Annual Financial Report

RNS Number : 8860I

Land Securities Group Plc

22 June 2011

 



22 June 2011

Land Securities Group PLC ('Land Securities')

Publication of Annual Report and Accounts and Notice of AGM 2011

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Land Securities has today made available the following documents to shareholders:

-    Annual Report and Accounts for the financial year 2010/11 (HTML and paper copies)

-    Notice of the 2011 Annual General Meeting ('AGM') (HTML and paper copies)

-    Articles of Association (HTML)

The documents listed above, together with proposed amended Scrip Dividend Terms and Conditions are available electronically on Land Securities' website at http://www.landsecurities.com.

In compliance with LR 9.6.1, the Annual Report and Accounts, Notice of AGM (along with associated proxy card) and Articles of Association have been sent to the National Storage Mechanism for submission to the UK Listing Authority and will shortly be available to the public for inspection at www.hemscott.com/nsm.do.

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Notice of Annual General Meeting

Land Securities' AGM will be held at 11am on Thursday, 21 July 2011 at The Sainsbury Wing Theatre, The National Gallery, London WC2N 5DN.

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In accordance with DTR 6.3.5, the Company provides the following information which is extracted from page 91 of the Annual Report and Accounts 2010/11.  Page, note and section reference in the text below refer to those Annual Report and Accounts.

Independent auditors' report to the members of Land Securities Group PLC

We have audited the financial statements of Land Securities Group PLC for the year ended 31 March 2011 which comprise the Group Income Statement, the Group and Company Balance Sheets, the Group and Company Statements of Cash Flows, the Group Statement of Comprehensive Income, the Group and Company Statement of Changes in Equity and the related notes. The financial reporting framework that has been applied in their preparation is applicable law and International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRSs) as adopted by the

European Union and, as regards the Parent Company financial statements, as applied in accordance with the provisions of the Companies Act 2006.

Respective responsibilities of Directors and auditors

As explained more fully in the Statement of Directors' responsibilities set out on page 90, the Directors are responsible for the preparation of the financial statements and for being satisfied that they give a true and fair view. Our responsibility is to audit and express an opinion on the financial statements in accordance with applicable law and International Standards on Auditing (UK and Ireland). Those standards require us to comply with the Auditing Practices Board's Ethical Standards for Auditors.

This report, including the opinions, has been prepared for and only for the Company's members as a body in accordance with Chapter 3 of Part 16 of the Companies Act 2006 and for no other purpose. We do not, in giving these opinions, accept or assume responsibility for any other purpose or to any other person to whom this report is shown or into whose hands it may come save where expressly agreed by our prior consent in writing.

Scope of the audit of the financial statements

An audit involves obtaining evidence about the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements sufficient to give reasonable assurance that the financial statements are free from material misstatement, whether caused by fraud or error. This includes an assessment of: whether the accounting policies are appropriate to the Group's and the Parent Company's circumstances and have been consistently applied and adequately disclosed; the reasonableness of significant accounting estimates made by the Directors; and the overall presentation of the financial statements. In addition, we read all the financial and non-financial information in the Annual Report to identify material inconsistencies with the audited financial statements. If we become aware of any apparent material misstatements or inconsistencies we consider the implications for our report.

Opinion on financial statements

In our opinion:

-    the financial statements give a true and fair view of the state of the Group's and of the Parent Company's affairs as at 31 March 2011 and of the Group's profit and Group's and Parent Company's cash flows for the year then ended;

-    the Group financial statements have been properly prepared in accordance with IFRSs as adopted by the European Union;

-    the Parent Company financial statements have been properly prepared in accordance with IFRSs as adopted by the European Union and as applied in accordance with the provisions of the Companies Act 2006; and

-    the financial statements have been prepared in accordance with the requirements of the Companies Act 2006 and, as regards the Group financial statements, Article 4 of the lAS Regulation.

Opinion on other matters prescribed by the Companies Act 2006

In our opinion:

-    the part of the Directors' remuneration report to be audited has been properly prepared in accordance with the Companies Act 2006; and

-    the information given in the Report of the Directors for the financial year for which the financial statements are prepared is consistent with the financial statements.

Matters on which we are required to report by exception

We have nothing to report in respect of the following:

Under the Companies Act 2006 we are required to report to you if, in our opinion:

-    adequate accounting records have not been kept by the Parent Company, or returns adequate for our audit have not been received from branches not visited by us; or

-    the Parent Company financial statements and the part of the Directors' remuneration report to be audited are not in agreement with the accounting records and returns; or

-    certain disclosures of Directors' remuneration specified by law are not made; or

-    we have not received all the information and explanations we require for our audit.

Under the Listing Rules we are required to review:

-    the Directors' statement, set out on page 71, in relation to going concern;

-    the parts of the Corporate Governance Statement relating to the Company's compliance with the nine provisions of the June 2008 Combined Code specified for our review; and

-    certain elements of the report to shareholders by the Board on Directors' remuneration.

John Waters (Senior Statutory Auditor)

for and on behalf of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP

Chartered Accountants and Statutory Auditors

London

17 May 2011 

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Land Securities Dividend Timetable for the remainder of the 2010/11 financial year and for 2011/12 is currently scheduled as follows:

22 June 2011	Ex-dividend date - 2010/11 final dividend
24 June 2011	Record date - 2010/11 final dividend
28 July 2011	Payment date - 2010/11 final dividend
14 September 2011	Ex-dividend date - 1st interim dividend
16 September 2011	Record date - 1st interim dividend
24 October 2011	Payment date - 1st interim dividend
30 November 2011	Ex-dividend date - 2nd interim dividend
02 December 2011	Record date - 2nd interim dividend
09 January 2012	Payment date - 2nd interim dividend
14 March 2012	Ex-dividend date - 3rd interim dividend
16 March 2012	Record date - 3rd interim dividend
26 April 2012	Payment date - 3rd interim dividend

Phil Higgins

Deputy Company Secretary

0207 024 5219

 

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