted 
Economic Profit over the three financial years starting on 1 January 2010 relative to an adjusted 2009 Economic Profit base.

 If the compounded annual growth rate of adjusted Economic Profit reaches 57 per cent per annum, 25 per cent of this element of the award, 
being the threshold, will vest. If the compounded annual growth rate of adjusted Economic Profit reaches 77 per cent per annum, 100 per cent of 
this element will vest.

Vesting between threshold and maximum will be on a straight line basis.

For awards made to Executive Directors, a third performance condition was set, relating to Absolute Share Price, relevant to 28 per cent of the award. 
Performance will be measured based on the Absolute Share Price on 26 March 2013, being the third anniversary of the award date. If the share 
price at the end of the performance period is 75 pence or less, none of this element of the award will vest. If the share price is 114 pence or higher, 
100 per cent of this element will vest. Vesting between threshold and maximum will be on a straight line basis, provided that shares comprised in the 
Absolute Share Price element may only be released if both the EPS and Economic Profit performance measures have been satisfied at the threshold 
level or above. The EPS and Economic Profit performance conditions will each relate to 36 per cent of the total award.

Outstanding at 1 January

Granted 

Rebasement adjustment

Forfeited

Outstanding at 31 December

2010
Number of shares

2009
Number of shares

223,233,052

22,237,282

148,810,591

199,293,192

106,990,259

10,443,102

(31,891,411)

(8,740,524)

447,142,491

223,233,052

The fair value of the share awards granted in 2010 was £0.61 (2009: £0.68).

Conditional awards of shares made under this plan were adjusted on 2 July 2009 as a result of the Placing and Compensatory Open Offer and on 
13 August 2010 as a result of the Capitalisation Issue and Rights Issue of 2009. The adjustments were made, where applicable, using a standard 
HMRC formula, to negate the dilutionary impact of the above corporate actions.

Performance share plan
Under the performance share plan, introduced during 2005, participating executives were eligible for an award of free shares, known as performance 
shares, to match the bonus shares awarded as part of their 2004 and 2005 bonus. The maximum match was two performance shares for each bonus 
share, awarded at the end of a three year period. The actual number of shares awarded was dependent on the Group’s total shareholder return 
performance measured over a three year period, compared to other companies in the comparator group. The maximum of two performance 
shares for each bonus share would be awarded only if the Group’s total shareholder return performance placed it first in the comparator group; 
one performance share for each bonus share would be granted if the Group was placed fifth; and one performance share for every two bonus 
shares if the Group was placed eighth (median). Between first and fifth position, and fifth and eighth position, sliding scales would apply. If the total 
shareholder return performance was below median, no performance shares would be awarded. There was no retest. Whilst income tax and national 

 
 
 
 
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2

3

4

6

8

10

12

Summary of Group results 

Divisional results 

Other financial information 

14

26

52

Board of Directors 

Directors’ report 

Corporate governance report 

110

112

114

Five year financial summary 

56 

Directors’ remuneration report  124

Our people 

Corporate responsibility 

Risk management 

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60

65

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financial statements 
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financial statements 

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financial statements 

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52 SHARE-BASED PAYMENTS  continued

insurance were deducted from the bonus before deferral into the plan, where a match of performance shares was justified, these shares would have 
been awarded as if income tax and national insurance had not been deducted.

The performance condition attached to the March 2006 award was not met, with Lloyds Banking Group ranked in ninth place. Bonus shares were 
released on 20 March 2009, at which time the performance shares lapsed.

Outstanding at 1 January

Lapsed

Outstanding at 31 December

2010
Number of 
shares

–

–

–

2009
Number  
of shares

941,324

(941,324)

–

The ranges of exercise prices, weighted average exercise prices, weighted average remaining contractual life and number of options outstanding for 
the option schemes were as follows:

Executive schemes

SAYE schemes

Other share option plans

Weighted
average

Weighted
average
exercise price remaining life
 (years)

 (pence)

Number of
options

Weighted
average

Weighted
average
exercise price remaining life
 (years)

 (pence)

Weighted
average

Weighted
average
exercise price remaining life
(years)

 (pence)

Number of
options

Number of
options

31 December 2010

Exercise price range

£0 to £1

£1 to £2

£2 to £3

£3 to £4

£5 to £6

31 December 2009

Exercise price range

£0 to £1

£1 to £2

£2 to £3

£3 to £4

£4 to £5

£5 to £6

£6 to £7

£7 to £8

–

199.91

225.83

324.92

–

–

–

3.6

262,725

3.9 12,052,934

0.2 1,047,642

–

–

47.74

178.74

210.74

–

–

2.7 658,912,847

7.41

2.5

55,656,496

2.8

1.4

–

–

7,984,764

1,146,423

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

567.65

2.9

15,462,949

Executive schemes

SAYE schemes

Other share option plans

Weighted
average

Weighted
average
exercise price remaining life
 (years)

 (pence)

Weighted
average

Weighted
average
exercise price remaining life
 (years)

 (pence)

Number of
options

–

–

–

–

464.19

552.02

653.55

–

–

–

–

–

4.9

0.2

1.2

–

–

–

–

–

7,526,441

515,527

743,010

–

–

139.00

220.98

349.18

427.04

–

–

–

–

2.5

3.9

2.0

1.8

–

–

–

Number of
options

–

107,939,699

18,054,765

2,842,644

1,296,884

–

–

–

Weighted
average

Weighted
average
exercise price remaining life
(years)

 (pence)

 Nil

104.50

–

394.64

499.91

573.60

640.00

707.40

3.1

2.3

–

5.2

0.2

0.6

0.0

0.2

Number of
options

26,099,185

4,019,026

–

721,886

273,986

53,328

2,388,026

6,845,496

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52 SHARE-BASED PAYMENTS  continued

The fair value calculations at 31 December 2010 for grants made in the year are based on the following assumptions:

Risk-free interest rate

Expected life

Expected volatility

Expected dividend yield

Weighted average share price

Weighted average exercise price

Expected forfeitures

SAYE

1.80%

Other option
schemes

Other share
plans

0.76%

1.33%

3.0 years

1-5 years

2-4 years

85%

1.4%

0.59

0.48

4%

83%

0.5%

0.67

Nil

4%

70%

0.9%

0.67

Nil

4%

Expected volatility is a measure of the amount by which the Group’s shares are expected to fluctuate during the life of an option. The expected 
volatility is estimated based on the historical volatility of the closing daily share price over the most recent period that is commensurate with the 
expected life of the option. The historical volatility is compared to the implied volatility generated from market traded options in the Group’s shares 
to assess the reasonableness of the historical volatility and adjustments made where appropriate.

SHARE INCENTIVE PLAN

Free shares
An award of shares may be made annually to employees based on a percentage of each employee’s salary in the preceding year up to a maximum 
of £3,000. The percentage is normally announced concurrently with the Group’s annual results and the price of the shares awarded is announced 
at the time of award. The shares awarded are held in trust for a mandatory period of three years on the employee’s behalf, during which period the 
employee is entitled to any dividends paid on such shares. The award is subject to a non-market based condition: if an employee leaves the Group 
within this three year period for other than a ‘good’ reason, all of the shares awarded will be forfeited.

No free shares were awarded in 2009 or 2010. 

Matching shares
The Group undertakes to match shares purchased by employees up to the value of £30 per month; these shares are held in trust for a mandatory 
period of three years on the employee’s behalf, during which period the employee is entitled to any dividends paid on such shares. The award is 
subject to a non-market based condition: if an employee leaves within this three year period for other than a ‘good’ reason, 100 per cent of the 
matching shares are forfeited. Similarly if the employees sell their purchased shares within three years, their matching shares are forfeited.

The number of shares awarded relating to matching shares in 2010 was 17,411,651 (2009: 16,746,310), with an average fair value of £0.63 (2009: £0.69), 
based on market prices at the date of award.

53 RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS

KEY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL
Key management personnel are those persons having authority and responsibility for planning, directing and controlling the activities of an 
entity; the Group’s key management personnel are the members of the Lloyds Banking Group plc Group Executive Committee together with its 
Non-Executive Directors.

The table below details, on an aggregated basis, key management personnel compensation:

Compensation

Salaries and other short-term benefits

Post-employment benefits

Total compensation

2010
£m

15

2

17

2009
£m

17

1

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2

3

4

6

8

10

12

Summary of Group results 

Divisional results 

Other financial information 

14

26

52

Board of Directors 

Directors’ report 

Corporate governance report 

110

112

114

Five year financial summary 

56 

Directors’ remuneration report  124

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65

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Aggregate contributions in respect of key management personnel to defined contribution pension schemes were £0.4 million (2009: £0.4 million).

Share option plans

At 1 January

Granted, including certain adjustments1 (includes entitlements of appointed directors)

At 31 December

1

Adjustments have been made, using a standard HMRC formula, to negate the dilutionary impact of the Group’s 2009 capital raising activities.

Share plans

At 1 January

Granted, including certain adjustments1 (includes entitlements of appointed directors)

Exercised/lapsed (includes entitlements of former directors)

At 31 December

1

Adjustments have been made, using a standard HMRC formula, to negate the dilutionary impact of the Group’s 2009 capital raising activities.

2010
million

2009
million

2

4

6

2

–

2

2010
million

2009
million

19

39

(2)

56

7

17

(5)

19

The tables below detail, on an aggregated basis, balances outstanding at the year end and related income and expense, together with information 
relating to other transactions between the Group and its key management personnel:

Loans

At 1 January

Advanced (includes loans of appointed directors)

Repayments (includes loans of former directors)

At 31 December

2010
£m

2

2

(1)

3

The loans are on both a secured and unsecured basis and are expected to be settled in cash. The loans attracted interest rates of between 
0.50 per cent and 17.90 per cent in 2010 (2009: 1.28 per cent and 24.90 per cent).

No provisions have been recognised in respect of loans given to key management personnel (2009: £nil).

Deposits

At 1 January

Placed (includes deposits of appointed directors)

Withdrawn (includes deposits of former directors)

At 31 December

2010
£m

4

12

(12)

4

2009
£m

3

–

(1)

2

2009
£m

6

12

(14)

4

Deposits placed by key management personnel attracted interest rates of up to 4.25 per cent (2009: 6.50 per cent).

At 31 December 2010, the Group did not provide any guarantees in respect of key management personnel (2009: none).

At 31 December 2010, transactions, arrangements and agreements entered into by the Group’s banking subsidiaries with directors and connected 
persons included amounts outstanding in respect of loans and credit card transactions of £2 million with six directors and four connected persons  
(2009: £2 million with seven directors and four connected persons).

SUBSIDIARIES
Details of the principal subsidiaries are given in note 9 to the parent company financial statements. In accordance with IAS 27, transactions and 
balances with subsidiaries have been eliminated on consolidation.

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53 RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS  continued

HM TREASURY
In January 2009, HM Treasury became a related party of the Company following its subscription for ordinary shares issued under a placing and open 
offer. As at 31 December 2010, HM Treasury held a 41 per cent interest (December 2009: 43 per cent) in the Company’s ordinary share capital and 
consequently HM Treasury remained a related party of the Company throughout 2010. 

Capital transactions
During 2010 HM Treasury has not subscribed for any of the Company’s ordinary or preference share capital, with the decline in the percentage of 
ordinary shares held by HM Treasury reflecting the issuance by the Company of ordinary shares as set out in note 47. 

Lending commitments
On 23 March 2010, the Company entered into a deed poll in favour of HM Treasury, the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills and the 
Departments for Communities and Local Government confirming its lending commitments for the 12 month period commencing 1 March 2010.  
The Company agreed, subject to, amongst other things, sufficient customer demand, to provide gross new lending to UK businesses of 
£44,000 million and to adjust the undertakings (but not the level of lending agreed in 2009) given in connection with lending to homeowners for  
the 12 month period. This additional lending is expressed to be subject to the Group’s prevailing commercial terms and conditions (including  
pricing and risk assessment) and, in relation to mortgage lending, the Group’s standard credit and other acceptance criteria. 

Credit Guarantee Scheme
HM Treasury launched the Credit Guarantee Scheme in October 2008 as part of a range of measures announced by the UK Government intended  
to ease the turbulence in the UK banking system. It charges a commercial fee for the guarantee of new short and medium-term debt issuance. The 
fee payable to HM Treasury on guaranteed issues is based on a per annum rate of 50 basis points plus the median five-year credit default swap 
spread. At 31 December 2010, the Group had £45,308 million (2009: £49,954 million) of debt issued under the Credit Guarantee Scheme. During 
2010, the Group redeemed £4,987 million of bonds. The Group’s income statement includes fees of £454 million (2009: £498 million) payable to  
HM Treasury in respect of guaranteed funding.

There were no other material transactions between the Group and HM Treasury during 2010 that were not made in the ordinary course of business  
or that were unusual in their nature or conditions. 

OTHER RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS

Pensions funds
The Group provides banking and some investment management services to certain of the Group pension funds. At 31 December 2010, customer 
deposits of £64 million (2009: £99 million) and investment and insurance contract liabilities of £850 million (2009: £691 million) related to the Group’s 
pension funds.

Open Ended Investment Companies (OEICs)
The Group manages 402 (2009: 382) OEICs, and of these 111 (2009: 108) are consolidated. The Group invested £1,460 million (2009: £1,271 million) 
and redeemed £982 million (2009: £1,076 million) in the unconsolidated OEICs during the year and had investments, at fair value, of £7,920 million 
(2009: £6,954 million) at 31 December. The Group earned fees of £271 million from the unconsolidated OEICs (2009: £217 million). The Company  
held no investments in OEICs at any time during 2009 or 2010. 

Joint ventures and associates
The Group provides both administration and processing services to its principal joint venture, Sainsbury’s Bank plc. The amounts receivable by 
the Group during the year were £31 million (2009: £34 million), of which £8 million was outstanding at 31 December 2010 (2009: £10 million). At 
31 December 2010, Sainsbury’s Bank plc also had balances with the Group that were included in loans and advances to banks of £1,277 million 
(2009: £1,218 million) and deposits by banks of £1,358 million (2009: £1,405 million).

At 31 December 2010 there were loans and advances to customers of £5,660 million (2009: £12,235 million) outstanding and balances within customer 
deposits of £151 million (2009: £254 million) relating to other joint ventures and associates.

In addition to the above balances, the Group has a number of other associates held by its venture capital business that it accounts for at fair value 
through profit or loss. At 31 December 2010, these companies had total assets of approximately £12,216 million (2009: £14,840 million), total liabilities 
of approximately £11,937million (2009: £15,300 million) and for the year ended 31 December 2010 had turnover of approximately £3,829 million 
(2009: £10,570 million) and made a net profit of approximately £182 million (2009: net loss of £572 million). In addition, the Group has provided 
£3,316 million (2009: £6,014 million) of financing to these companies on which it received £93 million (2009: £191 million) of interest income in the year.

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Addressing the key issues 

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1

2

3

4

6

8

10

12

Summary of Group results 

Divisional results 

Other financial information 

14

26

52

Board of Directors 

Directors’ report 

Corporate governance report 

110

112

114

Five year financial summary 

56 

Directors’ remuneration report  124

Our people 

Corporate responsibility 

Risk management 

57

60

65

Shareholder information 

Glossary 

Abbreviations 

Index to annual report 

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285

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financial statements 
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financial statements 

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financial statements 

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statements 

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financial statements 

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54 CONTINGENT LIABILITIES AND COMMITMENTS

UNARRANGED OVERDRAFT CHARGES
In April 2007, the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) commenced an investigation into the fairness of personal current accounts and unarranged overdraft 
charges. At the same time, it commenced a market study into wider questions about competition and price transparency in the provision of personal 
current accounts.

The Supreme Court published its judgment in respect of the fairness of unarranged overdraft charges on personal current accounts on 25 November 
2009, finding in favour of the litigant banks. On 22 December 2009, the OFT announced that it will not continue its investigation into the fairness 
of these charges. The Group is working with the regulators to ensure that outstanding customer complaints are concluded as quickly as possible 
and anticipates that most cases in the county courts will be discontinued. The Group expects that some customers will argue that despite the test 
case ruling they are entitled to a refund of unarranged overdraft charges on the basis of other legal arguments or challenges. It is not practicable 
to quantify the claims. The Group is robustly defending any such complaints or claims and does not expect any such complaints or claims to have a 
material adverse effect on the Group. 

The OFT however continued to discuss its concerns in relation to the personal current account market with the banks, consumer groups and other 
organisations under the auspices of its Market Study into personal current accounts. In October 2009, the OFT published voluntary initiatives agreed 
with the industry and consumer groups to improve transparency of the costs and benefits of personal current accounts and improvements to the 
switching process. On 16 March 2010 the OFT published a further update announcing several further voluntary industry wide initiatives to improve a 
customer’s ability to control whether they used an unarranged overdraft and to assist those in financial difficulty. However, in light of the progress it 
noted in the unarranged overdraft market since July 2007 and the progress it expects to see over the next two years, it has decided to take no further 
action at this time and will review the unarranged overdraft market again in 2012.

INTERCHANGE FEES
The European Commission has adopted a formal decision finding that an infringement of European Commission competition laws has arisen 
from arrangements whereby MasterCard issuers charged a uniform fallback interchange fee in respect of cross-border transactions in relation to 
the use of a MasterCard or Maestro branded payment card. The European Commission has required that the fee be reduced to zero for relevant 
cross-border transactions within the European Economic Area. This decision has been appealed to the General Court of the European Union (the 
General Court). Lloyds TSB Bank plc and Bank of Scotland plc (along with certain other MasterCard issuers) have successfully applied to intervene 
in the appeal in support of MasterCard’s position that the arrangements for the charging of a uniform fallback interchange fee are compatible with 
European Commission competition laws. MasterCard has announced that it has reached an understanding with the European Commission on a new 
methodology for calculating intra-European Economic Area multi-lateral interchange fees on an interim basis pending the outcome of the appeal. 
Meanwhile, the European Commission and the UK’s OFT are pursuing investigations with a view to deciding whether arrangements adopted by 
other payment card schemes for the levying of uniform fallback interchange fees in respect of domestic and/or cross-border payment transactions 
also infringe European Commission and/or UK competition laws. As part of this initiative, the OFT will also intervene in the General Court appeal 
supporting the European Commission’s position and Visa reached an agreement with the European Commission to reduce the level of interchange 
for crossborder debit card transactions to the interim levels agreed by MasterCard. The ultimate impact of the investigations on the Group can only 
be known at the conclusion of these investigations and any relevant appeal proceedings.

PAYMENT PROTECTION INSURANCE
There has been extensive scrutiny of the Payment Protection Insurance (PPI) market in recent years.

In October 2010, the UK Competition Commission (Competition Commission) confirmed its decision to prohibit the active sale of PPI by a distributor 
to a customer within seven days of a sale of credit. This followed the completion of its formal investigation into the supply of PPI services (other than 
store card PPI) to non-business customers in the UK in January 2009 and a referral of the proposed prohibition to the Competition Appeal Tribunal. 
Following an earlier decision to stop selling single premium PPI products, the Group ceased to offer PPI products to its customers in July 2010.

On 1 July 2008, the Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) referred concerns regarding the handling of PPI complaints to the Financial Services 
Authority (FSA) as an issue of wider implication. On 29 September 2009 and 9 March 2010, the FSA issued consultation papers on PPI complaints 
handling. The FSA proposed new guidance on the fair assessment of a complaint and the calculation of redress and a new rule requiring firms to 
reassess historically rejected complaints. The FSA published its Policy Statement on 10 August 2010, setting out a new set of rules for PPI complaints 
handling and redress which had to be implemented by 1 December 2010. 

On 8 October 2010, the British Bankers Association (BBA), the principal trade association for the UK banking and financial services sector, filed an 
application for permission to seek judicial review against the FSA and the FOS. The BBA is seeking an order quashing the FSA Policy Statement  
and an order quashing the decision of the FOS to determine PPI sales in accordance with the guidance published on its website in November 2008. 
The Judicial hearing was held in late January 2011 and the judgment (which may be subject to appeal) is expected shortly.

This legal challenge has affected the implementation of the Policy Statement, since the challenge has called into question the standards to be 
applied when assessing PPI complaints. As a result of that challenge, a large number of complaints cannot be decided until the outcome of the  
legal challenge is clear and implemented.

The ultimate impact on the Group of the FSA’s complaints handling policy (if implemented in full) and the FOS’s most recent approach to PPI 
complaints could be material to the Group’s financial position, although the precise effect can only be assessed once the legal proceedings have 
been finally determined and the steps the Group may be required to take identified and implemented. In addition, it is not practicable to quantify 
the potential financial impact of the implementation of the Policy Statement given the material uncertainties around, for example, applicable time 

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54 CONTINGENT LIABILITIES AND COMMITMENTS  continued

periods, the extent of application of root cause analysis, the treatment of evidence and the ultimate emergence period for complaints, driven in large 
part by the activities of the claims management companies, all of which will significantly affect complaints volumes, uphold rates and redress costs. 
No provision has been made in these financial statements to reflect implementation of the FSA’s complaint handling policy in its current form.

Following concerns expressed by the FSA, it announced in its statement on 29 September 2009 that several firms had agreed to carry out reviews 
of past sales of single premium loan protection insurance. Lloyds Banking Group has agreed in principle that it will undertake a review in relation to 
sales of single premium loan protection insurance made through its branch network since 1 July 2007. The precise details of the review are still being 
discussed with the FSA. The ultimate impact on Lloyds Banking Group of any review could be material but can only be known at the conclusion of 
these discussions. 

US SANCTIONS
In January 2009 Lloyds TSB Bank plc announced the settlement it had reached with the US Department of Justice and the New York County District 
Attorney’s Office in relation to their investigations into historic US dollar payment practices involving countries, persons or entities subject to the 
economic sanctions administered by the US Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC). On 22 December 2009 OFAC announced the settlement it 
had reached with Lloyds TSB Bank plc in relation to its investigation and confirmed that the settlement sum due to OFAC had been fully satisfied by 
Lloyds TSB Bank plc’s payment to the Department of Justice and the New York County District Attorney’s Office. No further enforcement actions are 
expected in relation to the matters set out in the settlement agreements. 

On 26 February 2009 a purported shareholder filed a derivative civil action in the Supreme Court of New York, Nassau County against certain current 
and former directors, and nominally against Lloyds TSB Bank plc and Lloyds Banking Group plc, seeking various forms of relief. The derivative action 
is at an early stage and settlement is being discussed and the ultimate outcome is not expected to have a material impact on the Group.

