Transaction in Own Shares

3i Group PLC
06 September 2005


                                  3i Group plc

                           Purchase of Own Securities

3i Group plc announces that on 5 September 2005 it purchased for cancellation
225,000 of its ordinary 53 1/8 pence shares at a price of 727.8889 pence per
share.

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