Director/PDMR Shareholding

PayPoint PLC
16 March 2006


16 March 2006

Immediate Release


                          PayPoint plc ('the Company')


As a result of transactions on 16 March 2006 by the PayPoint plc Share Incentive
Plan (an Inland Revenue approved all employee share purchase plan), the
executive directors and persons discharging management responsibility of the
Company have the following interests as a result of their personal participation
in the Plan:-

                           Partnership Shares    Matching Shares awarded      Total number of
                        purchased on 16 March at  on 16 March at £6.25   Partnership, Matching and
                            £6.25 per share             per share         Dividend Shares held on
                                                                              16 March  2006
Dominic Taylor                     20                      20                      1484
Tim Watkin-Rees                    20                      20                      1484
George Earle                       20                      20                      1443
Susan Court                        20                      20                      1476
David Steed                        20                      20                      1468
Jonathan Moon                      20                      20                      1341
Lorraine Buhagiar                  16                      16                      1195
Barry Skillett                     20                      20                      1468
Mark Astbury                       20                      20                      1476
John Lee                           20                      20                       419
Mike Igoe                          20                      20                       419
Thomas Vogt-Skard                  20                      20                       334



In accordance with the rules of the Plan the persons named above have been
awarded the Matching Shares on the basis of one Matching Share for each
Partnership Share.

The beneficial ownership of the Matching Shares will pass to the persons listed
above in three years time subject to continued employment and the retention of
the underlying Partnership Shares.

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