EUROPEAN UNION GENDER DIRECTIVE
An opt-out clause to the European Union Gender Directive currently permits insurers to take gender into account as a risk factor when pricing 
contracts. In March 2011, the European Court of Justice is expected to rule on whether this infringes fundamental European rights for equal 
treatment. If the European Court of Justice rules that the opt-out clause does infringe such rights, it could alter the market and alter prices for 
insurance products to a significant extent. At the date of these financial statements, no provision has been made for the potential costs of rectifying 
contracts in existence at 31 December 2010, should this ultimately be required. The ultimate impact on the Group can only be known following the 
European Court of Justice’s ruling. However, the Group does not expect the final outcome of this matter to have a material adverse effect on its 
financial position.

OTHER LEGAL ACTIONS AND REGULATORY MATTERS
In the course of its business, the Group is engaged in discussions with the FSA in relation to a range of conduct of business matters, especially in 
relation to retail products including packaged bank accounts, mortgages, structured products and pensions. The Group is keen to ensure that any 
regulatory concerns regarding product governance or contract terms are understood and addressed. The ultimate impact on the Group of these 
discussions can only be known at the conclusion of such discussions.

In addition, during the ordinary course of business the Group is subject to other threatened and actual legal proceedings (which may include class 
action lawsuits brought on behalf of customers, shareholders or other third parties), regulatory investigations, regulatory challenges and enforcement 
actions, both in the UK and overseas. All such material matters are periodically reassessed, with the assistance of external professional advisors where 
appropriate, to determine the likelihood of the Group incurring a liability. In those instances where it is concluded that it is more likely than not that 
a payment will be made, a provision is established to management’s best estimate of the amount required to settle the obligation at the relevant 
balance sheet date. In some cases it will not be possible to form a view, either because the facts are unclear or because further time is needed 
properly to assess the merits of the case and no provisions are held against such matters. However the Group does not currently expect the final 
outcome of any such matter to have a material adverse effect on its financial position. 

CONTINGENT LIABILITIES AND COMMITMENTS ARISING FROM THE BANKING BUSINESS
Acceptances and endorsements arise where Lloyds Banking Group agrees to guarantee payment on a negotiable instrument drawn up by 
a customer.

Other items serving as direct credit substitutes include standby letters of credit, or other irrevocable obligations, where Lloyds Banking Group has an 
irrevocable obligation to pay a third party beneficiary if the customer fails to repay an outstanding commitment; they also include acceptances drawn 
under letters of credit or similar facilities where the acceptor does not have specific title to an identifiable underlying shipment of goods.

Performance bonds and other transaction-related contingencies (which include bid or tender bonds, advance payment guarantees, VAT Customs 
and Excise bonds and standby letters of credit relating to a particular contract or non-financial transaction) are undertakings where the requirement 
to make payment under the guarantee depends on the outcome of a future event.

Lloyds Banking Group’s maximum exposure to loss is represented by the contractual nominal amount detailed in the table below. Consideration 
has not been taken of any possible recoveries from customers for payments made in respect of such guarantees under recourse provisions or from 
collateral held.

Overview

Business review

Governance

Financial statements

Other information

Group profile 

Group structure 

Group performance 

Strategy and progress 

Chairman’s statement 

Group Chief Executive’s review 

Addressing the key issues 

Marketplace trends 

1

2

3

4

6

8

10

12

Summary of Group results 

Divisional results 

Other financial information 

14

26

52

Board of Directors 

Directors’ report 

Corporate governance report 

110

112

114

Five year financial summary 

56 

Directors’ remuneration report  124

Our people 

Corporate responsibility 

Risk management 

57

60

65

Shareholder information 

Glossary 

Abbreviations 

Index to annual report 

284

285

290

291

Report of the independent  
auditors on the consolidated  
financial statements 

Consolidated  
financial statements 
Notes to the consolidated  
financial statements 

Report of the independent  
auditors on the parent company 
financial statements 

Parent company financial 
statements 

Notes to the parent company 
financial statements 

144

146

153

272

273

276

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54 CONTINGENT LIABILITIES AND COMMITMENTS  continued

Contingent liabilities

Acceptances and endorsements

Other:

Other items serving as direct credit substitutes

Performance bonds and other transaction-related contingencies

Total contingent liabilities

2010
£m

48

1,319

  2,812

4,131

4,179

2009
£m

59

1,494

  4,555 

6,049

6,108

The contingent liabilities of the Group, as detailed above, arise in the normal course of its banking business and it is not practicable to quantify their 
future financial effect.

Commitments

Documentary credits and other short-term trade-related transactions

Forward asset purchases and forward deposits placed

Undrawn formal standby facilities, credit lines and other commitments to lend:

Less than 1 year original maturity:

Mortgage offers made

Other commitments

1 year or over original maturity

Total commitments

2010
£m

255

887

8,113

  60,528

68,641

47,515

117,298

2009
£m

288

758

9,058

  64,786 

73,844

53,693

128,583

Of the amounts shown above in respect of undrawn formal standby facilities, credit lines and other commitments to lend, £63,630 million 
(2009: £74,477 million) was irrevocable.

OPERATING LEASE COMMITMENTS  
Where a Group company is the lessee the future minimum lease payments under non-cancellable premises operating leases are as follows:

Not later than 1 year

Later than 1 year and not later than 5 years

Later than 5 years

Total operating lease commitments

2010
£m

356

1,120

1,706

3,182

2009
£m

392

1,213

1,817

3,422

Operating lease payments represent rental payable by the Group for certain of its properties. Some of these operating lease arrangements have 
renewal options and rent escalation clauses, although the effect of these is not material. No arrangements have been entered into for contingent 
rental payments.

CAPITAL COMMITMENTS
Excluding commitments in respect of investment property (note 28), capital expenditure contracted but not provided for at 31 December 2010 
amounted to £339 million (2009: £203 million). Of this amount, £282 million (2009: £198 million) related to assets to be leased to customers under 
operating leases. The Group’s management is confident that future net revenues and funding will be sufficient to cover these commitments.

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and Accounts 2010

NOTES TO THE CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

55 FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS

(1) MEASUREMENT BASIS OF FINANCIAL ASSETS AND LIABILITIES
The accounting policies in note 2 describe how different classes of financial instruments are measured, and how income and expenses, including fair 
value gains and losses, are recognised. The following table analyses the carrying amounts of the financial assets and liabilities by category and by 
balance sheet heading.

Derivatives
designated
as hedging
instruments
£m

At fair value
through profit or loss

Held for
trading
£m

Designated
upon initial
recognition
£m

Available-
for-sale
£m

Loans and
receivables
£m

Held at
amortised
cost
£m

Insurance
contracts
£m

Total
£m

As at 31 December 2010

Financial assets

Cash and balances at central banks

Items in the course of collection from banks

Trading and other financial assets at fair value  
through profit or loss

Derivative financial instruments

Loans and receivables:

Loans and advances to banks

Loans and advances to customers

Debt securities

Available-for-sale financial assets

Held-to-maturity investments

Total financial assets

Financial liabilities

Deposits from banks

Customer deposits

Items in course of transmission to banks

Trading and other financial liabilities at fair value 
through profit or loss

Derivative financial instruments

Debt securities in issue

Liabilities arising from insurance contracts and  
participating investment contracts

Liabilities arising from non-participating investment 
contracts

Unallocated surplus within insurance businesses

Subordinated liabilities

Total financial liabilities

–

–

–

–

–

–

38,115

1,368

156,191

50,777

30,272

592,597

–  

  25,735

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

648,604

42,955

7,905

945,915

50,363

393,633

802

26,762

42,158

228,866

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

23,707

132,484

7,406

43,371

–

–

    –

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

42,955

–

–

–

–

–

30,272

592,597

25,735

648,604

–

–

38,115

1,368

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

7,905

7,406

67,078

132,484

42,955

648,604

47,388

50,363

393,633

802

–

–

228,866

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

20,097

6,665

4,398

37,760

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

4,398

57,857

6,665

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

80,729

80,729

51,363

51,363

643

643

36,232

–

36,232

709,896

132,735

911,551

 
 
 
 
 
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Other information

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Group structure 

Group performance 

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Chairman’s statement 

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Addressing the key issues 

Marketplace trends 

1

2

3

4

6

8

10

12

Summary of Group results 

Divisional results 

Other financial information 

14

26

52

Board of Directors 

Directors’ report 

Corporate governance report 

110

112

114

Five year financial summary 

56 

Directors’ remuneration report  124

Our people 

Corporate responsibility 

Risk management 

57

60

65

Shareholder information 

Glossary 

Abbreviations 

Index to annual report 

284

285

290

291

Report of the independent  
auditors on the consolidated  
financial statements 

Consolidated  
financial statements 
Notes to the consolidated  
financial statements 

Report of the independent  
auditors on the parent company 
financial statements 

Parent company financial 
statements 

Notes to the parent company 
financial statements 

144

146

153

272

273

276

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and Accounts 2010

55 FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS  continued

As at 31 December 2009

Financial assets

Cash and balances at central banks

Items in the course of collection from banks

Trading and other financial assets at fair value  
through profit or loss

Derivative financial instruments

Loans and receivables:

Loans and advances to banks

Loans and advances to customers

Debt securities

Available-for-sale financial assets

Total financial assets

Financial liabilities

Deposits from banks

Customer deposits

Items in course of transmission to banks

Trading and other financial liabilities at fair value 
through profit or loss

Derivative financial instruments

Debt securities in issue

Liabilities arising from insurance contracts and  
participating investment contracts

Liabilities arising from non-participating investment 
contracts

Unallocated surplus within insurance businesses

Subordinated liabilities

Total financial liabilities

Derivatives
designated
as hedging
instruments
£m

At fair value
through profit or loss

Held for
trading
£m

Designated
upon initial
recognition
£m

Available-
for-sale
£m

Loans and
receivables
£m

Held at
amortised
cost
£m

Insurance
contracts
£m

Total
£m

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

38,994

1,579

150,011

49,928

35,361

626,969

32,652  

694,982

46,602

982,096

82,452

406,741

1,037

28,271

40,485

233,502

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

27,245

122,766

9,430

40,498

–

–

    –

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

35,361

626,969

32,652

694,982

46,602

–

38,994

1,579

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

9,430

67,743

122,766

46,602

694,982

40,573

82,452

406,741

1,037

–

–

233,502

–

–

–

–

8,687

–

–

–

22,111

31,798

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

6,160

–

–

–

–

–

–

8,687

53,909

6,160

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

76,179

76,179

46,348

46,348

1,082

1,082

34,727

–

34,727

758,459

123,609

950,824

(2) RECLASSIFICATION OF FINANCIAL ASSETS
In 2010 the Group reviewed its approach to managing a portfolio of government securities held as a separately identifiable component of the 
Group’s liquidity portfolio. Given the long-term nature of this portfolio, the Group concluded that certain of these securities will be able to be 
held until they reach maturity. Consequently, on 1 November 2010, government securities with a fair value of £3,601 million were reclassified from 
available-for-sale financial assets to held-to-maturity investments reflecting the Group’s positive intent and ability to hold them until maturity.

In 2009, no financial assets were reclassified.

In 2008, in accordance with the amendment to IAS39 that became applicable during that year, the Group reviewed the categorisation of its financial 
assets classified as held for trading and available-for-sale. On the basis that there was no longer an active market for some of those assets, which are 
therefore more appropriately managed as loans, with effect from 1 July 2008, the Group transferred £2,993 million of assets previously classified as 
held for trading into loans and receivables. With effect from 1 November 2008, the Group transferred £437 million of assets previously classified as 
available-for-sale financial assets into loans and receivables. At the time of these transfers, the Group had the intention and ability to hold them for 
the foreseeable future or until maturity. As at the date of reclassification, the weighted average effective interest rate of the assets transferred was 
6.3 per cent with the estimated recoverable cash flows of £3,524 million.

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55 FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS  continued

Carrying value and fair value of reclassified assets
The table below sets out the carrying value and fair value of reclassified financial assets

From held for trading to loans and receivables

From available-for-sale financial assets to loans and receivables

From available-for-sale financial assets to held-to-maturity investments

Total carrying value and fair value

2010

2009

2008

Carrying  
value  
£m

750

313

3,455

4,518

Fair  
value  
£m

727

340

3,539

4,606

Carrying  
value  
£m

1,833

394

–

Fair  
value  
£m

1,822

422

–

Carrying  
value  
£m

2,883

454

–

Fair  
value  
£m

2,926

402

–

2,227

2,244

3,337

3,328

During the year ended 31 December 2010, the carrying value of assets reclassified to loans and receivables decreased by £1,164 million due to sales 
and maturities of £1,220 million, accretion of discount of £34 million and foreign exchange and other movements of £22 million.

Additional fair value gains (losses) that would have been recognised had the reclassifications not occurred
The table below shows the additional gains (losses) that would have been recognised in the Group’s income statement if the reclassifications had 
not occurred. 

2010

2009

2008

Reclassified  
in 2010 
£m

Reclassified  
in 2009 
£m

Reclassified  
in 2008 
£m

Total 
£m

Reclassified  
in 2009 
£m

Reclassified  
in 2008 
£m

Total 
£m

Reclassified  
in 2008 
£m

Total 
£m

From held for trading to loans  
and receivables

–

–

(34)

(34)

–

208

208

(347)

(347)

The table below shows the additional gains (losses) that would have been recognised in other comprehensive income if the reclassifications had 
not occurred.

2010

2009

2008

Reclassified  
in 2010 
£m

Reclassified  
in 2009 
£m

Reclassified  
in 2008 
£m

Total 
£m

Reclassified  
in 2009 
£m

Reclassified  
in 2008 
£m

Total 
£m

Reclassified  
in 2008 
£m

Total 
£m

From available-for-sale financial 
assets to loans and receivables

–

–

69

69

–

161

161

(108)

(108)

Actual amounts recognised in respect of reclassified assets
After reclassification the reclassified financial assets contributed the following amounts to the Group income statement.

From held for trading to loans  
and receivables:

Net interest income

Impairment losses

Total amounts recognised

From available-for-sale financial 
assets to loans and receivables:

Net interest income

Impairment losses

Total amounts recognised

2010

2009

2008

Reclassified  
in 2010 
£m

Reclassified  
in 2009 
£m

Reclassified  
in 2008 
£m

Total 
£m

Reclassified  
in 2009 
£m

Reclassified  
in 2008 
£m

Total 
£m

Reclassified  
in 2008 
£m

–

–

–

–

–

–

2010

24

(6)

18

24

(6)

18

–

–

–

55

(49)

6

2009

55

(49)

6

31

(158)

(127)

2008

Reclassified  
in 2010 
£m

Reclassified  
in 2009 
£m

Reclassified  
in 2008 
£m

Total 
£m

Reclassified  
in 2009 
£m

Reclassified  
in 2008 
£m

Total 
£m

Reclassified  
in 2008 
£m

–

–

–

–

–

–

1

(2)

(1)

1

(2)

(1)

–

–

_

34

(56)

(22)

34

(56)

(22)

3

(23)

(20)

Total 
£m

31

(158)

(127)

Total 
£m

3

(23)

(20)

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Group performance 

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Chairman’s statement 

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Addressing the key issues 

Marketplace trends 

1

2

3

4

6

8

10

12

Summary of Group results 

Divisional results 

Other financial information 

14

26

52

Board of Directors 

Directors’ report 

Corporate governance report 

110

112

114

Five year financial summary 

56 

Directors’ remuneration report  124

Our people 

Corporate responsibility 

Risk management 

57

60

65

Shareholder information 

Glossary 

Abbreviations 

Index to annual report 

284

285

290

291

Report of the independent  
auditors on the consolidated  
financial statements 

Consolidated  
financial statements 
Notes to the consolidated  
financial statements 

Report of the independent  
auditors on the parent company 
financial statements 

Parent company financial 
statements 

Notes to the parent company 
financial statements 

144

146

153

272

273

276

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55 FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS  continued

(3) FAIR VALUES OF FINANCIAL ASSETS AND LIABILITIES
The following table summarises the carrying values of financial assets and liabilities presented on the Group’s balance sheet. The fair values 
presented in the table are at a specific date and may be significantly different from the amounts which will actually be paid or received on the 
maturity or settlement date.

Financial assets

Trading and other financial assets at fair value through profit or loss

Derivative financial instruments

Loans and receivables:

Loans and advances to banks

Loans and advances to customers

Debt securities

Available-for-sale financial assets

Held-to-maturity investments

Financial liabilities

Deposits from banks

Customer deposits

Trading and other financial liabilities at fair value through profit or loss

Derivative financial instruments

Debt securities in issue

Liabilities arising from non-participating investment contracts

Financial guarantees

Subordinated liabilities

Carrying value
2010
£m

Carrying value
2009
£m

156,191

50,777

30,272

592,597

25,735

42,955

7,905

50,363

393,633

26,762

42,158

228,866

51,363

54

36,232

150,011

49,928

35,361

626,969

32,652

46,602

–

82,452

406,741

28,271

40,485

233,502

46,348

38

34,727

Fair value
2010
£m

156,191

50,777

30,236

580,343

26,937

42,955

7,716

50,520

394,393

26,762

42,158

229,375

51,363

54

38,083

Fair value
2009
£m

150,011

49,928

35,335

609,647

31,907

46,602

–

82,366

406,555

28,271

40,485

235,170

46,348

38

33,660

Valuation methodology
Financial instruments include financial assets, financial liabilities and derivatives. The fair value of a financial instrument is the amount at which the 
instrument could be exchanged in a current transaction between willing parties, other than in a forced or liquidation sale.

Wherever possible, fair values have been calculated using unadjusted quoted market prices in active markets for identical instruments held by the 
Group. Where quoted market prices are not available, or are unreliable because of poor liquidity, fair values have been determined using valuation 
techniques which, to the extent possible, use market observable inputs, but in some cases use non-market observable inputs. Valuation techniques 
used include discounted cash flow analysis and pricing models and, where appropriate, comparison to instruments with characteristics similar to 
those of the instruments held by the Group.

Because a variety of estimation techniques are employed and significant estimates made, comparisons of fair values between financial institutions 
may not be meaningful. Readers of these financial statements are thus advised to use caution when using this data to evaluate the Group’s 
financial position. 

Fair value information is not provided for items that do not meet the definition of a financial instrument. These items include intangible assets, such 
as the value of the Group’s branch network, the long-term relationships with depositors and credit card relationships; premises and equipment; and 
shareholders’ equity. These items are material and accordingly the Group believes that the fair value information presented does not represent the 
underlying value of the Group.

Valuation control framework
The key elements of the control framework for the valuation of financial instruments include model validation, product implementation review and 
independent price verification. These functions are carried out by appropriately skilled risk and finance teams, independent of the business area 
responsible for the products.

Model validation covers both qualitative and quantitative elements relating to new models. In respect of new products, a product implementation 
review is conducted pre- and post-trading. Pre-trade testing ensures that the new model is integrated into the Group’s systems and that the profit 
and loss and risk reporting are consistent throughout the trade life cycle. Post-trade testing examines the explanatory power of the implemented 
model, actively monitoring model parameters and comparing in-house pricing to external sources. Independent price verification procedures 
cover financial instruments carried at fair value. The frequency of the review is matched to the availability of independent data, monthly being the 
minimum. Valuation differences in breach of established thresholds are escalated to senior management. The results from independent pricing and 
valuation reserves are reviewed monthly by senior management.

Formal committees, consisting of senior risk, finance and business management, meet at least quarterly to discuss and approve valuations in more 
judgemental areas, in particular for unquoted equities, structured credit, over-the-counter options and the Credit Valuation Adjustment (CVA) reserve.

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55 FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS  continued

Fair value of financial instruments carried at amortised cost

LOANS AND RECEIVABLES
The Group provides loans and advances to commercial, corporate and personal customers at both fixed and variable rates. The carrying value of 
the variable rate loans and those relating to lease financing is assumed to be their fair value. For fixed rate lending, several different techniques are 
used to estimate fair value, as considered appropriate. For commercial and personal customers, fair value is principally estimated by discounting 
anticipated cash flows (including interest at contractual rates) at market rates for similar loans offered by the Group and other financial institutions. 
The fair value for corporate loans is estimated by discounting anticipated cash flows at a rate which reflects the effects of interest rate changes, 
adjusted for changes in credit risk. Certain loans secured on residential properties are made at a fixed rate for a limited period, typically two to five 
years, after which the loans revert to the relevant variable rate. The fair value of such loans is estimated by reference to the market rates for similar 
loans of maturity equal to the remaining fixed interest rate period. The fair values of asset-backed securities and secondary loans, which were 
previously within assets held for trading and were reclassified to loans and receivables, are determined predominantly from lead manager quotes 
and, where these are not available, by alternative techniques including reference to credit spreads on similar assets with the same obligor, market 
standard consensus pricing services, broker quotes and other research data.

DEPOSITS FROM BANKS AND CUSTOMER DEPOSITS
The fair value of deposits repayable on demand is considered to be equal to their carrying value. The fair value for all other deposits is estimated 
using discounted cash flows applying either market rates, where applicable, or current rates for deposits of similar remaining maturities.

DEBT SECURITIES IN ISSUE AND SUBORDINATED LIABILITIES
The fair value of short-term debt securities in issue is approximately equal to their carrying value. Fair value for other debt securities and for 
subordinated liabilities is estimated using quoted market prices. 

HELD-TO-MATURITY INVESTMENTS
The fair values of government securities are based on market prices.

Valuation of financial instruments carried at fair value
The valuations of financial instruments have been classified into three levels according to the quality and reliability of information used to determine 
the fair values. 

LEVEL 1 PORTFOLIOS
Level 1 fair value measurements are those derived from unadjusted quoted prices in active markets for identical assets or liabilities. Products 
classified as level 1 predominantly comprise treasury bills and other government securities. 

LEVEL 2 PORTFOLIOS
Level 2 valuations are those where quoted market prices are not available, for example where the instrument is traded in a market that is not 
considered to be active or valuation techniques are used to determine fair value and where these techniques use inputs that are based significantly 
on observable market data. Examples of such financial instruments include most over-the-counter derivatives, financial institution issued securities, 
certificates of deposit and certain asset-backed securities. 

LEVEL 3 PORTFOLIOS
Level 3 portfolios are those where at least one input which could have a significant effect on the instrument’s valuation is not based on observable 
market data. Such instruments would include the Group’s venture capital and unlisted equity investments which are valued using various valuation 
techniques that require significant management judgement in determining appropriate assumptions, including earnings multiples and estimated 
future cash flows. Certain of the Group’s asset-backed securities and derivatives, principally where there is no trading activity in such securities, are 
also classified as level 3.

The table below provides an analysis of the financial assets and liabilities of the Group that are carried at fair value in the Group’s consolidated 
balance sheet, grouped into levels 1 to 3 based on the degree to which the fair value is observable.

