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 2009 that:

(1) The following Directors and other Persons Discharging Managerial Responsibility for the Company acquired Shares under the SIP on 1 December 2009 held through the Trustee:

	Â	Number	Â	Aggregate Shares held
		Of Shares		Beneficially (across all accounts
Directors		Acquired*		following acquisition)
Phil Bentley		70		1,279,084
Sam Laidlaw		71		1,210,438
Nick Luff		70		509,607
Chris Weston		70		421,680
Mark Hanafin		71		150,909
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Persons Discharging Managerial Responsibility
Grant Dawson		70		391,402
Catherine May		70		116,193
Anne Minto		70		429,270

* The ‘Number of Shares Acquired’ includes 48 Partnership shares acquired at 257.79 pence per share (49 Partnership shares for Sam Laidlaw and Mark Hanafin with a higher residual balance) and 22 Matching shares acquired at 255.43 pence per share. Both Partnership and Matching elements are registered in the name of the Trustee.

(2) They had transferred 10,000 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 22 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.

Pamela Coles
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