Transaction in Own Shares

Mitchells & Butlers PLC
12 January 2006

                            Mitchells & Butlers plc



                           Purchase of Own Securities





Mitchells & Butlers plc announces that on 12 January 2006 it purchased for
cancellation 130,500 of its ordinary shares at a price of 404.3008 pence per
ordinary share.




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