| Health and Safety |
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Injuries to the public*
(number) |
Members of the public injured as a direct result of our operations (number of fatalities included in total) |
06/07: 28 (1)
05/06: 20 (3)
04/05: 52 (10) |
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Employee lost time injury frequency rate
(injuries per 100,000 hours) |
Injuries resulting in employees taking time off work normalised to 100,000 hours worked |
06/07: 0.34
05/06: 0.28
04/05: 0.37
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Employee lost time injuries
(number) |
Injuries resulting in employees taking time off work |
06/07: 142
05/06: 117
04/05: 201** |
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Contractor lost time injuries
(number) |
Injuries resulting in contractors taking time off work |
06/07: 131
05/06: 119
04/05: 146 |
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Employee sickness rate
(percentage) |
Percentage of available work days lost to sickness |
06/07: 2.48
05/06: 2.38
04/05: 2.69 |
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Gas Distribution - UK mains replacement
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Kilometres of gas mains decommissioned |
06/07: 1,850
05/06: 1,724
04/05: 1,458 |
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Uncontrolled gas escapes
(percentage)
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Percentage of uncontrollable gas escapes in the UK attended within one hour |
06/07: 98
05/06: 98
04/05: 98 |
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Controlled gas escapes
(percentage)
|
Proportion of controllable gas escapes in the UK attended within two hours |
06/07: 99
05/06: 99
04/05: 99 |
| Shareholder value |
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Adjusted earnings per share
(pence) |
Earnings per share from continuing operations before exceptional items and remeasurements |
06/07: 47.7p
05/06: 45.5p
04/05: 41.4p |
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Total shareholder return
(percent) |
Growth in share price, assuming reinvestment of dividends and return of capital |
06/07: 44.9
05/06: 22.9
04/05: 19.0 |
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Operating cash flows
(£million) |
Cash generated by continuing operations |
06/07: 3,090
05/06: 2,973
04/05: 2,820 |
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Investment in acquisitions
(£million) |
Consideration in respect of acquired businesses |
06/07: 354
05/06: Nil
04/05: 1,122 |
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Capital Expenditure
(£million) |
Additions to plant and equipment and to intangible assets |
06/07: 2,345
05/06: 1,907
04/05: 1,361 |
| Reliability |
UK electricity transmission system reliability
(percent) |
Electricity delivered by the electricity transmission system as a proportion of electricity demanded
|
06/07: 99.9999
05/06: 99.9999
04/05: 99.99998 |
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UK gas transmission system reliability
(percent) |
Gas delivered by gas transmission system as a proportion of gas demanded |
06/07: 100
05/06: 100
04/05: 100 |
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US electricity transmission system reliability
(number / MWh) |
Number of customer interruptions and associated MWh lost |
06/07: 75 / 264
05/06: 97 / 348
04/05: 73 / 386 |
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UK gas distribution network reliability
(percent) |
Proportion of total customer days without unplanned gas interruptions |
06/07: 99.999
05/06: 99.999
04/05: 99.999 |
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US electricity distribution network reliability
(minutes) |
Average time the average customer is without power over the year |
06/07: 121
05/06: 141
04/05: 120 |
| Environment |
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Greenhouse gas emissions
( percent) |
percentage reduction in greenhouse gas emissions against verified baseline*** |
06/07: 35
05/06: 26
04/05: 28 |
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Greenhouse gas emission intensity
(tonnes per £m of revenue) |
Greenhouse gas emissions normalised to £m of revenue (including discontinued operations) |
06/07: 471
05/06: 521
04/05: 867 |
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Significant direct environmental incident
(number) |
Category 1 incidents caused by National Grid (and contractors working for National Grid) |
06/07: 20, (20)
05/06: 22, (1)
04/05: 20, (3) |
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Significant indirect environmental incidents
(number) |
Category 1 incidents caused by adverse weather or third party damage |
06/07: 13
05/06: 25
04/05: 11 |
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Fines
(£ / $) |
Total value of fines from environmental prosecutions and citations |
06/07: $4,885
05/06: Zero
04/05: $3,000 |
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Energy use
(million MWh)
|
Consumption of gas and electricity for operational and non-operational purposes |
06/07: 6.5
05/06: 7.7
04/05: 7.6 |
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Waste
(million tonnes) |
Total waste including waste disposed of and waste recycled or reused |
06/07: 1.2
05/06: 1.1
04/05: 2.1
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Waste recycled
(percentage) |
Waste recycled or reused |
06/07: 59.4
05/06: 45.6
04/05: 41.3 |
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Water use
(million cubic metres) |
Total water used |
06/07: 3.6
05/06: 3.1
04/05: 4.5 |
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Fuel used for Transport
(million litres) |
Total fuel used by commercial fleet, company cars, private cars used for business, own aircraft and some contractor movements |
06/07: 36.4
05/06: 38.0
04/05: 45.7 |
| Employees |
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Headcount
(number) |
Number of employees in post at 31 March |
06/07: 19,511
05/06: 19,783
04/05: 24,406 |
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Female employees
(percentage) |
Proportion of employees who are female |
06/07: 23.7
05/06: 23.4
04/05: 21.0 |
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Ethnic minority employees
(percentage) |
Proportion of employees who are ethnic minorities |
06/07: 7.3
05/06: 6.7
04/05: 6.0 |
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Breaches of Codes of Conduct
(number) |
Substantiated breaches of UK and US Codes of Conduct per 1000 employees |
06/07: 7.98
05/06: 4.76
04/05: 8.03 |
| Economic development |
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Investing in the Future
(£million) |
Payroll costs, government taxes, dividends to shareholders, capital investment and community investment (excluding discontinued operations) |
06/07: 4,570
05/06: 4,288****
04/05: 3,403 |
| Society |
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Community investment
(£million) |
Includes cash value of contributions, value of employee time, in-kind contributions and management costs |
06/07: 8.9
05/06: 7.7
04/05: 7.3 |