Director/PDMR Shareholding

Carillion PLC
03 January 2006

                                 Carillion plc

                         Employee Share Ownership Trust

          Interests of Persons Discharging Managerial Responsibilities



Carillion plc (the Company) was notified today, Tuesday 3 January 2006, that the
Carillion plc Employee Share Ownership Trust (the Trust) on Tuesday 3 January
2006 transferred 1,524,806 Carillion plc ordinary shares of 50p each (0.71% of
the issued share capital) pursuant to the exercise of options under the
Carillion Sharesave Scheme: the option price was 126.6p.

The number of Carillion plc ordinary shares now held by the Trust is 2,192,152
(1.02% of the issued share capital).

The following PDMRs of the Company acquired shares as follows under this
exercise of options:

PDMR                               Carillion Shares Acquired          Total Interest Following

                                   (Ord shares of 50p each)           this Notification*

Paul Kirk                                        1,821                              24,379
MD Carillion Transport


Richard Tapp                                     1,821                              54,837
Company Secretary and Director of
Legal Services


*All less than 1% of the issued share capital.



Tim George
Deputy Company Secretary
Carillion plc
3 January 2006




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