Dividend payments from listed UK companies will rise 11.5 per cent this year after two years of falling pay-outs due to the financial crisis, recession and the Gulf of Mexico disaster, according to a study.

But the rise to £63bn ($100bn), forecast by Capita Registrars, an arm of the outsourcing specialist, would mean that dividends were still lower than the cash paid out in 2007 and 2008.