Director Shareholding

Director Shareholding 

    LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 21, 2003--

Purchase of ordinary shares of 55/9 pence in Centrica 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 the 21 August 2003 that:

The following Directors of the Company acquired Shares under the SIP
on 19 August 2003 from the Shares acquired by the Trustee on that
date:

Director                                   Number                          Aggregate shares held
                                           of Shares                       Beneficially (across all accounts
                                           acquired*                       following acquisition)
Phil Bentley                               92                              110,851
Mark Clare                                 92                              365,381
Sir Roy Gardner                            92                              2,158,863


*      The `Number of Shares Acquired' includes 72 Partnership shares
       acquired at 175 pence and 20 matching shares acquired at
       178.166 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 one `Matching Share' for every two partnership shares
    purchased that month (up to a maximum of 20 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.

   Short Name: Centrica PLC
   Category Code: RDS
   Sequence Number: 00008763
   Time of Receipt (offset from UTC): 20030821T163104+0100