Director Shareholding

Centrica PLC
20 February 2003





Purchase of ordinary shares of 55/9 pence in Centrica plc ('Shares' and the
'Company', respectively) by Directors of the Company under its Share Incentive
Plan ('SIP').

The SIP trustee, Hill Samuel ESOP Trustees Limited (the 'Trustee'), notified the
Company on 20 February 2003 that:

The following Directors of the Company acquired Shares under the SIP on 20
February 2003 from the Shares acquired by the Trustee on that date:

Director                      Number                   Aggregate shares held
                              of Shares                Beneficially (across all accounts
                              acquired*                following acquisition)

Mike Alexander                102                      328,389

Phil Bentley                  102                      100,290

Mark Clare                    102                      364,820

Sir Roy Gardner               102                      801,856

 The 'Number of Shares Acquired' includes 82 Partnership shares acquired at
152.5 pence and 20 matching shares acquired at 153 pence. Both Partnership and
Matching elements are registered in the name of the Trustee.

The SIP operates as follows


  • Each month the Trustee uses participants' contributions (which may not
    exceed £125 per participant per month) to purchase shares in the market.
    These shares are called 'Partnership Shares'.

  • At the same time the Company allots to participants via the Trustee one '
    Matching Share' for every two partnership shares purchased that month (up to
    a maximum of 20 matching shares per month).

  • Participants may change their monthly savings rate whenever they wish.
    However, Directors and others bound by the Company's Securities Dealing Code
    (the 'Code') may not make such a change during a close period or when
    otherwise prohibited from dealing by the Code.



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