Transaction in Own Shares

3i Group PLC
31 October 2005


                                  3i Group plc

                           Purchase of Own Securities


3i Group plc announces that on 28 October 2005 it purchased for cancellation
300,000 of its ordinary 53 1/8 pence shares at a price of 730.325 pence per
share.



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