Purchase of Own Securities

British Smaller Companies VCT PLC
25 July 2003



               British Smaller Companies VCT plc ('the Company')


The Company has today bought back for cancellation 2,000 ordinary shares of 10p
each in the Company at 41.5 pence each.


25 July 2003


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