Half-year Report

Standard Life UK Smaller Companies Trust plc

Half-Yearly Report to 31 December 2017

A copy of the above document has been submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available for inspection at: www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/NSM *

The document is also available for download from the Company's website, using the following link:

www.standardlifeuksmallercompaniestrust.co.uk/interimreport *

*Neither the NSM website nor the Company's website nor the content of any website accessible from hyperlinks on those websites (or any other website) is (or is deemed to be) incorporated into, or forms (or is deemed to form) part of this announcement.

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