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Operating expenses (Tables) | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2025
Disclosure of expenses [Abstract] |
Schedule of Operating Expenses |
| 2025 £m |  | 2024 £m |  | 2023 £m
Staff costs: |  |  |  |  |
Salaries and social security costs 1 | 3,846 |  | 3,819 |  | 3,651
Pensions and other retirement benefit schemes (note 12) | 527 |  | 526 |  | 355
Restructuring and other staff costs | 334 |  | 327 |  | 487
| 4,707 |  | 4,672 |  | 4,493
Premises and equipment costs 2 | 503 |  | 454 |  | 449
Depreciation and amortisation 3 | 3,477 |  | 3,426 |  | 2,905
UK bank levy | 130 |  | 147 |  | 150
Regulatory and legal provisions (note 28) | 968 |  | 899 |  | 675
Other | 2,786 |  | 2,594 |  | 2,720
Operating expenses before adjustment for: | 12,571 |  | 12,192 |  | 11,392
Amounts attributable to the acquisition of insurance and participating investment contracts | (191) |  | (182) |  | (183)
Amounts reported within insurance service expenses | (414) |  | (409) |  | (386)
Total operating expenses | 11,966 |  | 11,601 |  | 10,823
1 Including social security costs of £454 million (2024: £428 million; 2023: £371 million). 2 Net of loss on disposal of operating lease assets of £10 million (2024: profit of £59 million; 2023: p rofit of £93 million). 3 Including depreciation in respect of premises £101 million (2024: £96 million; 2023: £110 million), equipment £349 million (2024: £400 million; 2023: £388 million), operating lease assets £1,470 million (2024: £1,410 million; 2023: £1,070 million) and right-of-use assets £182 million (2024: £198 million; 2023: £209 million).
Schedule of Average Number of Persons Employed by the Group | The average number of persons on a headcount basis employed by the Group during the year was as follows:
| 2025 | 2024 | 2023
UK | 60,331 | 64,334 | 65,390
Overseas | 3,707 | 1,895 | 807
Total | 64,038 | 66,229 | 66,197
Schedule of Performance-Based Compensation Costs | The tables below analyse the Group’s performance-based compensation costs between those relating to the current performance year and those relating to earlier years.
| Performance-based compensation expense |  | Performance-based compensation expense deferred until later years
| 2025 £m | 2024 £m | 2023 £m |  | 2025 £m | 2024 £m | 2023 £m
Awards made in respect of the year ended 31 December | 343 | 300 | 316 |  | 83 | 90 | 108
Awards made in respect of earlier years | 92 | 96 | 124 |  | 37 | 34 | 22
| 435 | 396 | 440 |  | 120 | 124 | 130

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