Hargreaves Lansdown Regulatory News (HL.)

Hargreaves Lansdown plc

("Hargreaves Lansdown plc" or "the Company")

DIRECTOR / PDMR Shareholding

2nd December 2010

Notification of Transaction of Directors, Persons Discharging Managerial Responsibility ("PDMR") or Connected Persons

Hargreaves Lansdown plc (the "Company") has received notification today from Alex Davies, a PDMR, that on 2nd December 2010, he sold a total of 100,000 ordinary shares of 0.4 pence in the Company ("ordinary shares") at a price of 493p per share. The number of ordinary shares sold represented 0.02% of the ordinary shares in issue.

Following this transaction, the beneficial shareholding of Alex Davies is 1,115,829 ordinary shares representing 0.24% of the ordinary shares in issue.

Hargreaves Lansdown (Nominees) Limited is the registered shareholder as nominee for the above PDMR.

This announcement is made under the UKLA's Disclosure and Transparency Rule 3.1.2R.

Enquiries:

Hargreaves Lansdown

Ben Yearsley

0117 988 9880