Transaction in Own Shares

Mitchells & Butlers PLC
02 December 2005


                            Mitchells & Butlers plc

                           Purchase of Own Securities


Mitchells & Butlers plc announces that on 2 December 2005 it purchased for
cancellation 130,000 of its ordinary shares at a price of 383.8365 pence per
ordinary share.




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