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 2008/09:

• Achieved an Employee Engagement Index* of 70% for our 2009 Employee Opinion Survey compared with 60% for the 2008 survey
• 13.2% of our workforce are black or minority ethnic compared with 12.3% in 2007/08
• 22.6% of our workforce are female compared with 22.5% in 2007/08
• Achieved The Times Top 50 UK ‘where women want to work’ status for the third successive year; A Stonewall top 100 company for the first time
• Scored 100% for the second successive year in the US Human Rights Campaign’s 2008 Corporate Equality Index

*Employee Engagement Index is defined in the Glossary section