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RNS Number : 9010F  NatWest Group plc  23 April 2025

NatWest Group plc - Result of Annual General Meeting

23 April 2025

 

Following the Annual General Meeting held today at Gogarburn, Edinburgh EH12
1HQ, NatWest Group plc (the "Company") announces

the results of the poll vote for each resolution as follows. Resolutions 19,
20, 22, 23 and 25 to 27 were passed as special resolutions.

 

                                                                                  VOTES            %       VOTES          %     % of ISC VOTED  VOTES

FOR
AGAINST
WITHHELD
 Resolution 1                                                                     25,169,732,416   99.98   4,693,348      0.02  77.90%          42,812,916

 To receive the 2024 Report and Accounts
 Resolution 2                                                                                      97.86   538,673,576    2.14  78.00%          9,701,904

 To approve the Directors' remuneration policy in the Directors' remuneration     24,668,869,124
 report
 Resolution 3                                                                     24,455,534,356   97.02   752,180,000    2.98  78.00%          9,523,476

 To approve the Annual remuneration report in the Directors' remuneration
 report
 Resolution 4                                                                     25,210,007,020   100.00  964,620        0.00  78.01%          6,270,124

 To declare a final dividend of 15.5 pence per ordinary share
 Resolution 5                                                                     24,610,336,308   97.63   597,931,384    2.37  78.01%          9,028,072

 To re-elect Rick Haythornthwaite as a Director
 Resolution 6                                                                     25,197,786,500   99.95   11,700,440     0.05  78.01%          7,808,608

 To re-elect Paul Thwaite as a Director
 Resolution 7                                                                     25,129,062,580   99.68   79,840,192     0.32  78.01%          8,392,992

 To re-elect Katie Murray as a Director
 Resolution 8                                                                      Withdrawn

 To re-elect Frank Dangeard as a Director
 Resolution 9                                                                     25,190,575,548   99.93   17,340,056     0.07  78.00%          9,378,216

  To re-elect Roisin Donnelly as a Director
 Resolution 10                                                                    24,919,988,968   98.86   287,224,580    1.14  78.00%          10,078,424

 To re-elect Patrick Flynn as a Director
 Resolution 11                                                                    25,040,822,712   99.34   167,113,408    0.66  78.00%          9,357,692

 To elect Geeta Gopalan as a Director
 Resolution 12                                                                    25,193,233,452   99.94   14,641,848     0.06  78.00%          9,418,220

 To re-elect Yasmin Jetha as a Director
 Resolution 13                                                                    24,921,004,316   98.89   280,134,612    1.11  77.98%          16,154,892

 To re-elect Stuart Lewis as a Director
 Resolution 14                                                                    25,194,867,584   99.95   12,178,636     0.05  78.00%          10,246,912

 To elect Gill Whitehead as a Director
 Resolution 15                                                                    24,909,732,340   98.82   297,888,676    1.18  78.00%          9,672,796

 To re-elect Lena Wilson as a Director
 Resolution 16                                                                    25,077,618,132   99.93   17,961,848     0.07  77.66%          121,713,848

 To re-appoint Ernst & Young LLP as auditors of the Company
 Resolution 17                                                                    25,192,460,104   99.96   9,918,028      0.04  77.99%          14,908,260

 To authorise the Group Audit Committee to fix the remuneration of the auditors

 Resolution 18                                                                    23,849,010,992   94.61   1,358,216,120  5.39  78.00%          10,060,712

 To renew the directors' authority to allot shares in the Company
 Resolution 19                                                                    24,416,035,904   97.24   693,176,032    2.76  77.70%          108,097,636

 To renew the directors' authority to allot equity securities on a non
 pre-emptive basis in connection with an offer or issue of equity securities
 Resolution 20                                                                    24,390,836,816   97.13   719,616,816    2.87  77.70%          106,855,932

 To renew the directors' authority to allot equity securities on a non
 pre-emptive basis in connection with the financing of a transaction
 Resolution 21                                                                    24,865,593,608   98.65   341,345,176    1.35  78.00%          10,370,788

 To renew the directors' authority to allot ordinary shares or grant rights to
 subscribe for or to convert any security into ordinary shares in relation to
 Equity Convertible Notes
 Resolution 22                                                                    24,777,405,008   98.30   429,588,416    1.70  78.00%          10,308,236

 To renew the directors' authority to allot equity securities on a non
 pre-emptive basis in connection with Equity Convertible Notes
 Resolution 23                                                                    23,989,768,936   95.16   1,219,870,804  4.84  78.01%          7,669,504

 To renew the authority to permit the holding of General Meetings on 14 clear
 days' notice
 Resolution 24                                                                    24,830,739,644   98.51   374,782,580    1.49  78.00%          11,778,460

 To renew the authority in respect of political donations and expenditure by
 the Company in terms of sections 366 and 367 of the Companies Act 2006
 Resolution 25                                                                    25,182,432,744   99.94   14,970,200     0.06  77.97%          19,906,468

 To renew the authority for the Company to purchase its own shares on a
 recognised investment exchange
 Resolution 26                                                                    24,108,578,720   99.25   181,659,984    0.75  75.16%          8,317,104

 To renew the authority to make off-market purchases of ordinary shares from HM
 Treasury
 Resolution 27                                                                    24,944,922,400   98.95   263,670,916    1.05  78.01%          8,714,332

 To authorise the Company to make off-market purchases of preference shares

 

* A vote Withheld is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation
of the proportion of votes "For" and "Against" a resolution.

 

In accordance with the UK Listing Authority's listing rules, a copy of the
resolutions that do not constitute ordinary business at an annual general
meeting will shortly be available for inspection at the National Storage
Mechanism which is located at:
https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism
(https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism)

 

A full text of the resolutions can be found in the Notice of Meeting which is
available on the Company's website at
www.natwestgroup.com (http://www.natwestgroup.com) .

 

As at 17 April 2025 (being the latest date by which shareholders who wanted to
vote at the Annual General Meeting must have been

entered on the company's Register of Members) the total number of voting
rights in the company was 32,316,060,404

 

Contact:

Investor Relations

+ 44 (0)207 672 1758

 

Media Relations

+44 (0)131 523 4205

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