Director/PDMR Shareholding

Drax Group PLC
20 September 2006


20 September 2006


                                 Drax Group plc

                           ('DRAX' or the 'Company')

                                 (Symbol: DRX)

    Notification of Transactions of Directors/Persons Discharging Managerial
                 Responsibility ('PDMRS') and Connected Persons





Executive Share Incentive Plan


On 19 September 2006 the following awards under the Drax Executive Share
Incentive Plan (the 'ESIP') were made to executive directors and to persons
discharging managerial responsibility ('PDMRs') of the Company:

Name                              Award of ESIP Shares (see note below)

Gordon Boyd                                 32,597
Peter Emery                                 30,024
Dorothy Thompson                            60,048



Note:


Under the Drax ESIP, awards are made as a conditional allocation, where a
participant will receive free Ordinary Shares in the Company on the vesting of
an award on the third anniversary of the award being made, subject to continuing
employment. The vesting of an award will depend on the Company's Total
Shareholder Return as compared to the Total Shareholder Return of a comparator
group over a fixed three-year performance period starting on 1 July 2006 and
ending on 30 June 2009. For the purposes of the calculation, the award was made
at a share price of £8.743, being the average of the closing middle market
quotations of a share as derived from the Daily Official List of the London
Stock Exchange for the five business days immediately preceding the date of the
award.



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