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Trade and other payables: amounts falling due within one year (Tables) | 6 Months Ended
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Jun. 30, 2022
Trade and other current payables [abstract] |
Summary of Trade and Other Payables, Current |
| 30 June 2022 |  | 31 December 2021
| £m |  | £m
Trade payables | 9,674.4 |  |  | 10,596.9 |
Deferred income | 1,457.2 |  |  | 1,334.0 |
Payments due to vendors (earnout agreements) | 40.0 |  |  | 85.6 |
Liabilities in respect of put option agreements with vendors | 68.3 |  |  | 58.4 |
Fair value of derivatives | 3.9 |  |  | 6.4 |
Share repurchases - close period commitments 1 | — |  |  | 211.7 |
Other creditors and accruals | 2,691.1 |  |  | 2,959.3 |
| 13,934.9 |  |  | 15,252.3 |
Note 1 During 2021, the Company entered into an arrangement with a third party to conduct share buy-backs on its behalf in the close period commencing on 16 December 2021 and ending on 18 February 2022, in accordance with UK listing rules. The commitment resulting from this agreement constituted a liability at 31 December 2021 and was recognised as a movement in other reserves in the year ended 31 December 2021. As the close period ended on 18 February 2022 the movement in other reserves has been reversed in the period ended 30 June 2022.

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