Director/PDMR Shareholding

QinetiQ Group plc
18 August 2006


QinetiQ Group plc
18 August 2006

NOTIFICATION OF TRANSACTIONS OF DIRECTORS, PERSONS DISCHARGING MANAGERIAL
RESPONSIBILITY OR CONNECTED PERSONS

The notifications listed below were received under paragraph 3.1.2 of the
Disclosure Rules.

QinetiQ Group plc (the 'Company' (previously known as QinetiQ Holdings Limited))
announces that it received notification on 18 August 2006 of the following
allocations of ordinary shares following the exercise of options pursuant to the
QinetiQ Holdings Share Option Scheme (the 'Share Option Scheme'), namely, the
following person discharging managerial responsibility ('PDMR') was allocated
ordinary shares on 17 August 2006 pursuant to the exercise of options granted to
him under the Share Option Scheme:

Name of PDMR    No. of Ordinary Shares    Percentage of issued class acquired

Andrew Sleigh                      1702                              0.0002584%

The exercise price per ordinary shares was 2.35 pence.

As a result of the above, interests of the PDMR in the Company's ordinary shares
(excluding options and interests as potential beneficiaries of the Company's
employee benefit trusts) have increased as follows:

Name of Director/PDMR     Total number of Ordinary    Total percentage of issued 
                            Shares held following        class held following 
                                notification                 notification

Andrew Sleigh                     2,787,018                   0.4232350%


The Share Option Scheme was established on 25 July 2003 on which date options
were granted to various employees of the Company, including the directors and
PDMRs identified above. The options granted under the Share Option Scheme became
exercisable on 15 February 2006 when the Company listed on the London Stock
Exchange.

18 August 2006

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