Blocklisting Interim Review

Henderson High Income Trust PLC
08 January 2008

                        BLOCK LISTING SIX MONTHLY RETURN



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To:  The FSA



Date: 8 JANUARY 2008


Name of applicant:                                         HENDERSON HIGH INCOME TRUST PLC

Name of scheme:                                            Henderson Investment Trust Share Plan and Direct Dealing
                                                           Service

Period of return:                           From:          5 JULY 2007            To:        5 January 2008

Balance under scheme from previous return:                 1,482,712 ordinary shares of 5p 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     1,482,712 ordinary shares of 5p each
period

Number and class of securities originally listed and the   400,000 ordinary shares on 16 June 1993
date of admission
                                                           1,308,971 ordinary shares on 13 November 2001

                                                           1,353,637 ordinary shares on 7 June 2002

                                                           1,365,187 ordinary shares on 11 June 2002

                                                           1,388,888 ordinary shares on 12 June 2002

Total number of securities in issue at the end of the      85,835,744 ordinary shares of 5p each
period
                                                           (Including 400,000 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

Henderson High Income Trust plc







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