Total Voting Rights and Director/PDMR Shareholding
Centrica plc
4 February 2014
Centrica plc (‘the Company’)
Total Voting Rights and Director/PDMR Shareholding
Total Voting Rights
In conformity with the Disclosure and Transparency Rules (‘the Rules’), we notify the market of the following:
As at 31 January 2014, the issued capital of Centrica plc (the ‘Company’) comprised 5,080,996,512 Ordinary Shares, of 614/81 pence (‘Shares’). This figure excludes 118,933,180 Shares held in treasury. All of the issued Shares carry voting rights of one vote per share.
The figure of 5,080,996,512 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 Rules.
Director/PDMR Shareholding
Purchase of Shares by Directors of the Company and Persons Discharging Managerial Responsibility (‘PDMRs’) under its Share Incentive Plan (‘SIP’).
The SIP trustee, Equiniti Share Plan Trustees Limited (the ‘Trustee’), notified the Company on
4 February 2014 that:
(1) The following Directors and other PDMRs for the Company acquired Shares under the SIP on 3 February 2014 held through the Trustee:
 | Number |  | Aggregate Shares held | ||
of Shares | Beneficially (across all accounts | ||||
Directors | Acquired (a) | following acquisition) (b) | |||
Mark Hanafin | 60 | 360,428 | |||
Sam Laidlaw | 60 | 2,300,498 | |||
Nick Luff | 60 | 451,658 | |||
Chris Weston | 60 | 527,993 | |||
 | |||||
Persons Discharging Managerial Responsibility | |||||
Grant Dawson | 60 | 533,318 | |||
Jill Shedden | 60 | 177,424 |
(a) The ‘Number of Shares Acquired’ for each of the above Directors includes 40 Partnership shares acquired at 314.70 pence per share and 20 Matching shares acquired at 313.30 pence per share. Both the Partnership and Matching elements are registered in the name of the Trustee.
(b) Excluding vested but unexercised nil cost options.
(2) The Trustee had transferred 20,000 shares from Equiniti Corporate Nominees Limited AESOP1 (Allocated shares) to Equiniti Corporate Nominees Limited AESOP2 (Unallocated shares). The transfer was made following the forfeiture of shares, under the rules of the SIP, by participants who have left the group since the last purchase and the shares had been used towards the current month’s allocation of Matching shares.
Nicola Carroll
Head of Company Secretarial Services
Centrica plc
01753 494009
Notes:
The SIP is made available to all UK employees and operates as follows: