Transaction in Own Shares

Tate & Lyle PLC
                  

Tate & Lyle PLC ('the Company') announces that on 27 May 2008 it transferred
130,000 ordinary shares in the Company for the purpose of satisfying exercises
under the 2000 Executive Share Option Scheme. These shares were previously held
in Treasury.

The transfer price per share was 325p.

Following the above transfer, the Company holds 1,761,017 ordinary shares in
treasury and has 458,170,855 ordinary shares in issue (excluding treasury
shares).

Robert Gibber
Company Secretary

27 May 2008