Notes to the financial statements

6 Employee costs

	2008 £m	2007 £m
Employee costs for the Group during the year amounted to:
Wages and salaries, including bonus and termination benefits	1,682	1,583
Social security costs	116	122
Pension costs - defined contribution schemes	28	27
Pension costs - defined benefit schemes (note 31)	78	87
Pension costs - past service gains on defined benefit schemes (notes 7 and 31)	-	(72)
Share-based payments expense (note 32)	53	38
	1,957	1,785

	Number 000’s	Number 000’s
The average number of employees, including Directors, during the year were:
Full-time	49.6	48.8
Part-time	101.4	98.1
	151.0	146.9
Full-time equivalent	98.6	95.5

All employees were employed in the United Kingdom for the periods presented.