Voting Rights and Capital

Provident Financial PLC
14 December 2006

Provident Financial plc - Voting Rights and Capital

This announcement is issued to comply with the Transparency Directive's
transitional provision six.

Provident Financial plc's capital consists of 256,075,061 ordinary shares of 10
4/11p each, with voting rights.  Provident Financial plc does not hold any
ordinary shares in Treasury.

Therefore, the total number of voting rights in Provident Financial plc is
256,075,061.

The above figure (256,075,061) may be used by shareholders as the denominator
for the calculations by which they will determine if they are required to notify
their interest in, or a change to their interest in, Provident Financial plc
under the FSA's Disclosure and Transparency Rules.



Rosamond J Marshall Smith
General Counsel and Company Secretary
Tel:  [phone] ext. 2356




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