Director/PDMR Shareholding

NOTIFICATION OF TRANSACTIONS OF DIRECTORS’ DEALINGS

Oxford Instruments plc (the “Company”) announces that the following director’s dealings took place:

On 23 June 2015, the following connected person acquired ordinary shares of 5p each in the Company upon the exercise of options granted under the Oxford Instruments 2011 Executive Share Option Scheme “ESOS”. To meet the tax liability, a number of shares were then sold in the market at a price of £10.31 as follows:-

	ESOS and SELTIS Options exercised and shares sold
	No. of options exercised	Base option price	No. of shares acquired	Shares sold	Shares retained
Option exercised by Claire Flint**, wife of Jonathan Flint, Chief Executive	19,000	£9.90	*1,154	498	656

*  Options were exercised as share appreciation rights: shares acquired equal to “net gain”

**Claire Flint is an employee of the Company and a Connected Person to Jonathan Flint by way of marriage.

Following this transaction, Jonathan and Claire Flint have increased their shareholding and now hold the following number of ordinary shares of 5p in the Company:-

	Jonathan Flint Chief Executive	Claire Flint**
Interest in shares before notification	201,361	4,879
Total interest in shares following this notification	-	5,535
% of issued share capital	0.35%	0.01%

This notice is given in fulfilment of the obligations under DTR 3.1.4R(1)

23 June 2015
Susan Johnson-Brett
Company Secretary
Oxford Instruments plc

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