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National GridAnnouncement

13/12/2016 17:30

RNS Number : 7677R
National Grid PLC
13 December 2016
13 December 2016
National Grid plc ("National Grid")
Transaction in Own Shares
National Grid announces that at 16:52:00 on 13 December 2016 it has purchased 400,000 of its Ordinary shares of 1117/43p each on the London Stock Exchange from Barclays Capital Securities Limited ("Barclays") at a price of 920.2014p 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 181,150,112 of its Ordinary shares in treasury and has 3,758,335,018 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 (p)
Quantity of shares purchased
16:52:00
920.2014
400,000
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).

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