Total Voting Rights

1 August 2016

National Grid plc (National Grid)

Voting Rights and Capital Update

National Grid's registered capital as at 31 July 2016 consisted of 3,924,038,086 ordinary shares, of which, 174,820,773 were held as treasury shares; leaving a balance of 3,749,217,313 shares with voting rights.

The figure of 3,749,217,313 may be used by shareholders as the denominator for the calculations by which they will determine if they are required to notify their interest in, or a change to their interest in, National Grid under the FCA Disclosure and Transparency Rules.

Contact: A Morgan, Assistant Company Secretary, (0207 004 3228).