Director/PDMR Shareholding

QinetiQ Group plc
15 August 2006


QinetiQ Group plc
15 August 2006


NOTIFICATION OF TRANSACTIONS OF DIRECTORS, PERSONS DISCHARGING MANAGERIAL
RESPONSIBILITY OR CONNECTED PERSONS

The notifications listed below were received under paragraph 3.1.2 of the
Disclosure Rules and section 324 of the Companies Act 1985.

QinetiQ Group plc (the 'Company' (previously known as QinetiQ Holdings Limited))
announces that it received notification on 14 August 2006 of the following
allocations of ordinary shares following the exercise of options pursuant to the
QinetiQ Holdings Share Option Scheme (the 'Share Option Scheme'), namely the
following director of the Company was allocated ordinary shares on 10 August
2006 pursuant to the exercise of options granted to him under the Share Option
Scheme:

Name of Director   No. of Ordinary Shares        Percentage of issued class 
                                                         acquired

Sir John Chisholm             1702                      0.0002585%

The exercise price per ordinary shares was 2.35 pence.

As a result of the above, interests of the director in the Company's ordinary
shares (excluding options and interests as potential beneficiaries of the
Company's employee benefit trusts) have increased as follows:

Name of Director               Total number of Ordinary    Total percentage of issued class  
                                 Shares held following        held following notification
                                     notification 

Sir John Chisholm                    12,991,000                        1.9731172%

The Share Option Scheme was established on 25 July 2003 on which date options
were granted to various employees of the Company, including the director
identified above. The options granted under the Share Option Scheme became
exercisable on 15 February 2006 when the Company listed on the London Stock
Exchange.

15 August 2006

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