Director Shareholding

National Grid Transco PLC
04 February 2004



4 February 2004

National Grid Transco plc (NGT)

Directors' Share Purchase

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Sir John Parker, Chairman of NGT, today purchased a further 10,000 NGT shares at
399.48p per share.

This takes his total holding to 40,229 NGT shares.


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