VALUATION HIERARCHY

Trading and other financial assets at fair value through profit or loss

Available-for-sale financial assets

Derivative financial instruments

Financial assets

Trading and other financial liabilities at fair value through profit or loss

Derivative financial instruments

Financial guarantees

Financial liabilities

At 31 December 2010

Level 1
£m

113,242

14,481

985

Level 2
£m

40,113

25,828

47,806

128,708

113,747

864

42

–

906

25,898

41,913

–

67,811

Level 3
£m

2,836

2,646

1,986

7,468

–

203

54

257

Total
£m

156,191

42,955

50,777

249,923

26,762

42,158

54

68,974

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1

2

3

4

6

8

10

12

Summary of Group results 

Divisional results 

Other financial information 

14

26

52

Board of Directors 

Directors’ report 

Corporate governance report 

110

112

114

Five year financial summary 

56 

Directors’ remuneration report  124

Our people 

Corporate responsibility 

Risk management 

57

60

65

Shareholder information 

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284

285

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291

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financial statements 
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financial statements 

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financial statements 

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There were no significant transfers between level 1 and level 2 during the year. 

Trading and other financial assets at fair value through profit or loss

Available-for-sale financial assets

Derivative financial instruments

Financial assets

Trading and other financial liabilities at fair value through profit or loss

Derivative financial instruments

Financial guarantees

Financial liabilities

MOVEMENTS IN LEVEL 3 PORTFOLIO
The table below analyses movements in the level 3 financial assets portfolio.

At 31 December 2009

Level 1
£m

103,853

12,881

977

117,711

511

66

–

577

Level 2
£m

43,246

31,110

47,014

121,370

27,760

40,222

–

67,982

Level 3
£m

2,912

2,611

1,937

7,460

–

197

38

235

Total
£m

150,011

46,602

49,928

246,541

28,271

40,485

38

68,794

At 1 January 2009

Exchange and other adjustments

Adjustment on acquisition

Losses recognised in the income statement

Gains recognised in other comprehensive income

Purchases

Sales

Transfers into the level 3 portfolio

Transfers out of the level 3 portfolio

At 31 December 2009

Exchange and other adjustments

Gains (losses) recognised in the income statement

Gains recognised in other comprehensive income

Purchases

Sales

Transfers into the level 3 portfolio

Transfers out of the level 3 portfolio

At 31 December 2010

Gains (losses) recognised in the income statement relating to 
those assets held at 31 December 2010

Gains recognised in other comprehensive income relating 
to those assets held at 31 December 2010

Trading and other financial 
assets at fair value through 
profit or loss
£m

Available- 
for-sale 
£m

Derivative  
assets
£m

Total financial
assets
£m

1,672

(232)

3,386

(114)

–

374

(465)

33

(1,742)

2,912

28

199

–

921

(550)

64

(738)

2,836

151

–

3,161

(205)

2,291

(452)

191

422

(671)

48

(2,174)

2,611

12

(56)

271

664

(560)

–

(296)

2,646

(81)

269

136

74

569

(1,005)

–

2,224

(61)

–

–

1,937

2

(667)

–

–

–

780

(66)

1,986

4,969

(363)

6,246

(1,571)

191

3,020

(1,197)

81

(3,916)

7,460

42

(524)

271

1,585

(1,110)

844

(1,100)

7,468

(667)

(597)

–

269

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55 FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS  continued

The table below analyses movements in the Level 3 financial liabilities portfolio.

At 1 January 2009

Exchange and other adjustments

Adjustment on acquisition

Gains recognised in the income statement

Additions

Redemptions

Transfers out of the level 3 portfolio

At 31 December 2009

Exchange and other adjustments

Gains recognised in the income statement

Additions

Redemptions

Transfers into the level 3 portfolio

At 31 December 2010

Gains (losses) recognised in the income statement relating to 
those liabilities held at 31 December 2010

Derivative 
liabilities 
£m

Financial  

guarantees
£m

Total financial
liabilities
£m

578

(179)

1,102

(47)

–

(474)

(783)

197

13

–

–

(210)

203

203

–

35

–

–

–

3

–

–

38

–

–

16

–

–

54

–

613

(179)

1,102

(47)

3

(474)

(783)

235

13

–

16

(210)

203

257

–

Transfers out of the level 3 portfolio arise when inputs that could have a significant impact on the instrument’s valuation become market observable 
after previously having been non-market observable. In the case of asset-backed securities this can arise if more than one consistent independent 
source of data becomes available. Conversely transfers into the portfolio arise when consistent sources of data cease to be available.

Included within the gains (losses) recognised in the income statement are losses of £597 million (2009: £1,542 million) related to financial instruments 
that are held in the level 3 portfolio at the year end. These amounts are included in other operating income. 

Included within the gains (losses) recognised in other comprehensive income are gains of £269 million (2009: £190  million) related to financial 
instruments that are held in the level 3 portfolio at the year end. 

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1

2

3

4

6

8

10

12

Summary of Group results 

Divisional results 

Other financial information 

14

26

52

Board of Directors 

Directors’ report 

Corporate governance report 

110

112

114

Five year financial summary 

56 

Directors’ remuneration report  124

Our people 

Corporate responsibility 

Risk management 

57

60

65

Shareholder information 

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284

285

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291

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financial statements 

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Trading and other financial assets at fair value through profit or loss

Valuation basis/technique

Main assumptions

At 31 December 2010

At 31 December 2009

Effect of reasonably possible  
alternative assumptions

Carrying 
value  
£m

Favourable 
changes 
£m

Unfavourable 
changes 
£m

Carrying 
value  
£m

Effect of  
reasonably  
possible  
alternative  
assumptions

Asset-backed securities Lead manager or broker 
quote/consensus pricing 
from market data provider 

Equity investments 

Various valuation 
techniques

Unlisted equities and 
property partnerships  
in the life funds

Available-for-sale financial assets

Asset-backed securities  Lead manager or broker 
quote/consensus pricing 
from market data provider

Equity investments 

Various valuation 
techniques

Use of single pricing source

283

8

(8)

970

74

Earnings, net asset value 
and earnings multiples, 
forecast cash flows

2,072

135

(111)

1,396

n/a

481

–

–

546

n/a

2,836

2,912

Use of single pricing source

579

34

(34)

744

10

Earnings, net asset value, 
underlying asset values, 
property prices, forecast 
cash flows

Derivative financial assets

Industry standard 
model/consensus 
pricing from market 
data provider

Prepayment rates, 
probability of default, loss 
given default and yield 
curves. Equity conversion 
feature spread

Financial assets

Derivative financial liabilities

Industry standard 
model/consensus 
pricing from market 
data provider 

Prepayment rates, 
probability of default, loss 
given default and yield 
curves

Financial guarantees

Financial liabilities

2,067

141

(91)

1,867

n/a

2,646

2,611

1,986

157

(27)

1,937

84

7,468

203

54

257

–

–

–

–

7,460

197

8

38

235

n/a

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55 FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS  continued

The main products where level 3 valuations have been used are described below: 

Asset-backed securities
Where there is no trading activity in asset-backed securities, valuation models, consensus pricing information from third party pricing services and 
broker or lead manager quotes are used to determine an appropriate valuation. Asset-backed securities are then classified as either level 2 or level 
3 depending on whether there is more than one consistent independent source of data. If there is a single, uncorroborated market source for a 
significant valuation input or where there are materially inconsistent levels then the security is reported as level 3. Asset classes classified as level 3 
mainly comprise certain residential mortgage-backed securities, collateralised loan obligations and collateralised debt obligations. 

Equity investments (including venture capital)
Unlisted equities and fund investments are accounted for as trading and other financial assets at fair value through profit or loss or as  
available-for-sale financial assets. These investments are valued using different techniques as a result of the variety of investments across the  
portfolio in accordance with the Group’s valuation policy and are calculated using International Private Equity and Venture Capital Guidelines. 

Depending on the business sector and the circumstances of the investment, unlisted equity valuations are based on earnings multiples, net asset 
values or discounted cash flows. 

 –  A number of earnings multiples are used in valuing the portfolio including price earnings, earnings before interest and tax and earnings before 
interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation. The particular multiple selected being appropriate for the type of business being valued and is 
derived by reference to the current market-based multiple. Consideration is given to the risk attributes, growth prospects and financial gearing of 
comparable businesses when selecting an appropriate multiple. 

 –  Discounted cash flow valuations use estimated future cash flows, usually based on management forecasts, with the application of appropriate exit 
yields or terminal multiples and discounted using rates appropriate to the specific investment, business sector or recent economic rates of return. 
Recent transactions involving the sale of similar businesses may sometimes be used as a frame of reference in deriving an appropriate multiple.

 –  For fund investments the most recent capital account value calculated by the fund manager is used as the basis for the valuation and adjusted, if 

necessary, to align valuation techniques with the Group’s valuation policy.

Unquoted equities and property partnerships in the life funds
Third party valuations are used to obtain the fair value of unquoted investments. Management take account of any pertinent information, such as 
recent transactions and information received on particular investments, to adjust the third party valuations where necessary.

Derivatives
Where the Group’s derivative assets and liabilities are not traded on an exchange, they are valued using valuation techniques, including discounted 
cash flow and options pricing models, as appropriate. The types of derivatives classified as level 2 and the valuation techniques used include:

 –  Interest rate swaps which are valued using discounted cash flow models; the most significant inputs into those models are interest rate yield curves 

which are developed from publicly quoted rates. 

 – Foreign exchange derivatives that do not contain options which are priced using rates available from publicly quoted sources. 

 –  Credit derivatives, except for the items classified as level 3, which are valued using publicly available yield and credit default swap (CDS) curves; the 

Group uses standard models with observable inputs. 

 –  Less complex interest rate and foreign exchange option products which are valued using volatility surfaces developed from publicly available 

interest rate cap, interest rate swaption and other option volatilities; option volatility skew information is derived from a market standard consensus 
pricing service. For more complex option products, the Group calibrates its models using observable at-the-money data; where necessary, the 
Group adjusts for out-of-the-money positions using a market standard consensus pricing service.

Complex interest rate and foreign exchange products where there is significant dispersion of consensus pricing or where implied funding costs are 
material and unobservable are classified as level 3.

Where credit protection, usually in the form of credit default swaps, has been purchased or written on asset-backed securities, the security is referred 
to as a negative basis asset-backed security and the resulting derivative assets or liabilities have been classified as either level 2 or level 3 according 
to the classification of the underlying asset-backed security.

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2

3

4

6

8

10

12

Summary of Group results 

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Other financial information 

14

26

52

Board of Directors 

Directors’ report 

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110

112

114

Five year financial summary 

56 

Directors’ remuneration report  124

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Corporate responsibility 

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60

65

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The Group’s level 3 derivative assets include £1,177 million (31 December 2009: £1,797 million) in respect of the value of the embedded equity 
conversion feature of the enhanced capital notes issued in December 2009. The embedded equity conversion feature is valued by comparing 
the market price of the enhanced capital notes with the market price of similar bonds without the conversion feature. The latter is calculated by 
discounting the expected enhanced capital note cash flows in the absence of a conversion using prevailing market yields for similar capital securities 
without the conversion feature. The market price of the enhanced capital notes was calculated with reference to multiple broker quotes. Movements 
in the fair value of the derivative are recorded in net trading income.

Level 3 derivative assets also include £96 million (31 December 2009: £140 million) in respect of credit default swaps written on level 3 negative basis 
asset-backed securities calculated as set out in the table below:

Fair value before credit valuation adjustment

Less: credit valuation adjustment

Carrying value

SENSITIVITY OF LEVEL 3 VALUATIONS

2010 
£m

114

(18)

96

2009 
£m

346 

(206)

140 

Asset-backed securities
Reasonably possible alternative valuations have been calculated for asset-backed securities by using alternative pricing sources and calculating an 
absolute difference. The pricing difference is defined as the absolute difference between the actual price used and the closest, alternative price 
available.

Derivative financial instruments
(i) 

In respect of the embedded equity conversion feature of the enhanced capital notes, the sensitivity was based on the absolute difference between 
the actual price of the enhanced capital note and the closest, alternative broker quote available plus the impact of applying a 10(cid:3)bps increase/
decrease in the market yield used to derive a market price for similar bonds without the conversion feature. The effect of interdependency of 
the assumptions is not material to the effect of applying reasonably possible alternative assumptions to the valuations of derivative financial 
instruments.

(ii) 

In respect of credit default swaps written on level 3 negative basis asset-backed securities, reasonably possible alternative valuations have been 
calculated by flexing the spread between the underlying asset and the credit default swap, or adjusting market yields, by a reasonable amount. 
The sensitivity is determined by applying a 60 bps increase/decrease in the spread between the asset and the credit default swap.

Venture capital and equity investments 
The valuation techniques used for unlisted equities and venture capital investments vary depending on the nature of the investment. Third party 
valuers have been used to determine the value of unlisted equities and property partnerships included in the Group’s life insurance funds. As these 
factors differ for each investment, depending on the nature of the valuation technique used and the inputs, there is no single common factor that 
could be adjusted to provide a reasonable alternative valuation for these investment portfolios.

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55 FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS  continued

DERIVATIVE VALUATION ADJUSTMENTS
Derivative financial instruments which are carried in the balance sheet at fair value are adjusted where appropriate to reflect credit risk, market 
liquidity and other risks.

(i) Uncollateralised derivative valuation adjustments, excluding monoline counterparties
The following table summarises the movement on this revaluation adjustment account during 2010.

Uncollateralised derivative valuation adjustments

At 31 December 2009

Income statement charge

Transfers

At 31 December 2010

Represented by:

Credit Valuation Adjustment (CVA)

Debit Valuation Adjustment (DVA)

Funding Valuation Adjustment

£m

662

20

(112)

570

2009
£m

892

(230)

–

662

2010
£m

671

(298)

197

570

Valuation adjustments are applied to the Group’s over-the-counter derivative exposures with counterparties that are not subject to standard 
interbank collateral arrangements. These valuation adjustments reflect the different credit and funding exposures that such counterparties represent.

A Credit Valuation Adjustment (CVA) is applied to the Group’s over-the-counter uncollateralised derivative exposures to adjust the derivative 
valuations provided by standard interbank interest rate curves. The Group uses a bilateral simulation model to develop expected future exposures. 
This calculates a CVA for scenarios where the Group has a positive future exposure (asset) and a Debit Valuation Adjustment (DVA) where the Group 
has a negative future exposure (liability). 

In circumstances where a counterparty becomes impaired, any associated derivative valuation adjustment is transferred and assessed for specific loss 
alongside other non-derivative assets and liabilities the counterparty may have with the Group.

Market Credit Default Swap (CDS) spreads are used to develop the probability of default for quoted counterparties. For unquoted counterparties, 
internal credit ratings and market sector CDS curves and recovery rates are used. The Loss Given Default (LGD) is based on market recovery rates 
and internal credit assessments. The combination of a one notch deterioration in the credit rating of derivative counterparties and a 10 per cent 
increase in LGD increases the CVA by £120 million. Current market value is used to estimate the projected exposure for products not supported by 
the model, which are principally complex interest rate options that are traded in very low volumes. For these, the CVA is calculated on an add-on 
basis (in total contributing £29 million of the overall CVA balance at 31 December 2010).

The Debit Valuation Adjustment (DVA) is sensitive to the Group’s own CDS spread. A 1 per cent rise in this spread would lead to an increase in the 
DVA of £65 million to £363 million.

The risk exposures that are used for the CVA and DVA calculations are strongly influenced by interest rates. Due to the nature of the Group’s business 
the CVA/DVA exposures tend to be on average the same way around such that the valuation adjustments fall when interest rates rise. A 1 per cent 
rise in interest rates would lead to a £109 million fall in the overall valuation adjustment to £461 million. The CVA model used by the Group does not 
assume any correlation between the level of interest rates and default rates.

In addition, in 2010 the Group has included a Funding Valuation Adjustment to adjust for the net cost of funding certain uncollateralised derivative 
positions where the Group considers that this cost is included in market pricing. This adjustment is calculated on the expected future exposure 
discounted at a suitable cost of funds. A 10 bps increase in the cost of funds will increase the funding valuation adjustment by £5 million.

(ii) Uncollateralised derivative valuation adjustments – monoline counterparties
The Group has no significant derivative exposures remaining against monoline counterparties as shown in note 56(3). The remaining valuation 
adjustment on these limited positions is shown in the table below.

Monoline derivative valuation adjustments

Credit Valuation Adjustment – monoline counterparties 

2010 
£m 

17

2009 
£m 

200 

 
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(iii) Market liquidity
The Group includes mid to bid-offer valuation adjustments against the expected cost of closing out the net market risk in the Group’s trading 
positions within a timeframe that is consistent with historical trading activity and spreads that the trading desks have accessed historically during  
the ordinary course of business in normal market conditions.

At 31 December 2010, the Group’s derivative trading business held mid to bid-offer valuation adjustments of £66 million (31 December 2009: 
£70 million).

(iv) Libor/Overnight Index Swap (OIS) basis
The Group’s derivative trading business applies £70 million (31 December 2009: £nil) of valuation adjustments against the changing market approach 
to valuing derivatives that are subject to daily collateral margin, where standard market practice is to pay interest on an Overnight Index Swap (OIS) 
basis rather than a Libor rate.

No credit valuation adjustment is taken on collateralised swaps (31 December 2009: £25 million).

56 FINANCIAL RISK MANAGEMENT

As a bancassurer, financial instruments are fundamental to the Group’s activities and, as a consequence, the risks associated with financial instruments 
represent a significant component of the risks faced by the Group.

The primary risks affecting the Group through its use of financial instruments are: credit risk; market risk, which includes interest rate risk and foreign 
exchange risk; and liquidity risk. Information about the Group’s exposure to each of the above risks, the Group’s objectives, policies and processes for 
measuring and managing risk and the Group’s management of capital can be found on pages 65 to 108. The following additional disclosures, which 
provide quantitative information about the risks within financial instruments held or issued by the Group, should be read in conjunction with that 
earlier information.

(1) INTEREST RATE RISK
In the Group’s retail banking business interest rate risk arises from the different repricing characteristics of the assets and liabilities. Liabilities are 
either insensitive to interest rate movements, for example interest free or very low interest customer deposits, or are sensitive to interest rate changes 
but bear rates which may be varied at the Group’s discretion and that for competitive reasons generally reflect changes in the Bank of England’s base 
rate. There is a relatively small volume of deposits whose rate is contractually fixed for their term to maturity.

Many banking assets are sensitive to interest rate movements; there is a large volume of managed rate assets such as variable rate mortgages 
which may be considered as a natural offset to the interest rate risk arising from the managed rate liabilities. However, a significant proportion of the 
Group’s lending assets, for example many personal loans and mortgages, bear interest rates which are contractually fixed for periods of up to five 
years or longer.

The Group establishes two types of hedge accounting relationships for interest rate risk: fair value hedges and cash flow hedges. The Group is 
exposed to fair value interest rate risk on its fixed rate customer loans, its fixed rate customer deposits and the majority of its subordinated debt,  
and to cash flow interest rate risk on its variable rate loans and deposits together with its floating rate subordinated debt. The majority of the Group’s 
hedge accounting relationships are fair value hedges where interest rate swaps are used to hedge the interest rate risk inherent in the fixed rate 
mortgage portfolio.

At 31 December 2010 the aggregate notional principal of interest rate swaps designated as fair value hedges was £75,831 million (2009: 
£80,085 million) with a net fair value asset of £3,166 million (2009: asset of £3,004 million) (note 19). The gains on the hedging instruments were 
£280 million (2009: losses of £995 million). The losses on the hedged items attributable to the hedged risk were £452 million (2009: gains of 
£1,181 million).

In addition the Group has cash flow hedges which are primarily used to hedge the variability in the cost of funding within the wholesale business. 
Note 19 shows when the hedged cash flows are expected to occur and when they will affect income for designated cash flow hedges. The notional 
principal of the interest rate swaps designated as cash flow hedges at 31 December 2010 was £112,507 million (2009: £222,548 million) with a net fair 
value liability of £843 million (2009: £2,536 million) (note 19). In 2010, ineffectiveness recognised in the income statement that arises from cash flow 
hedges was a gain of £160 million (2009: nil). There were no transactions for which cash flow hedge accounting had to be ceased in 2010 or 2009 as  
a result of the highly probable cash flows no longer being expected to occur.

(2) CURRENCY RISK
Foreign exchange exposures comprise those originating in treasury trading activities and structural foreign exchange exposures, which arise from 
investment in the Group’s overseas operations.

The corporate and retail businesses incur foreign exchange risk in the course of providing services to their customers. All non-structural foreign 
exchange exposures in the non-trading book are transferred to the trading area where they are monitored and controlled. These risks reside in the 
authorised trading centres who are allocated exposure limits. The limits are monitored daily by the local centres and reported to the market and 
liquidity risk function in London. Associated VaR and the closing, average, maximum and minimum are disclosed on page 89.

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56 FINANCIAL RISK MANAGEMENT  continued

Risk arises from the Group’s investments in its overseas operations. The Group’s structural foreign currency exposure is represented by the net asset 
value of the foreign currency equity and subordinated debt investments in its subsidiaries and branches. Gains or losses on structural foreign currency 
exposures are taken to reserves.

The Group hedges part of the currency translation risk of the net investment in certain foreign operations using currency borrowings and cross 
currency derivatives. At 31 December 2010 the aggregate notional principal of these currency borrowings was £5,135 million; the aggregate 
notional principal of the cross currency derivatives was £86 million (2009: cross currency swaps £2,507 million) with a net fair value asset of £2 million 
(2009: asset of £25 million) and they were designated on an after-tax basis as hedges of net investments in foreign operations. In 2010, an 
ineffectiveness loss of £28 million before tax and £20 million after tax (2009: ineffectiveness of £nil before tax and £nil after tax) was recognised in the 
income statement arising from net investment hedges.

56 FINANCIAL RISK MANAGEMENT

The Group’s main overseas operations are in the Americas, Asia, Australasia and Europe. Details of the Group’s structural foreign currency exposures, 
after net investment hedges, are as follows:

Functional currency of Group operations

Euro:

Gross exposure

Net investment hedge

US dollar:

Gross exposure

Net investment hedge

Swiss franc:

Gross exposure

Net investment hedge

Australian dollar:

Gross exposure

Net investment hedge

Japanese yen:

Gross exposure

Net investment hedge

Other non-sterling

Total structural foreign currency exposures, after net investment hedges

2010
£m

2009
£m

2,468

(3,270)

(802)

47

    (145)

(98)

53

–   

53

1,567

   (1,634)

(67)

17

–   

17

155

(742)

2,764

   (2,651) 

113

(184)

  62

(122)

2,552

  (2,467)

85

1,869

  (1,832)

37

3,220

  (3,207)

13

316

442

   
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Business review

Governance

Financial statements

Other information

Group profile 

Group structure 

Group performance 

Strategy and progress 

Chairman’s statement 

Group Chief Executive’s review 

Addressing the key issues 

Marketplace trends 

1

2

3

4

6

8

10

12

Summary of Group results 

Divisional results 

Other financial information 

14

26

52

Board of Directors 

Directors’ report 

Corporate governance report 

110

112

114

Five year financial summary 

56 

Directors’ remuneration report  124

Our people 

Corporate responsibility 

Risk management 

57

60

65

Shareholder information 

Glossary 

Abbreviations 

Index to annual report 

284

285

290

291

Report of the independent  
auditors on the consolidated  
financial statements 

Consolidated  
financial statements 
Notes to the consolidated  
financial statements 

Report of the independent  
auditors on the parent company 
financial statements 

Parent company financial 
statements 

Notes to the parent company 
financial statements 

144

146

153

272

273

276

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56 FINANCIAL RISK MANAGEMENT  continued

(3) CREDIT RISK
The Group’s credit risk exposure arises predominantly in the United Kingdom, the European Union, Australia and the United States.

