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Overview
The Strategic Report
Purpose and strategy Delivering our strategy 0ur lines of business Group performance Governance
Financial statements Additional information
he oards annual prorae includes
 hief ecutives reports
 Financial reports
 trate
 ine of business updates
 is anaeent
 ividend polic
 nvestor relations
 ealth safet and well-bein
 uccession plannin
 oard evaluation
 ecurit updates
 overnance and copliance
 pproach to ta
 Annual Report & Form 20-F
 roup counications overview
 ustoer service
urin 011 we also had in-depth discussions on eternal
technolo and aret trends UK obile aret and obilit  
and  port the pension schee and huan rihts.
e visited our tal business and while there we reviewed operational
atters with senior anaers et with eploees as well as custoers
overnent ocials and opinion leaders. e also visited penreach
to see custoer service in action and spent tie on site visits with
ourenineers.
Mobility Strategy
he oard has particularl focused on s obilit strate and the
proposed acuisition of  plain an active role in reviewin the
sneries of the acuisition and the financial eleents underpinnin
the deal.
n order to iprove the oards oversiht of technoloical developents
both in  and across the wider industr and how the roup
anaes technolo strate and ris we created a new
echnolo
oittee
in oveber 01 followin the oinatin  overnance
oittees
recoendation.
Technology Committee
he
echnolo oittee is priaril responsible for
 areein the developent and ipleentation of s aor
technolo innovation strateies to provide assurance reardin
onoin business rowth and
 overseein ris anaeent in relation to s aor operations
and technoloies.
he hief ecutive chairs the coittee and on all arren ast
Karen ichardson and live elle   echnolo ervice 
perations and roup  are ebers. s we announced on
 pril arren ast will step down fro the oard on 1 a 01.
he coittee et for the first tie in anuar 01 when it
discussed  copetitive landscape and technolo options.
hecoittee will eet at least three ties a ear.
e considered our oard coittee structure and areed that with
eect fro 1 pril 01 the oversiht of certain non-financial riss
would ove fro the
oinatin  overnance oittee to the
udit  is oittee . e also considered and approved chanes
tothe oards and soe coittees ters of reference.
Director election and re-election
e appointed sabel udson as a director after the last  so Isabel
will retire at the 01  and be proposed for election as reuired b
s rticles of ssociation. ll of the other directors apart fro
arren ast will be proposed for re-election b shareholders at
the in accordance with the ode.
Length of appointment of Chairman and non-executive directors
Phil Hodkinson
Sir Michael Rake
Tony Ball
Jasmine Whitbread
Nick Rose
Karen Richardson
Warren East
lain Conn
Isabel Hudson
2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015
Calendar year
Feb 2006
Sep 2007
Jul 2009
Jan 2011
Jan 2011
Nov 2011
Feb 2014
June 2014
Nov 2014
e include details of all directors contractsletters of appointent in
the Report on Directors’ Remuneration.
Attendance at Board meetings
he followin table shows each directors attendance at eetins of
the oard durin the financial ear. he hairan eets privatel with
the non-eecutive directors before each scheduled oard eetin.
e encourae directors who are unable to attend a eetin to ive
the hairan their views and coents on atters to be discussed
inadvance.
Board members
eetins
eber liible to attend Attended
ir ichael ae hairan 10 10
avin atterson 10 10
on hanua 10 10
Tony Ball 10 10
ain onna
arren ast 10 10
hil odinson 10 10
sabel udsonb
Karen ichardson 10 10
ic ose 10 10
asine hitbread 10 10
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he hairan eeps under review the level of attendance and
contribution b directors at oard eetins as well as their
perforance. urin the ear he et with each director individuall
toreview their perforance and considers that each of the continues
to ae an eective contribution to the oard debate across a wide
rane of issues and deonstrates coitent to the role.
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