Total Voting Rights

RNS Number : 8739E

National Grid PLC

01 October 2008

 



1st October 2008

National Grid plc (National Grid)

Voting Rights and Capital update

National Grid was notified yesterday that 28,236 shares held in Treasury were transferred to share scheme participants, on 30 September 2008. Following this change, and after transfers into treasury registered on the completion of the 2008/09 share repurchase programme, National Grid plc's registered capital at 30 September 2008 consists of 2,581,913,516 ordinary shares, of which 153,745,565 have been purchased in the market and registered as Treasury Shares; leaving a balance of 2,428,167,951 shares with voting rights. 

The figure of 2,428,167,951 may be used by shareholders as the denominator for the calculations by which they will determine if they are required to notify their interest in, or a change to their interest in, National Grid plc under the FSA's Disclosure and Transparency Rules.

Contact: D C Forward, 

Assistant Secretary

0207 004 3226

 

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