The maximum credit risk exposure of the Group in the event of other parties failing to perform their obligations is detailed below. No account 
is taken of any collateral held and the maximum exposure to loss is considered to be the balance sheet carrying amount or, for non-derivative 
off-balance sheet transactions and financial guarantees, their contractual nominal amounts.

Loans and receivables:

Loans and advances to banks

Loans and advances to customers

Debt securities

Deposit amounts available for offset1

Impairment allowances

Available-for-sale financial assets (excluding equity shares)

Held-to-maturity investments

Trading and other financial assets at fair value through profit or loss (excluding equity shares)

Derivative assets, before netting

2010
£m

2009
£m

30,292

610,970

26,293

(8,105)

(18,951)

640,499

40,700

7,905

65,972

50,777

35,510

641,770

33,082

(13,373)

   (15,380) 

681,609

44,571

–

65,861

49,928

Amounts available for offset under master netting arrangements1

(31,740)

  (21,698)

Assets arising from reinsurance contracts held

Financial guarantees

Irrevocable loan commitments and other credit-related contingencies2

Maximum credit risk exposure

Maximum credit risk exposure before offset items

19,037

2,146

22,975

67,809

867,043

906,888

28,230

1,875

18,021

80,585

920,752

955,823

1

2

Deposit amounts available for offset and amounts available for offset under master netting arrangements do not meet the criteria under IAS 32 to enable loans and advances and derivative assets 
respectively to be presented net of these balances in the financial statements.

See note 54 – Contingent liabilities and commitments for further information.

A general description of collateral held in respect of financial instruments is disclosed on page 77.

Loans and advances to banks – the Group may require collateral before entering into a credit commitment with another bank, depending on the 
type of the financial product and the counterparty involved, and netting agreements are obtained whenever possible and to the extent that such 
agreements are legally enforceable.

Available-for-sale debt securities, treasury and other bills, held-to-maturity investments, and trading and other financial assets at fair value 
through profit or loss – the credit quality of the Group’s available-for-sale debt securities, treasury and other bills, held-to-maturity investments, 
and the majority of the Group’s trading and other financial assets at fair value through profit or loss held is set out below. An analysis of trading and 
other financial assets at fair value through profit or loss is included in note 18 and a similar analysis for available-for-sale financial assets is included 
in note 26. The Group’s held-to-maturity investments are all government debt securities. The Group’s non-participating investment contracts are 
all unit-linked. Trading and other financial assets at fair value through profit or loss which back those investment contracts were £129,702 million 
(2009: £118,573 million). Movements in the fair value of such assets, including movements arising from credit risk, are borne by the contract holders.

Derivative assets – the Group reduces exposure to credit risk by using master netting agreements and by obtaining collateral in the form of cash 
or highly liquid securities. An analysis of derivative assets is given in note 19. Of the net derivative assets of £19,037 million (31 December 2009: 
£28,230 million), cash collateral of £1,429 million (31 December 2009: £6,645 million) was held and a further £8,385 million was due from OECD banks 
(31 December 2009: £13,004 million).

Assets arising from reinsurance contracts held – of the assets arising from reinsurance contracts held at 31 December 2010 of £2,146 million 
(31 December 2009: £1,875 million), £671 million (31 December 2009: £510 million) were due from insurers with a credit rating of AA or above.

   
   
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56 FINANCIAL RISK MANAGEMENT  continued

Financial guarantees – these represent undertakings that the Group will meet a customer’s obligation to third parties if the customer fails to do 
so. Commitments to extend credit represent unused portions of authorisations to extend credit in the form of loans, guarantees or letters of credit. 
The Group is theoretically exposed to loss in an amount equal to the total guarantees or unused commitments, however, the likely amount of loss is 
expected to be significantly less; most commitments to extend credit are contingent upon customers maintaining specific credit standards.

Reverse repo and repo transactions – for reverse repo transactions which are accounted for as collateralised loans, it is the Group’s policy to seek 
collateral which is at least equal to the amount loaned. At 31 December 2010, the fair value of collateral accepted under reverse repo transactions that 
the Group is permitted by contract or custom to sell or repledge was £21,195 million (2009: £26,731 million). Of this, £3,161 million (2009: £14,963 million) 
was sold or repledged as at 31 December 2010. The fair value of collateral pledged in respect of repo transactions, accounted for as secured borrowings, 
where the secured party is permitted by contract or custom to repledge was £53,781 million (31 December 2009: £96,409 million). 

Stock lending – in addition to financial assets on the balance sheet which are subject to repurchase agreements, there were financial assets on the 
balance sheet pledged as collateral as part of securities lending transactions which amounted to £124,139 million at 31 December 2010  
(2009: £92,449 million).

Stock borrowing – Securities held as collateral as stock borrowed or under reverse repurchase agreements amounted to £93,419 million at 
31 December 2010 (2009: £95,881 million), of which £55,554 million at 31 December 2010 (2009: £77,455 million) had been resold or repledged as 
collateral for the Group’s own transactions.

Loans and advances

31 December 2010

Neither past due nor impaired

Past due but not impaired

Impaired – no provision required

– provision held

Gross

Allowance for impairment losses

Fair value adjustments

Net

31 December 2009

Neither past due nor impaired

Past due but not impaired

Impaired – no provision required

– provision held

Gross

Allowance for impairment losses

Fair value adjustments

Net

Loans and
advances
to banks
£m

30,259

–

–

20

Retail –
mortgages
£m

339,509

13,215

2,189

5,591

30,279

360,504

(2,073)

347,292

12,587

2,034

5,918

367,831

(1,774)

(20)

13

30,272

35,333

–

–

153

35,486

(149)

24

35,361

Loans and advances to customers

Retail –
other
£m

Wholesale
£m

Total
£m

Loans and
advances
designated
at fair value
through
profit or loss
£m

45,058

159,274

543,841

12,545

1,289

433

5,149

51,929

(2,587)

3,427

5,313

45,931

213,945

(24,975)

17,931

7,935

56,671

626,378

(29,635)

(4,146)

592,597

–

–

–

12,545

–

–

12,545

48,429

185,872

581,593

19,082

1,873

449

5,902

56,653

(3,379)

5,118

6,603

37,927

235,520

(20,835)

19,578

9,086

49,747

660,004

(25,988)

(7,047)

626,969

–

–

–

19,082

–

–

19,082

The disclosures in the table above and those on pages 255 to 257 are produced under the combined businesses approach used for the Group’s 
segmental reporting. The Group believes that, for reporting periods immediately following a significant acquisition such as the acquisition of HBOS 
in 2009, this combined businesses basis, which includes the allowance for loan losses at the acquisition date on a gross basis, more fairly reflects the 
underlying provisioning status of the loans. The remaining acquisition-related fair value adjustments in respect of this lending are therefore identified 
separately in this table.

The analysis of lending between retail and wholesale has been prepared based upon the type of exposure and not the business segment in which 
the exposure is recorded. Included within retail are exposures to personal customers and small businesses, whilst included within wholesale are 
exposures to corporate customers and other large institutions.

The criteria that the Group uses to determine that there is objective evidence of an impairment loss are disclosed in note 2(H). All impaired loans 
which exceed certain thresholds, principally within the Group’s Wholesale division, are individually assessed for impairment by reviewing expected 
future cash flows including those that could arise from the realisation of security. Included in loans and receivables are advances individually 
determined to be impaired with a gross amount before impairment allowances of £51,608 million (31 December 2009: £44,675 million) which have 
associated collateral with a fair value of £14,869 million (31 December 2009: £10,217 million).

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Financial statements

Other information

Group profile 

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Strategy and progress 

Chairman’s statement 

Group Chief Executive’s review 

Addressing the key issues 

Marketplace trends 

1

2

3

4

6

8

10

12

Summary of Group results 

Divisional results 

Other financial information 

14

26

52

Board of Directors 

Directors’ report 

Corporate governance report 

110

112

114

Five year financial summary 

56 

Directors’ remuneration report  124

Our people 

Corporate responsibility 

Risk management 

57

60

65

Shareholder information 

Glossary 

Abbreviations 

Index to annual report 

284

285

290

291

Report of the independent  
auditors on the consolidated  
financial statements 

Consolidated  
financial statements 
Notes to the consolidated  
financial statements 

Report of the independent  
auditors on the parent company 
financial statements 

Parent company financial 
statements 

Notes to the parent company 
financial statements 

144

146

153

272

273

276

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56 FINANCIAL RISK MANAGEMENT  continued

The table below sets out the reconciliation of the allowance for impairment losses of £18,373 million (31 December 2009: £14,801 million) shown in 
note 25 to the allowance for impairment losses on a combined businesses basis of £29,635 million (31 December 2009: £25,988 million) shown above:

Allowance for impairment losses on loans and advances to customers

HBOS allowance at 16 January 20091

Amounts subsequently written off

HBOS charge covered by fair value adjustments2

Foreign exchange and other movements

Allowance for impairment losses on loans and advances to customers on a combined businesses basis

2010  
£m

18,373

11,147

  (9,136)

2,011

8,823

428

29,635

2009 
£m 

14,801

11,147

  (6,155)

4,992

6,242

(47)

25,988

1

2

Comprises an allowance held at 31 December 2008 of £10,693 million and a charge for the period from 1 January 2009 to 16 January 2009 of £454 million. 

This represents the element of the charge on loans and advances to customers in HBOS’s results that was included within the Group’s fair value adjustments in respect of the acquisition of HBOS on 
16 January 2009.

Loans and advances which are neither past due nor impaired

31 December 2010

Good quality

Satisfactory quality

Lower quality

Below standard, but not impaired

Total loans and advances which are neither 
past due nor impaired

31 December 2009

Good quality

Satisfactory quality

Lower quality

Below standard, but not impaired

Total loans and advances which are neither past 
due nor impaired

Loans and
advances
to banks
£m

Retail –
mortgages
£m

29,835

332,614

265

16

143

5,259

834

802

Loans and advances to customers

Retail –
other
£m

30,076

11,084

1,170

2,728

Wholesale
£m

Total
£m

57,552

42,906

45,750

13,066

Loans and
advances
designated
at fair value
through
profit or loss
£m

12,220

163

83

79

30,259

339,509

45,058

159,274

543,841

12,545

34,434

335,482

135

15

749

9,614

746

1,450

30,743

12,654

1,480

3,552

61,810

59,752

45,986

18,324

18,702

267

90

23

35,333

347,292

48,429

185,872

581,593

19,082

The definitions of good quality, satisfactory quality, lower quality and below standard, but not impaired applying to retail and wholesale are not the same, 
reflecting the different characteristics of these exposures and the way they are managed internally, and consequently totals are not provided. Wholesale 
lending has been classified using internal probability of default rating models mapped so that they are comparable to external credit ratings. Good 
quality lending comprises the lower assessed default probabilities, with other classifications reflecting progressively higher default risk. Classifications 
of retail lending incorporate expected recovery levels for mortgages, as well as probabilities of default assessed using internal rating models. 

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56 FINANCIAL RISK MANAGEMENT  continued

Loans and advances which are past due but not impaired 

31 December 2010

0-30 days

30-60 days

60-90 days

90-180 days

Over 180 days

Total loans and advances which are past due 
but not impaired

Fair value of collateral held

31 December 2009

0-30 days

30-60 days

60-90 days

90-180 days

Over 180 days

Total loans and advances which are past due but 
not impaired

Fair value of collateral held

Loans and
advances
to banks
£m

Retail –
mortgages
£m

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

6,498

2,674

1,811

2,223

9

13,215

11,467

6,018

2,649

1,702

2,216

2

12,587

10,845

Loans and advances to customers

Retail –
other
£m

1,004

246

29

10

–

1,289

n/a

1,316

376

74

48

59

1,873

n/a

Wholesale
£m

1,331

498

394

337

867

3,427

n/a

2,347

825

825

560

561

5,118

n/a

Loans and
advances
designated
at fair value
through
profit or loss
£m

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

Total
£m

8,833

3,418

2,234

2,570

876

17,931

n/a

9,681

3,850

2,601

2,824

622

19,578

n/a

A financial asset is ‘past due’ if a counterparty has failed to make a payment when contractually due.

Collateral held against retail mortgage lending is principally comprised of residential properties; their fair value has been estimated based upon 
the last actual valuation, adjusted to take into account subsequent movements in house prices, after making allowance for indexation error 
and dilapidations. The resulting valuation has been limited to the principal amount of the outstanding advance in order to provide a clearer 
representation of the Group’s credit exposure.

Lending decisions are based on an obligor’s ability to repay from normal business operations rather than reliance on the disposal of any security 
provided. Collateral values for non-mortgage lending are assessed more rigorously at the time of loan origination or when taking enforcement action 
and may fluctuate, as in the case of floating charges, according to the level of assets held by the customer. Whilst collateral is reviewed on a regular 
basis in accordance with business unit credit policy, this varies according to the type of lending and collateral involved. It is therefore not practicable 
to estimate and aggregate current fair values of collateral for non-mortgage lending.

Renegotiated loans and advances
Loans and advances that were renegotiated during the year and that would otherwise have been past due or impaired at 31 December 2010 totalled  
£5,475 million (31 December 2009: £3,919 million). 

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Financial statements

Other information

Group profile 

Group structure 

Group performance 

Strategy and progress 

Chairman’s statement 

Group Chief Executive’s review 

Addressing the key issues 

Marketplace trends 

1

2

3

4

6

8

10

12

Summary of Group results 

Divisional results 

Other financial information 

14

26

52

Board of Directors 

Directors’ report 

Corporate governance report 

110

112

114

Five year financial summary 

56 

Directors’ remuneration report  124

Our people 

Corporate responsibility 

Risk management 

57

60

65

Shareholder information 

Glossary 

Abbreviations 

Index to annual report 

284

285

290

291

Report of the independent  
auditors on the consolidated  
financial statements 

Consolidated  
financial statements 
Notes to the consolidated  
financial statements 

Report of the independent  
auditors on the parent company 
financial statements 

Parent company financial 
statements 

Notes to the parent company 
financial statements 

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146

153

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56 FINANCIAL RISK MANAGEMENT  continued

Forbearance arrangements
The Group operates a number of schemes to assist borrowers. Further details of these schemes is set out in the risk report on pages 78 and 79.

The Group operates schemes that allow customers to repay a monthly amount which is lower than their contractual monthly payment for a short 
period. These forbearance arrangements include short-term reduced or nil payment arrangements and transfers to interest only mortgages, as 
described on page 79. During the period of forbearance, there is no clearing down of arrears such that, unless the customer is paying more than 
their contractual minimum payment, arrears balances will remain and the loan will continue to be reported as impaired. When customers come to 
the end of their arrangement period they will continue to be managed as a mainstream collections case and if unable to recover then will move 
toward possession.

Under the Group’s contractual repayment scheme, also described on page 79, customers can have their arrears balance capitalised once they have 
demonstrated they can pay the original contractual minimum payment, but are unable to clear their arrears. This is usually demonstrated by the 
customer making six consecutive contractual monthly payments. Customers are not, however, able to recapitalise more than twice in a five year 
period. Such recapitalised loans are not considered to be impaired as the Group continues to expect to recover the original carrying amount of the 
loan. Consequently, recapitalised mortgages will return to the non-impaired book and will be managed in accordance with the recapitalised terms of 
the mortgage.

In addition, the Group participates in a number of UK Government sponsored programmes designed to support households, which are described on 
page 78. Where these schemes provide borrowers with a state benefit that is used to service the loan, there is no change in the reported status of the 
loan which is managed and reported in accordance with its original terms.

Repossessed collateral

Residential property

Other

Total repossessed collateral

2010
£m

1,046

32

1,078

2009
£m

1,353

701

2,054

In respect of retail portfolios, the Group does not take physical possession of properties or other assets held as collateral and uses external agents to 
realise the value as soon as practicable, generally at auction, to settle indebtedness. Any surplus funds are returned to the borrower or are otherwise 
dealt with in accordance with appropriate insolvency regulations. In certain circumstances the Group takes physical possession of assets held as 
collateral against wholesale lending. In such cases, the assets are carried on the Group’s balance sheet and are classified according to the Group’s 
accounting policies.

Loan-to-value ratio of mortgage lending

Analysis by loan-to-value ratio of the Group’s residential mortgage lending which is neither past due nor impaired:

Less than 70 per cent

70 per cent to 80 per cent

80 per cent to 90 per cent

Greater than 90 per cent

Total residential mortgage lending which is neither past due nor impaired

2010
£m

2009
£m

140,267

57,979

53,732

87,531

339,509

142,614

54,079

52,238

98,361

347,292

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56 FINANCIAL RISK MANAGEMENT  continued

An analysis of the Group’s debt securities, treasury and other bills and derivative financial instruments by credit rating is provided below.

AAA
£m

AA
£m

A
£m

BBB
£m

Rated BB
or lower
£m

Not rated
£m

Total
£m

As at 31 December 2010
Debt securities, treasury and other bills held at fair value 
through profit or loss
Trading assets:
Government securities
Bank and building society certificates of deposit
Other asset-backed securities
Corporate and other debt securities
Total debt securities held as trading assets
Treasury bills and other bills
Total held as trading assets
Other assets held at fair value through profit or loss:
Government securities
Other public sector securities
Bank and building society certificates of deposit
Asset-backed securities:

Mortgage-backed securities
Other asset-backed securities

Corporate and other debt securities
Total other assets held at fair value through profit or loss
Total held at fair value through profit or loss
Derivative financial instruments
Trading and other 
Hedging
Total derivative financial instruments
Debt securities classified as loans and receivables
Asset-backed securities:

Mortgage-backed securities
Other asset-backed securities

Corporate and other debt securities
Total debt securities classified as loans and receivables
Available-for-sale financial assets
Debt securities:
Government securities
Other public sector securities
Bank and building society certificates of deposit
Asset-backed securities:

Mortgage-backed securities
Other asset-backed securities

Corporate and other debt securities
Total debt securities
Treasury bills and other bills
Total held as available-for-sale financial assets
Held-to-maturity investments
Government securities

651
–
191
1,205
2,047
219
2,266

20,509
778
52

259
298
557
3,870
25,766
28,032

888
3,086
633
1,209
5,816
8
5,824

1,113
62
107

68
372
440
1,619
3,341
9,165

–
506
196
1,839
2,541
–
2,541

408
68
447

48
458
506
4,397
5,826
8,367

157
57
214

18,161
1,992
20,153

13,486
4,368
17,854

6,524
7,535
14,059
163
14,222

12,462
–
–

2,809
3,625
6,434
1,135
20,031
4,439
24,470

2,856
2,514
5,370
164
5,534

78
–
225

673
781
1,454
4,824
6,581
–
6,581

1,057
1,377
2,434
459
2,893

–
–
162

601
395
996
5,150
6,308
1,629
7,937

84
100
–
183
367
–
367

33
2
–

23
384
407
3,269
3,711
4,078

1,006
46
1,052

840
475
1,315
106
1,421

–
–
20

202
115
317
913
1,250
–
1,250

7,905

–

–

–

–
–
–
13
13
–
13

6
–
–

–
70
70
1,275
1,351
1,364

–
–
–
470
470
–
470

148
9
–

24
10
34
1,760
1,951
2,421

86
–
86

10,475
943
11,418

1,623
3,692
1,020
  4,919
11,254
227
11,481

22,217
919
606

422
  1,592
2,014
16,190
41,946
53,427

43,371
7,406
50,777

222
823
1,045
166
1,211

151
103  
254
758
1,012

11,650
  12,827
24,477
1,816
26,293

–
–
–

8
79
87
42
129
–
129

–

12
29
–

–
224
224
68
333
–
333

12,552
29
407

4,293
  5,219
9,512
12,132
34,632
6,068
40,700

–

7,905

 
 
 
Overview

Business review

Governance

Financial statements

Other information

Group profile 

Group structure 

Group performance 

Strategy and progress 

Chairman’s statement 

Group Chief Executive’s review 

Addressing the key issues 

Marketplace trends 

1

2

3

4

6

8

10

12

Summary of Group results 

Divisional results 

Other financial information 

14

26

52

Board of Directors 

Directors’ report 

Corporate governance report 

110

112

114

Five year financial summary 

56 

Directors’ remuneration report  124

Our people 

Corporate responsibility 

Risk management 

57

60

65

Shareholder information 

Glossary 

Abbreviations 

Index to annual report 

284

285

290

291

Report of the independent  
auditors on the consolidated  
financial statements 

Consolidated  
financial statements 
Notes to the consolidated  
financial statements 

Report of the independent  
auditors on the parent company 
financial statements 

Parent company financial 
statements 

Notes to the parent company 
financial statements 

144

146

153

272

273

276

259

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and Accounts 2010

56 FINANCIAL RISK MANAGEMENT  continued

An analysis of the Group’s debt securities, treasury and other bills and derivative financial instruments by credit rating is provided below.

