Director/PDMR Shareholding

PayPoint PLC
17 January 2006

17 January 2006


Immediate Release


                             PayPoint plc ('the Company')

As a result of transactions on 16 January 2006 by the PayPoint plc Share
Incentive Plan (an Inland Revenue approved all employee share purchase plan),
the executive directors and persons discharging management responsibility of the
Company have the following interests as a result of their personal participation
in the Plan:-


                    Partnership Shares   Matching Shares         Total number of
                          purchased on        awarded on   Partnership, Matching
                         16 January at     16 January at     and Dividend Shares
                       £5.00 per share   £5.00 per share      held on 16 January
                                                                            2006

Dominic Taylor                 25               25                   1,400

Tim Watkin-Rees                25               25                   1,400

George Earle                   25               25                   1,359

Susan Court                    25               25                   1,392

David Steed                    25               25                   1,384

Jonathan Moon                  25               25                   1,259

Lorraine Buhagiar              20               20                   1,129

Barry Skillett                 25               25                   1,384

Mark Astbury                   25               25                   1,392

John Lee                       25               25                     337

Mike Igoe                      25               25                     337
                                      
In accordance with the rules of the Plan the persons named above have been
awarded the Matching Shares on the basis of one Matching Share for each
Partnership Share.

The beneficial ownership of the Matching Shares will pass to the persons listed
above in three years time subject to continued employment and the retention of
the underlying Partnership Shares.


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