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Arden Partners plc

An acquisition or disposal of voting rights:

No

An acquisition or disposal of qualifying financial instruments which may result in the acquisition of shares already issued to which voting rights are attached:

No

An acquisition or disposal of instruments with similar economic effect to qualifying financial instruments:

No

An event changing the breakdown of voting rights:

Yes

Other (please specify):

No

Lloyds Banking Group plc

See Section 9

8 November 2010

10 November 2010

Direct / Indirect holdings increased to above 9%

Class/type of shares

Situation previous to the triggering transaction

Number of Shares

Number of Voting Rights

Ord 10p shares GB00B15CTY44

2,167,796

2,167,796

Resulting situation after the triggering transaction

Number of shares

Number of voting rights

% of voting rights

Direct

Direct

Indirect

Direct

Indirect

5

5

2,167,791

0.00%

9.04%

Resulting situation after the triggering transaction

Type of financial instrument

Expiration date

Exercise / conversion period

Number of voting rights that may be acquired if the instrument is exercised / converted

% of voting rights

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

Resulting situation after the triggering transaction

Type of financial instrument

Exercise price

Expiration date

Exercise / conversion period

Number of voting rights instrument refers to

% of voting rights

Nominal

Delta

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

Number of voting rights

% of voting rights

2,167,796

9.04%

1,844,007 shares (7.689%) are under the control of Scottish Widows Investment Partnership Ltd, a wholly owned subsidiary of a Scottish Widows Investment Partnership Group Ltd, a wholly owned subsidiary of Scottish Widows Group Ltd, a wholly owned subsidiary of Lloyds TSB Bank plc, a wholly owned subsidiary of Lloyds Banking Group plc (Indirect Interests).

N/A

N/A

N/A

Notification using the Total Voting Rights figure of 23,980,987

Matthew Wilson

0113 235 7729