Transaction in Own Shares

Mitchells & Butlers PLC
18 January 2006

                            Mitchells & Butlers plc

                           Purchase of Own Securities


Mitchells & Butlers plc announces that on 18 January 2006 it purchased for
cancellation 625,000 of its ordinary shares at a price of 392.904 pence per
ordinary share.




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