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Financial Statements

2017 2016
6. Board Directors’ remuneration £m £m

Emoluments and benefits in kind 1.6 1.9
Pension payments - 0.1

1.6 2.0

The highest paid Director received remuneration of £0.7m (2016: £0.7m) during the year.

The value of the Group’s contributions paid to a defined contribution pension scheme in respect of the highest paid
Director amounted to £nil (2016: £nil).

There are no directors (2016: nil) to whom retirement benefits are accruing under the money purchase pension scheme.

The total remuneration (including salary, bonus, car allowance, benefits in kind and pension contributions) for each of
the Executive Officers on the Board was:
2017 2016
£000 £000

Ian Ritchie 710 749
Stephen Brown 401 538
Sophie Goldschmidt - 480
Simon Massie-Taylor (joined September 2016) 188 -

1,299 1,767

2017
Total remuneration for each of the Non-Executive Directors on the Board was: £000

Bill Beaumont 20
Jeff Blackett * 17
Rob Briers 17
Andy Cosslett 66
Chris Cuthbertson 17
Deborah Griffin 17
Andrew Higginson* 3
Dominic Proctor 28
Jonathan Webb 17
Helen Weir 33
Malcolm Wharton 23

* donated to charity at source

7. Staff costs 2017 2016
£m £m
Staff costs for the Group during the year
Wages and salaries 37.9 44.8
Social security costs 3.8 4.5
Defined benefit pension costs 0.3 0.4
Defined contribution pension costs 1.4 1.6
43.4 51.3

Annual Report 2017