Holding(s) in Company

TR-1: Notifications of Major Interests in Shares
                                                
                                                                                             
1. Identity of the issuer or the underlying                           Hays plc                      
issuer of existing shares to which voting rights                               
are attached:                                                                  
                                              
                                                                               
2. Reason for notification (yes/no)                                            
                                                       
An acquisition or disposal of voting rights                           Yes                                  
                                                                         
An acquisition or disposal of financial instruments which may result  No    
in the acquisition of shares already issued to which voting rights             
are attached                                                                   
                                                                               
An acquisition or disposal of instruments with similar economic       No    
effect to qualifying financial instruments                                     
                                                     
An event changing the breakdown of voting rights                      No                             
                                                                               
Other (please specify):                                               No                                               
                                                                                                               

3. Full name of person(s) subject to notification obligation:         RONALD EDWIN FROST                            
                                               

4. Full name of shareholder(s) (if different from 3):                                                             
                                                                                          

5. Date of transaction (and date on which the threshold is crossed    9 June 2011
or reached if different):                                                      
                                                                                                               

6. Date on which issuer notified:                                     9 June 2011                                     
                    

7. Threshold(s) that is/are                                           Less than 5%, 4%, 3%
   crossed or reached:                                                [Following the disposal, voting rights which
                                                                      were previously held directly are held
                                                                      indirectly, which has triggered this
                                                                      notification, as described at section 9]
8. Notified details:                                                           
                                                                               
A: Voting rights attached to shares                                            
                                                                                             
Class/type                    Situation previous to    Resulting situation after the triggering   
of shares                     the triggering           transaction                                
                              transaction                                                       
If possible                                                                    
use ISIN                      Number of   Number of    Number    Number of voting       Percentage of     
code                          shares      voting       of        rights                 voting rights     
                                          rights       shares                                     
                                                                          
Ordinary shares of                                     Direct     Direct   Indirect     Direct     Indirect
GBP 0.01 each                                            
GB0004161021                  80,000,000  80,000,000   100        100      79,999,800   0.000007%  5.78%  
                                                                               
                              
B: Qualifying Financial Instruments                                                      
                                                                                
Resulting situation after the triggering transaction                            
                                                                     
Type of      Expiration Exercise/    No. of voting rights that may  Percentage  
financial    date       conversion   be acquired if the instrument  of voting   
instrument              period       exercised/                     rights
                                     converted                                  
                                                                                
N/A                                                                             
                                                                                
C: Financial Instruments with similar economic effect to Qualifying Financial  
Instruments                                                                    
                                                                               
Resulting situation after the triggering transaction                           
                                                                               
                                                                               
Type of       Exercise Expiration Exercise/  Number of voting     Percentage of
financial     price    date       conversion rights instrument    voting rights
instrument                        period     refers to            Nominal Delta
                    
                                                                             
N/A               


Total (A+B+C)                                                       
                                                                              
Number of voting rights             Percentage of voting rights              
                                                                             
79,999,900                          5.78%                                    
                                                                             

9. Chain of controlled undertakings through which the voting rights and /or the
financial instruments are effectively held, if applicable:                     
                                           
                                    
Prior to the disposal, Ronald Edwin Frost ("Mr Frost") held 80,000,000 shares  
directly, in his own name.                                                    
                                                                               
Mr Frost has now given 100 shares to his wife, Beryl, and has settled          
79,999,800 shares into trust, the trustee of which is Virtus Trust Limited     
("Virtus").  Mr Frost has an interest in the 79,999,800 shares held in trust by
Virtus, which equates to an indirect interest of 5.78% of the voting rights of 
the issuer (based upon 1,384,238,307 total voting rights in the issuer, as     
announced on 31 May 2011 via RNS).                                             
                                                   
Following the disposal, Mr. Frost retains 100 shares in his own name, which    
equates to a direct interest of 0.000007%.                                     
                           

Proxy Voting:                                                       
                                                                    
10. Name of proxy holder:                                        N/A
                                                                                       
11. Number of voting rights proxy holder will cease to hold:     N/A
                                                                    
12. Date on which proxy holder will cease to hold voting rights: N/A
                                                                    
13. Additional information:                                                                                   
                                              
14 Contact name:                                                 Christopher Groves
                                                                 Withers LLP
                                              
15. Contact telephone name:                                      020 7597 6127