Cash flow statements

for the year ended 31st December 2009
Group Company
2009 2008 2009 2008
Note £m £m £m £m
Operating activities
Cash received from tenants 125.4 109.6
Development income received 14.1
Direct property expenses (10.2) (22.8)
Cash paid to and on behalf of employees (11.4) (10.3) (11.4) (9.9)
Other administrative expenses (5.7) (5.9) (4.7) (4.8)
Interest received 1.6 2.9 0.9 0.2
Interest paid (40.7) (48.5) (13.1) (22.9)
Other income 1.0 0.7
Disposal of trading property 6.5
Tax paid in respect of operating activities (0.1) (0.8)
Net cash from/(used in) operating activities 66.4 38.3 (27.6) (37.4)

Investing activities
Acquisition of investment properties (10.2) (31.9)
Capital expenditure on investment properties (94.6) (72.9)
Disposal of investment properties 195.5 72.6
Purchase of property, plant and equipment (0.4) (0.2) (0.4) (0.1)
Disposal of property, plant and equipment 0.2 0.1
Distributions received from joint ventures 0.5
Sale of investment in subsidiary undertaking 0.9
Advances to minority interest holder (4.2)
Purchase of minority interest (0.4)
REIT conversion charge (53.6) (53.6)
Tax received/(paid) in respect of investing activities 6.6 (8.1) 8.0 (8.1)
Net cash from/(used in) investing activities 97.4 (98.5) 8.5 (61.7)

Financing activities
Net movement in intercompany loans 178.6 66.0
Net movement in revolving bank loans (134.0) 86.2 (140.0) 55.0
Repayment of non-revolving bank loans (28.0)
Drawdown of non-revolving bank loans 1.9 56.8 1.9 28.8
Repayment of loan notes (1.9) (28.8) (1.9) (28.8)
Net proceeds of share issues 29 0.7 0.7
Dividends paid to minority interest holder (1.0)
Dividends paid 32 (24.3) (22.5) (24.3) (22.5)
Net cash (used in)/from financing activities (157.6) 62.7 15.0 98.5

Increase/(decrease) in cash and cash equivalents in the year 6.2 2.5 (4.1) (0.6)

Cash and cash equivalents at the beginning of the year 6.9 4.4 (1.3) (0.7)

Cash and cash equivalents at the end of the year 33 13.1 6.9 (5.4) (1.3)

The notes that form part of these financial statements can be found here.