AAA
£m

AA
£m

A
£m

BBB
£m

Rated BB
or lower
£m

Not rated
£m

Total
£m

As at 31 December 2009

Debt securities held at fair value through profit or loss

Trading assets:

Government securities

Other public sector securities

Bank and building society certificates of deposit

Other asset-backed securities

Corporate and other debt securities

Total held as trading assets

Other assets held at fair value through profit or loss:

Government securities

Other public sector securities

Asset-backed securities:

Mortgage-backed securities

Other asset-backed securities

Corporate and other debt securities

Total other assets held at fair value through profit or loss

Total held at fair value through profit or loss
Derivative financial instruments

Trading and other

Hedging

Total derivative financial instruments
Debt securities classified as loans and receivables

Asset-backed securities:

Mortgage-backed securities

Other asset-backed securities

Corporate and other debt securities

Total debt securities classified as loans and receivables
Available-for-sale financial assets

Debt securities:

Government securities

Other public sector securities

Bank and building society certificates of deposit

Asset-backed securities:

Mortgage-backed securities

Other asset-backed securities

Corporate and other debt securities

Total debt securities

Treasury bills and other bills

2,100

–

–

331

1,025

3,456

16,025

675

316

403

719

4,070

21,489

24,945

887

628

1,515

9,183

11,824

21,007

–

21,007

8,222

–

22

3,820

6,080

9,900

2,002

20,146

269

806

–

1,037

379

312

2,534

581

16

134

325

459

1,359

2,415

4,949

–

6

997

181

1,328

2,512

337

–

45

654

699

4,540

5,576

8,088

13,674

2,509

16,183

14,173

5,163

19,336

2,470

2,465

4,935

439

5,374

263

–

499

555

731

1,286

7,342

9,390

2,263

805

1,449

2,254

823

3,077

35

–

452

215

448

663

8,802

9,952

–

9,952

–

–

–

–

348

348

26

–

24

333

357

3,407

3,790

4,138

889

91

980

682

277

959

69

1,028

–

–

22

156

179

335

1,350

1,707

–

1,707

–

–

–

–

72

72

–

–

–

265

265

1,062

1,327

1,399

169

–

169

182

965

1,147

306

1,453

–

–

19

35

186

221

228

468

–

468

30

–

–

–

12

42

56

9

1

19

20

3,133

3,218

3,260

10,706

1,039

11,745

–

157

157

986

1,143

149

31

–

–

16

16

180

376

–

376

2,936

6

2,034

891

3,097

8,964

17,025

700

520

1,999  

2,519

17,571

37,815

46,779

40,498

9,430

49,928

13,322

17,137 

30,459

2,623

33,082

8,669

31

1,014

4,781

7,640 

12,421

19,904

42,039

2,532

44,571

Total held as available-for-sale financial assets

20,415

11,653

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NOTES TO THE CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

56 FINANCIAL RISK MANAGEMENT  continued

CREDIT MARKET EXPOSURES
The Group’s credit market exposures primarily relate to asset-backed securities exposures held in Wholesale division. These exposures are classified 
as loans and receivables (note 24), available-for-sale financial assets (note 26) or trading and other financial assets at fair value through profit or loss 
(note 18) depending on the nature of the investment.  

Asset-backed securities

Mortgage-backed securities:

US residential mortgage-backed securities

Non-US residential mortgage-backed securities

Commercial mortgage-backed securities

Collateralised debt obligations:

Corporate

Commercial real estate 

Other

Collateralised loan obligations

Personal sector:

Auto loans

Credit cards

Personal loans

Federal family education loan programme

Student loans

Other asset-backed securities 

Total uncovered asset-backed securities

Negative basis1

Total Wholesale asset-backed securities

Direct

Conduits (note 23)

Total Wholesale asset-backed securities

1

Negative basis means bonds held with separate matching credit default swap protection.

Loans and 

receivables Available-for-sale
£m 

£m 

Trading and other 
financial assets at 
fair value through 
profit or loss
£m 

Net exposure  
as at  
31 December  

2010
£m

Net exposure  
as at  
31 December  
2009
£m

4,242

4,916

2,397

11,555

43

306

106

3,578

4,033

569

1,795

663

3,027

–

2,982

1,119

4,101

–

–

39

1,108

1,147

339

338

263

940

5,078

2,699

572

24,265

–

24,265

15,860

8,405

24,265

463

9,350

42

9,392

5,369

4,023

9,392

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

1,067

1,067

1,067

–

1,067

4,242

7,898

3,516

15,656

43

306

145

4,686

5,180

908

2,133

926

3,967

7,777

1,035

33,615

1,109

34,724

22,296

12,428

34,724

4,826

9,655

3,737

18,218

86

509

196

5,745

6,536

1,730

3,720

999

6,449

9,244

1,183

41,630

1,233

42,863

27,599

15,264

42,863

 
Overview

Business review

Governance

Financial statements

Other information

Group profile 

Group structure 

Group performance 

Strategy and progress 

Chairman’s statement 

Group Chief Executive’s review 

Addressing the key issues 

Marketplace trends 

1

2

3

4

6

8

10

12

Summary of Group results 

Divisional results 

Other financial information 

14

26

52

Board of Directors 

Directors’ report 

Corporate governance report 

110

112

114

Five year financial summary 

56 

Directors’ remuneration report  124

Our people 

Corporate responsibility 

Risk management 

57

60

65

Shareholder information 

Glossary 

Abbreviations 

Index to annual report 

284

285

290

291

Report of the independent  
auditors on the consolidated  
financial statements 

Consolidated  
financial statements 
Notes to the consolidated  
financial statements 

Report of the independent  
auditors on the parent company 
financial statements 

Parent company financial 
statements 

Notes to the parent company 
financial statements 

144

146

153

272

273

276

261

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Annual Report  
and Accounts 2010

56 FINANCIAL RISK MANAGEMENT  continued

The table below sets out Wholesale division’s net exposure to US residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS) by vintage.

Asset class

Prime

Alt-A

Sub-prime

Total net exposure to US RMBS

Pre-2005
£m 

233

121

–

354

2005
£m 

215

765

–

980

2006
£m 

2007
£m 

Net exposure 
as at 
31 December 
 2010
£m 

Net exposure 
as at 
31 December 
 2009
£m 

66

1,437

–

1,503

28

1,377

–

1,405

542

3,700

–

4,242

859

3,967

–

4,826

Exposures to monolines
During 2009 all exposure to sub-investment grade monolines on CDS contracts was written down to zero, leaving limited exposure to monoline 
insurers as set out below.

Investment grade

Sub-investment grade

Total monoline insurers

Credit default swaps

Wrapped loans and receivables

Wrapped bonds

Notional
£m 

1,060

–

1,060

Exposure1 
£m 

Notional
£m 

Exposure2
£m 

Notional
£m 

Exposure3
£m 

40

–

40

330

–

330

214

–

214

–

–

–

–

–

–

1

2

3

The exposure to monolines arising from credit default swaps is calculated as the mark-to-market of the CDS protection purchased from the monoline after credit valuation adjustments. 

The exposure to monolines on wrapped loans and receivables and bonds is the internal assessment of amounts that will be recovered from the monoline guarantor on interest and principal shortfalls. 

In addition, the Group has £1,985 million (31 December 2009: £2,703 million) of monoline wrapped bonds and £425 million ( 31 December 2009: £791 million) of monoline liquidity commitments on 
which the Group currently places no reliance on the guarantor.

AAA 
£m 

AA 
£m 

A 
£m 

BBB 
£m 

BB 
£m 

B 
£m 

Below
B
£m 

262

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and Accounts 2010

NOTES TO THE CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

56 FINANCIAL RISK MANAGEMENT  continued

An analysis of  the Wholesale division’s asset-backed securities portfolio by credit rating is provided below. 

Asset class

Mortgage-backed securities

US residential mortgage-backed securities:

  Prime

  Alt-A

  Sub-prime

Non-US residential mortgage-backed securities

Commercial mortgage-backed securities

Collateralised debt obligations

Corporate

Commercial real estate

Other

Collateralised loan obligations

Personal sector

Auto loans

Credit cards

Personal loans

Net 
Exposure
£m 

542

3,700

–

4,242

7,898

3,516

15,656

43

306

145

4,686

5,180

908

2,133

926

3,967

312

2,037

–

2,349

6,170

754

9,273

5

18

–

760

783

764

1,762

230

2,756

Federal family education loan programme 

Student loans

7,777

7,646

Other asset-backed securities

1,035

114

Negative basis1

Monolines

Banks

Total as at 31 December 2010

Total as at 31 December 2009

1,067

42

1,109

191

42

233

34,724

20,805

42,863

31,086

1

The external credit rating is based on the bond ignoring the benefit of the CDS.

110

801

–

911

1,415

1,390

3,716

27

–

–

82

591

–

673

237

637

1,547

–

–

–

2,189

2,216

1,210

1,210

44

–

325

369

48

68

371

306

745

–

–

633

–

633

7,310

6,375

26

186

–

212

76

585

873

–

105

–

140

245

–

–

65

65

64

9

66

–

75

–

62

137

–

128

105

234

467

32

–

–

32

19

296

517

108

243

–

243

3,713

2,915

–

–

–

1,764

1,276

–

–

–

763

725

3

19

–

22

–

–

22

–

27

–

98

–

–

  –

–

–

88

88

11

28

40

55

125

134

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

147

92

222

394

 
Overview

Business review

Governance

Financial statements

Other information

Group profile 

Group structure 

Group performance 

Strategy and progress 

Chairman’s statement 

Group Chief Executive’s review 

Addressing the key issues 

Marketplace trends 

1

2

3

4

6

8

10

12

Summary of Group results 

Divisional results 

Other financial information 

14

26

52

Board of Directors 

Directors’ report 

Corporate governance report 

110

112

114

Five year financial summary 

56 

Directors’ remuneration report  124

Our people 

Corporate responsibility 

Risk management 

57

60

65

Shareholder information 

Glossary 

Abbreviations 

Index to annual report 

284

285

290

291

Report of the independent  
auditors on the consolidated  
financial statements 

Consolidated  
financial statements 
Notes to the consolidated  
financial statements 

Report of the independent  
auditors on the parent company 
financial statements 

Parent company financial 
statements 

Notes to the parent company 
financial statements 

144

146

153

272

273

276

263

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Annual Report  
and Accounts 2010

56 FINANCIAL RISK MANAGEMENT  continued

(4) LIQUIDITY RISK
The table below analyses assets and liabilities of the Group into relevant maturity groupings based on the remaining contractual period at the 
balance sheet date; balances with no fixed maturity are included in the over 5 years category.

Maturities of assets and liabilities

As at 31 December 2010

Assets

Cash and balances at central banks

Trading and other financial assets at fair value through profit or loss

Derivative financial instruments

Loans and advances to banks

Loans and advances to customers

Debt securities held as loans and receivables

Available-for-sale financial assets

Held-to-maturity investments

Other assets

Total assets

Liabilities

Deposits from banks

Customer deposits

Derivative financial instruments, trading and other financial liabilities at 
fair value through profit or loss

Debt securities in issue

Liabilities arising from insurance and investment contracts

Other liabilities

Subordinated liabilities 

Total liabilities

As at 31 December 2009

Assets

Cash and balances at central banks

Trading and other financial assets at fair value through profit or loss

Derivative financial instruments

Loans and advances to banks

Loans and advances to customers

Debt securities held as loans and receivables

Available-for-sale financial assets

Other assets

Total assets

Liabilities

Deposits from banks

Customer deposits

Derivative financial instruments, trading and other financial liabilities at 
fair value through profit or loss

Debt securities in issue

Liabilities arising from insurance and investment contracts

Other liabilities

Subordinated liabilities 

Total liabilities

Up to
1 month
£m

1-3
months
£m

3-12
months
£m

1-5
years
£m

Over 5
years
£m

Total
£m

37,737

7,579

2,889

22,520

58,392

57

2,745

110

4,920

70

9,541

1,691

2,754

308

8,948

3,860

2,550

–

–

38,115

6,192

123,931

156,191

17,492

24,845

1,529

919

50,777

30,272

10,549

28,193

114,102

381,361

592,597

250

5,503

–

585

374

2,941

3,535

12,761

22,113

18,411

7,795

25,735

42,955

7,905

–

604

39,778

47,027

–

1,140

136,949

30,943

48,908

155,621

619,153

991,574

24,445

311,899

10,308

14,557

4,152

9,467

30,790

33,802

1,991

2,585

50,363

393,633

11,938

24,151

15,425

15,426

122

4,313

8,469

39,243

46,629

1,550

595

1,294

5,337

933

1,317

20,003

67,190

20,174

8,049

9,049

24,197

68,920

51,653

228,866

90,249

132,735

8,920

24,450

33,923

36,232

403,406

71,860

97,627

167,734

204,045

944,672

38,569

22,912

15,222

24,641

84,441

92

1,205

6,247

–

6,047

1,245

2,783

23

10,517

3,756

4,759

–

9,666

15,611

1,880

402

38,994

100,869

150,011

14,094

1,298

49,928

35,361

12,623

30,296

126,355

373,254

626,969

143

3,134

448

557

3,172

564

4,149

19,885

385

27,711

19,206

39,094

32,652

46,602

46,738

193,329

26,423

53,644

177,931

575,928

1,027,255

45,877

326,931

26,494

37,981

57,797

3,674

55

15,522

26,637

4,655

36,321

1,480

502

280

16,612

18,234

9,330

33,475

2,975

1,372

754

1,106

30,627

17,827

75,912

12,151

4,056

8,568

3,335

4,312

82,452

406,741

10,450

49,813

49,206

23,757

25,070

68,756

233,502

123,609

33,361

34,727

498,809

85,397

82,752

150,247

165,943

983,148

 
264

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and Accounts 2010

NOTES TO THE CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

56 FINANCIAL RISK MANAGEMENT  continued

The above tables are provided on a contractual basis. The Group’s assets and liabilities may be repaid or otherwise mature earlier or later than 
implied by their contractual terms and readers are, therefore, advised to use caution when using this data to evaluate the Group’s liquidity position.

The table below analyses financial instrument liabilities of the Group, excluding those arising from insurance and participating investment contracts, 
on an undiscounted future cash flow basis according to contractual maturity, into relevant maturity groupings based on the remaining period at the 
balance sheet date; balances with no fixed maturity are included in the over 5 years category.

Up to
1 month
£m

1-3
months
£m

3-12
months
£m

1-5
years
£m

Over 5
years
£m

Total
£m

As at 31 December 2010

Deposits from banks

Customer deposits

Trading and other financial liabilities at fair value through profit or loss

Debt securities in issue

Liabilities arising from non-participating investment contracts

24,911

306,469

11,293

31,234

12,944

11,804

15,031

2,218

4,301

32,626

5,125

10,557

38,529

5,544

922

52,495

3,019

395,674

3,632

27,812

41,143

52,582

91,893

35,201

252,053

91

265

1,743

36,320

35,067

51,363

58,491

Subordinated liabilities 

–

1,107

4,615

17,702

Total non-derivative financial liabilities

386,851

71,394

99,514

165,968

114,161

837,888

Derivative financial liabilities:

Gross settled derivatives – outflows

Gross settled derivatives – inflows

Gross settled derivatives – net flows

Net settled derivatives liabilities

Total derivative financial liabilities

As at 31 December 2009

Deposits from banks

Customer deposits

Trading and other financial liabilities at fair value through profit or loss

Debt securities in issue

Liabilities arising from non-participating investment contracts

Subordinated liabilities 

Total non-derivative financial liabilities

Derivative financial liabilities:

Gross settled derivatives – outflows

Gross settled derivatives – inflows

Gross settled derivatives – net flows

Net settled derivatives liabilities

Total derivative financial liabilities

26,069

14,832

8,942

65,734

42,410

157,987

(10,442)

(14,978)

(9,270)

(66,232)

(41,815)

(142,737)

(146)

(328)

(498)

15,627

2,492

18,119

46,260

305,782

14,592

40,505

46,040

75

453,254

10,707

(6,547)

4,160

15,107

19,267

2,066

1,920

15,250

37,691

3,668

38,431

4

1,004

96,048

4,844

(4,501)

343

2,180

2,523

5,797

5,469

11,576

11,078

19,232

32,848

6,116

1,229

28,229

3,224

595

3,331

3,926

892

4,020

1,275

15,250

25,262

40,512

82,863

408,570

28,875

34,909

117,856

25,863

257,564

58

185

1,745

15,702

94,908

166,425

186

35,737

67,973

46,473

54,263

878,608

8,309

35,793

38,505

98,158

(8,165)

(35,306)

(36,311)

(90,830)

144

9,395

9,539

487

8,721

9,208

2,194

1,777

3,971

7,328

37,180

44,508

In addition, the Group has a maximum credit risk exposure of £22,975 million (2009: £18,021 million) in respect of financial guarantees. 

The principal amount for undated subordinated liabilities with no redemption option is included within the over five years column; interest of 
approximately £448 million (2009: £555 million) per annum which is payable in respect of those instruments for as long as they remain in issue is not 
included beyond five years.

Further information on the Group’s liquidity exposures is provided on pages 93 to 97.

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2

3

4

6

8

10

12

Summary of Group results 

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Other financial information 

14

26

52

Board of Directors 

Directors’ report 

Corporate governance report 

110

112

114

Five year financial summary 

56 

Directors’ remuneration report  124

Our people 

Corporate responsibility 

Risk management 

57

60

65

Shareholder information 

Glossary 

Abbreviations 

Index to annual report 

284

285

290

291

Report of the independent  
auditors on the consolidated  
financial statements 

Consolidated  
financial statements 
Notes to the consolidated  
financial statements 

Report of the independent  
auditors on the parent company 
financial statements 

Parent company financial 
statements 

Notes to the parent company 
financial statements 

144

146

153

272

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56 FINANCIAL RISK MANAGEMENT  continued

Liabilities arising from insurance and participating investment contracts are analysed on a behavioural basis, as permitted by IFRS 4, as follows:

As at 31 December 2010

As at 31 December 2009

Up to
1 month
£m

2,481

6,263

1-3
months
£m

1,459

2,303

3-12
months
£m

5,072

1-5
years
£m

Over 5
years
£m

Total
£m

18,431

53,286

80,729

4,796

17,890

44,927

76,179

The following tables set out the amounts and residual maturities of Lloyds Banking Group’s off balance sheet contingent liabilities and commitments.

31 December 2010

Acceptances

Other contingent liabilities

Total contingent liabilities

Lending commitments

Other commitments

Total commitments

Total contingents and commitments

31 December 2009 

Acceptances

Other contingent liabilities

Total contingent liabilities

Lending commitments

Other commitments

Total commitments

Total contingents and commitments

Within
1 year 
£m

1-3
 years 
£m 

3-5
 years 
£m

Over 5 
years
£m

Total
 £m

48

–

–

–

48

    1,897

    1,248

    269

    717

    4,131

1,945

1,248

269

717

4,179

76,456

22,537

13,424

3,739

116,156

    1,038

77,494

79,439

Within
1 year 
£m

59

  2,670

2,729

82,997

  921

83,918

86,647

    61

22,598

23,846

1-3
years 
£m 

–

  1,356

1,356

20,497

  105

20,602

21,958

    –

    43

    1,142

13,424

13,693

3-5
years
£m

–

  1,144

1,144

18,040

  14

18,054

19,198

3,782

117,298

4,499

121,477

Over 5 
years
£m

–

  879

879

Total
 £m

59

  6,049

6,108

6,003

127,537

  6

  1,046

6,009

6,888

128,583

134,691

57 CONSOLIDATED CASH FLOW STATEMENT

(A)  CHANGE IN OPERATING ASSETS

Change in loans and receivables

Change in derivative financial instruments, trading and other financial assets at fair value through profit or loss

Change in other operating assets

Change in operating assets

2010
£m

40,101

(7,378)

(863)

31,860

2009
£m

50,935

12,063

(1,056)

61,942

 
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NOTES TO THE CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

57 CONSOLIDATED CASH FLOW STATEMENT  continued

(B) CHANGE IN OPERATING LIABILITIES

Change in deposits from banks

Change in customer deposits

Change in debt securities in issue

Change in derivative financial instruments, trading and other liabilities at fair value through profit or loss

Change in investment contract liabilities

Change in other operating liabilities

Change in operating liabilities

(C) NON-CASH AND OTHER ITEMS

Depreciation and amortisation

Impairment of tangible fixed assets

Revaluation of investment properties

Allowance for loan losses

Write-off of allowance for loan losses

Impairment of available-for-sale financial assets

Impairment of goodwill

Change in insurance contract liabilities

Customer goodwill payments provision

Other provision movements

Net (credit) charge in respect of defined benefit schemes

Contributions to defined benefit schemes

Gain on acquisition

Other non-cash items 

Total non-cash items

Interest expense on subordinated liabilities

Other

Total other items

Non-cash and other items

(D) ANALYSIS OF CASH AND CASH EQUIVALENTS AS SHOWN IN THE BALANCE SHEET

Cash and balances at central banks

Less: mandatory reserve deposits1

Loans and advances to banks

Less: amounts with a maturity of three months or more

Total cash and cash equivalents

2010
£m

(32,162)

(13,249)

(5,655)

160

8,161

(2,938)

(45,683)

2010
£m

2,432

202

(434)

10,771

(6,909)

106

–

4,021

500

49

(455)

(653)

–

(2,933)

6,697

3,619

  857

4,476

11,173

2010
£m

38,115

 (1,089)

37,026

30,272

(4,998)

25,274

62,300

2009
£m

(71,267)

11,474

(26,578)

(27,037)

5,415

2,066

(105,927)

2009
£m

2,560

–

214

16,028

(4,090)

602

240

5,986

–

95

529

(1,867)

(11,173)

(2,806)

6,318

2,550

  39

2,589

8,907

2009
£m

38,994

  (728)

38,266

35,361

  (7,937) 

27,424

65,690

1

Mandatory reserve deposits are held with local central banks in accordance with statutory requirements; these deposits are not available to finance the Group’s day-to-day operations.

Included within cash and cash equivalents at 31 December 2010 is £14,694 million (2009: £13,323 million) held within the Group’s life funds, which is 
not immediately available for use in the business.

