Director/PDMR Shareholding

Hargreaves Lansdown PLC
20 March 2008




Notification of interests



Hargreaves Lansdown Plc



The Hargreaves Lansdown Employee Benefit Trust ('EBT') has made the following
purchase of ordinary shares on the London market:
           
  Date                           Quantity                         Price
19th March 2008                   200,000                         £1.77




The shares held in the EBT are intended to be used to satisfy future awards made
under the Company's Employee Share Schemes.

The EBT is a discretionary trust for the benefit of employees of Hargreaves
Lansdown Plc and its subsidiaries.  The Executive Directors of Hargreaves
Lansdown Plc are included as potential beneficiaries under the EBT and are
deemed to be interested in those shares and the dealings thereof.  In addition,
the Executive Directors of Hargreaves Lansdown Plc are also directors of the
EBT.

Following this transaction, the EBT holds 13,818,359 shares on which dividends
are waived.




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