Holding(s) in Company

Reed Elsevier PLC
15 April 2003

Letter to: RNS


                    Disclosure of Interest in Voting Shares

I am writing to inform you that we received on 14 April a notification dated 
10 April 2003, in accordance with Part VI of the Companies Act 1985 
(as amended), that Barclays PLC no longer has a notifiable interest in the 
Company's current issued share capital.


Letter from: REED ELSEVIER PLC
             

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