RNS Number:3495R
Xansa PLC
27 October 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 27 October
2003 for the purposes of Section 329 of the Companies Act 1985 that at 24
October 2003 Xansa Trustee Company Limited, trustee of the Inland Revenue
approved Xansa All Employee Share Ownership Plan ('AESOP') had sold 4,110
Ordinary Shares at 117.5 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 13,838,038 Ordinary Shares.

27 October 2003


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