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Consolidated Cash Flow Statement

for the year ended 31 March 2005

 
Note
2005
£m
  2004
£m
         
Net cash inflow from operating activities 23 462.2   381.4
Dividends received from joint ventures   15.8   79.7
Returns on investments and servicing of finance        
Interest received   9.8   12.9
Interest paid   (349.0)   (301.5)
Dividends received       0.2
    (339.2)   (288.4)
Taxation        
UK corporation tax paid   (10.0)   (4.1)
Foreign tax paid   (3.6)   (5.5)
    (13.6)   (9.6)
Net cash inflow from operating activities and investments        
after finance charges and taxation   125.2   163.1
         
Capital expenditure and financial investment        
Purchase of investment properties and development expenditure   (508.9)   (316.9)
Purchase of investments   (97.9)   (10.8)
Sale of investment properties   81.3   171.3
Sale of investments   3.7   20.8
    (521.8)   (135.6)
Acquisitions and disposals        
Purchase of subsidiary companies*   (41.0)   (110.2)
Cash at bank acquired with interest in subsidiary companies   4.9   5.8
Investment in and loans to joint ventures   (23.4)   (34.8)
Sale of shares in and loans repaid by joint ventures   54.8   89.2
    (4.7)   (50.0)
         
         
Equity dividends paid   (76.6)   (67.0)
Net cash outflow before management of liquid resources and financing  
(477.9)
 
(89.5)
         
         
Management of liquid resources        
(Increase) decrease in term deposits   (18.6)   11.9
         
         
Financing        
Issue of ordinary shares   1.2   1.7
Purchase and cancellation of own shares       (5.0)
Purchase of ESOP shares   (10.9)   (6.7)
Issue of Broadgate Estate securitised debt   2,080.7    
Redemption of Broadgate Funding PLC securitised debt   (1,439.7)    
Redemption of 135 Bishopsgate Financing Ltd securitised debt   (138.4)    
Repayment of debt acquired with subsidiary companies*   (648.6)    
Issue of Meadowhall Shopping Centre securitised debt       50.7
Issue of Sainsbury supermarkets securitised debt       84.0
Redemption of Broadgate Class D Unsecured Notes 2014       (73.5)
Increase in bank and other borrowings   614.3   73.4
    458.6   124.6
(Decrease) increase in cash 23 (37.9)   47.0
* Properties of £702.2m acquired through corporate structures.