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Debt financing (Tables) | 6 Months Ended
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Jun. 30, 2019
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Analysis of Future Anticipated Cash Flows in Relation to Group's Financial Derivatives and Debt | The following table is an analysis of future anticipated cash flows in relation to the Group’s debt, on an undiscounted basis which, therefore, differs from the carrying value:
|  | 30 June 2019 |  |  | 30 June 2018 |  |  | 31 December 2018 |
|  | £m |  |  | £m |  |  | £m |
Within one year |  |  | (936.6 | ) |  |  | (175.7 | ) |  |  | (748.4 | )
Between one and two years |  |  | (327.7 | ) |  |  | (925.6 | ) |  |  | (596.8 | )
Between two and three years |  |  | (990.0 | ) |  |  | (594.8 | ) |  |  | (937.1 | )
Between three and four years |  |  | (496.1 | ) |  |  | (1,351.2 | ) |  |  | (742.5 | )
Between four and five years |  |  | (1,114.7 | ) |  |  | (496.7 | ) |  |  | (786.8 | )
Over five years |  |  | (3,500.3 | ) |  |  | (4,912.9 | ) |  |  | (4,199.7 | )
Debt financing (including interest) under the Revolving Credit Facility and in relation to unsecured loan notes |  |  | (7,365.4 | ) |  |  | (8,456.9 | ) |  |  | (8,011.3 | )
Short-term overdrafts – within one year |  |  | (335.9 | ) |  |  | (299.4 | ) |  |  | (442.0 | )
Future anticipated cash flows |  |  | (7,701.3 | ) |  |  | (8,756.3 | ) |  |  | (8,453.3 | )
Effect of discounting/financing rates |  |  | 1,257.1 |  |  |  | 1,903.4 |  |  |  | 1,793.4 |
Debt financing |  |  | (6,444.2 | ) |  |  | (6,852.9 | ) |  |  | (6,659.9 | )

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- Definition The disclosure of a maturity analysis for derivative financial liabilities, including the remaining contractual maturities for those derivative financial liabilities for which contractual maturities are essential for an understanding of the timing of the cash flows. [Refer: Derivative financial liabilities] + References Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/disclosureRef -Name IFRS -Number 7 -IssueDate 2018-01-01 -Paragraph 39 -Subparagraph b -URI http://eifrs.ifrs.org/eifrs/XBRL?type=IFRS&num=7&date=2018-03-01&anchor=para_39_b&doctype=Standard -URIDate 2018-03-16 + Details
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