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Remuneration report

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The following section provides details of the remuneration, pension and share interests of the Directors for the year ended 24 March 2007 and has been audited.

i) Directors’ remuneration

The remuneration of the Directors for the year was as follows:

	Note	Salary/ fees £000	Bonus6 £000	Cash payment on joining £000	Pension supplement7 £000	Benefits8 £000	Total9 2007 £000	Total9 2006 £000
Justin King	1,10	725	960	—	181	55	1,921	1,471
Darren Shapland		433	405	—	65	16	919	619
Philip Hampton		395	—	—	—	1	396	398
Anna Ford	2	43	—	—	—	—	43	—
Val Gooding	3	10	—	—	—	—	10	—
Gary Hughes		54	—	—	—	—	54	45
John McAdam		55	—	—	—	—	55	31
Bob Stack		55	—	—	—	—	55	55
Directors who have left the Board during the year
Jamie Dundas	4	40	—	—	—	—	40	55
Bridget Macaskill	5	14	—	—	—	—	14	45
Directors who left the Board before the start of the financial year, including compensation for loss of office		—	—	—	—	—	—	173
Total 2007		1,824	1,365	—	246	72	3,507
Total 2006		1,755	770	120	197	50		2,892

1. Highest paid Director.
2. Appointed to the Board on 2 May 2006.
3. Appointed to the Board on 11 January 2007.
4. Left the Board on 2 February 2007.
5. Left the Board on 12 July 2006.
6. Includes performance bonuses earned in the period under review but not paid in the financial year ended 24 March 2007.
7. Justin King is not a member of the Company pension schemes and received 25 per cent of his basic salary as a cash pension supplement. In addition to this supplement, £4,000 of interest has been earned on a notional fund provided in the prior year from his previous membership of the Executive Stakeholder Pension Plan. Darren Shapland is a member of the Executive Stakeholder Pension Plan. He received a cash pension supplement equal to 20 per cent of the amount by which his salary exceeded the earnings cap (2006: £108,600).
8. Benefits include company car benefits and medical cover.
9. The totals for 2006 (in the case of Justin King) and 2006 and 2007 (in the case of Darren Shapland) do not include deductions made from basic salary for Saving Money and Reducing Tax (“SMART”) pensions.
10. See Performance Share Plan below for details of the vesting of a cash equivalent Performance Share Plan award.