Director Shareholding

RNS Number:3902U
Xansa PLC
19 January 2004

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 19 January
2004 for the purposes of Section 329 of the Companies Act 1985 that at 16
January 2004 Xansa Trustee Company Limited, trustee of the Inland Revenue
approved Xansa All Employee Share Ownership Plan ('AESOP') had sold 53,941
Ordinary Shares at 86.5 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 14,202,044 Ordinary Shares.



19 January 2004




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