ROLLS-ROYCE ANNOUNCES BOARD CHANGE

6 February, 2008

                      ROLLS-ROYCE ANNOUNCES BOARD CHANGES                       

Rolls-Royce today announced that Carl Symon, a non-executive director and the
Chairman of the Remuneration Committee, will retire from the Rolls-Royce Board
at the conclusion of the Annual General Meeting to be held on 7 May 2008. Helen
Alexander CBE, who joined the Board as a non-executive director in September
2007, will succeed Carl Symon as Chairman of the Remuneration Committee.

Announcing the changes, Rolls-Royce Chairman Simon Robertson said: "I would
like to thank Carl Symon for his considerable contribution over many years to
Rolls-Royce through the application of his wide business experience and his
skilful chairmanship of the Remuneration Committee. I am delighted that Helen
Alexander has agreed to succeed Carl Symon as Chairman of the Remuneration
Committee."

Notes:

 1. Carl Symon was appointed to the Rolls-Royce Board in 1999.
   
 2. Helen Alexander joined the Rolls-Royce Board on 1 September 2007. She was
    appointed Chief Executive of the Economist Group in January 1997, having
    joined the company in 1984. She was Managing Director of The Economist
    Intelligence Unit from 1993 until the end of 1996. She is also a
    non-executive director of Centrica plc, a Trustee of the Tate Gallery and a
    governor of St Paul's Girls' School. She was awarded a CBE for services to
    publishing in 2004. She has an MBA from INSEAD. She is currently Chairman
    of PPA, the magazine trade association.
   

For further information contact:
Mark Alflatt
Director of Financial Communications
Rolls-Royce Group plc
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