   
   
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2

3

4

6

8

10

12

Summary of Group results 

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Other financial information 

14

26

52

Board of Directors 

Directors’ report 

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110

112

114

Five year financial summary 

56 

Directors’ remuneration report  124

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60

65

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Abbreviations 

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284

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290

291

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financial statements 
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financial statements 

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auditors on the parent company 
financial statements 

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statements 

Notes to the parent company 
financial statements 

144

146

153

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57 CONSOLIDATED CASH FLOW STATEMENT  continued

(E) ANALYSIS OF CHANGES IN FINANCING DURING THE YEAR

Share capital (including share premium account and merger reserve):

At 1 January 

Issued on acquisition of HBOS

Transfer to capital redemption reserve

Issued on redemption of preference shares and other subordinated securities in 2010

Cash proceeds from issue of share capital:

Placing and open offer

Placing and compensatory open offer

Rights issue

Other

At 31 December

Non-controlling interests:

At 1 January 

Exchange and other adjustments

Adjustment on acquisition of HBOS

Repayment of capital to and extinguishment of non-controlling interests

Change in non-controlling interests

Minority share of profit after tax

Dividends paid to non-controlling interests

At 31 December

Subordinated liabilities:

At 1 January 

Exchange and other adjustments

Adjustment on acquisition of HBOS

Issue of subordinated liabilities

Repayment of subordinated liabilities

At 31 December

2010
£m

33,065

–

(4,089)

2,237

–

–

–

    –

–

31,213

2010
£m

829

(5)

–

–

2

62

(47)

841

2010
£m

34,727

(1,048)

–

3,237

(684)

36,232

2009
£m

3,952

7,651

(26)

–

4,430

3,905

13,112

  41

21,488

33,065

2009
£m

306

(19)

5,567

(5,035)

–

126

(116)

829

2009
£m

17,256

133

20,048

4,187

(6,897)

34,727

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NOTES TO THE CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

57 CONSOLIDATED CASH FLOW STATEMENT  continued

(F) ACQUISITION OF GROUP UNDERTAKINGS AND BUSINESSES

Net assets acquired:

Cash and balances at central banks 

Derivatives, trading and other financial assets at fair value through profit or loss

Loans and receivables:

Loans and advances to customers

Loans and advances to banks

Debt securities

Available-for-sale financial assets

Investment properties

Value of in-force business

Intangible assets

Tangible fixed assets

Other assets

Deposits from banks

Customer deposits

Derivatives, trading and other financial liabilities at fair value through profit or loss

Debt securities in issue

Insurance liabilities

Liabilities arising from non-participating investment contracts

Other liabilities

Retirement benefit obligations

Subordinated liabilities

Preference shares

Non-controlling interests

Total net assets acquired

Satisfied by:

Issue of shares

Gain on acquisition

Cash and cash equivalents acquired, net of acquisition costs

  –

16,341

Net cash inflow arising from acquisition of HBOS

Acquisition of and additional investment in joint ventures

Net cash (outflow) inflow arising from acquisitions in the year

Payments to former members of Scottish Widows Fund and Life Assurance Society acquired during 2000 

Net cash (outflow) inflow

(G) DISPOSAL AND CLOSURE OF GROUP UNDERTAKINGS AND BUSINESSES

Intangible assets

Other net assets and liabilities

Net cash inflow from disposals

–

–

(65)

(65)

(8)

(73)

2010
£m

–

428

428

2010
£m

2009
£m

–

–

–

–

  –

38,408 

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

2,123

137,889

436,839

15,794

491,041

27,151

3,002

3,713

4,754

5,707

11,398

(87,840)

(224,694)

(62,158)

(185,319)

(36,687)

(28,181)

(17,316)

(358)

(20,048)

(3,917)

(1,300)

18,960

(7,651)

(11,173)

(2,483)

16,477

(215)

16,262

(35)

16,227

2009
£m

170

241

411

 
 
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4

6

8

10

12

Summary of Group results 

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Other financial information 

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26

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114

Five year financial summary 

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financial statements 

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auditors on the parent company 
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statements 

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financial statements 

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58 FUTURE ACCOUNTING DEVELOPMENTS 

The following pronouncements will be relevant to the Group but were not effective at 31 December 2010 and have not been applied in preparing 
these financial statements. The full impact of these accounting changes is being assessed by the Group. 

Pronouncement

Nature of change

Amendment to IAS 32 Financial 
Instruments: Presentation – 
‘Classification of Rights Issues’

Requires rights issues denominated in a currency other than the functional 
currency of the issuer to be classified as equity regardless of the currency in 
which the exercise price is denominated.

Improvements to IFRSs
(issued May 2010)

Sets out minor amendments to IFRS standards as part of the annual 
improvements process. 

IFRIC 19 Extinguishing Financial 
Liabilities with Equity Instruments

Amendment to IFRIC 14 
Prepayments of a Minimum 
Funding Requirement

Clarifies that when an entity renegotiates the terms of its debt with the 
result that the liability is extinguished by the debtor issuing its own equity 
instruments to the creditor, a gain or loss is recognised in the income 
statement representing the difference between the carrying value of the 
financial liability and the fair value of the equity instruments issued; the 
fair value of the financial liability is used to measure the gain or loss where 
the fair value of the equity instruments cannot be reliably measured. This 
interpretation is consistent with the Group’s existing accounting policy.

Applies when an entity is subject to minimum funding requirements in respect 
of its defined benefit plans and makes an early payment of contributions to 
cover those requirements and permits such an entity to treat the benefit of 
such an early payment as an asset.

IASB effective date

Annual periods beginning 
on or after 1 February 2010.

Dealt with on a standard 
by standard basis but not 
earlier than annual periods 
beginning on or after 
1 July 2010.

Annual periods beginning 
on or after 1 July 2010.

Annual periods beginning 
on or after 1 January 2011.

Amendments to IAS 24 Related 
Party Disclosures

Simplifies the definition of a related party and provides a partial exemption 
from the disclosure requirements for related party transactions with 
government related entities.

Annual periods beginning 
on or after 1 January 2011.

Amendments to IFRS 7 Financial 
Instruments Disclosures – 
‘Disclosures-Transfers of Financial 
Assets’

Requires additional disclosures in respect of risk exposures arising from 
transferred financial assets.

Annual periods beginning 
on or after 1 July 2011.

Amendments to IAS 12 Income 
Taxes – ‘Deferred Tax: Recovery of 
Underlying Assets’

Introduces a rebuttable presumption that investment property measured at 
fair value is recovered entirely through sale and that deferred tax in respect 
of such investment property is recognised on that basis.

Annual periods beginning 
on or after 1 January 2012.

IFRS 9 Financial Instruments1

Replaces those parts of IAS 39 Financial Instruments: Recognition 
and Measurement relating to the classification, measurement and 
derecognition of financial assets and liabilities. Requires financial assets 
to be classified into two measurement categories, fair value and amortised 
cost, on the basis of the objectives of the entity’s business model for 
managing its financial assets and the contractual cash flow characteristics 
of the instrument. The available-for-sale financial asset and held-to-
maturity investment categories in the existing IAS 39 will be eliminated. 
The requirements for financial liabilities and derecognition are broadly 
unchanged from IAS 39.

Annual periods beginning 
on or after 1 January 2013.

1

IFRS 9 is the initial stage of the project to replace IAS 39. Future stages are expected to result in amendments to IFRS 9 to deal with changes to the impairment of financial assets measured at 
amortised cost and hedge accounting. Until all stages of the replacement project are complete, it is not possible to determine the overall impact on the financial statements of the replacement of 
IAS 39. The effective date of the standard is annual periods beginning on or after 1 January 2013.

At the date of this report, IFRS 9, the Amendments to IFRS 7 and the Amendments to IAS 12 are awaiting EU endorsement.

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NOTES TO THE CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

59 POST BALANCE SHEET EVENTS

Lloyds Banking Group has been in discussion with the FSA regarding the application of an interest variation clause in certain Bank of Scotland plc 
variable rate mortgage contracts where the wording in the offer documents received by certain customers had the potential to cause confusion.  
The relevant mortgages were written between 2004 and 2007 by Bank of Scotland plc under the ‘Halifax’ brand. In February 2011, the Group reached 
agreement with the FSA in relation to initiating a customer review and contact programme and making goodwill payments to affected customers. 
In order to make these goodwill payments, Bank of Scotland plc has applied for a Voluntary Variation of Permission to carry out the customer 
review and contact programme to bring it within section 404F(7) of FSMA 2000. The Group has made a provision of £500 million in relation to 
this programme.

60 APPROVAL OF FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

The consolidated financial statements were approved by the directors of Lloyds Banking Group plc on 24 February 2011.

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12

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14

26

52

Board of Directors 

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114

Five year financial summary 

56 

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financial statements 

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financial statements 

Report of the independent  
auditors on the parent company 
financial statements 

Parent company financial 
statements 

Notes to the parent company 
financial statements 

144

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276

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PARENT COMPANY 
FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

Report of the independent auditors on the 
parent company financial statements

Parent company balance sheet

Parent company statement of changes in equity 

Parent company cash flow statement

Notes to the parent company financial statements 

272

273

274

275

276

1. Accounting policies

2. Deferred tax asset

3. Amounts due from subsidiaries

4. Share capital and share premium

5. Other reserves

6. Retained profits

7.

Subordinated liabilities 

8. Debt securities in issue

9. Related party transactions

10. Financial instruments

11. Post balance sheet events

12. Approval of the financial statements

and other information 

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REPORT OF THE INDEPENDENT AUDITORS ON THE 
PARENT COMPANY FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

INDEPENDENT AUDITORS’ REPORT TO THE MEMBERS OF LLOYDS BANKING GROUP PLC 

We have audited the parent company financial statements of Lloyds Banking Group plc for the year ended 31 December 2010 which comprise the 
parent company balance sheet, the parent company statement of changes in equity, the parent company cash flow statement and the related notes. 
The financial reporting framework that has been applied in their preparation is applicable law and International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRSs) 
as adopted by the European Union and as applied in accordance with the provisions of the Companies Act 2006.

RESPECTIVE RESPONSIBILITIES OF DIRECTORS AND AUDITORS 
As explained more fully in the Directors’ Responsibilities Statement on page 122, the directors are responsible for the preparation of the parent 
company financial statements and for being satisfied that they give a true and fair view. Our responsibility is to audit and express an opinion on the 
parent company financial statements in accordance with applicable law and International Standards on Auditing (UK and Ireland). Those standards 
require us to comply with the Auditing Practices Board’s Ethical Standards for Auditors. 

This report, including the opinions, has been prepared for and only for the Company’s members as a body in accordance with Chapter 3 of Part 16 of 
the Companies Act 2006 and for no other purpose. We do not, in giving these opinions, accept or assume responsibility for any other purpose or to 
any other person to whom this report is shown or into whose hands it may come save where expressly agreed by our prior consent in writing.

SCOPE OF THE AUDIT OF THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
An audit involves obtaining evidence about the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements sufficient to give reasonable assurance that the 
financial statements are free from material misstatement, whether caused by fraud or error. This includes an assessment of: whether the accounting 
policies are appropriate to the parent company’s circumstances and have been consistently applied and adequately disclosed; the reasonableness of 
significant accounting estimates made by the directors; and the overall presentation of the financial statements.

OPINION ON FINANCIAL STATEMENTS 
In our opinion the parent company financial statements: 

 –  give a true and fair view of the state of the Company’s affairs as at 31 December 2010 and of its cash flows for the year then ended;
 – have been properly prepared in accordance with IFRSs as adopted by the European Union and as applied in accordance with the provisions of the 

Companies Act 2006; and 

 –  have been prepared in accordance with the requirements of the Companies Act 2006. 

OPINION ON OTHER MATTERS PRESCRIBED BY THE COMPANIES ACT 2006
In our opinion: 

 –  the part of the Directors’ Remuneration Report to be audited has been properly prepared in accordance with the Companies Act 2006; and 

 –  the information given in the Directors’ Report for the financial year for which the parent company financial statements are prepared is consistent 

with the parent company financial statements. 

MATTERS ON WHICH WE ARE REQUIRED TO REPORT BY EXCEPTION 
We have nothing to report in respect of the following matters where the Companies Act 2006 requires us to report to you if, in our opinion: 

 –  adequate accounting records have not been kept by the parent company, or returns adequate for our audit have not been received from branches 

not visited by us; or 

 –  the parent company financial statements and the part of the Directors’ Remuneration Report to be audited are not in agreement with the 

accounting records and returns; or 

 –  certain disclosures of directors’ remuneration specified by law are not made; or 
 –  we have not received all the information and explanations we require for our audit. 

OTHER MATTER 
We have reported separately on the group financial statements of Lloyds Banking Group plc for the year ended 31 December 2010.

Ian Rankin  
Senior Statutory Auditor 
for and on behalf of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP 
Chartered Accountants and Statutory Auditors 
Edinburgh 
24 February 2011

(a) 

 The maintenance and integrity of the Lloyds Banking Group plc website is the responsibility of the directors; the work carried out by the auditors 
does not involve consideration of these matters and, accordingly, the auditors accept no responsibility for any changes that may have occurred 
to the financial statements since they were initially presented on the website.

(b)   Legislation in the United Kingdom governing the preparation and dissemination of financial statements may differ from legislation in other 

jurisdictions.

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3

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6

8

10

12

Summary of Group results 

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14

26

52

Board of Directors 

Directors’ report 

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110

112

114

Five year financial summary 

56 

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57

60

65

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financial statements 

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financial statements 

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financial statements 

Report of the independent  
auditors on the parent company 
financial statements 
Parent company financial 
statements 

273

Shareholder information 

Glossary 

Abbreviations 

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284

285

290

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146

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PARENT COMPANY BALANCE SHEET
at 31 December 2010

Notes to the parent company 
financial statements 

276

Assets

Non-current assets:

Investment in subsidiaries

Loans to subsidiaries

Deferred tax asset

Current assets:

Derivative financial instruments

Other assets

Amounts due from subsidiaries

Cash and cash equivalents

Current tax recoverable

Total assets

Equity and liabilities

Capital and reserves:

Share capital

Share premium account

Merger reserve

Capital redemption reserve

Retained profits

Total equity

Non-current liabilities:

Subordinated liabilities

Current liabilities:

Debt securities in issue

Other liabilities

Total liabilities

Total equity and liabilities

The accompanying notes are an integral part of the parent company financial statements.

The directors approved the parent company financial statements on 24 February 2011.

Sir Winfried Bischoff 
Chairman 

J Eric Daniels 
Group Chief Executive 

Tim J W Tookey
Group Finance Director

Note

2010
£ million

2009
£ million

9

9

2

3

4

4

5

5

6

7

8

38,194

8,332

6

46,532

1,664

1,040

217

375

109 

3,405

49,937

6,815

16,291

7,764

4,115

2,276

37,261

32,584

7,466

3

40,053

2,260

304

1,446

2,837 

  72 

6,919

46,972

10,472

14,472

7,778

26

2,547

35,295

4,074

4,205

549

   8,053

8,602

12,676

49,937

326

  7,146 

7,472

11,677

46,972

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PARENT COMPANY STATEMENT OF CHANGES IN EQUITY
at 31 December 2010

Balance at 1 January 2009

Total comprehensive income1

Issue of ordinary shares:

Placing and open offer

Issued on acquisition of HBOS

Placing and compensatory open offer

Rights issue

Issued to Lloyds TSB Foundations

Transfer to merger reserve

Redemption of preference shares

Purchase/sale of treasury shares

Employee share option schemes:

Value of employee services

Balance at 31 December 2009

Total comprehensive income1

Issue of ordinary shares

Cancellation of deferred shares

Redemption of preference shares

Purchase/sale of treasury shares

Employee share option schemes:

Value of employee services

Balance at 31 December 2010

Share capital
and premium
£ million

3,609

–

649

1,944

3,905

13,112

41

(1,000)

2,684

–

–

24,944

–

2,237

(4,086)

11

–

–

Merger
reserve
£ million

–

–

3,781

5,707

–

–

–

1,000

(2,710)

–

–

7,778

–

–

–

(14)

–

–

Capital
redemption
reserve
£ million

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

26

–

–

26

–

–

4,086

3

–

–

23,106

7,764

4,115

Retained
profits1
£ million

2,147

303

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

23

74

2,547

(799)

–

–

–

399

Total
£ million

5,756

303

4,430

7,651

3,905

13,112

41

–

–

23

74

35,295

(799)

2,237

–

–

399

129

2,276

129

37,261

1

Total comprehensive income comprises only the profit (loss) for the year; no income statement has been shown for the parent company, as permitted by section 408 of the Companies Act 2006.

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4

6

8

10

12

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14

26

52

Board of Directors 

Directors’ report 

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110

112

114

Five year financial summary 

56 

Directors’ remuneration report  124

Our people 

Corporate responsibility 

Risk management 

57

60

65

Report of the independent  
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financial statements 

Consolidated  
financial statements 

Notes to the consolidated  
financial statements 

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financial statements 
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statements 

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PARENT COMPANY CASH FLOW STATEMENT
at 31 December 2010

Notes to the parent company 
financial statements 

276

(Loss) profit before tax

Dividend income

Fair value and exchange adjustments

Change in other assets

Change in other liabilities and other items

Tax received (paid) 

Net cash (used in) provided by operating activities

Cash flows from investing activities

Costs incurred in respect of the acquisition of HBOS plc

Additional capital injection into HBOS plc

Additional capital injection into Lloyds TSB Bank plc

Amounts advanced to subsidiaries

Redemption of loans to subsidiaries

Net cash used in investing activities

Cash flows from financing activities

Dividends received from subsidiaries

Proceeds from issue of debt securities

Repayment of debt securities in issue

Proceeds from issue of subordinated liabilities

Repayment of subordinated liabilities

Proceeds from issue of ordinary shares

Net cash provided by financing activities

Change in cash and cash equivalents

Cash and cash equivalents at beginning of year

Cash and cash equivalents at end of year

The accompanying notes are an integral part of the parent company financial statements.

2010
£ million

(961)

–

198

1,021

(2,466)

122

(2,086)

–

–

–

(1,425)

850

(575)

–

549

(350)

–

–

–

199

(2,462)

2,837

375

2009
£ million

182

(354)

(428)

(1,277)

7,020

(70)

5,073

(138)

(8,500)

(5,600)

(7,593)

1,552

(20,279)

354

–

(2,045)

1,000

(4,000)

21,533

16,842

1,636

1,201

2,837

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NOTES TO THE PARENT COMPANY FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

1  ACCOUNTING POLICIES

The Company has applied International Financial Reporting Standards as adopted by the European Union in its financial statements for the year 
ended 31 December 2010. IFRS comprises accounting standards prefixed IFRS issued by the International Accounting Standards Board and 
those prefixed IAS issued by the IASB’s predecessor body as well as interpretations issued by the International Financial Reporting Interpretations 
Committee and its predecessor body. The EU endorsed version of IAS 39 Financial Instruments: Recognition and Measurement relaxes some of the 
hedge accounting requirements; the Company has not taken advantage of this relaxation, and therefore there is no difference in application to the 
Company between IFRS as adopted by the EU and IFRS as issued by the IASB.

The financial information has been prepared under the historical cost convention, as modified by the revaluation of all derivative contracts.

The accounting policies of the Company are the same as those of the Group which are set out in note 2 to the consolidated financial statements, 
except that it has no policy in respect of consolidation and investments in subsidiaries are carried at historical cost, less any provisions for impairment. 

2  DEFERRED TAX ASSET

The movement in the net deferred tax asset is as follows:

At 1 January 

Income statement credit 

At 31 December

The deferred tax asset relates to temporary differences.

3  AMOUNTS DUE FROM SUBSIDIARIES

2010
£m

3

3

6

2009
£m

–

3

3

These comprise short-term lending to subsidiaries, repayable on demand. The fair values of amounts owed by subsidiaries are equal to their carrying 
amounts. No provisions have been recognised in respect of amounts owed by subsidiaries. 

4  SHARE CAPITAL AND SHARE PREMIUM

Details of the Company’s share capital and share premium account are as set out in notes 47 and 48 to the consolidated financial statements.

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110

112

114

Five year financial summary 

56 

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57

60

65

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financial statements 

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financial statements 

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5  OTHER RESERVES

The merger reserve comprises the premium on shares issued on 13 January 2009 under the placing and open offer and shares issued on 16 January 
2009 on the acquisition of HBOS plc.

The capital redemption reserve represents transfers from the merger reserve in accordance with companies’ legislation and amounts transferred from 
share capital following the cancellation of the deferred shares.

Movements in other reserves were as follows:

Merger reserve

At 1 January

Placing and open offer

Shares issued on acquisition of HBOS

Issue of preference shares1

Redemption of preference shares2

At 31 December 

Capital redemption reserve

At 1 January

Redemption of preference shares2

Cancellation of deferred shares

At 31 December 

2010 
£m

7,778

–

–

–

(14)

7,764

2010 
£m

26

3

4,086

4,115

2009 
£m

–

3,781

5,707

1,000

(2,710)

7,778

2009 
£m

–

26

–

26

1

2

Distributable reserves of £1,000 million arose on the issue of preference shares in January 2009 which were classified as debt. In June 2009, these preference shares were redeemed out of the 
proceeds of the placing and compensatory open offer of ordinary shares and the distributable element of this issue was transferred to the merger reserve. 

In January 2010, the Company repurchased and cancelled certain preference shares amounting to £14 million. This resulted in a transfer of £3 million from the merger reserve to the capital 
redemption reserve and a transfer of £11 million from the merger reserve to the share premium account. Details of the preference shares redeemed are set out in note 46 to the consolidated financial 
statements. In December 2009, the Group redeemed eight issues of preference shares in exchange for the issuance of enhanced capital notes. This resulted in a transfer of £26 million from the 
merger reserve to the capital redemption reserve and a transfer of £2,684 million from the merger reserve to the share premium account. 

6  RETAINED PROFITS

At 1 January 2009

Profit for the year

Purchase/sale of treasury shares

Employee share option schemes: value of employee services

At 31 December 2009

Loss for the year

Purchase/sale of treasury shares

Employee share option schemes: value of employee services

At 31 December 2010

Details of the Company’s dividends are as set out in note 51 to the consolidated financial statements.

£m

2,147

303

23

74

2,547

(799)

399

129

2,276

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7  SUBORDINATED LIABILITIES 

These liabilities will, in the event of the winding-up of the issuer, be subordinated to the claims of depositors and all other creditors of the issuer.  
Any repayments of subordinated liabilities require the consent of the Financial Services Authority.

Preference shares

Fixed/Floating Rate Non-Cumulative Callable Preference Shares callable 2016 (US$1,000 million)
7.875% Non-Cumulative Preference Shares (€500 million)
7.875% Non-Cumulative Preference Shares (US$1,250 million)

91/4% Non-Cumulative Irredeemable Preference Shares (£300 million)

93/4% Non-Cumulative Irredeemable Preference Shares (£100 million)

6.475% Non-Cumulative Preference Shares (£186 million)

6.0884% Non-Cumulative Fixed to Floating Rate Preference Shares (£745 million)

6.3673% Non-Cumulative Fixed to Floating Rate Preference Shares (£335 million)

6.413% preference shares (US$750 million)

5.92% preference shares (US$750 million)

6.657% preference shares (US$750 million)

6% Non-Cumulative Redeemable Preference Shares

Total preference shares

Undated subordinated liabilities

6% Undated Subordinated Step-up Guaranteed Bonds callable 2032 (£500 million)

Note

a

a

a

a

a

a

a

a

a

a

a

a

b

6.475% Undated Subordinated Notes callable 2024 (£102 million)

6.0884% Undated Subordinated Notes callable 2015 (£732 million)

6.3673% Undated Subordinated Notes callable 2019 (£331 million)

6.369% Undated Subordinated Notes callable 2015 (£597 million)

6.413% Undated Subordinated Notes callable 2035 (US$375 million)

5.92% Undated Subordinated Notes callable 2015 (US$378 million)

6.657% Undated Subordinated Notes callable 2037 (US$316 million)

6.267% Undated Subordinated Notes callable 2016 (US$466 million)

Total undated subordinated liabilities

Dated subordinated liabilities

91/8% Subordinated Bonds 2011 (£150 million)
57/8% Subordinated Guaranteed Bonds 2014 (€750 million)
Total dated subordinated liabilities

Total subordinated liabilities

2010 
£m

279

57

119

239

49

34

9

2

98

110

115

–

1,111

11

80

578

266

480

155

164

130

198

2,062

152

749

901

4,074

2009 
£m

327

115

236

216

79

45

10

2

82

167

97

–

1,376

117

72

520

234

420

133

135

112

166

1,909

152

768

920

4,205

a   Further information regarding these issues can be found in note 46 to the consolidated financial statements.

b  In certain circumstances, these bonds would acquire the characteristics of preference share capital. They are accounted for as liabilities as coupon payments are mandatory as a consequence of 

the terms of the 6 per cent non-cumulative redeemable preference shares. At the callable date the coupon on these bonds will be reset by reference to the applicable five year benchmark gilt rate. 
Further information regarding this can be found in note 46 to the consolidated financial statements. 

