Annual report and accounts 2008

Report on directors’ remunerationSub‐section report on directors’ remuneration

All-employee share plans

Executive directors can participate in the company’s all-employee share plans on the same terms as other employees.

These plans comprise savings-related share acquisition programmes in the UK and the US.

These plans operate within specific tax legislation (including a requirement to finance acquisition of shares using the proceeds of a monthly savings contract) and the acquisition of shares under these plans is not subject to the satisfaction of a performance target.