Director/PDMR Shareholding

3i Group PLC
10 July 2006

UK Listing Authority Disclosure Rules



DR 3.1.4R



Pursuant to the rules of The 3i Group Performance Share Plan ('The Plan'), on 5
July 2006 the Remuneration Committee of 3i Group plc ('the Company') considered
the performance condition attached to awards under that Plan made in 2003 and
determined that the performance condition had been satisfied as to 61%.



As a result of the above, Plan participants who had received 2003 Plan awards
forfeited a total of 41,056 ordinary shares of 53 1/8p each in the Company
(including 16,473 shares forfeited by Mr M J Queen, an executive Director of 3i
Group plc) on 5 July 2006.  The forfeited shares reverted to the trustees of The
3i Group Employee Trust ('the Trust').



As potential beneficiaries of the Trust, all employees of 3i Group plc and its
subsidiaries (including Mr S P Ball, Mr M J Queen and Mr P E Yea who are
executive Directors of 3i Group plc) have an interest (within the meaning of
sections 324 to 328 of the Companies Act 1985) in all the ordinary shares of 
53 1/8p each in the Company held by the Trust.  As a result, with effect from
5 July 2006:



(i)                  Mr S P Ball and Mr P E Yea became interested in the 41,056
forfeited shares mentioned above; and

(ii)                Mr M J Queen became interested in 24,583 forfeited shares
(and, as a potential beneficiary of the Trust, retained an interest in the
16,473 shares which he had forfeited).



Mr Ball, Mr Queen and Mr Yea notified the Company of their above changes of
interest in shares on 10 July 2006.  The place of these transactions was the
London Stock Exchange.




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