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Related party transactions | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2019
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Related party transactions | 31. Related party transactions From time to time the Group enters into transactions with its associate undertakings. These transactions were not material for either year presented. The Group has continuing transactions with Kantar, including sales, purchases, the provision of IT services, subleases and property related items. None of these were material in the period since 5 December 2019 when Kantar became a related party as an associate. The following amounts were outstanding at 31 December 2019:
|  | 2019 £m |
Amounts owed by related parties |  |  |  |
Kantar |  |  | 87.5 |
Other |  |  | 87.5 |
|  |  | 175.0 |
Amounts owed to related parties |  |  |  |
Kantar |  |  | (36.5 | )
Other |  |  | (49.6 | )
|  |  | (86.1 | )

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