Holding(s) in Company

Smiths Group PLC
22 May 2002


22 May 2002

Schedule 10 - Notification of Major Interests in Shares

1 Name of company: Smiths Group plc

2 Name of shareholder having a major interest: Scottish Widows Investment
Partnership Limited

3 Please state whether notification indicates that it is in respect of holding
of the shareholder named in 2 above or in respect of a non-beneficial interest
or in the case of an individual holder if it is a holding of that person's
spouse or children under the age of 18:

Notification of material interests of Scottish Widows Investment Partnership
Limited. Lloyds TSB Group plc, Lloyds TSB Bank plc and Scottish Widows Group
Limited are also deemed to be interested in these shares as they and Scottish
Widows Investment Partnership Limited are all companies within the Lloyds TSB
Group of Companies.

4 Name of registered holder(s) and, if more than one holder, the number of
shares held by each of them:
Shareholder                                                                       Shares
State Street Nominees Limited A/c XBY2                                         1,215,747
State Street Nominees Limited A/c XBY3                                           146,600
State Street Nominees Limited A/c W32L                                           573,024
State Street Nominees Limited A/c W3L2                                            40,200
State Street Nominees Limited A/c W33H                                         1,457,535
State Street Nominees Limited A/c CBJ2                                         1,744,323
State Street Nominees Limited A/c XBK2                                           234,000
State Street Nominees Limited A/c XBJ3                                            87,787
State Street Nominees Limited A/c W3J3                                         1,172,355
State Street Nominees Limited A/c W3I8                                            59,546
State Street Nominees Limited A/c XBP7                                           191,736
State Street Nominees Limited A/c XBY4                                           618,191
State Street Nominees Limited A/c W39Q                                            57,303
State Street Nominees Limited A/c XBY5                                            34,050
State Street Nominees Limited A/c W32Z                                            32,576
State Street Nominees Limited A/c W39N                                           602,221
State Street Nominees Limited A/c W36U                                           634,418
State Street Nominees Limited A/c XBK6                                           989,629
State Street Nominees Limited A/c XBS8                                             8,080
State Street Nominees Limited A/c W39F                                         6,857,417
State Street Nominees Limited A/c W39J                                            48,400
State Street Nominees Limited A/c W39L                                            16,000



5 Number of shares/amount of stock acquired: Not disclosed

6 Percentage of issued class: N/A

7 Number of shares/amount of stock disposed: Not disclosed

8 Percentage of issued class: N/A

9 Class of security: Ordinary shares of 25p

10 Date of transaction: Not disclosed

11 Date company informed: 22 May 2002 (re interests as at 20 May 2002)

12 Total holding following this notification: 25,124,501 shares of which
material interests are held in 16,821,138 shares

13 Total percentage holding of issued class following this notification: 3.017%
(material interests)

14 Contact name for queries: Neil Burdett

15 Contact telephone number: 020 8457 8229

16 Name of company official responsible for making notification: Neil Burdett

17 Date of notification: 22 May 2002



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