
Notes to the Company accounts
4. Creditors (amounts falling due within one year)
| 2007 £m |
2006 £m |
|
|---|---|---|
| Borrowings (note 5) | 360 | 109 |
| Derivative financial instruments | 29 | 21 |
| Amounts owed to subsidiary undertakings | 2,776 | 1,856 |
| Other creditors | 23 | 20 |
| 3,188 | 2,006 |
The notional amounts relating to financial instruments held to manage interest rate and currency profiles for interest rate swaps and forward rate agreements, foreign currency contracts and cross-currency swaps at 31 March 2007 were £2,935m (2006: £2,926m) and £7,983m (2006: £3,454m) respectively.