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REG-Capita PLC: Result of Meeting

Capita plc

(“Capita” or the “Company”)

Capita gains shareholder approval for the proposed sale of its Education
Software Solutions Business

Capita is pleased to announce that the resolution proposed at the general
meeting of the Company held at 11:00 a.m. on 14 January 2021 (the “General
Meeting”), seeking approval for the proposed sale of its Education Software
Solutions business to Tiger UK Bidco Limited, a newly formed company
ultimately owned by funds advised by Montagu Private Equity (the
“Disposal”), was duly passed by shareholders. Full details of the poll
result are set out below.

 Resolution                     Votes For      %      Votes Against  %     Votes Total    % of ISC Voted  Votes Withheld  
 THAT the Disposal be approved  1,308,560,457  99.97  348,043        0.03  1,308,908,500  78.32           518,733         

The full text of the resolution is set out in the notice of General Meeting
forming part of the circular to shareholders dated 16 December 2020.
 

Please note a ‘vote withheld’ is not a vote under English law and is
therefore not included in the calculation of votes ‘for’ and ‘against’
the resolution.
 

The total number of issued ordinary shares in the Company (excluding treasury
shares) as at 6:00 p.m. on 12 January 2021, being the voting record time, was
1,668,973,568 ordinary shares. Therefore, the total number of votes
exercisable as at the voting record time were 1,668,973,568.

A copy of the resolution passed at the General Meeting will be submitted to
the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available for inspection
at: https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism.

Barclays Bank PLC, acting through its Investment Bank (“Barclays”), is
acting as sole sponsor to Capita on the Disposal.

For more information please contact:

Capita investor enquiries

Stuart Morgan

Director of Investor Relations

Tel: 07989 665484

Email: IRteam@capita.co.uk

Capita media enquiries

Capita external communications

Tel: 0207 654 2399

Email: media@capita.co.uk

Barclays (Sole Sponsor to Capita)

Omar Faruqui

Tom Macdonald

Tel: +44 (0) 20 7623 2323

Capita is a consulting, transformation and digital services business. Every
day our 61,000 colleagues help millions of people, by delivering innovative
solutions to transform and simplify the connections between businesses and
customers, governments and citizens. We partner with clients and provide the
insight and cutting edge technologies that give time back, allowing them to
focus on what they do best and making people’s lives easier and simpler. We
operate in the UK, Europe, India and South Africa – and across six
divisions: Customer Management; Government Services; People Solutions;
Software; Specialist Services; and Technology Solutions. Capita is quoted on
the London Stock Exchange (CPI.L). Further information can be found at:
http://www.capita.com.

Important Notices

This announcement is an announcement and not a circular or prospectus or
equivalent document and prospective investors should not make any investment
decision on the basis of its contents. Nothing in this announcement
constitutes an offer of securities for sale in any jurisdiction.

If you are in any doubt as to what action you should take in relation to this
announcement, you are recommended to seek your own personal financial advice
immediately from your stockbroker, bank manager, solicitor, accountant or
other independent financial adviser authorised under the Financial Services
and Markets Act 2000, or from another appropriately authorised independent
financial adviser.

This announcement is not for release, publication or distribution, in whole or
in part, in, into or from any jurisdiction where to do so would constitute a
violation of the relevant laws of that jurisdiction. Persons into whose
possession this announcement comes should inform themselves about, and
observe, such restrictions. Any failure to comply with the restrictions may
constitute a violation of the securities laws of any such jurisdiction.

Barclays, which is authorised by the Prudential Regulation Authority
(“PRA”) and regulated in the United Kingdom by the Financial Conduct
Authority and the PRA, is acting exclusively for Capita and no one else in
connection with the Disposal and will not be responsible to anyone other than
Capita for providing the protections afforded to clients of Barclays nor for
providing advice in relation to the Disposal or any other matter referred to
in this announcement.



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