Director/PDMR Shareholding

Tate & Lyle PLC
                  

Tate & Lyle PLC - 10 November 2005

Director/PDMR Shareholding

Tate & Lyle PLC ('the Company') was informed on 10 November 2005 that on 10
November 2005 the following share transactions were completed by two Executive
Directors and by one Person Discharging Managerial Responsibility ('PDMR').

i) Mr Simon Gifford, an Executive Director of the Company, exercised options
over ordinary shares in the Company under the Tate & Lyle 1992 Executive Share
Option Scheme as follows:

--  options over 13,500 ordinary shares at 463 pence per share; and

--  options over 20,000 ordinary shares at 473 pence per share.

He subsequently sold 33,500 ordinary shares at 493 pence per share. Mr Gifford
now has an interest in 76,782 shares in the Company.

ii) Mr Stanley Musesengwa, an Executive Director of the Company, exercised
options under the Tate & Lyle 1992 Executive Share Option Scheme at 463 pence
per share over 15,000 ordinary shares in the Company. He subsequently sold
14,538 ordinary shares at 493 pence per share to pay the acquisition costs, tax
and National Insurance, and retained 462 ordinary shares. Following this
transaction, Mr Musesengwa now has an interest in 61,241 shares in the Company.

iii) Mr Robert Gibber, the Company Secretary and General Counsel and a PDMR in
the Company, exercised an option under the Tate & Lyle 1992 Executive Share
Option Scheme at 463 pence per share over 7,500 ordinary shares in the Company.
He subsequently sold 7,274 ordinary shares at 493 pence per share to pay the
acquisition costs, tax and National Insurance, and retained 226 ordinary shares.
Following this transaction, Mr Gibber now has an interest in 21,502 shares in
the Company.

The notification of these transactions is intended to satisfy the Company's
obligations under both section 324 Companies Act 1985 and Disclosure Rule 3.1.2.