Month End Portfolio Info

British Assets Trust PLC
16 January 2008

British Asset Trust plc

ALL DATA AS AT 31 December 2007

THIS DATA WILL BE AVAILABLE ON THE F&C ASSET MANAGEMENT WEB-SITE, 
http://www.fandc.com/ FROM APPROXIMATELY 18 January 2008.



          Top Ten Equity Holdings               %

BP                                               5.4
Vodafone                                         3.5
Royal Dutch Shell                                2.4
HSBC                                             2.3
GlaxoSmithKline                                  2.2
Royal Bank of Scotland                           2.1
AstraZeneca                                      2.0
Anglo American                                   2.0
Centrica                                         2.0
Standard Life European Private Equity Trust      1.8

Total                                           25.7





        Country (or region) / Sector            %

UK                                              61.3
Europe (ex UK)                                   6.5
North America                                   10.9
Japan                                            3.2
Far East (ex Japan)                              6.3
Corporate Bonds                                  5.6
Cash                                             6.2

Total                                          100.0




Actual gearing:  117.4
Potential gearing:  125.2





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