Transaction in Own Shares

Mitchells & Butlers PLC
07 June 2006


                            Mitchells & Butlers plc

                           Purchase of Own Securities


Mitchells & Butlers plc announces that on 7 June 2006 it purchased for
cancellation 405,409 of its ordinary shares at a price of 490.138395 pence per
ordinary share.




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