Holding(s) in Company

Balfour Beatty PLC
7 May 2002


Balfour Beatty plc ('the Company') received notice on 3 May 2002 that Royal &
SunAlliance Insurance Group plc have decreased their notifiable interest in the
ordinary share capital of the Company and now hold 16,560,583 ordinary shares,
representing 3.99% of the issued ordinary share capital of the Company.



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