Director/PDMR Shareholding

Mitchells & Butlers PLC
08 December 2005


8 December 2005

                              Directors' Interests

SHORT TERM DEFERRED INCENTIVE PLAN

The first tranch of shares (equivalent to one third of the conditional award
made in respect of the 2003/04 annual bonus) under the Short Term Deferred
Incentive Plan was released yesterday.

Accordingly, shares have been transferred from the Mitchells & Butlers Employee
Benefit Trust, net of tax and NI liabilities, to directors as follows:

Director                            Number of                    Total number of
                                       shares                        shares held
                                                                      after this
                                                                           award
Mike Bramley                           18,536                            104,907
Tim Clarke                             35,275                            540,867
Tony Hughes                            23,171                            122,998
Karim Naffah                           24,899                            235,713

EMPLOYEE BENEFIT TRUST

The Employee Benefit Trust (the 'Trust') yesterday purchased 380,000 Mitchells &
Butlers ordinary shares at a price of 391.0888p per share.

Following this transaction and the releases referred to above, the balance in
the Trust is 1,063,062 Mitchells & Butlers shares. The executive directors of
the Company, Mike Bramley, Tim Clarke, Tony Hughes and Karim Naffah, are
technically deemed to be interested in these shares as potential beneficiaries
under the Trust.

Victoria M Penrice

0121 498 6514




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