Our success is built on the talent, commitment and effort of everyone in National Grid.

This perspective looks at how we have interacted with our employees during 2009/11:

• 13.5% of our workforce are black or minority ethnic, the same as 2009/10
• 22.3% of our workforce are female compared with 22.7% last year
• A Stonewall top 100 company for a third year and scored 100% for the fourth successive year in the US Human Rights Campaign’s Corporate Equality Index
• Over 97,000 learning hours were delivered in professional and leadership development; nearly one million learning hours in technical development
• Significant investments made in expanding our Eakring, Nottinghamshire and Millbury, Massachusetts learning centres