Director/PDMR Shareholding

Drax Group PLC
11 May 2007


11 May 2007
                                 Drax Group plc
                           ('Drax' or the 'Company')

                                  Symbol: DRX


   NOTIFICATION OF TRANSACTIONS OF DIRECTORS, PERSONS DISCHARGING MANAGERIAL
                      RESPONSIBILITY OR CONNECTED PERSONS

The share interests of the under-noted directors and persons discharging
managerial responsibility have increased following the acquisition of
Partnership and Matching Shares under the Drax Group plc Approved Share
Incentive Plan (the 'Plan') on 10 May 2007. In accordance with the rules of the
Plan these shares will be held in trust by Capita IRG Trustees Limited and
registered in the name TD Waterhouse Nominees (Europe) Limited a/c CESNOMS.

The notifications below are all in accordance with DTR 3.1.4 R(1)(a) and DTR
3.1.4 R(1)(b) and the dealings were in respect of ordinary shares of 11 16/29
pence each in the share capital of the Company of which there were 352,402,304
shares in issue at the time of the dealings.

+--------+-----------+--------+--------+-----------+---------+---------+---------+
|Director| Number of | Number | Total  |% of Issued|  Share  |  Drax   |  % of   |
|/PDMR   |Partnership|   of   | number |   Share   |  Price  | shares  | Issued  |
|        |  Shares   |Matching|   of   |  Capital  |         |  held   |  Share  |
|        | Acquired  | Shares | shares | Acquired  |         |following| Capital |
|        |           |Acquired|acquired|           |         |purchase |         |
|        |           |        | on 10  |           |         |         |         |
|        |           |        |May 2007|           |         |         |         |
+--------+-----------+--------+--------+-----------+---------+---------+---------+
|Gordon  |      193  |   193  |   386  |Negligible | 776.25p | 27,761  | 0.0079  |
|Boyd    |           |        |        |           |         |         |         |
+--------+-----------+--------+--------+-----------+---------+---------+---------+
|Peter   |      193  |   193  |   386  |Negligible | 776.25p | 31,447  | 0.0089  |
|Emery   |           |        |        |           |         |         |         |
+--------+-----------+--------+--------+-----------+---------+---------+---------+
|Dorothy |           |        |        |           |         |         |         |
|Thompson|      193  |   193  |   386  |Negligible | 776.25p | 64,465  | 0.0183  |
+--------+-----------+--------+--------+-----------+---------+---------+---------+



Peter J Rothwell
Company Secretary

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