Director/PDMR Shareholding

British American Tobacco PLC
23 May 2006


DIRECTOR/PDMR SHAREHOLDING


The independent trustee of the British American Tobacco Group Employee Trust
notified the Company on 23 May 2006 that it had between 19 May 2006 and 23 May
2006 released:
     
a)   99,941 British American Tobacco p.l.c. 25p ordinary shares (the "Shares") 
     to participants in the British American Tobacco Long Term Incentive
     Plan; and

b)   4,854 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 21,197,265 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
transactions that took place between the above mentioned dates:  Mr P N Adams,
Mr P A Rayner and Mr A Monteiro de Castro.


Miss IAMB de Minvielle Devaux
Assistant Secretary

0207 845 1545


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