Director Shareholding

Parity Group PLC
06 November 2003





6 November 2003





                                Parity Group plc
        Notification of interests of Directors following Rights Issue



The Board of Parity Group plc ('the Company') announces that, following the
rights issue, all of the Directors of the Company have taken up their
entitlement to purchase ordinary shares at a price of 7.5 pence each.
Additionally, Ian Miller, Chief Executive, and Alison Leyshon, Finance Director
have respectively purchased 364,137 and 125,897 ordinary shares at a purchase
price of 11.0 pence per share.


Following this share transaction and the take up of their rights, the Directors' 
shareholdings are as follows:

Director                       shareholding pre         % ISC         Shareholding as at 6         % of issued
                                   rights issue         pre
                                                       rights             November 2003           share capital
                                                          
Bill (William) Cockburn                80,000         0.052                   150,000               0.052
                                                                                   
Ian Miller                            150,000         0.097                   645,387               0.224
                                                                                   
Alison Leyshon                         17,000         0.011                   157,772               0.055
                                                                                   
John Maxwell                          100,000         0.065                   187,500               0.065
                                                                                  
Billy (Francis) Carbutt                42,855         0.028                    80,353               0.028
                                                                                    
Alastair MacDonald                     43,000         0.028                    80,625               0.028
                                                                                    
                                      432,855         0.281                 1,301,637               0.451
                                                                                                        

The issued share capital of the Company as at 6 November 2003 is 288,691,692 ordinary shares of 5 pence each.




For further information contact:


Parity Group plc                Ian Miller, Chief Executive                        020 7776 0800
                                Ellie Conner, Deputy Company Secretary

Financial Dynamics              Giles Sanderson                                    020 7831 3113
                                Harriet Keen





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