Purchase of Own Securities

British Empire Sec & Gen Tst PLC
2 March 2000


The Board of British Empire Securities and General Trust announces that on 1
March 2000, the Company purchased 25,000 units of Equities Index Unsecured
Loan Stock (EIULS) 2013 for cancellation, at a price of 298 pence per unit.
The Company now has 4,212,530 units of EIULS in issue.

For further information please contact:

John Walton, Ivory & Sime Asset Management Limited      0171 853 6900