AGM Statement

Carillion PLC
07 May 2008


                                 CARILLION PLC
                      AGM AND INTERIM MANAGEMENT STATEMENT

Commenting on trading in the period 1 January to 6 May 2008 at Carillion plc's
Annual General Meeting today, Chairman, Philip Rogerson said:

'Carillion has continued to build on its strong performance in 2007. Overall
trading conditions across our principal markets remain positive and the intake
of new orders continues to be healthy. The Group has maintained its strong
financial position with cash flow and net debt in line with our expectations.

The integration of Carillion and Alfred McAlpine, which we acquired in February
2008, is progressing well. We remain confident of delivering integration cost
savings at the previously announced run rate of £30 million a year by the end of
2009, and have already firmly identified over sixty per cent of these savings.

The acquisition of Alfred McAlpine, which created one of the UK's largest
support services businesses and strengthened our ability to provide customers
with fully integrated solutions, has also further enhanced the resilience and
growth prospects of our business.

The Board continues to expect the Group to make strong progress in 2008 and
deliver materially enhanced earnings in 2009, through focusing on

   • growing revenue in support services at margins of between four and five
    per cent
   • winning new Public Private Partnership projects in the UK and Canada
   • growing organically our construction businesses in the Middle East, in
    line with our objective of increasing revenue from these businesses from
    £337 million in 2007 to over £600 million over the next two years at margins
    of some six per cent, and
   • improving the combined margins of our construction activities in the UK,
    Canada, Caribbean and the Middle East towards three per cent over the next
    three years.'



For further information contact:
Richard Adam, Group Finance Director tel: [phone]
John Denning, Group Corporate Affairs Director tel: [phone]

7 May 2008

Notes to Editors:
Carillion is one of the UK's leading support services, Public Private
Partnership project and construction companies. The Group has annual revenue of
around £5 billion, employs some 50,000 people and operates across the UK, in the
Middle East, Canada and the Caribbean.

In the UK, Carillion's principal market sectors are Defence, Education, Health,
Facilities Management and Services, Rail, Roads, Building, Civil Engineering and
Utilities Services.

In the Middle East, Carillion's principal market sectors are Construction and
Facilities Management and Services.

In Canada and the Caribbean, the Group's main sectors are Health, Roads
Maintenance and Construction.

Carillion has a substantial portfolio of equity investments in Public Private
Partnership projects, particularly in the Defence, Education, Health and
Transport sectors.

This and other Carillion news releases can be found at www.carillionplc.com




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