Financial instruments - classification - Liabilities (Details) - GBP (£) £ in Millions	6 Months Ended
Jun. 30, 2024	Dec. 31, 2023
Financial instruments
Liabilities	£ 652,775	£ 655,485
Financial Liabilities	652,775	655,485
Bank deposits
Financial instruments
Financial Liabilities	25,626	22,190
Items in course of transmission to other banks	496	92
Customer deposits
Financial instruments
Financial Liabilities	432,975	431,377
Settlement balances
Financial instruments
Financial Liabilities	7,142	6,645
Trading liabilities
Financial instruments
Financial Liabilities	54,167	53,636
Derivatives
Financial instruments
Financial Liabilities	60,849	72,395
Net hedging derivative liabilities	359	270
Other financial liabilities
Financial instruments
Financial Liabilities	58,275	55,089
Increase (decrease) in fair value of financial liability, attributable to changes in credit risk of liability	0
Subordinated liabilities
Financial instruments
Financial Liabilities	6,032	5,714
Notes in circulation
Financial instruments
Financial Liabilities	3,254	3,237
Other Financial liabilities
Financial instruments
Financial Liabilities	4,455	5,202
Loans to customers - amortised cost
Financial instruments
Finance lease receivable	8,974	8,731
Held-for-trading
Financial instruments
Financial Liabilities	115,016	126,031
Held-for-trading \| Trading liabilities
Financial instruments
Financial Liabilities	54,167	53,636
Held-for-trading \| Derivatives
Financial instruments
Financial Liabilities	60,849	72,395
DFV
Financial instruments
Financial Liabilities	3,517	3,125
DFV \| Other financial liabilities
Financial instruments
Financial Liabilities	3,288	2,888
DFV \| Subordinated liabilities
Financial instruments
Financial Liabilities	229	237
Amortised cost
Financial instruments
Financial Liabilities	530,453	521,875
Amortised cost \| Bank deposits
Financial instruments
Financial Liabilities	25,626	22,190
Amortised cost \| Customer deposits
Financial instruments
Financial Liabilities	432,975	431,377
Amortised cost \| Settlement balances
Financial instruments
Financial Liabilities	7,142	6,645
Amortised cost \| Other financial liabilities
Financial instruments
Financial Liabilities	54,987	52,201
Amortised cost \| Subordinated liabilities
Financial instruments
Financial Liabilities	5,803	5,477
Amortised cost \| Notes in circulation
Financial instruments
Financial Liabilities	3,254	3,237
Amortised cost \| Other Financial liabilities
Financial instruments
Financial Liabilities	666	748
Other Financial liabilities
Financial instruments
Financial Liabilities	3,789	4,454
Lease liabilities	610	670
Other Financial liabilities \| Other Financial liabilities
Financial instruments
Financial Liabilities	£ 3,789	£ 4,454

The increase (decrease) in the fair value of a financial liability that is attributable to changes in the credit risk of that liability. [Refer: Credit risk [member]]

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The amount of derivative financial liabilities held for hedging. [Refer: Derivative financial liabilities]

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The amount of receivables related to finance leases.

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The amount of liabilities that are: (a) a contractual obligation: (i) to deliver cash or another financial asset to another entity; or (ii) to exchange financial assets or financial liabilities with another entity under conditions that are potentially unfavourable to the entity; or (b) a contract that will, or may be, settled in the entity’s own equity instruments and is: (i) a non-derivative for which the entity is, or may be, obliged to deliver a variable number of the entity’s own equity instruments; or (ii) a derivative that will, or may be, settled other than by the exchange of a fixed amount of cash or another financial asset for a fixed number of the entity’s own equity instruments. For this purpose, rights, options or warrants to acquire a fixed number of the entity’s own equity instruments for a fixed amount of any currency are equity instruments if the entity offers the rights, options or warrants pro rata to all of its existing owners of the same class of its own non-derivative equity instruments. Also, for those purposes the entity’s own equity instruments do not include puttable financial instruments that are classified as equity instruments in accordance with paragraphs 16A-16B of IAS 32, instruments that impose on the entity an obligation to deliver to another party a pro rata share of the net assets of the entity only on liquidation and are classified as equity instruments in accordance with paragraphs 16C-16D of IAS 32, or instruments that are contracts for the future receipt or delivery of the entity’s own equity instruments. As an exception, an instrument that meets the definition of a financial liability is classified as an equity instrument if it has all the features and meets the conditions in paragraphs 16A-16B or paragraphs 16C-16D of IAS 32. [Refer: Financial instruments, class [member]; Financial assets; Derivatives [member]]

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The amount of liabilities related to the entity's leases. Lease is a contract, or part of a contract, that conveys the right to use an underlying asset for a period of time in exchange for consideration.

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