Directors' Notification of Dealing in Shares

Centrica PLC
4 August 2000

On 1st August 2000, Centrica plc allocated 127,468 ordinary shares of 5 5/9p
each to Centrica Quest Limited in its capacity as a Qualifying Employee Share
Ownership Trust (QUEST) for the Company's employee Sharesave Scheme.  The shares
were allotted on 1st August at 227.75p per share.

The executive directors of the Company, being beneficiaries under the Trust, as
with other employees, are deemed to have a potential interest in the shares.