Director/PDMR Shareholding

Centrica PLC
                  

16 June 2006

Directors' Shareholdings

Centrica plc (the 'Company') announces that Directors and other Persons
Discharging Managerial Responsibility acquired shares as follows through the
reinvestment of the Company's final dividend of 7.4 pence per share paid on 14
June 2006:

(1) Phil Bentley acquired 11,861 ordinary shares on 14 June 2006 at a price of
272.41 pence under the Centrica Dividend Reinvestment Plan; and

(2) Hill Samuel ESOP Trustees Limited (the 'Trustee'), as Trustee of the
Centrica Share Incentive Plan (the 'Plan'), purchased the following ordinary
shares in the Company at a price of 270.25 pence under the Plan's Dividend Share
scheme on 14 June 2006.

                                Number            Aggregate shares held
                                of shares         beneficially (across all accounts
                                                  following acquisition)
Directors
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Phil Bentley                    91                456,349
Jake Ulrich                     89                710,069

Persons Discharging Managerial
 Responsibility
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Grant Dawson                    91                384,065
Anne Minto                      75                106,659

Enquiries:

Centrica Media Relations    01753 494085
Centrica Investor Relations 01753 494900