At 31 March 2007, we occupied approximately 6,500 properties in the UK and approximately 1,500 properties in the rest of the world.
The majority of these UK properties are owned by and leased back from the Telereal Group, which is part of the William Pears Group.
These properties mainly house exchange equipment and are needed as part of our continuing activities. Other, general purpose properties consist chiefly of offices, depots and computer centres.
We anticipate that our changing working patterns will continue to reduce property costs.