Transaction in Own Shares

National Grid PLC
13 February 2007

National Grid plc announces that on 12 February 2007 it purchased for
cancellation 100,000 of its ordinary shares at a price of 796.0772 pence per
share.



Following the purchase and upon the cancellation of these shares, the number of
ordinary shares with voting rights in issue will be 2,712,838,732.
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