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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, 2022
Trade and other non-current payables [abstract] |
Summary of Trade and Other Payables, Non-current |
| 30 June 2022 |  | 31 December 2021
| £m |  | £m
Payments due to vendors (earnout agreements) | 133.1 |  |  | 111.1 |
Liabilities in respect of put option agreements with vendors | 329.5 |  |  | 333.1 |
Fair value of derivatives | 64.2 |  |  | 47.2 |
Other creditors and accruals | 113.9 |  |  | 128.5 |
| 640.7 |  |  | 619.9 |
Maturity Analysis for Contingent Consideration and Future Earn-out Obligations | The following table sets out payments due to vendors, comprising contingent consideration and the Directors’ best estimates of future earnout-related obligations:
| 30 June 2022 |  | 31 December 2021
| £m |  | £m
Within one year | 40.0 |  |  | 85.6 |
Between 1 and 2 years | 46.2 |  |  | 24.0 |
Between 2 and 3 years | 48.2 |  |  | 35.7 |
Between 3 and 4 years | 17.5 |  |  | 51.4 |
Between 4 and 5 years | 10.8 |  |  | — |
Over 5 years | 10.4 |  |  | — |
| 173.1 |  |  | 196.7 |

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