Voting Rights and Capital

Scottish Mortgage Inv Tst PLC
01 August 2007

                     Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust PLC

                           Voting Rights and Capital

In conformity with the transparency Directive's transitional provision 6 we
would like to notify the market of the following:

Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust PLC's capital consists of 275,644,933
ordinary shares with voting rights. Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust PLC holds
8,701,243 ordinary shares in Treasury.  Therefore, the total number of voting
rights in Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust PLC is 275,644,933.

The above figure (275,644,933) 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, Scottish Mortgage
Investment Trust PLC under the FSA's Disclosure and Transparency Rules.



                                                            Baillie Gifford & Co

                                                             Company Secretaries

                                                                   1 August 2007




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