1 September 2014
National Grid plc (National Grid)
Voting Rights and Capital Update
National Grid's registered capital as at 31 August 2014 consisted of 3,888,927,949 ordinary shares, of which 117,442,435 were held as treasury shares; leaving a balance of 3,771,485,514 shares with voting rights.
The voting rights as laid out above do not take into consideration the purchase of 350,000 shares to be held in Treasury by National Grid on 29 August 2014, as these shares have not yet settled into National Grid's Treasury account.
The figure of 3,771,485,514 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 FCA Disclosure and Transparency Rules.
Contact: D Whincup, Company Secretarial Assistant, (0207 004 3209).