Director/PDMR Shareholding

British American Tobacco PLC
16 May 2006


DIRECTOR/PDMR SHAREHOLDING

The independent trustee of the British American Tobacco Group Employee Trust
notified the Company on 16 May 2006 that 500 British American Tobacco p.l.c. 25p
ordinary shares (the "Shares") released in error to participants in the
Company's share option scheme in March 2006 had been returned to the Trust.  The
participants to whom the Shares had been released were not directors of British
American Tobacco p.l.c.

On the same day, the independent trustee notified the Company that it had on 15
May 2006 released 8,639 British American Tobacco p.l.c. 25p ordinary shares (the
"Shares") to satisfy the exercise of options under the Company's share option
scheme.

Following these transactions, the independent trustee of the British American
Tobacco Group Employee Trust holds a total of 21,342,304 Shares.

The following executive directors, together with other employees, are potential
beneficiaries under the trust, and are therefore deemed to be technically
interested for Companies Act purposes but were not connected with the
transaction that took place on the above mentioned date:  Mr P N Adams, Mr P A
Rayner and Mr A Monteiro de Castro.


IAMB de Minvielle Devaux
Assistant Secretary

0207 845 1545


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