Bank of England: number of 20 pound notes destroyed in the UK 2003/2004 - 2017/2018
This statistic illustrates the total number of twenty British pound value banknotes removed from circulation and destroyed by the Bank of England in the United Kingdom (UK) from 2003/2004 to 2017/2018. It can be seen that the number of twenty British pound banknotes removed from circulation fluctuated during the period under observation, reaching a total of 174 million notes as of 2017/2018. The highest number of twenty British pound banknotes removed from circulation and destroyed in one year was 657 million notes, in the period 2010/2011.