"QUEST" NOTIFICATION

Interserve Plc (the "Company") announces that the following directors - Messrs
M C Bottjer, C J Groom, S B Hagerty, A R Hannah, M S Lee, A M Ringrose and J H
Vyse - were deemed to be interested in 16,621 ordinary shares of 10p each (the
"shares") when the Interserve Plc Qualifying Employee Share Trust (the "QUEST")
acquired the shares on 17 March 2003. The directors subsequently ceased to be
interested in the shares when they were transferred on 17 March 2003 to the
relevant option holders. As a result of this transaction, the directors' share
interests in the Company remain unchanged.

17 March 2003



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