Transaction in Own Shares

National Grid PLC
06 February 2008

National Grid plc - Transaction in Own Shares

6 February 2008

National Grid plc announces that on 5 February 2008 it purchased 342,571 of its
ordinary shares at a price of 777.7806 pence per share from Morgan Stanley
Securities Limited. The purchased shares will be held as Treasury shares.

Following the purchase of these shares, the number of ordinary shares with
voting rights in issue (excluding Treasury shares) will be 2,532,378,913 and the
number of ordinary shares in Treasury will be 49,534,603.



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