RNS Number:6389U
Xansa PLC
26 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 26 January
2004 for the purposes of Section 329 of the Companies Act 1985 that at 23
January 2004 Xansa Trustee Company Limited, trustee of the Inland Revenue
approved Xansa All Employee Share Ownership Plan ('AESOP') had transferred
101,975 Ordinary Shares and had sold 244,909 Ordinary Shares at 90 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 13,855,160 Ordinary Shares.


26 January 2004


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