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Annual Report 2015
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Companies Act 2006 opinion
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are prepared is consistent with the financial stateents.
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Under s UK  reland we are reuired to report to ou if in our opinion
 information in the Annual Report is:
– ateriall inconsistent with the inforation in the audited financial stateents or
– apparently materially incorrect based on, or materially inconsistent with, our knowledge
of the group acquired in the course of performing our audit; or
– otherwise misleading.
We have no exceptions to report arising
from this responsibility.
 the statement given by the directors on page 130, in accordance with provision C.1.1 of the UK
orporate overnance ode ‘the Code’), that they consider the Annual Report taken as a whole
to be fair, balanced and understandable and provides the information necessary for members to
assess the group’s performance, business model and strategy is materially inconsistent with our
knowledge of the group acquired in the course of performing our audit.
We have no exceptions to report arising
from this responsibility.
 the section of the Annual Report on page 101, as required by provision C.3.8 of the Code,
describing the work of the Audit & Risk Committee does not appropriately address matters
communicated by us to the Audit & Risk Committee.
We have no exceptions to report arising
from this responsibility.
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An audit involves obtaining evidence about the amounts and disclosures
in the financial stateents sucient to ive reasonable assurance that
the financial stateents are free fro aterial isstateent whether
caused by fraud or error. This includes an assessment of:
 whether the accounting policies are appropriate to the group’s
circumstances and have been consistently applied and adequately
disclosed;
 the reasonableness of sinificant accountin estiates ade b the
directors; and
 the overall presentation of the financial stateents.
We primarily focus our work in these areas by assessing the directors’
judgements against available evidence, forming our own judgements,
and evaluatin the disclosures in the financial stateents.
We test and examine information, using sampling and other auditing
techniques, to the extent we consider necessary to provide a reasonable
basis for us to draw conclusions. We obtain audit evidence through
testin the eectiveness of controls substantive procedures or a
combination of both.
n addition we read all the financial and non-financial inforation
in the Annual Report to identify material inconsistencies with the
audited financial stateents and to identif an inforation that is
apparently materially incorrect based on, or materially inconsistent
with, the knowledge acquired by us in the course of performing the
audit. If we become aware of any apparent material misstatements or
inconsistencies we consider the implications for our report.
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e have reported separatel on the copan financial stateents of
BTGroup plc for the year ended 31 March 2015 and on the information
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London
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Under the Companies Act 2006 we are required to report to you if, in
our opinion, we have not received all the information and explanations
we require for our audit. We have no exceptions to report arising from
this responsibility.
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Under the Companies Act 2006 we are required to report to you if, in
our opinion certain disclosures of directors reuneration specified
bylaw are not made. We have no exceptions to report arising from
thisresponsibility.
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Under the Listing Rules we are required to review the part of the
Corporate Governance Statement relating to the company’s compliance
with ten provisions of the UK Corporate Governance Code. We have
nothing to report having performed our review.
esponsibilities for the financial stateents and the audit
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As explained more fully in the Statement of directors’ responsibilities
set out on page 130, the directors are responsible for the preparation of
thefinancial stateents and for bein satisfied that the ive a true and
fairview.
ur responsibilit is to audit and epress an opinion on the financial
stateents in accordance with applicable law and s UK  reland.
Those standards require us to comply with the Auditing Practices Board’s
Ethical Standards for Auditors.
This report, including the opinions, has been prepared for and only for
the company’s members as a body in accordance with Chapter 3 of Part
16 of the Companies Act 2006 and for no other purpose. We do not,
in giving these opinions, accept or assume responsibility for any other
purpose or to any other person to whom this report is shown or into
whose hands it may come save where expressly agreed by our prior
consent in writing.