Transaction in Own Shares

3i Group PLC
21 September 2005


                                  3i Group plc


                           Purchase of Own Securities



3i Group plc announces that on 20 September 2005 it purchased for cancellation
250,000 of its ordinary 53 1/8 pence shares at a price of 748 pence per share.







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