Director/PDMR Shareholding

RNS Number : 8466Y

Taylor Wimpey PLC

04 January 2011

Taylor Wimpey plc

Taylor Wimpey Employee Share Ownership Trusts

Share Transfers

Taylor Wimpey plc ("the Company") has been notified by the Trustees of the Company's various employee share trusts that following the transfer of shares to meet entitlements under:

The exercise of options over 1p ordinary shares of the Company ("Shares");

The acquisition of Shares by employees and the one for one Matching of employees' purchases by the Company pursuant to the Company's Share Purchase Plan.

The current holding of the Company's employee share trusts is:

Taylor Wimpey Employee Benefit Trust 2,994,814 Shares

Wilson Connolly Employee Benefit Trust 57,281 Shares (Wilson Connolly is a wholly-owned
subsidiary of the Company, acquired in 2003)

These Shares will be used to meet the valid exercise or vesting of options or awards over Shares granted under the terms of the Company's various share plans.

Each of the executive directors of the Company is a potential beneficiary under both Trusts and therefore is regarded as having a notional interest in the current holdings of each Trust.

James Jordan

Group Company Secretary

Taylor Wimpey plc

4 January 2011