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Provisions for liabilities and charges | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2019
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Provisions for liabilities and charges | 22. Provisions for liabilities and charges The movements in 2019 and 2018 were as follows:
|  | Property £m |  |  | Other £m |  |  | Total £m |
1 January 2018 |  |  | 52.6 |  |  |  | 176.4 |  |  |  | 229.0 |
Charged to the income statement 1 |  |  | 72.1 |  |  |  | 13.9 |  |  |  | 86.0 |
Acquisitions 2 |  |  | 0.5 |  |  |  | 8.3 |  |  |  | 8.8 |
Utilised |  |  | (5.7 | ) |  |  | (20.1 | ) |  |  | (25.8 | )
Released to the income statement |  |  | (5.7 | ) |  |  | (4.6 | ) |  |  | (10.3 | )
Other movements |  |  | 2.0 |  |  |  | 10.9 |  |  |  | 12.9 |
Exchange adjustments |  |  | 2.9 |  |  |  | 8.2 |  |  |  | 11.1 |
31 December 2018 |  |  | 118.7 |  |  |  | 193.0 |  |  |  | 311.7 |
Charged to the income statement |  |  | 39.5 |  |  |  | 7.6 |  |  |  | 47.1 |
Acquisitions 2 |  |  | – |  |  |  | 0.7 |  |  |  | 0.7 |
Utilised |  |  | (1.2 | ) |  |  | (12.2 | ) |  |  | (13.4 | )
Released to the income statement |  |  | (10.3 | ) |  |  | (6.9 | ) |  |  | (17.2 | )
Other movements 3 |  |  | (58.4 | ) |  |  | 9.2 |  |  |  | (49.2 | )
Transfer to disposal group classified as held for sale |  |  | (6.2 | ) |  |  | (18.4 | ) |  |  | (24.6 | )
Exchange adjustments |  |  | (0.6 | ) |  |  | (6.7 | ) |  |  | (7.3 | )
31 December 2019 |  |  | 81.5 |  |  |  | 166.3 |  |  |  | 247.8 |
Notes
1 |  | Amounts charged to the income statement in 2018 include £50.6 million in regard to transformation costs with respect to the strategic initiative of co-locations in major cities.
2 |  | Acquisitions include £0.7 million (2018: £8.4 million) of provisions arising from revisions to fair value adjustments related to the acquisition of subsidiary undertakings that had been determined provisionally at the immediately preceding balance sheet date, as permitted by IFRS 3 Business Combinations.
3 |  | Other movements include transfers of property provisions related to property leases which are now recognised in the right-of-use assets, increases of certain property-related liabilities and certain long-term employee benefits.
The Company and various of its subsidiaries are, from time to time, parties to legal proceedings and claims which arise in the ordinary course of business. The Directors do not anticipate that the outcome of these proceedings and claims will have a material adverse effect on the Group’s financial position or on the results of its operations.

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