Transaction in Own Shares

3i Group PLC
23 September 2005


                                  3i Group plc

                           Purchase of Own Securities

3i Group plc announces that on 22 September 2005 it purchased for cancellation
225,000 of its ordinary 53 1/8 pence shares at a price of 737.27778 pence per
share.


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