Blocklisting Interim Review

Name of scheme:

James Halstead Group Share Option Plan (1998)

Period of return:

1 July 2008 to 31 December 2008

Number and class of shares originally admitted and the date of admission:

500,000 ordinary shares of 10p each on 14 October 2003 

Number and class of shares not issued under scheme at the end of the last period (adjusted for conversion into ordinary shares of 5p each):

939,096 ordinary shares of 5p each

Number of shares issued / allotted under scheme during the period:

10,388 ordinary shares of 5p each

Balance under scheme not yet issued / allotted at end of the period:

928,708 ordinary shares of 5p each

Total number of shares in issue at the end of the period:

51,481,872 ordinary shares of 5p each