Directorate Change

Royal Bank of Scotland Group PLC
14 February 2006



         The Royal Bank of Scotland Group plc (RBS) Board Appointments

The Royal Bank of Scotland Group plc announces today the following appointments
to the Board:

William (Bill) Friedrich has been appointed a Non Executive Director while
Johnny Cameron and Mark Fisher will join as Executive Directors. All three
appointments are effective from 1 March 2006.

Commenting on the appointments Sir George Mathewson, RBS Group Chairman, said:

'Bill Friedrich will be a welcome addition to our Board. He brings extensive
international business expertise from his current position as Deputy Chief
Executive of BG Group plc, where he has been responsible for a number of its
international operations. Prior to joining BG Group he was also corporate legal
counsel to several of the world's leading financial institutions.

'It also gives me enormous pleasure to see 'home grown' talent joining the
Board. Both Johnny Cameron and Mark Fisher have demonstrated outstanding
leadership of their respective businesses, Corporate Markets and Manufacturing.
They bring with them a wealth of experience of financial services.

'On behalf of my fellow board members I look forward to welcoming them to the
Board.'

Biographical Details

William (Bill) Friedrich

Bill Friedrich, aged 57, was appointed to the Board of BG Group plc as an
Executive Director, Deputy Chief Executive and General Counsel in October 2000.
Since 2005, he has had primary responsibility for the Group's overall strategy
function and portfolio development activities as well as oversight of the
Group's organisational and human resource matters. Prior to that he was
responsible for BG's operations in North and South America and various
Group-wide staff functions, including Health, Safety, Security and Environment,
Legal, Corporate Affairs, Human Resources, Regulation and Secretariat. He joined
British Gas plc in December 1995 as General Counsel after a 20-year career with
Shearman & Sterling, based in New York, where he became a partner in 1983.
Whilst with the firm, he practised as a general corporate lawyer, working for
international financial institutions, including Citigroup, Merrill Lynch and
Morgan Stanley and ultimately headed the firm's world-wide Project Development
and Project Finance practice.

He was educated at Union College and Columbia Law School, New York and is a
Member of the American Bar Association.



Johnny Cameron, Chief Executive, Corporate Markets

Johnny, aged 51, has held a number of senior positions in financial institutions
including County NatWest, Dresdner Kleinwort Benson and RBS. He was appointed
Managing Director, Corporate and Institutional Banking at RBS in 1998, before
being promoted to Deputy Chief Executive, Corporate Banking and Financial
Markets in 2000, and Chief Executive in 2001. On 1 January 2006 he became Chief
Executive, Corporate Markets for RBS.

Johnny studied at Harrow, Christchurch, Oxford and Sloan School at MIT in the
US.


Mark Fisher, Chief Executive, Manufacturing

Mark, aged 45, is a career banker, having joined the Group in 1981 as a graduate
trainee. Prior to the acquisition of NatWest by RBS, Mark held a number of
senior management positions in NatWest, including Finance Director and latterly
Chief Operating Officer of the Retail Bank. He was responsible for overseeing
the successful integration of NatWest on to the RBS operational platform
following the acquisition in 2001, and has since then completed the integration
of Churchill Insurance.

Mark is also Chairman of The Association for Payment Clearing Services (APACS).

He has a first class honours degree in mathematics and an MBA from Warwick
Business School.

For Further Information Contact



Carolyn McAdam                         + 44 131 523 2055

Head of Group Communications           + 44 7796 274968

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