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 5 January 2011 that:

(1) The following Directors and other Persons Discharging Managerial Responsibility for the Company acquired Shares under the SIP on 4 January 2011 held through the Trustee:

	Â	Number	Â	Aggregate Shares held
		Of Shares		Beneficially (across all accounts
Directors		Acquired*		following acquisition)
Phil Bentley		55		2,185,001
Sam Laidlaw		57		1,859,476
Nick Luff		55		624,589
Mark Hanafin		55		319,314
Chris Weston		55		497,501
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Persons Discharging Managerial Responsibility
Grant Dawson		57		418,987
Catherine May		55		203,351
Anne Minto		57		455,194

* The ‘Number of Shares Acquired’ includes 37 Partnership shares acquired at 333.1 pence per share (38 Partnership shares for Sam Laidlaw, Grant Dawson and Anne Minto with a higher residual balance) and 18 Matching shares acquired at 333.96666 pence per share (19 Matching Shares for Sam Laidlaw, Grant Dawson and Anne Minto). Both Partnership and Matching elements are registered in the name of the Trustee.

(2) The Trustee had transferred 15,000 Shares 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 the current month’s allocation of Matching shares.

Luke Thomas
Centrica plcCentrica plc
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Notes:

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.