Purchase of Own Shares

Royal Bank of Scotland Group PLC
31 March 2006

                      THE ROYAL BANK OF SCOTLAND GROUP plc

                             PURCHASE OF OWN SHARES

The Royal Bank of Scotland Group plc announces that on 31 March 2006 it
purchased for cancellation 100,000 of its ordinary shares at a price of
1882.7245p per ordinary share.




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