Transaction in Own Shares

Mitchells & Butlers PLC
03 February 2006


                            Mitchells & Butlers plc

                           Purchase of Own Securities


Mitchells & Butlers plc announces that on 3 February 2006 it purchased for
cancellation 500,000 of its ordinary shares at a price of 397.595 pence per
ordinary share.



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