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Index
Accounting policies 36, 37
Additional information for shareholders 69, 70, 71
Associated undertakings 37, 47, 48, 62
Auditors
Remuneration 60
Report on corporate governance matters 26
Report to shareholders 34
Balance sheets
Company 41
Group 40
Board Committee on Executive Remuneration
Report 27-33
Business review 6-12
Call growth 65
Capital expenditure 64
Cash flow statement 39
Cellular telephones 65
Chairman’s statement 2, 3
Chief Executive, interview with 4, 5
Classified directory business 66
Contingent liabilities 55, 56
Corporate governance 24, 25
Creditors 52
CREST 69
Debtors 49
Depreciation 36, 42, 45, 46
Directors 22, 23
Emoluments 58
Interests in shares 31, 32, 33
Proposed for election or re-election at AGM 21
Remuneration 24, 25, 27, 28, 29, 30
Report 21
Responsibility statement 34
Dividend cover 64
Dividends 43, 64
Dividends per share growth 64
Earnings per share 38, 44, 64
Exchange line connections 65
Financial calendar 70
Financial commitments 55, 56
Financial highlights 3
Financial instruments 37, 50, 51, 57, 58
Financial ratios 64
Financial review 13-20
Financial statistics 64
Five year financial summary 35
Foreign currencies 36
Gearing 64
Going concern 18
Goodwill 36, 54
Interest 36, 43
Interest cover 64
Internal financial control 25
Investments 37, 47, 48
Loans and other borrowings 50, 51
Long Term Remuneration Plan 28, 33, 59, 60
MCI merger 4, 5, 6, 19, 20, 48, 56
Net debt 39, 44, 45
Network modernisation 65
Operating costs 42
Operational statistics 65
Optical fibre 65
Pensions 37, 52, 53, 56
People
Employee share schemes 42, 59, 60
Numbers 59, 65
Performance Share Plan 59, 60
Price control 10, 13, 66
Profit and loss account 38
Provisions for liabilities and charges 52, 53
Quarterly analysis of turnover and profit 63
Regulatory statistics and information 66
Research and development 36, 64
Reserves 54
Return on capital employed 64
Risk management 57, 58
Share information
Analysis of shareholdings 69
Capital 53
Directors’ interests 31, 32, 33
Share option schemes 59
Staff costs 42
Statement of total recognised gains and losses 38
Subsidiary undertakings 37, 43, 47, 48, 61, 62
Substantial shareholdings 21
Suppliers payment policy 21
Tangible fixed assets 36, 37, 45, 46, 64
Taxation 37, 43, 52, 53
Tur nover 36, 42
US GAAP reconciliations 67, 68