Director/PDMR Shareholding

Tate & Lyle PLC
                  

Tate & Lyle PLC - 5 July 2006

Director/PDMR Shareholding

Tate & Lyle PLC ('the Company') was informed on 4 July 2006 that on 4 July 2006
Mr Simon Gifford, an Executive Director of the Company, executed the following
transactions:

i) Mr Gifford exercised options over ordinary shares in the Company under the
Tate & Lyle 1992 Executive Share Option Scheme as follows:

--  options over 30,000 ordinary shares at 483 pence per share;

--  options over 46,912 ordinary shares at 470.5 pence per share;

--  options over 68,175 ordinary shares at 336 pence per share; and

--  options over 46,357 ordinary shares at 428.25 pence per share.

ii) Mr Gifford exercised options over ordinary shares in the Company under the
Tate & Lyle 2000 Executive Share Option Scheme as follows:

--  options over 134,378 ordinary shares at 293.5 pence per share;

--  options over 152,202 ordinary shares at 374.5 pence per share; and

--  options over 120,625 ordinary shares at 335.75 pence per share.

He subsequently sold 598,649 ordinary shares at 621.69 pence per share.

Following this transaction, Mr Gifford now has an interest in 26,131 ordinary
shares in the Company, options over 284,805 shares granted under the Tate & Lyle
2000 Executive Share Option Scheme and conditional rights to 352,854 shares
under the Tate & Lyle 2003 Performance Share Plan.

The notification of these transactions is intended to satisfy the Company's
obligations under both section 324 Companies Act 1985 and Disclosure Rule 3.1.2.