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RNS Number : 6162Q

National Grid PLC

30 November 2016

30 November 2016

National Grid plc ("National Grid")

Transaction in Own Shares

National Grid announces that at 16:40:00 on 30 November 2016 it has purchased 1,000,000 of its Ordinary shares of 11(17/43) p each on the London Stock Exchange from Barclays Capital Securities Limited ("Barclays") at a price of 913.2000p per share as part of its buy-back programme announced on 24 November 2016. National Grid intends to hold the purchased shares in treasury.

Following the purchase of these shares, National Grid holds 175,869,541 of its Ordinary shares in treasury and has 3,763,615,589 Ordinary shares in issue (excluding treasury shares).

In accordance with Article 5(1)(b) of the Market Abuse Regulation (EU) No 596/2014 details of the purchase of its own Ordinary shares by National Grid from Barclays are set out below:

 
  Time of transaction    Price per share    Quantity of shares 
                          (p)                purchased 
---------------------  -----------------  -------------------- 
  16:40:00               913.2000           1,000,000 
---------------------  -----------------  --------------------

This announcement will also be available on National Grid's website http://investors.nationalgrid.com/rns.aspx.

Enquiries to:

D Whincup, Assistant Company Secretary, (0207 004 3209).

This information is provided by RNS

The company news service from the London Stock Exchange

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