Money

How to write about money and use currency symbols.

Money  

Use the £ symbol: £85

Don't use decimals unless pence are included.

For example: £85.20 is fine but not £75.00  

Don't use ‘£0.xx million’ or ‘£0.xx billion’ for amounts less than £1 million or billion, unless part of a sequence with larger amounts.  

For example: '£15.6 billion was spent in August 2024, an increase of £0.2 billion.'  

Write out pence in full for one to nine pence; if over ten pence then use digits.

For example: 'Calls cost four pence per minute from a landline or 25p per minute from a mobile.'