Notes to the Group financial statements

14 Debtors

  2009
£m		 2008
£m
Trade debtors 105 94
Less: Provision for impairment of trade debtors (3) (2)
  102 92
Lease prepayment – long lease land premiums 1 1
Other debtors 78 32
Prepayments and accrued income 64 74
  245 199

The Group has recognised a provision of £3m (2008: £2m) for impairment of its trade debtors as at 1 February 2009.

The ageing analysis of trade debtors is as follows:

  2009
£m		 2008
£m
Neither past due nor impaired 79 70
Past due but not impaired:    
Not more than three months 23 17
Greater than three months – 5
  102 92

As at 1 February 2009, trade debtors that were neither past due nor impaired related to a number of independent customers for whom there is no recent history of default.

The other classes of debtors do not contain impaired assets.

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