Taylor Wimpey plc

Taylor Wimpey Employee Share Ownership Trusts

Share Transfers

Taylor Wimpey plc ("the Company") has been notified by the Trustees of the Company's various employee share trusts that following the transfer of shares to meet entitlements relating to the exercise of options over 1p ordinary shares of the Company ("Shares"), the current holding of the Company's employee share trusts is:

Taylor Wimpey Employee Benefit Trust                40,272,772 Shares  

Wilson Connolly Employee Benefit Trust                    17,154 Shares

These Shares will be used to meet the valid exercise or vesting of options or awards over Shares granted under the terms of the Company's various share plans.

Each of the Executive Directors of the Company is a potential beneficiary under both Trusts and therefore is regarded as having a notional interest in the current holdings of each Trust.

James Jordan

Group Legal Director & Company Secretary              

Taylor Wimpey plc

2 January 2013