Transaction in Own Shares

OCTOPUS PROTECTED VCT PLC (the 'Company')



19 June 2009



PURCHASE OF OWN SECURITIES



Octopus Protected VCT plc announces that on 19 June 2009 the Company
purchased for cancellation 16,216 shares of 10p each at a price of
81.0p per share.



The issued share capital and total voting rights of the Company is
now 27,256,003.



For further information please contact:



Celia Whitten, Company Secretary

Octopus Investments Limited

020 7710 2849

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