Grant of options

RNS Number:1539Q
Hansard Group PLC
25 September 2003

Embargoed Release: 09:00hrs 25th September 2003

                              Hansard Group plc
                                (the "Company")

                               Grant of Options

The Company announces that options over in aggregate 700,000 ordinary shares of
1p each in the Company ("Ordinary Shares") were granted to Anthony Caplin and
Sir Richard Needham, on 12 September 2003.

As a result of the grant of options, Anthony Caplin and Sir Richard Needham now
hold options over Ordinary Shares as follows:

                                         No. of options          Total no. of
                                          over Ordinary          options over
                                        Shares granted        Ordinary Shares
                                                                following the
                                                                        grant

Anthony Caplin                                500,000                 500,000
Sir Richard Needham                           200,000                 200,000
                        TOTAL                 700,000                 700,000

The options are exercisable at any time between 1 and 10 years of the date of
grant at 10.5p per Ordinary Share, being the mid-market price of the Company's
shares as at close of business on 24 September 2003.

The options have been granted under the Company's unapproved Share Option
Scheme.

For further information please contact:

Adam Reynolds, Chief Executive, Hansard Group Plc            0207 245 1100
Paul Foulger, Finance Director, Hansard Group Plc            0207 245 1100
Mark Percy, Seymour Pierce Limited                           020 7107 8000



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