Total Voting Rights

Guinness Peat Group PLC
31 August 2007


                  GUINNESS PEAT GROUP PLC: TOTAL VOTING RIGHTS

Pursuant to Rule 5.6.1 of the Disclosure and Transparency Rules, Guinness Peat
Group plc ("the Company") advises that the total number of its ordinary shares
of 5p each in issue as at the date of this notice is 1,274,131,836.

The Company does not hold any shares in treasury.

The total number of voting rights in the Company is therefore 1,274,131,836.

The above figure may be used by shareholders as the denominator for the
calculations by which they will determine if they are required under the
Disclosure and Transparency Rules to notify their interest in, or a change to
their interest in, the Company.

Richard Russell
Company Secretary
Guinness Peat Group plc
Tel: [phone]

31 August 2007



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