Director/PDMR Shareholding

British Land Co PLC 19 December 2006 Notification of monthly investment in the British Land Share Incentive Plan ('SIP') Hill Samuel ESOP Trustees Limited (the 'Trustees'), Trustees of the British Land SIP, notified the Company on 19th December 2006 that they purchased on 14th December 2006 a total of 4,371 ordinary 25p shares at a price of £16.20 per share under the 'Partnership' and 'Matching' element of the Company's SIP. Under the terms of the SIP each eligible participating employee can contribute from monthly salary to purchase 'Partnership Shares', and the Company matches this by awarding two 'Matching Shares' for every one 'Partnership Share' purchased by participating employees. The SIP has been approved by the Inland Revenue as a share incentive plan under Schedule 8 of the Finance Act 2000. As participants in the SIP the executive directors and the persons discharging managerial responsibilities named below are deemed to have an interest in the shares held by the Trustees. The Company also received notification from the Trustees, that of the above shares acquired by the Trustees, the shares purchased on behalf of the Company's executive directors and persons discharging managerial responsibilities were as follows: Number of Partnership Shares acquired Number of Matching Shares under the SIP acquired under the SIP Directors Sir John Ritblat 7 14 S A M Hester 8 16 R E Bowden 7 14 G C Roberts 7 14 T A Roberts 7 14 A M Jones 8 16 Persons Discharging Managerial Responsibilities P C Clarke 7 14 A Braine 7 14 19th December 2006. This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock Exchange
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