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Trade and other payables: amounts falling due after more than one year (Tables) | 6 Months Ended
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Jun. 30, 2021
Over 1 year [member] |
Statement [LineItems] |
Summary of Trade and Other Payables |
|  | 30 June 2021 |  |  | 31 December 2020 |
|  | £m |  |  | £m |
Payments due to vendors (earnout agreements) |  |  | 69.5 |  |  |  | 56.5 |
Liabilities in respect of put option agreements with vendors |  |  | 245.9 |  |  |  | 101.4 |
Fair value of derivatives |  |  | 38.2 |  |  |  | 11.2 |
Other creditors and accruals |  |  | 78.3 |  |  |  | 144.4 |
|  |  | 431.9 |  |  |  | 313.5 |
Trade and Other Payable [member] |
Statement [LineItems] |
Maturity Analysis for Non-derivative Financial Liabilities | The following table sets out payments due to vendors, comprising contingent consideration and the Directors’ best estimates of future earnout-related obligations:
|  | 30 June 2021 |  |  | 31 December 2020 |
|  | £m |  |  | £m |
Within one year |  |  | 83.7 |  |  |  | 57.8 |
Between 1 and 2 years |  |  | 20.5 |  |  |  | 17.2 |
Between 2 and 3 years |  |  | 18.4 |  |  |  | 6.0 |
Between 3 and 4 years |  |  | 19.4 |  |  |  | 30.5 |
Between 4 and 5 years |  |  | 11.2 |  |  |  | 2.8 |
|  |  | 153.2 |  |  |  | 114.3 |

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