Tuesday, 3rd January 2012
National Grid plc (National Grid)
Voting Rights and Capital update
National Grid's registered capital at 31 December 2011 consisted of 3,695,423,129 ordinary shares, of which 135,617,570 had been purchased in the market and registered as Treasury Shares; leaving a balance of 3,559,805,559 shares with voting rights.
National Grid has been notified that earlier today, 1,696 shares held in Treasury were transferred to share scheme participants. Following this change, National Grid's registered capital from 3 January 2012 consists of 3,695,423,129 ordinary shares, of which 135,615,874 have been purchased in the market and registered as Treasury Shares; leaving a balance of 3,559,807,255 shares with voting rights.
The figure of 3,559,807,255 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.
Contact: Arit Amana
Company Secretarial Assistant
020 7004 3116