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8  DEBT SECURITIES IN ISSUE

These comprise US$862.5 million 7.75% Public Income Notes due 2050 issued by the Company in July 2010. The debt securities in issue in 2009 
comprised US$528 million Thirteen-Month Extendible Short-Term Notes issued by the Company in July 2008.

9  RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS

In January 2009 HM Treasury became a related party of the Company and has remained so during 2010. Further information on the relationship  
and transactions with HM Treasury is given in note 53 to the consolidated financial statements.

KEY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL
The key management personnel of the Group and the Company are the same. The relevant disclosures are given in note 53 to the consolidated 
financial statements.

The Company has no employees (2009: nil).

As discussed in note 52 to the consolidated financial statements, the Group provides share-based compensation to employees through a number  
of schemes; these are all in relation to shares in the Company and the cost of providing those benefits is recharged to the employing companies in 
the Group on a cash basis.

INVESTMENT IN SUBSIDIARIES

At 1 January 

Investment in HBOS plc:

Acquisition of ordinary share capital

Purchase of preference share capital

Additional capital injections

Capital injections into Lloyds TSB Bank plc

Transfer of HBOS to Lloyds TSB Bank plc

Total investment in subsidiaries

2010
£m

32,584

–

–

– 

–

27,005

(21,395)

38,194

2009
£m

5,589

7,787

3,917

  9,691

21,395

5,600

–

32,584

As part of a reorganisation of the Lloyds Banking Group on 1 January 2010, the Company transferred its direct investment in 100 per cent of the 
issued ordinary share capital of HBOS plc to its subsidiary, Lloyds TSB Bank plc. The consideration for this transfer was the issue of 21.4 million shares 
by Lloyds TSB Bank plc to the Company for a total value of £21,395 million.

The principal subsidiaries, all of which have prepared accounts to 31 December and whose results are included in the consolidated accounts of 
Lloyds Banking Group plc, are:

Lloyds TSB Bank plc

Scottish Widows plc

HBOS plc

Bank of Scotland plc

HBOS Insurance & Investment Group Limited

St. Andrew’s Insurance plc

Clerical Medical Investment Group Limited

Clerical Medical Managed Funds Limited

1

Indirect interest.

Country of 
registration/
incorporation

England

Scotland

Scotland

Scotland

England

England

England

England

Percentage 
of equity 
share capital 
and voting 
rights held

100%

100%1

100%1

100%1

100%1

100%1

100%1

100%1

Nature of business

Banking and financial services

Life assurance

Holding company

Banking and financial services

Holding company

General insurance

Life assurance

Life assurance

The principal area of operation for each of the above subsidiaries is the United Kingdom.

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9  RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS  continued

In November 2009, as part of the restructuring plan that was a requirement for European Commission approval of state aid received by the Group, 
Lloyds Banking Group agreed to suspend the payment of coupons and dividends on certain of the Group’s preference shares and preferred 
securities for the two year period from 31 January 2010 to 31 January 2012. The Group has also agreed to temporarily suspend and/or waive 
dividend payments on certain preference shares which have been issued intra-group. Consequently, in accordance with the terms of some of these 
instruments, subsidiaries may be prevented from making dividend payments on ordinary shares during this period. In addition, certain subsidiary 
companies currently have insufficient distributable reserves to make dividend payments.

Subject to the foregoing, there were no further significant restrictions on any of the Company’s subsidiaries in paying dividends or repaying loans 
and advances. All regulated banking and insurance subsidiaries are required to maintain capital at levels agreed with the regulators; this may impact 
those subsidiaries’ ability to make distributions.

Loans to subsidiaries

At 1 January

Exchange and other adjustments

Amounts advanced

Redemptions

At 31 December

2010
£m

7,466

291

1,425

(850)

8,332

2009
£m

3,009

(395)

6,404

(1,552)

7,466

In addition the Company carried out banking activities through its subsidiary, Lloyds TSB Bank plc. At 31 December 2010, the Company held deposits 
of £375 million with Lloyds TSB Bank plc (2009: £2,837 million). Given the volume of transactions flowing through the account, it is not meaningful 
to provide gross inflow and outflow information. Included within subordinated liabilities is £2,073 million (2009: £1,899 million) and within other 
liabilities is £7,988 million (2009: £6,999 million) due to subsidiary undertakings. In addition, at 31 December 2010 the Company had interest rate and 
currency swaps with Lloyds TSB Bank plc with an aggregate notional principal amount of £2,504 million and a net positive fair value of £1,664 million 
(2009: notional principal amount of £11,373 million and a net positive fair value of £2,260 million), of which contracts with an aggregate notional 
principal amount of £1,754 million and a net positive fair value of £330 million (2009: notional principal amount of £1,460 million and a net positive fair 
value of £343 million) were designated as fair value hedges to manage the Company’s issuance of subordinated liabilities and debt securities in issue.

Related party information in respect of other related party transactions is given in note 53 to the consolidated financial statements.

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10  FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS

MEASUREMENT BASIS OF FINANCIAL ASSETS AND LIABILITIES
The accounting policies in note 2 to the consolidated financial statements describe how different classes of financial instruments are measured, and 
how income and expenses, including fair value gains and losses, are recognised. The following table analyses the carrying amounts of the Company’s 
financial assets and liabilities by category and by balance sheet heading.

Derivatives designated as
hedging instruments, held
at fair value through
profit or loss
£m

Held for
trading at fair
value through
profit or loss
£m

Loans and
receivables
£m

Held at 
amortised
cost
£m

As at 31 December 2010

Financial assets:

Cash and cash equivalents

Derivative financial instruments

Loans to subsidiaries

Amounts due from subsidiaries

Total financial assets

Financial liabilities:

Debt securities in issue

Subordinated liabilities

Total financial liabilities

As at 31 December 2009

Financial assets:

Cash and cash equivalents

Derivative financial instruments

Loans to subsidiaries

Amounts due from subsidiaries

Total financial assets

Financial liabilities:

Debt securities in issue

Subordinated liabilities

Total financial liabilities

–

330

–

–

330

–

–

–

–

343

–

–

343

–

–

–

–

1,334

–

–

1,334

–

–

–

–

1,917

–

–

1,917

–

–

–

–

–

8,332

217

8,549

–

–

–

–

–

7,466

1,446

8,912

–

–

– 

Total
£m

375

1,664

8,332

217

375

–

–

–

375

10,588

549

4,074

4,623

2,837

–

–

–

549

4,074

4,623

2,837

2,260

7,466

1,446

2,837

14,009

326

4,205

4,531

326

4,205

4,531

Note 55 to the consolidated financial statements outlines the valuation hierarchy into which financial instruments measured at fair value 
are categorised.

The derivative assets designated as hedging instruments represent level 2 portfolios. Of derivative assets classified as held for trading (not being 
designated as hedging instruments) shown above, £157 million (31 December 2009: £120 million) represents level 2 portfolios and £1,177 million 
(31 December 2009: £1,797 million) represents level 3 portfolios. The level 3 derivatives reflect the value of the equity conversion feature of 
the Enhanced Capital Notes issued in December 2009 as part of Lloyds Banking Group’s recapitalisation and exit from the Government Asset 
Protection Scheme. 

The following reconciliation shows the movements in derivative financial instrument assets within level 3 portfolios:

As at 31 December 2009

Losses recognised in the income statement

As at 31 December 2010

Total
£m

1,797

(620)

1,177

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10  FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS  continued

INTEREST RATE RISK AND CURRENCY RISK
The Company is exposed to interest rate risk and currency risk on its debt securities in issue and its subordinated debt.

As discussed in note 9, the Company has entered into interest rate and currency swaps with its subsidiary, Lloyds TSB Bank plc, to manage these risks.

CREDIT RISK
The majority of the Company’s credit risk arises from amounts due from its wholly owned subsidiary, Lloyds TSB Bank plc, and subsidiaries of this 
company. 

LIQUIDITY RISK
The table below analyses financial instrument liabilities of the Company, on an undiscounted future cash flow basis according to contractual maturity, 
into relevant maturity groupings based on the remaining period at the balance sheet date; balances with no fixed maturity are included in the over 
5 years category.

As at 31 December 2010

Debt securities in issue

Subordinated liabilities

Total financial instrument liabilities

As at 31 December 2009

Debt securities in issue

Subordinated liabilities

Total financial instrument liabilities

Up to
1 month
£m

1-3
months
£m

3-12
months
£m

11

–

11

–

–

–

–

–

–

326

878

1,204

32

202

234

–

53

53

1-5
years
£m

728

4,024

4,752

–

2,316

2,316

Over 5
years
£m

–

2,380

2,380

–

4,323

4,323

Total
£m

771

6,606

7,377

326

7,570

7,896

The principal amount for undated subordinated liabilities with no redemption option is included within the over 5 years column; interest of 
approximately £302 million (2009: £282 million) per annum which is payable in respect of those instruments for as long as they remain in issue is not 
included beyond 5 years. 

10  FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS

FAIR VALUES OF FINANCIAL ASSETS AND LIABILITIES
The valuation techniques for the Company’s financial instruments are as discussed in note 55 to the consolidated financial statements.

Financial assets:

Cash and cash equivalents

Derivative financial instruments

Loans to subsidiaries

Amounts due from subsidiaries

Financial liabilities:

Debt securities in issue

Subordinated liabilities

Carrying
value
2010
£m

375

1,664

8,332

217

549

4,074

Carrying
value
2009
£m

2,837

2,260

7,466

1,446

326

4,205

Fair
value
2010
£m

375

1,664

8,713

217

549

4,207

Fair
value
2009
£m

2,837

2,260

7,816

1,446

326

3,995

11  POST BALANCE SHEET EVENTS

Details of the Company’s post balance sheet events are set out in note 59 to the consolidated financial statements.

12  APPROVAL OF THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AND OTHER INFORMATION

The parent company financial statements were approved by the directors of Lloyds Banking Group plc on 24 February 2011.

Lloyds Banking Group plc was incorporated as a public limited company and registered in Scotland under the UK Companies Act 1985 on 
21 October 1985 with the registered number 95000. Lloyds Banking Group plc’s registered office is The Mound, Edinburgh EH1 1YZ, Scotland, and its 
principal executive offices in the UK are located at 25 Gresham Street, London EC2V 7HN.

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 SHAREHOLDER INFORMATION

At 31 December 2010

Size of shareholding

1 – 99

100 – 499

500 – 999

1,000 – 4,999

5,000 – 9,999

10,000 – 49,999

50,000 – 99,999

100,000 – 999,999

1,000,000 and over

Shareholders

Number of ordinary shares

Number

155,943

1,660,508

457,334

409,324

55,587

51,828

4,312

2,373

1,108

%

5.54

59.30

16.36

14.66

2.00

1.86

0.15

0.09

0.04

2,798,317

100.00

Millions

6.0

379.1

315.3

834.6

388.1

1,022.2

289.5

583.3

64,256.0

68,074.1

%

0.01

0.56

0.46

1.23

0.58

1.52

0.43

0.88

94.33

100.00

SUBSTANTIAL SHAREHOLDINGS
At the date of this report a notification had been received that The 
Solicitor for the Affairs of Her Majesty’s Treasury had a direct interest 
of 40.56 per cent in the issued share capital with rights to vote in all 
circumstances at general meetings. No other notification has been 
received that anyone has an interest of 3 per cent or more in the issued 
ordinary share capital.

SHARE PRICE INFORMATION
In addition to listings in the financial pages of the press, the latest price 
of Lloyds Banking Group shares on the London Stock Exchange can be 
obtained by telephoning 09058 890 190. 
Visit www.londonstockexchange.com for details.

SHARE DEALING FACILITIES
Lloyds Banking Group offers shareholders a choice of two dealing 
services:

Lloyds TSB Share Dealing
 – Internet dealing. Visit www.lloydstsbsharedealing.com

 – Telephone dealing. Call 0845 60 60 560

Internet services are available 24/7 and telephone services are available 
between 8.00am and 6.00pm, Monday to Friday. Details of any dealing 
costs are available when you log on to the share dealing website or 
when you call the above number. To open a Lloyds TSB Share Dealing 
Account you must be 18 years of age or over and be resident in the UK. 
You can apply online or by post.

Halifax Share Dealing
 – Internet dealing. Visit www.halifaxsharedealing.co.uk

 – Telephone dealing. Call 08457 22 55 25

Internet services are available 24/7 and telephone dealing services are 
available between 8.00am and 9.15pm, Monday to Friday, and 9.00am to 
1pm, Saturday. To open a Halifax Share Dealing Account you must be 18 
years of age or over and be resident in the UK, Jersey, Guernsey or the 
Isle of Man.

Shareholders in the Lloyds Banking Group Shareholder Account can 
only trade by telephone through the Halifax Share Dealing Service on 
08705 711 117.

AMERICAN DEPOSITARY RECEIPTS (ADRs)
Lloyds Banking Group shares are traded in the USA through an  
NYSE-listed sponsored ADR facility, with The Bank of New York Mellon 
as the depositary. The ADRs are traded on the New York Stock Exchange 
under the symbol LYG. The CUSIP number is 539439109 and the ratio of 
ADRs to ordinary shares is 1:4.

For details contact: The Bank of New York Mellon Shareowner Services, 
PO Box 358516, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15252-8516.
Telephone: 1-866-259-0336 (US toll free), international callers:  
+1 201-680-6825. Alternatively visit www.adrbnymellon.com or 
email shrrelations@bnymellon.com

CORPORATE RESPONSIBILITY
A copy of the Group’s corporate responsibility report may be obtained 
by writing to Corporate Responsibility, Lloyds Banking Group plc,  
25 Gresham Street, London EC2V 7HN. This information together with 
the Group’s code of business conduct is also available on the Group’s 
website www.lloydsbankinggroup.com

SHAREHOLDER ENQUIRIES
The Company’s share register and the Lloyds Banking Group 
Shareholder Account are maintained by Equiniti Limited. Contact them 
if you have enquiries about your Lloyds Banking Group shareholding, 
including those concerning the following matters:

 – Change of name or address

 – Loss of share certificate

 – Dividend information, including loss of dividend warrant or tax voucher.

Contact details for Equiniti Limited can be found on the back cover.

Equiniti operates a web based enquiry and portfolio management 
service for you to receive shareholder communications electronically. You 
can change your address or bank details either by telephone or online. 
Additionally you can register proxy appointments and voting instructions 
on your shareholding online. Visit www.shareview.co.uk for details.

ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
The annual general meeting will be held at 11.00am on 
Wednesday 18 May 2011 in Hall 5 at the Scottish Exhibition and 
Conference Centre in Glasgow.

INDIVIDUAL SAVINGS ACCOUNTS (ISAS)
The Company provides a number of options for investing in Lloyds Banking 
Group shares through an ISA. For details contact: Lloyds TSB Share Dealing, 
Halifax Share Dealing or Equiniti Limited.

Calls to 09058 and 0871 numbers are charged at 55p and 8p per minute, respectively, from a 
BT landline. The price of calls from mobiles and other networks may vary. Calls from outside the 
United Kingdom are charged at applicable international rates. The call prices we have quoted 
were correct in February 2011.

Overview

Business review

Governance

Financial statements

Other information

Group profile 

Group structure 

Group performance 

Strategy and progress 

Chairman’s statement 

Group Chief Executive’s review 

Addressing the key issues 

Marketplace trends 

1

2

3

4

6

8

10

12

Summary of Group results 

Divisional results 

Other financial information 

14

26

52

Board of Directors 

Directors’ report 

Corporate governance report 

110

112

114

Five year financial summary 

56 

Directors’ remuneration report  124

Our people 

Corporate responsibility 

Risk management 

57

60

65

Shareholder information 
Glossary 

Abbreviations 

Index to annual report 

284
285

290

291

Report of the independent  
auditors on the consolidated  
financial statements 

Consolidated  
financial statements 

Notes to the consolidated  
financial statements 

Report of the independent  
auditors on the parent company 
financial statements 

Parent company financial 
statements 

Notes to the parent company 
financial statements 

144

146

153

272

273

276

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GLOSSARY

Asset-Backed Securities (ABS)

Alt-A

Arrears

Asset-backed securities are securities that represent an interest in an underlying pool of referenced assets. The 
referenced pool can comprise any assets which attract a set of associated cash flows but are commonly pools 
of residential or commercial mortgages but could also include leases, credit card receivables, motor vehicles, 
student loans. Further information on the Group’s investments in ABS is given in note 56. 

Alt-A are mortgage loans regarded as lower risk than sub-prime, but they share higher risk characteristics than 
lending under normal criteria. Further information on the Group’s exposure to Alt-A investments is given in 
note 56.

A customer is in arrears when they are behind in fulfilling their obligations with the result that an outstanding 
loan is unpaid or overdue. Such a customer is also said to be in a state of delinquency. When a customer is in 
arrears, the entire outstanding balance is said to be delinquent, meaning that delinquent balances are the total 
outstanding loans on which payments are overdue.

Asset-backed commercial paper

See Commercial Paper

Basel II

Basel III

Basis point

The capital adequacy framework issued by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision in June 2006 in the 
form of the ‘International Convergence of Capital Measurement and Capital Standards’.

The capital reforms and introduction of a global liquidity standard proposed by the Basel Committee on 
Banking Supervision in 2010 and due to be phased in from 1 January 2013 onwards.

One hundredth of a per cent (0.01 per cent). 100 basis points is 1 per cent. Used in quoting movements in 
interest rates or yields on securities.

Collateralised Debt Obligation 
(CDO)

A security issued by a third party which references ABSs or other assets purchased by the issuer. Lloyds Banking 
Group has invested in instruments issued by other banking groups, including Collateralised Loan Obligations 
and Commercial Real Estate CDOs. Details of these investments are given in note 56.

Collateralised Loan Obligation 
(CLO)

A security backed by the repayments from a pool of commercial loans. CLOs are usually structured products 
with different tranches whereby senior classes of holder receive repayment before other tranches are repaid.

Collectively assessed loan 
impairment provision

A provision established following an impairment assessment on a collective basis for homogeneous groups of 
loans, such as credit card receivables and personal loans, that are not considered individually significant and for 
loan losses that have been incurred but not separately identified at the balance sheet date.

Commercial Mortgage-Backed 
Securities

Commercial Mortgage-Backed Securities are securities that represent interests in a pool of commercial 
mortgages. Investors in these securities have the right to cash received from mortgage repayments of interest 
and principal. Further information on the Group’s investment in CMBS is given in note 56.

Commercial Paper

Commercial Real Estate

Conduits

Contractual maturities

Core Tier 1 capital 

Core Tier 1 ratio 

Cost:Income ratio

Commercial paper is an unsecured promissory note issued to finance short-term credit needs. It specifies 
the face amount paid to investors on the maturity date. Commercial Paper can be issued as an unsecured 
obligation of the Group or, for example when issued by the Group’s conduits, as an asset-backed obligation. 
(in such case it is referred to as asset-backed commercial paper). Commercial Paper is usually issued for 
periods from as little as a week up to nine months. 

Commercial real estate includes office buildings, industrial property, medical centres, hotels, malls, retail stores, 
shopping centres, farm land, multifamily housing buildings, warehouses, garages, and industrial properties. 

A financial vehicle that holds asset-backed securities which are financed with short-term deposits (generally 
commercial paper) that use the asset-backed securities as collateral. The conduit will often have a liquidity line 
provided by a bank that it can draw down on in the event that it is unable to issue funding to the market. The 
Group sponsors four asset-backed conduits, Argento, Cancara, Grampian and Landale. Further details are 
provided in note 23. 

Contractual maturity refers to the final payment date of a loan or other financial instrument, at which point all 
the remaining outstanding principal will be repaid and interest is due to be paid.

As defined by the FSA mainly comprising shareholders’ equity and equity non-controlling interests after 
deducting goodwill, other intangible assets and other regulatory deductions. Further details are given in the 
Capital Risk section on page 97.

Core Tier 1 capital as a percentage of risk weighted assets.

Operating expenses compared to total income net of insurance claims. The Group calculates this ratio using 
the ‘reported basis’ which is the basis on which financial information is reported internally to management.

Coverage ratio

Impairment provisions as a percentage of impaired loans.

Covered mortgage bonds

A bond backed by a pool of mortgage loans. The mortgages remain on the issuer’s balance sheet. The issuing 
bank can change the make-up of the loan pool or the terms of the loans to preserve credit quality. Covered 
bonds thus have a higher risk weighting than mortgage-backed securities because the holder is exposed 
to both the non-payment of the mortgages and the financial health of the issuer. The Group issues covered 
bonds as part of its funding activities. Further details are provided in note 22.

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GLOSSARY

Credit Default Swap

Credit derivatives 

A credit default swap is also referred to as a credit derivative. It is an arrangement whereby the credit risk of 
an asset (the reference asset) is transferred from the buyer to the seller of protection. A credit default swap is 
a contract where the protection seller receives premium or interest-related payments in return for contracting 
to make payments to the protection buyer upon a defined credit event. Credit events normally include 
bankruptcy, payment default on a reference asset or assets, or downgrades by a rating agency.

A credit derivative is a financial instrument that derives its value from the credit rating of an underlying 
instrument carrying the credit risk of the issuing entity. The principal type of credit derivatives are credit 
default swaps, which are used by the Group as part of its trading activity and to manage its own exposure to 
credit risk. A credit default swap is a swap in which one counterparty receives a premium at pre-set intervals 
in consideration for guaranteeing to make a specific payment should a negative credit event take place. The 
Group also uses credit default swaps to securitise corporate and commercial banking loans in combination 
with external funding.

Credit risk spread (or credit 
spread)

The credit spread is the yield spread between securities with the same currency and maturity structure but with 
different associated credit risks, with the yield spread rising as the credit rating worsens. It is the premium over 
the benchmark or risk-free rate required by the market to take on a lower credit quality.

Credit valuation adjustments

These are adjustments to the fair values of derivative assets to reflect the creditworthiness of the counterparty. 
Further details are given in note 55.

Customer deposits

Debt restructuring

Debt securities 

Debt securities in issue

Money deposited by account holders. Such funds are recorded as liabilities of the Group. The Group includes 
certain repos within customer deposits.

This is when the terms and provisions of outstanding debt agreements are changed. This is often done in order 
to improve cash flow and the ability of the borrower to repay the debt. It can involve altering the repayment 
schedule as well as reducing the debt or interest charged on the loan. 

