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140 Financial statements
6. Employees
2014 2013 2012
Number of employees in the groupa
Year end
000
Average
000
Year end
000
Average
000
Year end
000
Average
000
UK 72.2 72.7 73.2 74.1 73.9 74.7
Non-UK 15.6 15.1 14.7 15.0 15.1 16.0
Total employees 87.8 87.8 87.9 89.1 89.0 90.7
2014 2013b 2012b
Number of employees in the groupa
Year end
000
Average
000
Year end
000
Average
000
Year end
000
Average
000
BT Global Services 20.5 19.9 19.2 19.8 20.0 20.9
BT Business 9.6 9.8 8.9 9.3 10.0 10.3
BT Consumer 6.0 6.2 6.6 6.4 6.3 6.2
BT Wholesale 1.8 1.8 2.0 1.4 1.4 1.6
Openreach 31.6 31.5 30.4 30.4 30.9 31.2
Other 18.3 18.6 20.8 21.8 20.4 20.5
Total employees 87.8 87.8 87.9 89.1 89.0 90.7
a
These reƮect the full-time eTuivalent of full and part-time employees.
b 8pdated to reƮect our internal reorganisation (see note 1).
7. Audit, audit related and other non-audit services
The following fees were paid or are payable to the company’s auditors, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP.
Year ended 31 March
2014
£000
2013
£000
2012
£000
Fees payable to the company’s auditors and its associates for
Audit servicesa
The audit of parent company and consolidated nancial statements 2,619 2,674 2,696
The audit of the company’s subsidiaries 5,355 5,284 5,422
7,974 7,958 8,118
Audit related assurance servicesb1,573 1,313 1,558
Other non-audit services
Taxation compliance servicesc260 472 455
Taxation advisory servicesd371 370 770
All other assurance services 180 166 74
All other servicese829 933 641
1,640 1,941 1,940
Total services 11,187 11,212 11,616
a Services in relation to the audit of the parent company and the consolidated Ƭnancial statements, including fees for reports under section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. This also includes fees payable for
the statutory audits of the Ƭnancial statements of subsidiary companies.
b Services in relation to other statutory Ƭlings or engagements that are reTuired by law or regulation to be carried out by the appointed auditor. This includes fees for the audit of the groupos regulatory Ƭnancial
statements and reporting associated with the groupos 8S debt shelf registration.
c Services relating to tax returns, tax audits, monitoring and enTuiries.
d Fees payable for all taxation advisory services not falling within taxation compliance.
e Fees 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 oered to
the external auditors unless there are clear eciencies and value-added benets to the company.
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 15% of
the total fees in 2013/14 (2012/13 and 2011/12 17%).
The BT Pension Scheme is an associated pension fund as dened in the Companies (Disclosure of Auditor Remuneration and Liability Limitation
Agreements) (Amendment) Regulations 2011. In the year ended 31 March 2014 PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP received total fees from the
BTPension Scheme of £1,363,000 (2012/13 £1,395,000, 2011/12 £1,901,000) in respect of the following services audit of nancial
statements of associates £220,000 (2012/13 £155,000, 2011/12 £131,000) taxation compliance services £221,000 (2012/13 £218,000,
2011/12 £92,000) and other non-audit services of £922,000 (2012/13 £1,022,000, 2011/12 £1,678,000).