Transaction in Own Shares

OCTOPUS PROTECTED VCT PLC (the 'Company')

30 July 2010

PURCHASE OF OWN SECURITIES

Octopus Protected VCT plc announces that on 29 July 2010 the Company purchased
for cancellation 24,215 shares of 10p each at a price of 79.0p per share.

The issued share capital and total voting rights of the Company is now
27,207,202.

For further information please contact:

Celia Whitten, Company Secretary
Octopus Investments Limited
020 7710 2849


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