Voting Rights and Capital

Scottish Mortgage Inv Tst PLC
07 February 2007

                     Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust PLC

                           Voting Rights and Capital

In conformity with the transparency Directive's transitional provision 6 we
would like to notify the market of the following:

Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust PLC's capital consists of 284,346,176
ordinary shares with voting rights. Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust PLC holds
1,660,000 ordinary shares in Treasury.  Therefore, the total number of voting
rights in Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust PLC is 282,686,176.

The above figure (282,686,176) may be used by shareholders as the denominator
for the calculations by which they will determine if they are required to notify
their interest in, or a change to their interest in, Scottish Mortgage
Investment Trust PLC under the FSA's Disclosure and Transparency Rules.



                                                            Baillie Gifford & Co
                                                             Company Secretaries
                                                                 7 February 2007




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