Fair Money & Economic Opportunity

BT Group plc is a telecommunications company.

The 'Fair Money & Economic Opportunity' value and its associated KPIs are designed to assess financial institutions that lend, insure, move, or store money. The provided articles do not contain evidence that BT Group offers consumer lending, deposit, or other financial services. Therefore, for each KPI, the company's activities fall under the '0' tier, which explicitly states 'Not applicable' or 'No X as company is not in financial services' or similar phrasing, indicating that the KPI is not relevant to BT Group's core business operations.

Fair Pay & Worker Respect

The CEO's total compensation to median employee compensation ratio is 222:1.

Approximately 27.4% of the total workforce is covered by collective bargaining agreements, with 26,000 workers represented by the Communication Workers Union. The mean gender pay gap is 4%, indicating that women earn 96% of men's pay. The company has faced two substantiated labor-law violations in the past three years, including a series of safety regulation breaches in 2022 and a labor standards violation (disability discrimination, unfair dismissal, unlawful deduction from wages) in 2021.

Fair Trade & Ethical Sourcing

BT includes its environmental, ethical, and social requirements as conditions in its contracts with approximately 16,000 companies worldwide.

Suppliers must adhere to BT's Supplier Charter with no exceptions. BT reserves the right to audit supplier conduct and terminate contracts for material breaches of these principles.

Honest & Fair Business

BT Group has a Sustainalytics ESG risk score of 21.1, placing it in the 20-30 range for controversies.

The company incurred approximately $28.43 million in ethics-related regulatory fines over the past three years, including a £17.5 million fine from Ofcom in July 2024 for a service outage, a £1.74 million fine from the CMA, and a £2.8 million fine from Ofcom for unclear contract terms. , , Its audit coverage is strong, with 97% of total assets covered by independent external audit. The company restated prior-period comparatives for the year to March 31, 2024, due to reclassifications of employee pension costs and sales commissions, representing one restatement in the past five years.

Kind to Animals

BT Group is a telecommunications company, and its core business operations do not involve animal testing, animal-derived products, animal husbandry, or animal agriculture. Consequently, KPIs related to cruelty-free certification, alternative testing, humane operations, ethical input substitution, cage-free sourcing, animal testing policy and volume, innovation investment in animal-free technologies, animal agriculture ethics, animal-free R&D collaboration, and public policy engagement on animal welfare are not applicable to its business model. While BT Group engages in wildlife conservation efforts, such as partnering with The Wildlife Trusts and RSPB

, building safely near otter habitats and rare bird nesting sites , and installing over 70 swift boxes , the provided articles do not contain measurable biodiversity impact, species recovery, or habitat restoration metrics required to score the 'wildlife_conservation_impact' KPI.

No War, No Weapons

No specific, quantifiable data points were found in the provided articles to assess BT Group plc against the 'No War, No Weapons' ethical value. While the company has a multi-million-pound networks contract with the Army

, including services like Wi-Fi, managed firewalls, smart surveillance, and facial recognition at Ministry of Defence sites in the UK, Cyprus, and Germany , the articles do not provide the percentage of revenue derived from such contracts. Similarly, there is no information on the scope of R&D investment in dual-use technologies, the proportion of revenue allocated to peacebuilding initiatives, or the percentage of the supply chain certified free from conflict minerals. The articles mention a code of conduct and due diligence for conflict minerals , , but lack the specific details required by the rubric's quantitative thresholds for ethical red lines or conflict minerals percentage. Consequently, all KPIs related to this value must be omitted due to insufficient evidence.

Planet-Friendly Business

BT Group's total carbon footprint for FY25 was 3,343,474 tCO2e, representing an 8.11% decrease from the previous year.

All near-term and net-zero targets, including updated Scope 1, 2, and 3 targets, have been validated by the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) to a 1.5°C pathway. In FY25, 53% of the company's total energy consumption was sourced from renewables. UK water use fell by 17% to 1,122,099m3 in FY25, equating to 42.67 m³ per $1M revenue. The global recycling, reuse, and recovery rate for operational waste was 97% in FY25. Suppliers representing over 65% of BT Group's supply chain emissions report to CDP. The company reported no major environmental breaches or incidents subject to investigation or legal proceedings for several years in FY25. BT Group's net-zero target for its full value chain is March 2041, with interim targets for Scope 1, 2, and 3 by March 2031. The company reports under the TCFD framework, including climate scenario analysis for risks and opportunities across a range of future climate scenarios.

Respect for Cultures & Communities

BT Group has over 20 formal partnership agreements, including with Business in the Community, Home-Start UK, UNICEF, British Asian Trust, The Royal Society of Wildlife Trusts, RSPB, NatureScot, National Trust for Scotland, Women Returners, Code First Girls, 10,000 Black Interns, 10,000 Able Interns, and the Aleto Leadership Programme.

No cultural appropriation incidents have been reported. The company's operations do not involve activities requiring Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC) processes.

Safe & Smart Tech

BT Group has a comprehensive AI ethics program, including a Responsible Tech and Human Rights Sub-Committee

, an AI standard for colleagues , and steps to identify and manage AI bias . The company holds multiple privacy and security certifications, including ISO, SOC, Hi Trust, NIST, and SOC2 . BT Group demonstrates strong regulatory compliance by working with regulators like Ofcom and the ICO , and contributing to government initiatives and legislation such as the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumer Bill and the Online Safety Bill . The company also shows a strong positive stance on digital rights, with a Human Rights Policy , an ethics code , a published approach to children’s digital rights , and active engagement, including a visit to 10 Downing Street to support amendments to the Online Safety Bill .

Zero Waste & Sustainable Products

BT Group achieved a total recycling, reuse, and recovery rate of 92.1% in the UK.

95% of BT router casing is made from recycled plastic. The return rate for leased customer premises equipment was 67% in 2023. Circular design principles, including product leasing, refurbishment, and reuse, are implemented across customer premises equipment, with 50% of returned home hubs and set-top boxes refurbished and reused in FY25. Waste reduction initiatives include router leasing and return programs, device trade-in and repair programs (fixing over 57,000 devices), refurbishment of equipment (avoiding over 94,000 new routers), and a CauliBox reusable container solution across 12 UK locations. Over 2,400 tonnes of batteries were recovered for recycling. No major environmental breaches have occurred this year, and no incidents at BT Group sites have been subject to investigation or legal proceedings from UK regulators for several years. BT Group has a target to achieve zero waste to landfill by 2030, aims for a 20% mobile device take-back rate by 2030, and a 75% return rate for leased customer premises equipment by FY26. Suppliers are required to source plastic with post-consumer recycled content and ensure it is fully recyclable and compatible with kerbside collections. BT Group educates customers on how to return equipment and the environmental reasons for doing so, and BT Tower promotes the Recycle Your Electricals website for Londoners.