Director Shareholding

RNS Number:9982S
Xansa PLC
08 December 2003


TO:     Regulatory News Service
        The London Stock Exchange


Re:  Chapter 16, Paragraph 13 of CONTINUING OBLIGATIONS


Xansa plc (the "Company") announces that it received notification on 8 December
2003 for the purposes of Section 329 of the Companies Act 1985 that at 5
December 2003 Xansa Trustee Company Limited, trustee of the Inland Revenue
approved Xansa All Employee Share Ownership Plan ('AESOP') had transferred
14,339 Ordinary Shares and had sold 5,617 Ordinary Shares at 89 pence each on
behalf of participants leaving the AESOP.


The AESOP Trust is a discretionary trust for the benefit of employees of the
Company and its subsidiaries, which operates in conjunction with the Company's
AESOP and holds Ordinary Shares purchased by employees under the Partnership and
Matching shares section of AESOP as well as holding Ordinary Shares required for
Matching.


Executive directors who are potential beneficiaries of the AESOP are;

            Mrs L K Barrat
            Mr A R Cox
            Mr P R Gill
            Mr S R Weston
            Mr A L Wood


The total holding of the AESOP Trust amounts to 13,949,145 Ordinary Shares.


8 December 2003


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