Reed Elsevier PLC

Notification of Major Interest in Shares

SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.

		Reed Elsevier PLC

Date: 11/10/2010	By:	/s/ L.Dixon
	Name:	L.Dixon
	Title:	Deputy Secretary

EXHIBIT INDEX

Exhibit No.		Description

99.1		Notification of Major Interest in Shares

EX-99.1 2 exhibit1.htm EX-99.1 Exhibit EX-99.1


TR-1: NOTIFICATION OF MAJOR INTEREST IN SHARES
1. Identity of the issuer or the underlying issuer
of existing shares to which voting rights are
attached:		Reed Elsevier Plc

2. Reason for the notification (please tick the appropriate box or boxes):

An acquisition or disposal of voting rights			Yes

An acquisition or disposal of qualifying financial instruments which may result in
the acquisition of shares already issued to which voting rights are attached.
An acquisition or disposal of instruments with similar economic effect to qualifying
financial instruments
An event changing the breakdown of voting rights

Other (please specify):
3. Full name of person(s) subject to the	Legal & General Group Plc (Group)
notification obligation:	Legal & General Investment Management Limited (LGIM)

4. Full name of shareholder(s)	Legal & General Assurance (Pensions Management) Limited (PMC)
(if different from 3.):	Legal & General Group Plc (L&G)

5. Date of the transaction and date on which the threshold is crossed or
reached:	05 November 2010

6. Date on which issuer notified:	08 November 2010

7. Threshold(s) that is/are crossed or	Group (Below 5%)
reached:	LGIM (Below 5%)

8. Notified details:

A: Voting rights attached to shares

Class/type of shares if possible using the ISIN CODE

Situation previous to the triggering transaction

Resulting situation after the triggering transaction

Number of Shares

Number of Voting Rights

Number of shares

Number of voting rights

% of voting rights

Direct

Indirect

Direct

Indirect

Ordinary
1451/116p

60,718,844
(As on 17/06/2010)

Below 5%

B: Qualifying Financial Instruments

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

C: Financial Instruments with similar economic effect to Qualifying Financial Instruments

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

Total (A+B+C)

Number of voting rights

Percentage of voting rights

Below 5%


9. Chain of controlled undertakings through which the voting rights and/or the
financial instruments are effectively held, if applicable:
Legal & General Group Plc (Direct and Indirect) (Group) (Below 5% = Total Position) Legal & General Investment Management (Holdings) Limited (LGIMH) (Direct and Indirect) (Below 5% = Total Position)Legal & General Investment Management Limited (Indirect) (LGIM) (Below 5% = Total Position)Legal & General Group Plc (Direct) (L&G) ( 52,351,154 –4.30% =LGAS, LGPL & PMC)Legal & General Investment Management (Holdings) Limited (Direct) (LGIMHD) ( 39,975,982 – 3.29%= PMC) Legal & General Insurance Holdings Limited (Direct) (LGIH) Legal & General Assurance (Pensions Management) Limited (PMC) ( 39,975,982 –3.29% = PMC) Legal & General Assurance Society Limited (LGAS & LGPL) Legal & General Pensions Limited (Direct) (LGPL)

Proxy Voting:

10. Name of the 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:	Notification using the total voting rights figure of 1,214,663,158

14. Contact name:	Margaret Woods (Reed Elsevier)

15. Contact telephone number:	020 7903 7077

Reed Elsevier PLC ———————————————————————————————————
(Translation of registrant’s name into English)

1-3 Strand London WC2N 5JR
——————————————————————————————————— (Address of principal executive office)

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Indicate by check mark whether the registrant by furnishing the information contained in this Form is also thereby furnishing the information to the Commission pursuant to Rule 12g3-2(b) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934: [ ] Yes [x] No