Purchase of Own Shares

Royal Bank of Scotland Group PLC
06 April 2006

                      THE ROYAL BANK OF SCOTLAND GROUP plc

                             PURCHASE OF OWN SHARES

The Royal Bank of Scotland Group plc announces that on 6 April 2006 it purchased
for cancellation 100,000 of its ordinary shares at an average price of 1856.5p
per ordinary share.




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