Director/PDMR Shareholding

3i Group PLC
13 October 2005

UK Listing Authority Disclosure Rules

DR 3.1



As potential beneficiaries of The 3i Group Employee Trust (the 'Trust') all
employees of 3i Group plc (the 'Company') and its subsidiaries have an interest
in all the Ordinary Shares ('Shares') of 53 1/8p each in the Company held
by the Trust.    These employees include the directors of 3i Group plc
('Directors') and persons discharging management responsibility ('PDMRs') in
respect of 3i Group plc for the purposes of the Disclosure Rules as follows:

Director and PDMR of 3i Group plc     Philip Yea

                                      Simon Ball

                                      Michael Queen

PDMR of 3i Group plc                  Tony Brierley

                                      Denise Collis

                                      Jo Taylor

                                      Chris Rowlands

                                      Jonathan Russell

                                      Paul Waller

On 13 October 2005, each of the Directors and PDMRs notified the Company that on
13 October 2005 a participant exercised options under the Company's Management
Equity Investment Plan ('MEIP') to acquire from the Trust 107 Shares at £nil per
Share.  The place of this transaction was the London Stock Exchange.




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