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RNS Number : 7125P  Legal & General Group Plc  23 May 2024

 

Results of Annual General Meeting held on 23 May 2024

 

23 May 2024

 

Legal & General Group Plc announces that at its Annual General Meeting
held today at the British Medical Association, BMA House, Tavistock Square,
Bloomsbury, London, WC1H 9JZ 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 shares(1)  %       No. of shares  %
 Resolution 1                                                                 3,696,005,287     99.70%  11,153,791     0.30%  20,128,381

 Receipt of financial statements for the year ended 31 December 2023
 Resolution 2                                                                 3,668,711,747     98.47%  57,144,401     1.53%  1,433,830

 Declaration of a final dividend of 14.63 pence per ordinary share
 Resolution 3                                                                 3,723,957,437     99.95%  1,719,406      0.05%  1,595,949

 Election of António Simões as a Director
 Resolution 4                                                                 3,688,077,716     98.99%  37,671,378     1.01%  1,525,698

 Re-election of Henrietta Baldock as a Director
 Resolution 5                                                                 3,688,748,003     99.01%  37,000,869     0.99%  1,535,919

 Re-election of Nilufer von Bismarck as a Director
 Resolution 6                                                                 3,657,993,280     98.18%  67,742,700     1.82%  1,548,811

 Re-election of Philip Broadley as a Director
 Resolution 7                                                                 3,717,218,027     99.78%  8,261,963      0.22%  1,804,801

 Re-election of Jeff Davies as a Director
 Resolution 8                                                                 3,689,446,483     99.03%  36,302,731     0.97%  1,533,577

 Re-election of Carolyn Johnson as a Director
 Resolution 9                                                                 3,685,774,664     99.74%  9,579,118      0.26%  31,931,009

 Re-election of Sir John Kingman as a Director
 Resolution 10                                                                3,686,226,854     98.94%  39,475,579     1.06%  1,582,358

 Re-election of Lesley Knox as a Director
 Resolution 11                                                                3,688,066,079     98.99%  37,677,577     1.01%  1,543,655

 Re-election of George Lewis as a Director
 Resolution 12                                                                3,688,066,865     99.00%  37,133,056     1.00%  2,078,019

 Re-election of Ric Lewis as a Director
 Resolution 13                                                                3,686,160,524     98.94%  39,516,629     1.06%  1,607,638

 Re-election of Tushar Morzaria as a Director
 Resolution 14                                                                3,680,878,378     98.88%  41,741,901     1.12%  4,664,512

 Re-election of Laura Wade-Gery as a Director
 Resolution 15                                                                3,657,672,505     98.18%  67,978,747     1.82%  1,625,040

 Re-appointment of KPMG LLP as auditors
 Resolution 16                                                                3,716,761,096     99.76%  9,106,868      0.24%  1,419,495

 To authorise the Audit Committee, on behalf of the Board, to determine the
 Auditors' remuneration
 Resolution 17                                                                3,594,955,335     96.51%  130,133,675    3.49%  2,197,448

 Approval of Remuneration Report
 Resolution 18                                                                3,599,184,386     96.62%  125,922,881    3.38%  2,180,044

 Approval of the Performance Share Plan 2024
 Resolution 19                                                                3,651,429,505     98.02%  73,918,690     1.98%  1,936,596

 Authority to allot equity shares
 Resolution 20                                                                3,656,775,486     98.16%  68,588,620     1.84%  1,920,685

 Authority to allot shares in respect of Contingent Convertible Securities
 (CCS)
 Resolution 21                                                                3,615,238,259     97.93%  76,384,770     2.07%  35,514,089

 Authority to make political donations
 Resolution 22*                                                               3,686,577,732     98.97%  38,528,249     1.03%  2,040,137

 Disapplication of pre-emption rights
 Resolution 23*                                                               3,654,923,251     98.12%  70,213,791     1.88%  2,008,077

 Additional authority to disapply pre-emption rights
 Resolution 24*                                                               3,658,655,314     98.22%  66,464,209     1.78%  2,026,595

 Additional authority to disapply pre-emption rights in connection with CCS
 Resolution 25*                                                               3,655,682,620     98.24%  65,403,548     1.76%  6,059,151

 Authority to purchase own shares
 Resolution 26*                                                               3,457,610,470     92.81%  267,986,926    7.19%  1,547,922

 Authority to call general meetings (other than an AGM) on not less than 14
 clear days' notice

 

Notes:

 1  The 'for' votes include those giving the Chair 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 votes cast was 3,725,867,964 representing 62.31% of voting
    capital as at 22 May 2024. At the close of business on 22 May 2024, the
    issued share capital of the Company was 5,979,769,298 ordinary shares (no
    shares are held in Treasury).

*Denotes a Special Resolution.

 

 Name of person making notification:  Leanne Cornish

                                      Head of Group Secretariat

 Contact number:                      020 3124 4111

 Date of notification:                23 May 2024

 

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