How we manage our sustainability programme 

Our Group Board continues to take responsibility for our sustainability programme and Gordon Hurst, our Group Finance Director, has overall responsibility for our sustainability activity. Each Executive Director has specific responsibility for one or more of our priority impact areas.

We manage our sustainability programme at two levels: centrally through our Group functional heads and locally in the individual businesses. The functional heads join other senior business representatives on our Sustainability Steering Group, which meets quarterly. They are responsible for developing specific key policies and procedures for their impact areas and ensuring that we identify and manage sustainability related risks and opportunities.

We aim to embed sustainability in our core management and reporting procedures. Group functional heads are accountable for activity in their areas and have to report progress and performance to the Board through our business reporting process.