Transaction in Own Shares

Mitchells & Butlers PLC
26 June 2006

                            Mitchells & Butlers plc



                           Purchase of Own Securities





Mitchells & Butlers plc announces that on 23 June 2006 it purchased for
cancellation 393,478 of its ordinary shares at a price of 505 pence per ordinary
share.




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