Director/PDMR Shareholding

Mitchells & Butlers PLC
06 December 2005


6 December 2005

                              DIRECTORS' INTERESTS

The following directors today exercised options over Mitchells & Butlers plc
shares, disposing of sufficient shares to meet costs, tax and NI as shown below:

Director   Share         Option price    Options   Shares sold    Selling price  Shares retained   Balance of
           plan                        exercised                                                 shares under
                                          shares                                                       option
                                           


Tony       Performance       £1.00 per    55,840        22,953       £3.964469          32,887
Hughes     Restricted           option
           Share
           Plan
           Executive         £2.68 per    21,931        17,784       £3.964469           4,147
           Share                 share
           Option
           Plan
                                                                                                   1,402,593
  

Mike       Performance       £1.00 per    55,840        22,953       £3.921565          32,887
Bramley    Restricted           option
           Share
           Plan
           Executive       £2.9171 per    37,300        31,742       £3.921565           5,558
           Share                 share
           Option
           Plan
                                                                                                   1,318,901
  
Share balances

Following the above transactions, these directors hold the following Mitchells &
Butlers shares:

Tony Hughes                                                             99,827
Mike Bramley                                                            86,371

Following these transactions the Mitchells & Butlers Employee Benefit Trust is
interested in 480,992 Mitchells & Butlers plc shares. The executive directors of
the Company, Mike Bramley, Tim Clarke, Tony Hughes and Karim Naffah are
technically deemed to be interested in these shares as potential beneficiaries
under the Trust.

Victoria M Penrice
Head of Secretariat

0121 498 6514




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