Directorate Change

British Assets Trust PLC
01 October 2004

To:          RNS



From:        British Assets Trust PLC



Date:        1 October 2004



British Assets Trust PLC







Directorate Changes



As announced on 20 August 2004, the Board of Directors of British Assets Trust
plc confirms that Lynn Ruddick (aged 52) has today been appointed as a
non-executive Director of the Company.



She retired as a Managing Director of Merrill Lynch Investment Managers in May
2004 having spent the last 12 years of her career with them. She had specific
responsibility for institutional client relationship management and latterly the
company's investment trust business.



Between 1996 and 2000 she was Deputy Chairman and, subsequently, Chairman of the
Investment Committee of the National Association of Pension Funds. She is a
Fellow of the Chartered Association of Certified Accountants and a member of the
Securities Institute.



There are no details requiring to be disclosed under paragraphs 6.F.2(b) to (g)
of the Listing Rules.



Gordon Hay Smith

Company Secretary, British Assets Trust PLC



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