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Item 1, option B

Give the go-ahead for outsourcing certain aspects of HR: payroll and benefits, pay negotiations, training and development on a Group-wide basis. Also include recruitment of admin staff and other non-creative/client-facing staff but retain the recruitment, training and management of reward systems for all creative and account management staff within the WRSX Group. The Board believes that the Group’s value lies in its people and the recruitment and retention of these people should be a major responsibility of the senior team in each business. This will save £1m per decision period with an initial one-off cost of £2m in the current six month period.