Director/PDMR Shareholding

PayPoint PLC
16 December 2005

                          PayPoint plc ('the Company')

As a result of transactions on 15 December 2005 by the PayPoint plc Share
Incentive Plan (an Inland Revenue approved all employee share purchase plan),
the executive directors and persons discharging management responsibility of the
Company have the following interests as a result of their personal participation
in the Plan:-

                          Partnership    Matching Shares     Total number of
                     Shares purchased      awarded on 15         Partnership,
                       on 15 December        December at        Matching and
                         at £4.75 per          £4.75 per     Dividend Shares
                                share              share          held on 15
                                                               December 2005

Dominic Taylor                     26                 26                1332
Tim Watkin-Rees                    26                 26                1332
George Earle                       26                 26                1301
Susan Court                        26                 26                1326
David Steed                        26                 26                1320
Jonathan Moon                      26                 26                1192
Lorraine Buhagiar                  21                 21                1073
Barry Skillett                     26                 26                1320
Mark Astbury                       26                 26                1326
John Lee                           26                 26                 286
Mike Igoe                          26                 26                 286

In accordance with the rules of the Plan the persons named above have been
awarded the Matching Shares on the basis of one Matching Share for each
Partnership Share.

The beneficial ownership of the Matching Shares will pass to the persons listed
above in three years time subject to continued employment and the retention of
the underlying Partnership Shares.




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