Non-Executive Appointment

BT Group PLC
18 January 2002

BT Group plc

Appointment of Non-Executive Director

John Frederick Nelson was appointed to the Board of Directors of BT Group plc
on 14 January 2002 as announced in the press announcement dated 7 January
2002.

Mr Nelson 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.

 7. Directors' and others' interests:

As at 14 January 2002, the interests of the Director (and persons connected
with him within the meaning of section 346 of the Companies Act) in the share
capital of BT Group (a) which are required to be notified by each Director to
BT Group pursuant to section 324 or section 328 of the Companies Act or (b)
are required to be entered in the register referred to in section 325 of the
Companies Act or (c) are interests of a connected person of a Director which
would, if the connected person were a Director, be required to be disclosed
under (a) or (b), and the existence of which is known, or which could, with
reasonable diligence, be ascertained by that Director, were as follows:

John F Nelson interest in Ordinary Shares

Personal holding 0

Joint account with spouse 0

Spouse 0

The details of those companies and partnerships outside the Group of which the
Director has been a director or partner at any time during the five years
prior to the date of this announcement are as follows:

Current directorships and partnerships

Kingfisher PLC

London Investment Banking Association







Previous directorships and partnerships

Credit Suisse First Boston (Europe) Limited: 18.01.99 to 31.01.02

Woolwich plc: 27.01.98 to 23.10.00

Lazard Brothers & Co Limited: 20.06.86 to 23.10.98

Lazard S.p.A (incorporated in Italy): 29.10.91 to 23.10.98

Lazard GmbH (incorporated in Germany): 15.11.89 to 23.10.98

Lazard Freres & Co (incorporated in USA):      01.05.95 to 23.10.98

Lazard Partners Limited Partnership (incorporated in USA): 1988 to 13.10.98

Finton House Educational Trust Limited: 05.10.89 to 14.10.98



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Date of Notification: 18 January 2002