Director/PDMR Shareholding

Marks & Spencer Group PLC
31 January 2006

Issued: 31 January 2006


        MARKS AND SPENCER GROUP PLC ('MARKS & SPENCER' OR THE 'COMPANY')
     NOTIFICATION OF TRANSACTIONS OF DIRECTORS/PERSONS DISCHARGING MANAGERIAL 
                RESPONSIBILITY ('PDMRS') AND CONNECTED PERSONS

Dividend Reinvestment Plan

The Company was informed on 30 January 2006 that on 27 January 2006 the
following PDMRs and their Connected Persons acquired Marks and Spencer Group plc
Ordinary shares of 25p each, purchased in London at a price of 488.9 pence each,
under the Company's Dividend Reinvestment Plan in respect of the dividend paid
on 13 January 2006:


Name of PDMR                                                                       No. of Shares Acquired
Guy Farrant                                                                                           104
Steve Rowe                                                                                             80
Steven Sharp (Director)                                                                               248
Lesley Sharp (wife of Steven Sharp)                                                                     3
Anthony Thompson                                                                                        3
Sally Thompson (wife of Anthony Thompson)                                                               9


PEPs - The Company was informed on 30 January 2006 that on 27 January 2006, the
following PDMRs and their Connected Persons acquired Marks and Spencer Group plc
Ordinary shares of 25p each, purchased in London at a price of 483.5 pence each,
as a reinvestment of dividend in a PEP registered under the name of Marks &
Spencer Savings and Investments Limited:


Name of PDMR                                                                       No. of Shares Acquired
Graham Oakley                                                                                           9
Richard Wolff                                                                                          18


Total Holdings following Dividend Reinvestment

Following the above notifications, excluding any conditional allocation of
shares granted under the Performance Share Plan, the PDMRs' holdings, including
those of their Connected Persons, are confirmed as follows:

Name of PDMR                                       Total Holding of Ordinary   Total  Percentage Holding
                                                                      Shares
Guy Farrant                                                           24,028                  De minimis
Graham Oakley                                                         66,695                  De minimis
Steve Rowe                                                              8420                  De minimis
Steven Sharp (Director)                                               27,816                  De minimis
Anthony Thompson                                                       1,293                  De minimis
Richard Wolff                                                         51,127                  De minimis


The above information has been disclosed under DR 3.1.4R(1) and, where
applicable, in accordance with section 324 (as extended by section 328) of the
Companies Act 1985.



For further information, please contact:

Anthony Clarke
020 8718 9940


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