Director/PDMR Shareholding

Director/PDMR Shareholding

Centrica PLC

Purchase of ordinary shares of 6^14/81 pence in Centrica plc (‘Shares’ and the ‘Company’, respectively) by Directors of the Company and Persons Discharging Managerial Responsibility (‘PDMRs’) under its Share Incentive Plan (‘SIP’).

The SIP trustee, Equiniti Share Plan Trustees Limited (the ‘Trustee’), notified the Company on

4^th January 2012 that:

(1) The following Directors and other Persons Discharging Managerial Responsibility for the Company acquired Shares under the SIP on 3^rd January 2012 held through the Trustee:

	Â	Number	Â	Aggregate Shares held
		of Shares		Beneficially (across all accounts
Directors		Acquired*		following acquisition)
Phil Bentley		64		1,995,935
Mark Hanafin		63		489,004
Sam Laidlaw		64		2,250,049
Nick Luff		63		639,854
Chris Weston		63		474,168
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Persons Discharging Managerial Responsibility
Grant Dawson		64		541,193
Jill Shedden		64		113,115

* The ‘Number of Shares Acquired’ includes 43 Partnership shares acquired at 293.59 pence per share (42 Partnership shares for Mark Hanafin, Nick Luff and Chris Weston with lower residual balances) and 21 Matching shares acquired at 288.93 pence per share. Both the Partnership and Matching elements are registered in the name of the Trustee.

(2) The Trustee had transferred 20,000 Shares from Equiniti Corporate Nominees Limited AESOP1 (Allocated shares) to Equiniti Corporate Nominees Limited AESOP2 (Unallocated shares). The transfer was made following the forfeiture of shares, under the rules of the SIP, by participants who have left the group since the last purchase and the shares had been used towards the current month’s allocation of Matching shares.

Stephanie Hallett
Centrica plc
01753 494442

Notes:

The SIP is made available to all UK employees and 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 one ‘Matching Share’ for every two partnership shares purchased that month (up to a maximum of 22 matching shares per month).
• Participants may change their monthly savings rate whenever they wish. However, Directors and others bound by the Company’s Securities Dealing Code (the “Code”) may not make such a change during a close period or when otherwise prohibited from dealing by the Code.