Purchase of Own Shares

British Smaller Companies VCT PLC
28 June 2005
                                                             

British Smaller Companies VCT plc ('the Company')

Purchase of Own Securities

The Company announces that, on 23 June 2005, it purchased for cancellation
100,000 Ordinary Shares of 10 pence each at a price of 76.5 pence per share.


28 June 2005





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