Total Voting Rights - Tate & Lyle plc

Tate & Lyle PLC
                  2 January 2008 - Tate & Lyle PLC

Voting Rights and Capital

In conformity with Paragraph 5.6.1R of the FSA's Disclosure and Transparency
Rules, Tate & Lyle PLC (the 'Company') would like to notify the market of the
following:

The Company's issued capital as at 31 December 2007 consisted of 470,425,247
ordinary shares of which 3,214,112 were held in Treasury.

Therefore, the total number of voting rights in the Company as at 31 December
2007 was 467,211,135 and this figure 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, Tate &
Lyle PLC under the FSA's Disclosure and Transparency Rules.

Robert Gibber
Company Secretary