Debt securities are assets held by the Group representing certificates of indebtedness of credit institutions, 
public bodies or other undertakings, excluding those issued by Central Banks.

These are unsubordinated debt securities issued by the Group. They include commercial paper, certificates of 
deposit, bonds and medium-term notes.

Delinquency

See Arrears.

Embedded equity conversion 
feature

An embedded equity conversion feature is a derivative contained within the terms and conditions of a debt 
instrument that enables or requires the instrument to be converted into equity under a particular set of 
circumstances. The Group’s enhanced capital notes (ECNs) contain such a feature whereby these notes convert 
to ordinary shares in the event that the consolidated Core Tier 1 ratio of the Group falls below 5 per cent. 

Enhanced Capital Notes (ECNs)

The Group’s ECN’s are subordinated notes issued by the Group that contain an embedded equity conversion 
feature. Further details of these are given in note 46.

Expected loss

Exposure at Default

Fair value adjustment 

First/Second Lien

Full time equivalent 

This is the amount of loss that can be expected by the Group calculated in accordance with FSA rules. In 
broad terms it is calculated by multiplying the Default Frequency by the Loss Given Default by the Exposure 
at Default. 

An estimate of the amount expected to be owed by a customer at the time of the customer’s default. 

Fair value adjustments arise on acquisition when assets and liabilities are acquired at fair values that are 
different from the carrying values in the acquired company. In respect of the Group’s acquisition of HBOS  
the principal adjustments were write-downs in respect of loans and advances to customers and debt issued. 

A first lien gives the holder (usually the bank lending the funds) the first right to collect compensation from the 
sale of the underlying collateral in the event of a default on the loan. A second lien may be issued against the 
same collateral but in the case of default, compensation for this debt will only be received after the first lien has 
been repaid. 

A full time employee is one that works a standard five day week. The hours or days worked by part time 
employees are measured against this standard and accumulated along with the number of full time employees 
and counted as full time equivalents. This is a more consistent measure of the amount of time worked than 
employee numbers which will fluctuate as the mix of part-time and full-time employees changes.

Funded/unfunded exposures

Exposures where the notional amount of the transaction is either funded or unfunded.

Guaranteed mortgages

Home Loans

Mortgages for which there is a guarantor to provide the lender a certain level of financial security in the event 
of default of the borrower.

A loan to purchase a residential property which is then used as collateral to guarantee repayment of the loan. 
The borrower gives the lender a lien against the property, and the lender can foreclose on the property if the 
borrower does not repay the loan per the agreed terms.

Overview

Business review

Governance

Financial statements

Other information

Group profile 

Group structure 

Group performance 

Strategy and progress 

Chairman’s statement 

Group Chief Executive’s review 

Addressing the key issues 

Marketplace trends 

1

2

3

4

6

8

10

12

Summary of Group results 

Divisional results 

Other financial information 

14

26

52

Board of Directors 

Directors’ report 

Corporate governance report 

110

112

114

Five year financial summary 

56 

Directors’ remuneration report  124

Our people 

Corporate responsibility 

Risk management 

57

60

65

Shareholder information 
Glossary 

Abbreviations 

Index to annual report 

284
285

290

291

Report of the independent  
auditors on the consolidated  
financial statements 

Consolidated  
financial statements 

Notes to the consolidated  
financial statements 

Report of the independent  
auditors on the parent company 
financial statements 

Parent company financial 
statements 

Notes to the parent company 
financial statements 

144

146

153

272

273

276

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Impaired loans

Impairment allowances

Impairment losses

Individually/Collectively 
Assessed

Individually assessed loan 
impairment provisions

Investment grade

Liquidity and Credit 
enhancements

Loan to deposit ratio 

Loan-to-value ratio (LTV)

Impaired loans are loans where the Group does not expect to collect all the contractual cash flows or to collect 
them when they are contractually due. 

Impairment allowances are a provision held on the balance sheet as a result of the raising of a charge against 
profit for the incurred loss inherent in the lending book. An impairment allowance may either be individual 
or collective.

An impairment loss is the reduction in value that arises following an impairment review of an asset that 
determines that the asset’s value is lower than it’s carrying value. For impaired financial assets measured at 
amortised cost, impairment losses are the difference between the carrying value and the present value of 
estimated future cash flows, discounted at the asset’s original effective interest rate. Impairment losses can be 
difficult to assess and the critical accounting estimates and judgements in note 3 detail the key assessments 
made when determining impairment losses. 

Impairment is measured individually for assets that are individually significant, and collectively where a portfolio 
comprises homogenous assets and where appropriate statistical techniques are available. 

Impairment loss provisions for individually significant impaired loans are assessed on a case-by-case basis, 
taking into account the financial condition of the counterparty, any guarantor and the realisable value of any 
collateral held.

This refers to the highest range of credit ratings, from ‘AAA’ to ‘BBB’ as measured by external credit 
rating agencies.

Credit enhancement facilities are used to enhance the creditworthiness of financial obligations and cover 
losses due to asset default. Two general types of credit enhancement are third-party loan guarantees (such as 
guaranteed mortgages) and self-enhancement through overcollateralisation (in the case of covered bonds). 
Liquidity enhancement makes funds available if required, for other reasons than asset default, eg to ensure 
timely repayment of maturing commercial paper.

The ratio of loans and advances to customers net of allowance for impairment losses and excluding reverse 
repurchase agreements divided by customer deposits excluding repurchase agreements. 

The loan-to-value ratio is a mathematical calculation which expresses the amount of a mortgage balance 
outstanding as a percentage of the total appraised value of the property. A high LTV indicates that there is less 
value to protect the lender against house price falls or increases in the loan if repayments are not made and 
interest is added to the outstanding balance of the loan.

Loans past due

Loans are past due when a counterparty has failed to make a payment when contractually due.

Loss given default (LGD) 

The estimated loss that will arise if a customer defaults. It is calculated after taking account of credit risk 
mitigation and includes the cost of recovery.

Monolines

A monoline insurer is defined as an entity which specialises in providing credit protection to the holders of 
debt instruments in the event of default by the debt security counterparty. This protection is typically provided 
in the form of derivatives such as credit default swaps referencing the underlying exposures held.

Mortgage-backed securities

See Residential and Commercial mortgage-backed securities. 

Mortgage related assets

Assets which are referenced to underlying mortgages.

Mortgage vintage

Medium Term Notes

Negative basis bonds

The year the mortgage was issued.

Medium term notes are a form of corporate borrowing covering maturity periods ranging from nine months to 
30 years. Details of the notes issued under the Group’s medium term notes programmes are given in note 37.

ABS held with a separately purchased matching credit default swaps to protect against the risk of default of 
the security. The Group refers to ABS without the benefit of CDS protection as Uncovered ABS. Details of the 
Group’s exposure to negative basis bonds is given in note 56.

Negative Equity Mortgages

Negative equity occurs when the value of the property purchased using the mortgage is below the balance 
outstanding on the loan. Negative equity is the value of the asset less the outstanding balance on the loan.

Net Interest Income 

Net interest margin 

The difference between interest received on assets and interest paid on liabilities.

Net interest margin is net interest income as a percentage of average interest-earning assets. Details of the 
Group’s banking net interest margin are given on page 54.

Over the counter derivatives 

Over the counter derivatives are derivatives for which the terms and conditions can be freely negotiated by the 
counterparties involved, unlike exchange traded derivatives which have standardised terms. 

Prime

Prime mortgages are those granted to the most creditworthy category of borrower.

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GLOSSARY

Private equity investments

Private equity investments

Private equity is equity securities in operating companies not quoted on a public exchange. Investment in 
private equity often involves the investment of capital in private companies or the acquisition of a public 
company that results in the delisting of public equity. Capital for private equity investment is raised by retail 
or institutional investors and used to fund investment strategies such as leveraged buyouts, venture capital, 
growth capital, distressed investments and mezzanine capital. 

Private equity is equity securities in operating companies not quoted on a public exchange. Investment in 
private equity often involves the investment of capital in private companies or the acquisition of a public 
company that results in the delisting of public equity. Capital for private equity investment is raised by retail 
or institutional investors and used to fund investment strategies such as leveraged buyouts, venture capital, 
growth capital, distressed investments and mezzanine capital. 

Probability of default 

The likelihood that a customer will default on their obligation within the next year.

Renegotiated loans

Repurchase agreements  
or ‘repos’

Retail Loans

Loans and advances are generally renegotiated either as part of an ongoing customer relationship or in 
response to an adverse change in the circumstances of the borrower. In the latter case renegotiation can result 
in an extension of the due date of payment or repayment plans under which the Group offers a concessionary 
rate of interest to genuinely distressed borrowers. This will result in the asset continuing to be overdue and will 
be impaired where the renegotiated payments of interest and principal will not recover the original carrying 
amount of the asset. In other cases, renegotiation will lead to a new agreement, which is treated as a new loan. 

Short-term funding agreements which allow a borrower to sell a financial asset, such as ABS or Government 
bonds as collateral for cash. As part of the agreement the borrower agrees to repurchase the security at some 
later date, usually less than 30 days, repaying the proceeds of the loan. 

Money loaned to individuals rather than institutions. These include both secured and unsecured loans such as 
mortgages and credit card balances.

Residential Mortgaged-Backed 
Securities (RMBS)

Residential Mortgage-Backed Securities are a category of ABS. They are securities that represent interests 
in a group of residential mortgages. Investors in these securities have the right to cash received from future 
mortgage payments (interest and/or principal).

Risk-weighted assets 

Securitisation

Special Purpose Entities (SPEs)

A measure of a bank’s assets adjusted for their associated risks. Risk weightings are established in accordance 
with the Basel Capital Accord as implemented by the FSA.

Securitisation is a process by which a group of assets, usually loans, are aggregated into a pool, which is used 
to back the issuance of new securities. Securitisation is the process by which ABS are created. A company 
sells assets to an special purpose entity which then issues securities backed by the assets. This allows the 
credit quality of the assets to be separated from the credit rating of the original company and transfers risk to 
external investors. Assets used in securitisations include mortgages to create mortgage-backed securities or 
residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS) as well as commercial mortgage-backed securities. The Group 
has established several securitisation structures as part of its funding and capital management activities. These 
generally use mortgages, corporate loans and credit cards as asset pools. A listing of these programmes with 
the amounts secured and associated funding raised is given in note 22. 

SPEs are entities that are created to accomplish a narrow and well defined objective. There are often specific 
restrictions or limits around their ongoing activities. The Group uses a number of SPEs, including those set-up 
under securitisation programmes, and as conduits. Where the Group has control of these entities or retains 
the risks and rewards relating to them they are consolidated within the Group’s results. 

Student loan related assets

Assets which are referenced to underlying student loans. (See note 56). 

Sub-investment grade

Subordinated liabilities

Sub-Prime

Synthetic CDO

Tier 1 capital 

This refers to credit ratings issued by external credit rating agencies that are below ‘BBB’ grade or its equivalent.

Liabilities which, in the event of insolvency or liquidation of the issuer, are subordinated to the claims of 
depositors and other creditors of the issuer. Details of the Group’s subordinated liabilities are set out in note 46.

Sub-prime is defined as loans to borrowers typically having weakened credit histories that include payment 
delinquencies and potentially more severe problems such as court judgements and bankruptcies. They may 
also display reduced repayment capacity as measured by credit scores, high debt-to-income ratios, or other 
criteria indicating heightened risk of default.

A security that it similar in structure to a CDO whereby the pool of referenced assets is created synthetically 
usually by credit default swaps.

A measure of a bank’s financial strength defined by the FSA. It captures Core Tier 1 capital plus other Tier 1 
securities in issue, but is subject to a deduction in respect of material holdings in financial companies. Further 
details are given in the Capital Risk section on page 97.

Tier 1 capital ratio 

Tier 1 capital as a percentage of risk-weighted assets.

Overview

Business review

Governance

Financial statements

Other information

Group profile 

Group structure 

Group performance 

Strategy and progress 

Chairman’s statement 

Group Chief Executive’s review 

Addressing the key issues 

Marketplace trends 

1

2

3

4

6

8

10

12

Summary of Group results 

Divisional results 

Other financial information 

14

26

52

Board of Directors 

Directors’ report 

Corporate governance report 

110

112

114

Five year financial summary 

56 

Directors’ remuneration report  124

Our people 

Corporate responsibility 

Risk management 

57

60

65

Shareholder information 
Glossary 

Abbreviations 

Index to annual report 

284
285

290

291

Report of the independent  
auditors on the consolidated  
financial statements 

Consolidated  
financial statements 

Notes to the consolidated  
financial statements 

Report of the independent  
auditors on the parent company 
financial statements 

Parent company financial 
statements 

Notes to the parent company 
financial statements 

144

146

153

272

273

276

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Tier 2 capital 

Uncovered ABS

Value at Risk

Wrapped loans and bonds

A component of regulatory capital defined by the FSA, mainly comprising qualifying subordinated loan capital, 
certain non-controlling interests and eligible collective impairment allowances. Further details are given in the 
Capital Risk section on page 97.

ABS held without the benefit of separately purchased matching credit default swaps to protect against the risk 
of default of the security. Details of the Group’s uncovered ABS are given in note 56.

Value at Risk is an estimate of the potential loss in earnings which might arise from market movements under 
normal market conditions, if the current positions were to be held unchanged for one business day, measured 
to a confidence level of 95 per cent.

If a loan or bond (usually an ABS security) is originally issued with a credit default swap already attached, the 
package is called a ‘wrapped bond’ or ‘wrapped loan’. The Group’s exposure to wrapped loans and bonds is 
set out in note 56.

Write Downs

The depreciation or lowering of the value of an asset in the books to reflect a decline in their value, or 
expected cash flows.

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ABBREVIATIONS

ABS 

ADRs

BHF

BOSI

BSU

CAGR

CDO

CDS

CRR

CVA

Asset-Backed Securities

American Depositary Receipts

British Heart Foundation

Bank of Scotland (Ireland) Limited

Business Support Unit

Compound Annual Growth Rate

Collateralised Debt Obligation

Credit Default Swap

Capital Resources Requirement

Credit Valuation Adjustment

ECNs

Enhanced Capital Notes

LCR

Liquidity Coverage Ratio

LIBOR 

London Inter-Bank Offered Rate

LTIP 

LTV

NSFR

OEICs

OFAC

OFT

PFI

PPI

PPP

Long Term Incentive Plan

Loan-to-value

Net Stable Funding Ratio

Open Ended Investment Companies

Office of Foreign Assets Control

Office of Fair Trading

Private Finance Initiative

Payment Protection Insurance

Public Private Partnerships

EEV

EPS

EU

FSA

FOS

GAPS

HMRC

IAS

IASB

ICB

ICG

IFRIC 

IFRS

ISA

European Embedded Value

PVNBP

Present Value of New Business Premiums

Earnings Per Share

European Union

Financial Services Authority

Financial Ombudsman

Government Asset Protection Scheme

Her Majesty’s Revenue & Customs

International Accounting Standard

International Accounting Standards Board

Independent Commission on Banking

Individual Capital Guidance

International Financial Reporting  
Interpretations Committee

International Financial Reporting Standards

Individual Savings Account

SAYE 

SME’s

SPE

SWIP

TSR

UK 

UKFI

US

VaR

VAT

Save-As-You-Earn 

Small and Medium sized enterprises

Special Purpose Entity

Scottish Widows Investment Partnership

Total Shareholder Return

United Kingdom of Great Britain and  
Northern Ireland

United Kingdom Financial Investment Limited

United States of America

Value-at-Risk

Value Added Tax

Overview

Business review

Governance

Financial statements

Other information

Group profile 

Group structure 

Group performance 

Strategy and progress 

Chairman’s statement 

Group Chief Executive’s review 

Addressing the key issues 

Marketplace trends 

1

2

3

4

6

8

10

12

Summary of Group results 

Divisional results 

Other financial information 

14

26

52

Board of Directors 

Directors’ report 

Corporate governance report 

110

112

114

Five year financial summary 

56 

Directors’ remuneration report  124

Our people 

Corporate responsibility 

Risk management 

57

60

65

Shareholder information 

Glossary 

Abbreviations 
Index to annual report 

284

285

290
291

Report of the independent  
auditors on the consolidated  
financial statements 

Consolidated  
financial statements 

Notes to the consolidated  
financial statements 

Report of the independent  
auditors on the parent company 
financial statements 

Parent company financial 
statements 

Notes to the parent company 
financial statements 

144

146

153

272

273

276

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Annual Report  
and Accounts 2010

INDEX TO ANNUAL REPORT

ACCOUNTING
Accounting policies 
Critical accounting estimates and judgements 
Future accounting developments 

ADDRESSING THE KEY ISSUES 

APPROVAL OF FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
Consolidated 
Parent company 

AUDITORS
Report on the consolidated financial statements 
Report on the parent company financial statements 
Fees 

AVAILABLE-FOR-SALE FINANCIAL ASSETS
Accounting policies 
Notes to the consolidated financial statements 
Valuation 

BALANCE SHEET
Consolidated 
Parent company 

CAPITAL ADEQUACY
Capital ratios 

CASH FLOW STATEMENT
Consolidated 
Notes to the consolidated financial statements 
Parent company 

CHAIRMAN’S STATEMENT 

CHARITABLE DONATIONS 

CONTINGENT LIABILITIES AND COMMITMENTS 

CORPORATE RESPONSIBILITY 

CREDIT MARKET EXPOSURES 

DEBT SECURITIES IN ISSUE 
Consolidated 
Parent company 
Valuation 

DEPOSITS
Customer deposits 
Deposits from banks 
Valuation 

DERIVATIVE FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS
Accounting policy 
Notes to the consolidated financial statements 
Valuation 

DIRECTORS
Attendance at Board and committee meetings 
Biographies 
Directors’ report 
Emoluments 
Interests 
Remuneration policy 
Service agreements 

DIVIDENDS
Ordinary dividends 

EARNINGS PER SHARE 

EMPLOYEES
Diversity and inclusion 
Our people 

FINANCIAL RISK MANAGEMENT
Credit risk 
Currency risk 
Fair values of financial assets and liabilities 
Insurance risk 
Interest rate risk 
Liquidity and funding risk 
Market risk 
Measurement basis of financial assets and liabilities 

FIVE YEAR FINANCIAL SUMMARY 

227

182

59
57

75, 253, 282
251, 282
243, 282
91
251, 282
93, 263, 282
88
240, 281

56

FORWARD LOOKING STATEMENTS 

inside front cover

GOING CONCERN
Basis of preparation 
Directors’ report 

GOODWILL
Accounting policy 
Notes to the consolidated financial statements 

GOVERNANCE
Compliance with the Combined Code 
Risk management 
Board Committees 

GROUP CHIEF EXECUTIVE’S REVIEW 

153
113

154
194

114
65
120

8

HELD AT FAIR VALUE THROUGH PROFIT OR LOSS
Accounting policy 
Notes to the consolidated financial statements 
Valuation 

155
183, 199
244

IMPAIRMENT
Accounting policy 
Critical accounting estimates and judgements 
Notes to the consolidated financial statements 

INCOME STATEMENT
Consolidated 

INFORMATION FOR SHAREHOLDERS
Analysis of shareholders 
Shareholder enquiries 

INSURANCE BUSINESSES
Accounting policy 
Basis of determining regulatory capital 
Capital sensitivities 
Capital statement 
Critical accounting estimates and judgements 
Financial information calculated on a ‘realistic’ basis 
Liabilities arising from insurance contracts and
Participating investment contracts 
Liabilities arising from non-participating investment contracts 

158
165
178

146

284
284

162
102
107
103
166
103

199
207

154
165
269

10

270
282

144
272
177

156, 160
192
244

148, 149
273

99

152
265
275

6

113

237

60

260

199
279
244

198
198
244

157
184
244

119
110
112
134
136
127
133

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Annual Report  
and Accounts 2010

INDEX TO ANNUAL REPORT

INSURANCE BUSINESSES CONTINUED

Life insurance sensitivity analysis 
Options and guarantees 
Unallocated surplus within insurance businesses 
Value of in-force business 
Volatility arising in insurance businesses 

INSURANCE CLAIMS 

INSURANCE PREMIUM INCOME 

INTANGIBLE ASSETS
Accounting policy 
Notes to the consolidated financial statements 

INVESTMENT PROPERTY
Accounting policy 
Notes to the consolidated financial statements 

KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS 

LOANS AND ADVANCES
Loans and advances to banks 
Loans and advances to customers 
Valuation 

MARKETPLACE TRENDS 

NET FEE AND COMMISSION INCOME 

NET INTEREST INCOME 

NET TRADING INCOME 

OPERATING EXPENSES 

OTHER OPERATING INCOME 

OTHER FINANCIAL INFORMATION
Banking net interest margin 
Core and non-core business 
Integration 
Volatility arising in insurance businesses 

206
107
207
194
52

175

173

155
196

160
193

5

187
188
244

12

172

171

172

176

174

54
55
53
52

PENSIONS
Accounting policy 
Critical accounting estimates and judgements 
Directors’ pensions 
Notes to the consolidated financial statements 

161
166
128, 131, 135
208

POST BALANCE SHEET EVENTS 

PRINCIPAL SUBSIDIARIES 

PRESENTATION OF INFORMATION 

PROVISIONS
Accounting policy 
Notes to the group accounts 

270

279

3

164
215

RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS 

234, 279

RISK MANAGEMENT FRAMEWORK
Business risk 
Credit risk 
Financial soundness 
Insurance risk 
Market risk 
Principal risks and uncertainties 
Operational risk 
Risk governance 
Risk management 

RISK-WEIGHTED ASSETS 

SECURITISATIONS AND COVERED BONDS 

SEGMENTAL REPORTING
Central items 
Combined businesses segmental analysis 
Group Operations 
Insurance 
Notes to the consolidated financial statements 
Retail 
Wealth and International 
Wholesale 

SHARE-BASED PAYMENTS
Accounting policy 
Notes to the consolidated financial statements 

SHARE CAPITAL 

STATEMENT OF CHANGES IN EQUITY
Consolidated 
Parent company  

SUBORDINATED LIABILITIES 
Consolidated 
Parent company 
Valuation 

SUMMARY OF GROUP RESULTS 

TANGIBLE FIXED ASSETS
Accounting policy 
Notes to the consolidated financial statements 

TAXATION
Accounting policy 
Critical accounting estimates and judgements 
Notes to the consolidated financial statements 

VALUE AT RISK (VaR) 

VALUE OF IN-FORCE BUSINESS
Accounting policy 
Notes to the consolidated financial statements 

VOLATILITY
Insurance 
Policyholder interests 
Summary of Group results 

74
75
93
91
88
70
91
67
65

101

189

51
24, 25
50
42
167
26
36
30

161
227

222

150
274

216
278
244

14

160
197

161
166
181, 213

89

163
194

52
52
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