Total Voting Rights

31 December 2012

WH Smith PLC (the "Company")

Voting Rights and Capital

To conform to the Transparency Directive's transitional provision 6, the Company confirms that its capital consists of 128,535,267 ordinary shares of 226/67 pence each with voting rights (the "Shares").

Shareholders may use the 128,535,267 Shares as the denominator for the calculation by which they will determine if they are required to notify their interest in or a change to their interest in the Company under the FSA's Disclosure and Transparency Rules.

I Houghton

Company Secretary