Holding in Company

Slough Estates PLC
10 December 2001


By letter received today the Company has been notified by Barclays PLC,
through its subsidiary Barclays Bank PLC, that Barclays have a notifiable
interest of 12,504,814 ordinary shares of 25 pence each in the Company,
representing a current interest of 3.01% in the issued share capital of the
Company.

The aggregate holding of 3.01% is as follows:

Barclays Capital Nominees Limited  - 62,153
Dematerialised - 27,000
Chase Nominees Limited a/c 16331 - 122,963
Chase Nominees Limited a/c 16338 - 24,184
Chase Nominees Limited a/c 16341 - 496,362
Chase Nominees Limited a/c 16342 - 27,782
Chase Nominees Limited a/c 16344 - 46,003
Chase Nominees Limited a/c 16345 - 74,705
Chase Nominees Limited a/c 16376 - 96,664
Chase Nominees Limited a/c 16400 - 3,886,504
Chase Nominees Limited a/c 16530 - 946,678
Chase Nominees Limited a/c 18409 - 215,545
Chase Nominees Limited a/c 20947 - 2,145,090
DEM 69 - 85,730
Barclays Bank Trust Co. Ltd & third party nominee - 2,021
Barclays Bank Trust Co. Ltd as executor - 2,779
Barclays Bank Trust Co. Ltd - IMA - 677
Chase Manhattan Bank London - 2,886,542
Twenty Nine Gracechurch Street Nominees Limited a/c 5782A - 1,050,811
HSBC Global Custody Nominees UK - 1,208
Unknown 233,428
Unknown - 6,189
Unknown - 13,868
Unknown - 1,500
Unknown - 5,242
Unknown - 7,429
Unknown - 807
Barclays Bank Trust Co. Ltd and another - 34,950
Total: 12,504,814