Blocklisting Interim Review

City of London Investment Trust PLC
08 January 2008


                        BLOCK LISTING SIX MONTHLY RETURN


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To:   The FSA

Date: 8 JANUARY 2008


Name of applicant:                                         THE CITY OF LONDON INVESTMENT TRUST PLC

Name of scheme:                                            Henderson Personal Equity Plans

Period of return:                           From:          5 July 2007            To:        7 January 2008

Balance under scheme from previous return:                 2,067,415 ordinary shares of 25p each

The amount by which the block scheme has been increased,   Nil
if the scheme has been increased since the date of the
last return:

Number of securities issued/allotted under scheme during   Nil
period:

Balance under scheme not yet issued/allotted at end of     2,067,415 ordinary shares of 25p each
period

Number and class of securities originally listed and the   3,000,000 ordinary shares on 21 January 1998
date of admission

Total number of securities in issue at the end of the      207,574,868 ordinary shares of 25p each (this includes
period                                                     283,010 shares held in treasury)


Name of contact:                                           Deborah Trickett

Address of contact:                                        Henderson Global Investors, 4 Broadgate, London EC2M 2DA

Telephone number of contact:                               020 7818 6816


SIGNED BY   ______________________________________________

Deborah Trickett, for and on behalf of Henderson Secretarial Services Limited,

Company Secretary to

The City of London Investment Trust plc


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