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120 Financial statements
7. Employees
2013 2012 2011
Year end Average Year end Average Year end Average
Number of employees in the groupa000 000 000 000 000 000
UK 73.2 74.1 73.9 74.7 75.7 77.1
Non-UK 14.7 15.0 15.1 16.0 16.9 17.5
Total employees 87.9 89.1 89.0 90.7 92.6 94.6
2013 2012 2011
Year end Average Year end Average Year end Average
Number of employees in the groupa000 000 000 000 000 000
BT Global Services 19.2 19.8 20.0 20.9 21.8 22.6
BT Retail 16.3 16.3 16.3 16.4 16.6 17.4
BT Wholesale 2.0 1.4 1.4 1.6 1.9 2.1
Openreach 30.4 30.4 30.9 31.2 31.3 30.9
Other 20.0 21.2 20.4 20.6 21.0 21.6
Total employees 87.9 89.1 89.0 90.7 92.6 94.6
aThese reflect the full-time equivalent of full and part-time employees.
8. Audit, audit related and other non-audit services
The following fees were paid or are payable to the company’s auditors, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP.
2013 2012 2011
Year ended 31 March £000 £000 £000
Fees payable to the company’s auditors and its associates for:
Audit servicesa
The audit of parent company and consolidated financial statements 2,674 2,696 2,732
The audit of the company’s subsidiaries 5,284 5,422 4,636
7,958 8,118 7,368
Audit related assurance servicesb1,313 1,558 1,556
Other non-audit services
Taxation compliance servicesc472 455 110
Taxation advisory servicesd370 770 1,046
All other assurance services 166 74 223
All other servicese933 641 593
1,941 1,940 1,972
Total services 11,212 11,616 10,896
aServices in relation to the audit of the parent company and the consolidated financial statements, including fees for reports under section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. This also includes
fees payable for the statutory audits of the financial statements of subsidiary companies.
bServices in relation to other statutory filings or engagements that are required by law or regulation to be carried out by the appointed auditor. This includes fees for the audit of the group’s
regulatory financial statements and reporting associated with the group’s US debt shelf registration.
cServices relating to tax returns, tax audits, monitoring and enquiries.
dFees payable for all taxation advisory services not falling within taxation compliance.
eFees payable for all non-audit services not covered above, principally comprising other advisory services.
In order to maintain the independence of the external auditors, the Board has determined policies as to what non-audit services can be provided by
the company’s external auditors and the approval processes related to them. Under those policies work of a consultancy nature will not be offered
to the external auditors unless there are clear efficiencies and value-added benefits to the company. A description of the work performed by the
Audit & Risk Committee in order to safeguard auditor independence when non-audit services are provided is set out in the Audit & Risk Committee
Chairman’s Report on page 72.
In this context audit related assurance services are considered to pose a low threat to auditor independence and therefore the proportion of other
non-audit services to total services is considered the most suitable measure of the level of non-audit services provided. These represented 17% of
the total fees in 2012/13 (2011/12: 17%, 2010/11: 18%).
The BT Pension Scheme is an associated pension fund as defined in the Companies (Disclosure of Auditor Remuneration and Liability Limitation
Agreements) (Amendment) Regulations 2011. In the year ended 31 March 2013 PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP received total fees from the
BT Pension Scheme of £1,395,000 (2011/12: £1,901,000, 2010/11: £897,000) in respect of the following services: audit of financial statements
of associates £155,000 (2011/12: £131,000, 2010/11: £96,000); taxation compliance services £218,000 (2011/12: £92,000, 2010/11:
£47,000) and other non-audit services of £1,022,000 (2011/12: £1,678,000, 2010/11: £754,000).