Monday, 5 September 2011
National Grid plc (National Grid)
Voting Rights and Capital update
National Grid has been notified that earlier today, 49,295 shares held in Treasury were transferred to share scheme participants. Following this change, National Grid's registered capital from 5 September 2011 consists of 3,695,423,129 ordinary shares, of which 136,180,630 have been purchased in the market and registered as Treasury Shares; leaving a balance of 3,559,242,499 shares with voting rights.
The figure of 3,559,242,499 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 under the FSA's Disclosure and Transparency Rules.
Robin Kerner
Assistant Secretary
020 7004 3223