Director Shareholding

BT Group PLC
11 February 2005


                                  SCHEDULE 11

          NOTIFICATION OF INTERESTS OF DIRECTORS AND CONNECTED PERSONS

1) Name of company

BT Group plc

2)  Name of Director

Hanif Lalani

3) Please state whether notification indicates that it is in respect of holding
of the shareholder name in 2 above or in respect of a non-beneficial interest or
in the case of an individual holder if it is a holding of that person's spouse
or children under the age of 18 or in respect of a non-beneficial interest.

Director in 2 above

4) Name of the registered holder(s) and, if more than one holder, the number of
shares held by each of them (if notified)

n/a

5) Please state whether notification relates to a person(s) connected with the
Director named in 2 above and identify the connected person(s)

n/a

6) Please state the nature of the transaction. For PEP transactions please
indicated whether general/single co PEP and if discretionary/non discretionary

Notification of interests on appointment

7) Number of shares/amount of stock acquired

See item 15 below

8) Percentage of issued class

n/a

9) Number of shares/amount of stock disposed

n/a

10) Percentage of issued class

n/a

11) Class of security

Ordinary shares of 5p each

12) Price per share

n/a

13) Date of transaction

n/a

14) Date Company informed

11 February 2005

15) Total holding following this notification

a) 5,563 ordinary shares - personal holding
b) 72,224 ordinary shares under the BT Group Incentive Share Plan
c) 66,720 ordinary shares under the BT Group Deferred Bonus Plan
d) An option over 5,346 ordinary shares under the BT Group Employee Sharesave
Scheme
e) Options over 649,851 ordinary shares under the BT Group Global Share Option
Plan

16) Total percentage holding of issued class following this notification

n/a

If a director has been granted options by the company please complete the
following boxes

17) Date of grant

a) 29 July 2002
b) 24 June 2003
c) 24 June 2003
d) 27 June 2003
e) 24 June 2004

18) Period during which or date on which exercisable

a) 29 July 2005 to 29 July 2012
b) 24 June 2006 to 24 June 2013
c) 24 June 2004 to 24 June 2013
d) 14 August 2006 to 13 February 2007
e) 24 June 2007 to 24 June 2014

19) Total amount paid (if any) for grant of the option

n/a

20) Description of shares or debentures involved: class, number

Ordinary shares of 5p each

a) 177,810 shares
b) 210,527 shares
c) 105,264 shares
d) 5,346 shares
e) 156,250 shares

21) Exercise price (if fixed at time of grant) or indication that price is to be
fixed at time of exercise

a) 187 pence per share
b) 199.5 pence per share
c) 199.5 pence per share
d) 173 pence per share
e) 192 pence per share

22) Total number of shares or debentures over which options held
following this notification

See above

23) Any additional information

The appointment of Hanif Lalani as an executive director of BT Group plc was
notified to the London Stock Exchange on 10 December 2004.

The following information is now provided in respect of Hanif Lalani as required
by the Listing Rules:

Listing Rule 16.4 (a)
Current Directorships of publicly quoted companies in the last five years:

Nil

Past Directorships

Nil

Listing Rule 16.4 (b)

Mr Lalani has confirmed that, at the date of this release:

1.   he has no unspent convictions in relation to any
indictable offences;

2.    he has not been bankrupt or entered into an individual
voluntary arrangement;

3.    he was not a director with an executive function of any
company at the time of or within 12 months preceding any receivership,
compulsory liquidation, creditors voluntary liquidation, administration, company
voluntary arrangement or any composition or arrangement with that company's
creditors generally or with any class of its creditors;

4.    he has not been a partner in a partnership at the time of
or within 12 months preceding any compulsory liquidation, administration or
partnership voluntary arrangement of such partnership;

5.    he has not had his assets the subject of any receivership
or has been a partner of a partnership at the time of or within 12 months
preceding any assets thereof being the subject of a receivership;

6.    he has not been subject to any public criticism by any
statutory or regulatory authority (including any recognised professional body)
nor has ever been disqualified by a court from acting as a director of a company
or from acting in the management or conduct of the affairs of a company.

The above named Director has technical interests, as at 11 February 2005 under
Schedule 13 to the Companies Act as follows:

   •A technical interest, together with all employees of BT Group plc in
    28,649,650 Ordinary Shares held by Ilford Trustees (Jersey) Limited in
    respect of contingent awards under executive share plans;


   •A technical interest, together with all employees of BT Group plc in
    127,741 Ordinary Shares held by the Trustee of the BT Group Employee Share
    Investment Plan, Halifax Corporate Trustees Limited

24) Name of contact and telephone number for queries

John Challis
020 7356 4086

25) Name of signature or authorised company official responsible for making this
notification

John Challis

Date of Notification: 11 February 2005

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