FINANCIAL ASSETS AT FAIR VALUE THROUGH PROFIT OR LOSS

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2019

Financial assets at fair value through profit or loss, category [member]

FINANCIAL ASSETS AT FAIR VALUE THROUGH PROFIT OR LOSS [Line Items]

Disclosure Of Trading And Other Financial Assets At Fair Value Through Profit Or Loss [Text Block]

NOTE 16: FINANCIAL ASSETS AT FAIR VALUE THROUGH PROFIT OR LOSS

These assets are comprised as follows:

	31 December 2019						31 December 2018
			Other financial						Other financial
			assets						assets
			mandatorily at						mandatorily at
			fair value						fair value
	Trading		through				Trading		through
	assets		profit or loss		Total		assets		profit or loss		Total
	£m		£m		£m		£m		£m		£m
Loans and advances to customers		10,422		10,654		21,076		26,886		10,964		37,850
Loans and advances to banks		513		1,886		2,399		848		2,178		3,026
Debt securities:
Government securities		6,791		12,063		18,854		7,192		10,903		18,095
Other public sector securities		–		2,126		2,126		–		2,064		2,064
Bank and building society certificates of deposit		–		984		984		–		1,105		1,105
Asset-backed securities:
Mortgage-backed securities		6		462		468		10		215		225
Other asset-backed securities		17		241		258		63		286		349
Corporate and other debt securities		233		17,983		18,216		247		18,063		18,310
		7,047		33,859		40,906		7,512		32,636		40,148
Equity shares		–		95,789		95,789		–		77,485		77,485
Treasury and other bills		–		19		19		–		20		20
Total		17,982		142,207		160,189		35,246		123,283		158,529

Other financial assets at fair value through profit or loss include assets backing insurance contracts and investment contracts of £136,855 million (31 December 2018: £116,903 million). Included within these assets are investments in unconsolidated structured entities of £38,177 million (31 December 2018: £26,028 million), see note 49.

For amounts included above which are subject to repurchase and reverse repurchase agreements see note 53.