Transaction in Own Shares

02 December 2011

MITIE Group PLC

MITIE Group PLC (the "Company") - Transaction in own Shares

Pursuant to the general authority given to the Company by shareholders, the Company announces that it has purchased ordinary shares of 2.5p ("Shares") each as follows:

Date of purchase: 02 November 2011

Number of Shares purchased: 75,000

Highest price paid: 253.1p

Lowest price paid: 249.1p

The purchase represented an average price of 251.6683 pence per Share. The purchased Shares will be cancelled. Following this purchase, the total number of voting rights in the Company is 360,202,758. The Board approved the purchase of Shares in order to offset the increase in share numbers arising from the issue of Shares in connection with MITIE's share schemes.

Notes to editors

For further information, please contact:

John Telling, Group Corporate Affairs Director

T: 020 3123 8673 M: 07979 701006

Erica Lockhart, Investor, Public and Media Relations ManagerT: 020 3123 8675 M: 07979 784488