Block admission return and Total Voting Rights

IQE plc
("IQE" or the "Company")


5 October 2011

The company is providing an update to its block admission filed on 5 April 2011.

Name of company:                         IQE plc



Name of scheme:                          All employee share option scheme (2002)



Period of return:                        From 5 April 2011 to 30 September 2011



Number of ordinary 1 pence shares in the 10,140,932
Company ("Ordinary Shares") not issued
under scheme at the end of the last
period:



Number of Ordinary Shares issued under   8,745,301
scheme during period:



Number of Ordinary Shares cancelled      Nil
under the scheme during period:



Balance of Ordinary Shares under scheme  1,395,631
not yet issued at end of period:



Number and class of Ordinary Shares      1,000,000 Ordinary Shares (04/12/2009)
originally admitted under scheme and the 2,000,000 Ordinary Shares (11/10/2010)
date of admission                        5,000,000 Ordinary Shares (08/11/2010)
                                         8,000,000 Ordinary Shares (05/04/2011)


In  accordance with DTR 5.6.1 of the  FSA's Disclosure and Transparency Rules we
would  like  to  notify  the  market  that  IQE  plc has issued 6,250 additional
Ordinary Shares with voting rights since 1 September 2011.

As  at 30 September 2011 the Company  had 525,052,350 ordinary shares of 1 pence
each  ("Ordinary Shares")  in issue.  All of  these Ordinary Shares carry voting
rights  of one vote per share. There are no Ordinary Shares held in treasury and
so the total number of voting rights in the Company is currently 525,052,350.

The  above  figures  may  be  used  by  shareholders  as the denominator for the
calculations  by which they will determine if  they are required to notify their
interest  in, or a change to their  interest in, the Company under the Financial
Service Authority's Disclosure and Transparency Rules.

Enquiries:

 IQE plc          Drew Nelson       T: [phone]
                  Phil Rasmussen
                  Chris Meadows



 Espirito Santo   James Bromhead    T: [phone]
                  Richard Crawley








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