Director/PDMR Shareholding

Director/PDMR Shareholding

Centrica PLC

Purchase of ordinary shares of 6 ^14/81 pence in Centrica plc (“Shares” and the “Company”, respectively) by Directors of the Company and Persons Discharging Managerial Responsibility (PDMRs) under its Share Incentive Plan (“SIP”).

The SIP trustee, Equiniti Share Plan Trustees Limited (the “Trustee”), notified the Company on 2 December 2008 that:

(1) The following Directors and other Persons Discharging Managerial Responsibility for the Company acquired Shares under the SIP on 1 December 2008 held through the Trustee:

	Â	Â	Number	Â	Â	Aggregate Shares held
			of Shares			Beneficially (across all accounts
Directors			Acquired*			following acquisition)
Phil Bentley			75			755,090
Sam Laidlaw			75			489,575
Nick Luff			76			275,457
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Persons Discharging Managerial Responsibility
Grant Dawson			75			380,845
Catherine May			76			30,251
Anne Minto			75			195,670
Chris Weston			76			200,192

* The ‘Number of Shares Acquired’ includes 55 Partnership shares acquired (for Phil Bentley, Grant Dawson, Sam Laidlaw and Anne Minto) at 227.00 pence per share (56 Partnership shares for Nick Luff, Catherine May and Chris Weston with a higher residual balance) and 20 Matching shares acquired at 236.17 pence per share. Both Partnership and Matching elements are registered in the name of the Trustee.

(2) They had transferred 20,000 ordinary shares of 6 ¹⁴/₈₁ pence each from Equiniti Corporate Nominees Limited AESOP1 (Allocated shares) to Equiniti Corporate Nominees Limited AESOP2 (Unallocated shares). The transfer was made following the forfeiture of shares, under the rules of the SIP, by participants who have left the group since the last purchase and the shares had been used towards December’s allocation of Matching shares.

The SIP is made available to all UK employees and operates as follows

• Each month the Trustee uses participants’ contributions (which may not exceed £125 per participant per month) to purchase shares in the market. These shares are called ‘Partnership Shares’.
• At the same time the Company allots to participants via the Trustee one ‘Matching Share’ for every two partnership shares purchased that month (up to a maximum of 20 matching shares per month).
• Participants may change their monthly savings rate whenever they wish. However, Directors and others bound by the Company’s Securities Dealing Code (the “Code”) may not make such a change during a close period or when otherwise prohibited from dealing by the Code.

Chloe Barry
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