Holding(s) in Company

Balfour Beatty PLC
17 May 2002



Balfour Beatty plc ('the Company') received notice today that Royal &
SunAlliance Insurance Group plc have increased their notifiable interest in the
ordinary share capital of the Company and now hold 16,782,406 ordinary shares,
representing 4.05% of the issued ordinary share capital of the Company.


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