Director/PDMR Shareholding

PayPoint PLC
21 July 2005

21 July 2005


Immediate Release

                          PayPoint plc ('the Company')

As a result of transactions on 21 July 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  Dividend Shares     Total number of
         Shares purchased    awarded on 21  purchased on 21        Partnership,
          on 21 July 2005     July 2005 at     July 2005 at        Matching and
             at £2.65 per        £2.65 per        £2.65 per     Dividend Shares
                    share            share            share     held on 21 July
                                                                           2005

Dominic Taylor         47              47               46                  950

Tim Watkin-Rees        47              47               46                  950

George Earle           47              47               15                  919

Susan Court            47              47               40                  944

David Steed            47              47               34                  938

Jonathan Moon          41              41               44                  838

Lorraine Buhagiar      37              37               43                  765
                        
Barry Skillett         47              47               34                  938

Mark Astbury           47              47               40                  944

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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