Transaction in Own Shares

Centrica PLC
13 January 2005


Centrica plc


Repurchase of shares


Centrica plc announces that on 13 January 2005 it purchased for cancellation
3,000,000 of its ordinary shares at a price of 233.4941p per share from Morgan
Stanley & Co. International Limited.


Enquiries

Kath Kyle             Centrica plc                                 01753 494902

Jon Bathard-Smith     Morgan Stanley & Co. International Limited   020 7425 8000


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