Director/PDMR Shareholding

Mitchells & Butlers PLC
05 December 2005


5 December 2005

                              DIRECTORS' INTERESTS

The following directors today exercised options over Mitchells & Butlers plc
shares, disposing of sufficient shares to meet costs, tax and NI as shown below:


Director   Share         Option price    Options      Shares sold  Selling price  Shares retained     Balance of
           plan                        exercised                                                    shares under
                                          shares                                                          option
                                          
Tim        Performance      £1.00 per    85,908            35,311       £3.922463          50,597
Clarke     Restricted        option
           Share
           Plan

           Executive      £2.9171 per   181,212           154,195       £3.922463          27,017
           Share              share
           Option
           Plan
                                                                                                       2,086,061
   

Karim      Performance      £1.00 per    60,135            24,718       £3.922463          35,417
Naffah     Restricted        option               
           Share
           Plan

           Executive      £2.9171 per     7,237   )        
           Share              share               )
           Option                                 )
           Plan                                   )
                                                  )        88,955       £3.922463          31,017
                                                  )                                                  
           Executive      £2.1447 per   112,735   )
           Share              share               )
           Option                                 )
           Plan                                   )
                                                                                                      1,359,741
  
Share balances

Following the above transactions, these directors hold the following Mitchells &
Butlers share:

Tim Clarke                                                             505,592
Karim Naffah                                                           210,814

Following these transactions the Mitchells & Butlers Employee Benefit Trust is
interested in 651,903 Mitchells & Butlers plc shares. The executive directors of
the Company, Mike Bramley, Tim Clarke, Tony Hughes and Karim Naffah are
technically deemed to be interested in these shares as potential beneficiaries
under the Trust.

Victoria M Penrice
Head of Secretariat

0121 498 6514




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