Annual Report and Accounts

Standard Life plc
22 April 2008

                               Standard Life plc

                                ('the Company')


The Company announces that, pursuant to Listing Rule 9.6.1R, two copies of the
following documents have been submitted to the Financial Services Authority:

- Annual Report and Accounts for the year ended 31 December 2007

- AGM Guide (including Notice of Meeting)

- Example of Voting Form for Certificated Shareholders

- Example of Voting Form for Shareholders in the Standard Life Share Account

- Shareholder News

These documents will shortly be available for inspection at the Financial
Services Authority's Document Viewing Facility at:

25 The North Colonnade
Canary Wharf
London
E14 5HS

Telephone [phone]

At the Company's Annual General Meeting due to be held on 19 May 2008, it is
proposed that the Company adopts new Articles of Association.  A summary of the
proposed principal changes is set out on pages 18 to 20 of the AGM Guide.  A
copy of the proposed new Articles of Association of the Company showing all the
proposed changes to the existing Articles of Association will also be available
for inspection during normal business hours from Monday to Friday (except public
holidays) at both Standard Life House, 30 Lothian Road, Edinburgh EH1 2DH and at
the offices of the Company's solicitors, Slaughter and May, One Bunhill Row,
London EC1Y 8YY.  Two copies of the draft Articles of Association of the Company
showing the amendments to be proposed at the Annual General Meeting have also
been lodged with the FSA.  The Annual Report and Accounts, Shareholder News, and
the AGM Guide are available on the Standard Life plc website at
www.standardlife.com


22 April 2008


Enquiries:

Kenneth Gilmour, Group Secretariat 0131 245 0751


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