Holding in Company

Capita Group PLC
19 December 2001


Letter to Company Announcements Office

In accordance with S134 of the Companies Act 1989, we write to inform you of the
following notifiable interests in the Capita Group Plc (letter below).

Capita were notified of this change on: 19/12/01
Capita's current number of shares in issue is:  661,422,933

Letter from Capita Group PLC


Letter to Capita Group PLC - dated 17 December 2001

NOTIFICATIONS UNDER SECTIONS 198 TO 202 -- U.K. COMPANIES ACT

1.   Company in which shares are held:  Capita Group Plc

2.   Notifiable Interest:  Ordinary Shares

     (A)   FMR Corp.
           82 Devonshire Street
           Boston, MA 02109

           Parent holding company of Fidelity Management & Research Company 
           (FMRCO), investment manager for US mutual funds, and Fidelity        
           Management Trust Company (FMTC), A US state chartered bank which acts
           as a trustee or investment manager of various pension and trust      
           accounts. (See Schedule A for listing of Registered Shareholders 
           and their holdings.)

     (B)   Fidelity International Limited (FIL)
           P.O. BOX HM 670
           Hamilton HMCX, Bermuda

           Parent holding company for various direct and indirect subsidiaries,
           including Fidelity Investment Services Ltd. (FISL), and Fidelity     
           Pension Management (FPM), investment managers for various non-US     
           investment companies and institutional clients. (See Schedule A for  
           listing of Registered Shareholders and their holdings).

3.   The notifiable interests also comprise the notifiable interest of:

           Mr Edward C. Johnson 3d
           82 Devonshire Street
           Boston, MA 02109

           A principal shareholder of FMR Corp. and Fidelity International      
           Limited.

4.   The notifiable interests include interest held on behalf of authorized
     unit trust schemes in the U.K. notwithstanding the exemption from 
     reporting pursuant to Section 209 (1)(h) of the Companies Act 1985.

5.   These notifications of disclosable interests constitute separate
     notifications of interest in the shares and are combined solely for 
     the purposes of clarity. Nothing herein should be taken to indicate 
     that FMR Corp. and its direct and indirect subsidiaries, Fidelity          
     International Limited and its direct and indirect subsidiaries or Mr Edward
     C. Johnson 3d act as a group or in concert in respect of the disclosed     
     interests, or that they are required to submit these notifications on a    
     joint basis.

6.   The disclosable interests arise under section 208(4)(b) of the Act,
     namely where a person, not being the registered holder, is entitled
     to exercise a right conferred by the holding of the shares or to 
     control the exercise of such rights, or under section 203 of the Act
     respectively.

Letter from FMR Corp.



Schedule A

Security: Capita Group Plc

                      SHARES HELD   MANAGEMENT   NOMINEE/REGISTERED NAME
                                     COMPANY
(Ordinary Shares)                                                               
                        1,653,580      FMRCO     State Street Nominees Limited
                        1,605,615      FMRCO     Chase Nominees Limited
                          324,700      FMTC      HSBC         
                           70,315      FMTC      State Street Nominees Ltd.
                           64,100      FMTC      National Cities
                           15,100      FMTC      Nortrust Nominees
                           16,400      FMTC                                   
                          300,708      FISL      Chase Nominees Ltd
                          101,700      FPM       Bankers Trust
                          195,200      FPM       Citibank   
                           47,400      FPM       BT Globenet Nominees Ltd 
                          163,346      FPM       MSS Nominees Ltd
                          405,900      FPM       State Street Nominees Ltd    
                          385,400      FPM       Midland Bank Nominees
                           37,900      FPM       Mellon Nominees Ltd
                          359,500      FPM       Bank of New York London
                            7,340      FPM       Nordea
                        1,589,100      FPM       Chase Nominees Ltd           
                        1,402,450      FIL       Bankers Trust                
                        1,887,281      FIL       RBS Trust Bank
                          330,440      FIL       Morgan Stanley               
                          208,750      FIL       Mellon Bank
                           66,100      FIL       KAS Associatie
                          116,400      FIL       MSS Nominees Ltd
                        3,944,238      FIL       Nortrust Nominees Ltd
                           80,080      FIL       RBS-EDINBURG
                          678,952      FIL       State Street Bank & Trust
                        1,558,000      FIL       Bank of New York London
                        1,334,288      FIL       Chase Nominees Ltd
                          211,700      FIL       BT Globenet Nominees Ltd       
                          126,411      FIL       NAB-Australia
                          876,900      FIL       Northern Trust
                           11,000      FIL       Credit Suisse
                            8,200      FIL       National Australia Bank
                           85,978      FIL       HSBC Client Holdings Nominee 
                                                 (UK) Limited                 
                            5,921      FIL       Deutsche Bank AG, London
                           57,100      FIL       Citibank                     
                            7,500      FIL       State Street Nominees Ltd
   

Total Ordinary Shares   20,340,993                                              
                   
Current ownership                                                           
  percentage:                3.08%                                              
            
Shares in issue:       661,219,933