"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 21,636 ordinary shares of 10p each (the
"shares") when the Interserve Plc Qualifying Employee Share Trust (the "QUEST")
acquired the shares on 3 July 2003. The directors subsequently ceased to be
interested in the shares when they were transferred on 3 July 2003 to the
relevant option holders. As a result of this transaction, the directors' share
interests in the Company remain unchanged.

4 July 2003



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