Non-Executive Appointment

BT Group PLC
18 January 2002


BT Group plc

Appointment of Non-Executive Director

Baroness Margaret Ann Jay 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.

Baroness Jay has confirmed that, at the date of this release:

 1. she has no unspent convictions in relation to any indictable offences;
 2. she has not been bankrupt or entered into an individual voluntary
    arrangement;
 3. she 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. she 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. she has not had her 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. she 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 her 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:

Margaret A Jay 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

Independent News and Media (UK)

Independent News and Media (International Advisory Board)



Previous directorships and partnerships

Scottish Power plc
date of resignation May 1997

Carlton Television plc
date of resignation: May 1997



End

Date of Notification: 18 January 2002