Holding(s) in Company

Whitbread PLC
24 March 2003



LETTER TO:  WHITBREAD PLC

Companies Act 1985 ('The Act') - Part VI

I refer to our previous correspondence and now inform you that as 19 March 2003
Barclays PLC no longer has a notifiable interest in the capital of your Company.

According to our records your Company's Issued Share Capital is 295,885,061. 

From:  Geoff Smith (Manager, Secretarial Services (Barclays PLC)

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