Disclosure of Voting Rights

Home Retail Group Plc
20 April 2007


                             HOME RETAIL GROUP plc
                                ('the Company')

                          DISCLOSURE OF VOTING RIGHTS

The Company has received a notification from Aviva plc and its subsidiaries
('Aviva') advising that Aviva now holds, as a result of a transaction that took
place on 18 April 2007, 51,866,357 voting rights in the Company (representing
5.91% of the voting rights of the Company). The threshold that was crossed or
reached was a change from 4% to 5% at Direct Interest level.

The notification was issued pursuant to DTR 5.1.2 and was dated 19 April 2007.

Gordon Bentley
Secretary

20 April 2007






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