Transaction in Own Shares

3i Group PLC
25 January 2006

                                  3i Group plc

                           Purchase of Own Securities


3i Group plc announces that on 25 January 2006 it purchased for cancellation
300,000 of its ordinary 53 1/8 pence shares at a price of 865.3167 pence per
ordinary share.




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