Notes to the accounts

**5 Employee costs**
	2004 £m	2003 £m
Employee costs, including directors' remuneration, comprise:
Wages and salaries	185.5	161.1
Social security costs	30.3	39.0
Defined benefit pension plans: current service cost (see Note 6b)	0.8	0.7
Defined contribution pension plans (see Note 6)	6.3	4.8
	222.9	205.6

	2004 Number	2003 Number
Average number of employees:
Production and distribution	3,758	3,497
Other	2,138	2,199
	5,896	5,696

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