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Allen PLC 5 January 2001 LETTER TO ALLEN PLC Companies Act 1985 (as amended): Disclosure of Interests in Shares In accordance with Part VI of the Companies Act 1985 (as amended) (the 'Act'), we write to inform you that Prudential Plc and certain of its subsidiary companies have a notifiable interest in the issued share capital of your company as detailed in the schedule below. For the purposes of S210 of the Act, the address for those companies identified in the schedule is Laurence Pountney Hill London EC4R 0HH Notifiable Position Report for ALLEN ORD GBP0.05 as at 03 January 2001 Percentage holdings are calculated using an issued share capital of 41,535,835 ORD GBP0.05 shares Registered Holder Holding % Prudential Plc 4,374,315 10.53 Total Notifiable Interest CLYDESDALE BK NOMS LTD MGG 2,663,053 CLYDESDALE BK NOMS LTD RIT 550,000 PRUCLT HSBC GIS NOM(UK) PAC AC 1,161,262 M&G Group Limited 4,374,315 10.53 Total Notifiable Interest CLYDESDALE BK NOMS LTD MGG 2,663,053 CLYDESDALE BK NOMS LTD RIT 550,000 PRUCLT HSBC GIS NOM(UK) PAC AC 1,161,262 M&G Investment Management Limited 4,374,315 10.53 Total Notifiable Interest CLYDESDALE BK NOMS LTD MGG 2,663,053 CLYDESDALE BK NOMS LTD RIT 550,000 PRUCLT HSBC GIS NOM(UK) PAC AC 1,161,262 M&G Limited 4,374,315 10.53 Total Notifiable Interest CLYDESDALE BK NOMS LTD MGG 2,663,053 CLYDESDALE BK NOMS LTD RIT 550,000 PRUCLT HSBC GIS NOM(UK) PAC AC 1,161,262 FROM M&G INVESTMENT

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