Issue of Debt

Marks & Spencer Group PLC
06 December 2007


Issue of Debt

Further to the announcement on 30 November, Marks and Spencer plc announces that
its US$ notes listed below were issued on 6 December 2007 and have been admitted
to listing on the Official List of the U.K. Listing Authority and to trading on
the Gilt Edged and Fixed Interest Market of the London Stock Exchange, a
regulated market:

US$ 500,000,000 6.250% Notes due 2017

US$ 300,000,000 7.125% Notes due 2037

In the United States the notes were sold to qualified institutional buyers under
rule 144A of the US Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the 'Securities Act'),
and to non-US persons outside the United States in reliance on regulations of
the Securities Act.

The notes listed above have not been, and will not be, registered under the
Securities Act, or under the securities legislation of any state of the United
States, and may not be offered or sold in the United States, other than pursuant
to an exemption from, or in a transaction not subject to, the registration
requirements of the Securities Act. The issuer of the notes does not presently
intend to make a public offer of securities in the United States or to register
any securities under the Securities Act.



For further information, please contact:

Marks and Spencer plc
Waterside House
35 North Wharf Road
London
W2 1NW


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