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Trade and other payables: amounts falling due after more than one year (Tables) | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2019
Statement [LineItems] |
Summary of Contingent Consideration |
|  | 2019 £m |  |  | 2018 £m |
At beginning of year |  |  | 414.7 |  |  |  | 630.7 |
Earnouts paid |  |  | (130.0 | ) |  |  | (120.2 | )
New acquisitions |  |  | 9.6 |  |  |  | 48.6 |
Revision of estimates taken to goodwill (note 14) |  |  | (14.3 | ) |  |  | (68.3 | )
Revaluation of payments due to vendors |  |  | 1.1 |  |  |  | (82.6 | )
Transfer to disposal group classified as held for sale |  |  | (11.5 | ) |  |  | – |
Exchange adjustments |  |  | (15.8 | ) |  |  | 6.5 |
At end of year |  |  | 253.8 |  |  |  | 414.7 |
Over 1 year [member] |
Statement [LineItems] |
Summary of Trade and Other Payables | The following are included in trade and other payables falling due after more than one year:
|  | 2019 £m |  |  | 2018 £m |
Payments due to vendors (earnout agreements) |  |  | 111.4 |  |  |  | 266.5 |
Liabilities in respect of put option agreements with vendors |  |  | 151.4 |  |  |  | 205.2 |
Fair value of derivatives |  |  | 21.2 |  |  |  | 14.2 |
Other creditors and accruals |  |  | 199.3 |  |  |  | 355.5 |
|  |  | 483.3 |  |  |  | 841.4 |
Trade and Other Payable [member] |
Statement [LineItems] |
Maturity Analysis for Non-derivative Financial Liabilities | The following tables set out payments due to vendors, comprising contingent consideration and the Directors’ best estimates of future earnout-related obligations:
|  | 2019 £m |  |  | 2018 £m |
Within one year |  |  | 142.4 |  |  |  | 148.2 |
Between one and two years |  |  | 36.9 |  |  |  | 140.2 |
Between two and three years |  |  | 37.5 |  |  |  | 38.5 |
Between three and four years |  |  | 14.8 |  |  |  | 50.3 |
Between four and five years |  |  | 9.7 |  |  |  | 20.4 |
Over five years |  |  | 12.5 |  |  |  | 17.1 |
|  |  | 253.8 |  |  |  | 414.7 |
|  | 2019 £m |  |  | 2018 £m |
At beginning of year |  |  | 414.7 |  |  |  | 630.7 |
Earnouts paid |  |  | (130.0 | ) |  |  | (120.2 | )
New acquisitions |  |  | 9.6 |  |  |  | 48.6 |
Revision of estimates taken to goodwill (note 14) |  |  | (14.3 | ) |  |  | (68.3 | )
Revaluation of payments due to vendors |  |  | 1.1 |  |  |  | (82.6 | )
Transfer to disposal group classified as held for sale |  |  | (11.5 | ) |  |  | – |
Exchange adjustments |  |  | (15.8 | ) |  |  | 6.5 |
At end of year |  |  | 253.8 |  |  |  | 414.7 |

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