Result of AGM

RNS Number : 2812G

Legal & General Group Plc

25 May 2017

 

Legal & general group plc

RESULTS OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING HELD ON 25 MAY 2017

Legal & General Group Plc announces that at its Annual General Meeting held today at The Honourable Artillery Company, Armoury House, City Road, London EC1Y 2BQ, all of the resolutions proposed in the Notice of the Meeting were passed by shareholders by means of a poll vote.

The votes cast were as follows:

Resolution	For 1		Against		Votes Withheld 2
	No. of shares1	%	No. of shares	%
Resolution 1 Receipt of financial statements for the year ended 31 December 2016	4,228,180,492	99.99	250,416	0.01	7,728,063
Resolution 2 Declaration of a final dividend of 10.35p per ordinary share	4,226,267,373	99.99	512,339	0.01	9,799,978
Resolution 3 Election of Sir John Kingman as a Director	4,204,160,556	99.34	28,039,784	0.66	44,387,308
Resolution 4 Election of Philip Broadley as a Director	4,228,829,588	99.92	3,202,831	0.08	4,524,977
Resolution 5 Election of Jeff Davies as a Director	4,190,680,447	99.02	41,361,361	0.98	4,515,588
Resolution 6 Election of Lesley Knox as a Director	4,228,530,386	99.92	3,389,504	0.08	4,639,070
Resolution 7 Election of Kerrigan Procter as a Director	4,203,141,913	99.32	28,928,019	0.68	4,473,409
Resolution 8 Election of Toby Strauss as a Director	4,228,884,577	99.93	2,975,044	0.07	4,696,975
Resolution 9 Re-election of Carolyn Bradley as a Director	4,221,424,160	99.74	10,794,870	0.26	4,367,818
Resolution 10 Re-election of Julia Wilson as a Director	4,218,755,987	99.68	13,469,408	0.32	4,307,207
Resolution 11 Re-election of Nigel Wilson as a Director	4,207,661,793	99.42	24,754,247	0.58	4,170,808
Resolution 12 Re-election of Mark Zinkula as a Director	4,203,474,214	99.32	28,957,320	0.68	4,153,166
Resolution 13 Re-appointment of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as auditors	4,194,700,017	99.47	22,223,391	0.53	19,657,709
Resolution 14 To authorise the Director's to fix the Auditors' remuneration	4,209,139,026	99.74	10,806,1453	0.26	16,635,946
Resolution 15 To adopt the Remuneration Policy	3,851,461,140	91.23	370,032,785	8.77	15,093,723
Resolution 16 Approval of Remuneration Report	3,938,843,201	93.17	288,951,561	6.83	8,784,882
Resolution 17 Authority to allot equity securities	4,223,066,278	99.78	9,405,552	0.22	4,104,472
Resolution 18 Authority to make political donations	4,095,941,472	97.23	116,545,046	2.77	24,100,805
Resolution 19* Disapplication of pre-emption rights	4,222,631,830	99.78	9,341,072	0.22	4,596,128
Resolution 20* Additional authority to disapply pre-emption rights	3,766,027,540	88.99	466,030,065	11.01	4,496,177
Resolution  21* Authority to purchase own shares	4,171,516,125	98.57	60,597,507	1.43	4,471,496
Resolution  22* Authority to call general meetings (other than an AGM) on not less than 14 clear days' notice	4,011,525,781	95.22	201,402,316	4.78	23,657,031

Notes:

1          The 'for' votes include those giving the Chairman discretion.

2          A vote 'withheld' is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation of the votes 'for' and 'against' each resolution.

3          Votes 'for' and 'against' are expressed as a percentage of the votes received.

4          Voting was conducted by poll.

5          The total number of proxy votes cast was 4,236,587,648 representing 71.1% of voting capital as at 23 May 2017.  At the close of business on 23 May 2017, the issued share capital of the Company was 5,955,346,117 ordinary shares (no shares are held in Treasury).  

*           Denotes a Special Resolution.

The full text of the resolutions can be found in the Notice of Annual of General Meeting which is available for inspection at the National Storage Mechanism http://www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/NSM and also on the Company's website at http://investor.legalandgeneral.com/agm.cfm   

In accordance with Listing Rules 9.6.3(1) and 9.6.18 a copy of the resolutions passed (other than those concerning ordinary business) will shortly be submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will also be available for inspection at http://www.hemscott.com/nsm.do 

Name of person making notification:	Helen Baker
Contact number:	020 3124 2139
Date of notification:	25 May 2017

 

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