Notes to the accounts
for the year ended 31 December 2007
4. Revenues and expenses - other disclosures
| 2007 £mn |
2006 £mn |
|
|---|---|---|
| Included in revenues: | ||
| Property rental income | 3.0 | 3.7 |
| Net losses on foreign exchange1 | (7.0) | (36.4) |
| Aggregate amounts receivable under finance leases | - | 1.2 |
| Net gains on financial assets and liabilities held at fair value through profit or loss | 55.3 | 65.5 |
| Carried interests and distributions from available-for-sale Private Equity financial assets | 33.3 | 11.0 |
| Other net gains on disposal of available-for-sale financial assets | 6.9 | 13.7 |
| Impairment of available-for-sale financial assets | - | (1.4) |
| Amounts recycled through revenues in respect of available-for-sale financial assets | 40.2 | 23.3 |
| Fee income arising from financial assets that are not at fair value through profit or loss | - | 0.2 |
| Interest income receivable by Private Banking subsidiaries on financial assets not at fair value through profit or loss | 128.8 | 112.8 |
| Interest income receivable by Private Banking subsidiaries on financial assets at fair value through profit or loss | 0.9 | 0.8 |
| Interest expense payable by Private Banking subsidiaries on financial liabilities not at fair value through profit or loss | (106.0) | (90.8) |
| Net interest income in Private Banking subsidiaries | 23.7 | 22.8 |
1Excludes foreign exchange on forward exchange contracts. Such gains and losses are included in net gains on financial assets and liabilities held at fair value through profit or loss.
| 2007 £mn |
2006 £mn |
|
|---|---|---|
| Included in administrative expenses: | ||
| Salaries and other remuneration | 357.1 | 299.6 |
| Social security costs | 34.6 | 30.1 |
| Other pension costs (see note 5) | 11.4 | 15.5 |
| Employee benefits expense | 403.1 | 345.2 |
| Operating lease payments | 26.0 | 25.0 |
The average number of employees employed by the Company and its subsidiary undertakings during the year was:
| 2007 Number |
2006 Number |
|
|---|---|---|
| Full-time employees | 2,516 | 2,338 |
| Contract and temporary staff | 289 | 295 |
| 2,805 | 2,633 | |
| They were employed as follows (all continuing operations): | ||
| Asset Management | 2,471 | 2,292 |
| Private Banking | 301 | 314 |
| Private Equity | 24 | 18 |
| Group | 9 | 9 |
| 2,805 | 2,633 |
Included in administrative expenses:
Audit and non-audit fees
| 2007 | 2006 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UK £mn |
Overseas £mn |
Total £mn |
UK £mn |
Overseas £mn |
Total £mn |
|
| Audit fees for the Annual Accounts | 0.6 | - | 0.6 | 0.3 | - | 0.3 |
| Year-end audit services to the subsidiaries of the Company |
0.6 | 1.0 | 1.6 | 0.8 | 0.9 | 1.7 |
| Other audit services provided pursuant to legislation |
0.1 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.3 |
| Tax services | 0.2 | 0.4 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.3 |
| Other services | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.3 | 0.2 | - | 0.2 |
| 1.7 | 1.6 | 3.3 | 1.6 | 1.2 | 2.8 | |
| Included in net finance income: | 2007 £mn |
2006 £mn |
|---|---|---|
| Bank interest receivable | 7.8 | 7.0 |
| Other interest receivable on financial assets not at fair value through profit or loss | 2.7 | 0.5 |
| Interest on financial assets held at fair value through profit or loss | 12.6 | 12.6 |
| Interest receivable and similar income | 23.1 | 20.1 |
| Interest payable on bank loans and overdrafts | - | 0.2 |
| Other interest payable on financial liabilities not at fair value through profit or loss | (0.5) | (1.2) |
| Interest payable and similar charges | (0.5) | (1.4) |





