Director/PDMR Shareholding

QinetiQ Group plc
18 October 2006


QinetiQ Group plc
18 October 2006

DIRECTOR/PDMR SHAREHOLDING - Purchase of ordinary shares in QinetiQ
Group plc ('Shares' and the 'Company' respectively) by Directors of the Company
under its Share Incentive Plan ('SIP').

The SIP trustee, Hill Samuel ESOP Trustees Limited (the 'Trustee'), notified the
Company on 17 October 2006 that the following Directors and other Persons
Discharging Managerial Responsibility for the Company acquired Shares under the
SIP on 10 October 2006 held through the Trustee:

                       Number of      Aggregate number of Shares held
                       Shares         beneficially following acquisition (across
                       acquired *     all accounts)
Directors
Doug Webb                 93                 618,690
Persons Discharging
Managerial
Responsibility
Lynton
Boardman                  74                 857,340
Andrew Sleigh             93               2,787,591

* The Number of Shares acquired includes 70 Partnership Shares (except for
Lynton Boardman which includes 56 Partnership Shares) acquired at 177.25 pence
and 23 Matching Shares (except for Lynton Boardman which includes 18 Matching
Shares) awarded at 177.25 pence. Both partnership and matching elements are
registered in the name of the Trustee.

The SIP operates as follows.
Each month the Trustee uses participants' contributions (which may not exceed
£125 per participant per month) to purchase shares in the market. These shares
are called 'Partnership Shares'.

At the same time the Company allots to participants via the Trustee or instructs
the Trustee to purchase in the market one 'Matching Share' for every three
Partnership Shares purchased that month.

18 October 2006

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