Director/PDMR Shareholding

Centrica PLC
                  

18 November 2005

Directors' Shareholdings

Centrica plc (the 'Company') announces that Directors and other Persons
Discharging Managerial Responsibility acquired shares as follows through the
reinvestment of the Company's interim dividend paid on 16 November 2005:

(1) Phil Bentley acquired 4,259 ordinary shares on 16 November 2005 at a price
of 241.73 pence under the Centrica Dividend Reinvestment Plan; and

(2) Hill Samuel ESOP Trustees Limited (the 'Trustee'), as Trustee of the
Centrica Share Incentive Plan (the 'Plan'), purchased the following ordinary
shares in the Company at a price of 241.92 pence under the Plan's Dividend Share
scheme on 16 November 2005.

                                Number            Aggregate shares held
                                of shares         beneficially (across all accounts
                                                  following acquisition)
Directors
Phil Bentley                    36                342,645
Jake Ulrich                     35                693,727

Persons Discharging Managerial
 Responsibility
Grant Dawson                    36                325,984
Anne Minto                      28                43,096


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