Transaction in Own Shares

Hays PLC 16 December 2005 Hays plc ------------------------------ Purchase of own shares ------------------------------ Hays plc announces that it has purchased the following number of its ordinary shares of £0.01 each on the London Stock Exchange via UBS Investment Bank. Ordinary shares: Date of purchase: 16 December 2005 Number of ordinary shares purchased: 3,000,000 Highest price paid per share: 124.5p Lowest price paid per share: 123p Volume weighted average price per share: 123.8724p Hays intends to hold the purchased shares in treasury. Following the purchase of these shares, Hays holds 146,065,601 of its ordinary shares in treasury and has 1,503,030,965 ordinary shares in issue (excluding treasury shares). This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock Exchange

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