Transaction in Own Shares

3i Group PLC
07 October 2005


                                  3i Group plc


                           Purchase of Own Securities



3i Group plc announces that on 6 October 2005 it purchased for cancellation
300,000 of its ordinary 53 1/8 pence shares at a price of 769 pence per share.




                      This information is provided by RNS
            The company news service from the London Stock Exchange