Transaction in Own Shares

Mitchells & Butlers PLC
27 June 2006

                            Mitchells & Butlers plc

                           Purchase of Own Securities


Mitchells & Butlers plc announces that on 27 June 2006 it purchased for
cancellation 590,243 of its ordinary shares at a price of 504.978814 pence per
ordinary share.




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