Transaction in Own Shares

Mitchells & Butlers PLC
06 January 2006


                            Mitchells & Butlers plc

                           Purchase of Own Securities



Mitchells & Butlers plc announces that on 6 January 2006 it purchased for
cancellation 243,000 of its ordinary shares at a price of 410 pence per ordinary
share.




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