Notification of Shares

Gooch & Housego PLC
24 March 2006


For Immediate Release                                              24 March 2006



                             Gooch and Housego PLC


Gooch & Housego PLC hereby confirm that they have been notified yesterday that
Active Capital Trust did, on 23rd March 2006, reduced its shareholding to,
1,340,083 Ordinary Shares of 20p each, representing 7.45% of the total issued
share capital of Gooch & Housego PLC.


For further information please contact;

Ian Bayer at Gooch & Housego PLC;

Telephone: [phone]


Nicola Cronk/Frances Adigwe at Buchanan Communications

Telephone: [phone]



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