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his is the  nnual eport for the ear ended 1 arch
01. tcoplies with UK reulations and coprises part
of the nnual eport and or 0- for the U ecurities
and chane oission to eet U reulations.
his is our first interated nnual eport. e want to
counicate our stor in a ore copellin wa. e see
nterated eportin  as the best wa to do that. o this
ear for the first tie we are reectin this approach in
how we structure and present our nnual eport.
nterated eportin is an initiative led b the nternational nterated
eportin ouncil . hile  is aret-led its principles and
ais are consistent with UK reulator developents in financial and
corporate reportin.
n eceber 01 the  issued the  raewor to establish
guiding principles and content elements
for interated reports. ehave
taen these principles and eleents into account in preparin our
nnual eport. his is ost obvious in the revised representation of our
business odel and the new section describin our ain staeholders.
e no loner report siple outputs we consider outcoes or
the ipact that we have as a business. nd we use a set of si icons
throuhout this nnual eport to provide linae to the business odel.
ut this is ust the start. e reconise that our ove toward full 
willcontinue to evolve. ind out ore www.theiirc.or
Welcome to BT Group plc’s
Annual Report & Form 20-F 2015
Contents
2 hairans introduction
 Overview
The Strategic Report
Purpose and strategy
0 hief ecutives introduction
21 Our purpose
21 Our goal
21 Our strategy
Delivering our strategy
 peratin oittee
 ur business odel
0 inancial strenth
0 ur people
 ur networs and phsical assets
 esearch and developent
 rand and reputation
 taeholders and relationships
0 atural resources
1 ur riss
51  acuisition riss
Our lines of business
Group performance
 roup inance irectors introduction
0 roup perforance
90 eliverin societal and environental benefits
Governance
9 hairans overnance report
9 ow we overn the roup
9 oard of irectors
9 he oard
101 eports of the oard coittees
10 irectors inforation
11 eneral inforation
1 hareholders and nnual eneral eetin
Financial statements
1 uditors reports  consolidatedfinancialstateents
1 onsolidated financial stateents
19 otes to the consolidated financial stateents
19 uditors report  parent copan financialstateents
19 inancial stateents of  roup plc
199 ubsidiar undertains
Additional information
0 lternative perforance easures
0 elected financial data
0 inancial and operational statistics
09 nforation for shareholders
 ross reference to or 0-
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within the report
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Online Annual Report
www.bt.coannualreport
eliverin our purpose update
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Please see the cautionary statement regarding forward-looking statements
on page 209.
The Purpose and strategy, Delivering our strategy, Our lines of business and
Group performance sections on pages 19 to 92 form the Strategic Report.
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