Holding(s) in Company

10 Jun 2011 13:54

TR-1: Notifications of Major Interests in Shares

1. Identity of the issuer or the underlying Hays plc issuer of existing shares to which voting rights

are attached:

2. Reason for notification (yes/no) An acquisition or disposal of voting rights Yes An acquisition or disposal of financial instruments which may result No in the acquisition of shares already issued to which voting rights

are attached

An acquisition or disposal of instruments with similar economic No effect to qualifying financial instruments An event changing the breakdown of voting rights No

Other (please specify): No

3. Full name of person(s) subject to notification obligation: RONALD EDWIN FROST

4. Full name of shareholder(s) (if different from 3): 5. Date of transaction (and date on which the threshold is crossed 9 June 2011or reached if different): 6. Date on which issuer notified: 9 June 2011 7. Threshold(s) that is/are Less than 5%, 4%, 3% crossed or reached:

[Following the disposal, voting rights which

were

previously held directly are held

indirectly, which has triggered this

notification, as described at section 9]8. Notified details: A: Voting rights attached to shares

Class/type Situation previous to Resulting situation after the triggering of shares the triggering transaction transaction If possible use ISIN Number of Number of Number Number of voting Percentage of code shares voting of rights voting rights rights shares Ordinary shares of Direct Direct Indirect Direct IndirectGBP 0.01 each GB0004161021 80,000,000 80,000,000 100 100

79,999,800 0.000007% 5.78%

B: Qualifying Financial Instruments Resulting situation after the triggering transaction

Type of Expiration Exercise/ No. of voting rights that may Percentage financial date conversion be acquired if the instrument of voting instrument period exercised/ rights converted N/A C: Financial Instruments with similar economic effect to Qualifying Financial Instruments

Resulting situation after the triggering transaction

Type of Exercise Expiration Exercise/ Number of voting

Percentage offinancial price date conversion rights instrument voting rightsinstrument period refers to Nominal Delta N/A Total (A+B+C) Number of voting rights Percentage of voting rights 79,999,900 5.78%

9. Chain of controlled undertakings through which the voting rights and /or the financial instruments are effectively held, if applicable:

Prior to the disposal, Ronald Edwin Frost ("Mr Frost") held 80,000,000 shares directly, in his own name.

Mr Frost has now given 100 shares to his wife, Beryl, and has settled 79,999,800 shares into trust, the trustee of which is Virtus Trust Limited ("Virtus"). Mr Frost has an interest in the 79,999,800 shares held in trust byVirtus, which equates to an indirect interest of 5.78% of the voting rights of the issuer (based upon 1,384,238,307 total voting rights in the issuer, as announced on 31 May 2011 via RNS). Following the disposal, Mr. Frost retains 100 shares in his own name, which equates to a direct interest of 0.000007%.

Proxy Voting: 10. Name of proxy holder: N/A

11. Number of voting rights proxy holder will cease to hold: N/A

12. Date on which proxy holder will cease to hold voting rights: N/A

13. Additional information: 14 Contact name: Christopher Groves Withers LLP 15. Contact telephone name: 020 7597 6127