Director Shareholding

National Grid Transco PLC
20 December 2002


20 December 2002

National Grid Transco plc (NGT)

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Directors' Interests

Sir John Parker, Chairman of NGT, today purchased a further 12,700 NGT shares at
432.5p per share.

This takes his total holding to 17,429 NGT shares.


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