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RNS Number : 7509X  Serco Group PLC  27 April 2023

Serco Group plc (the 'Company')

Legal Entity Identifier: 549300PT2CIHYN5GWJ21

 

Result of Annual General Meeting

 

The Company announces that it held its Annual General Meeting ('AGM') at
11.00am today.

 

All valid proxy votes (whether submitted electronically or in hard copy form)
were included in the poll taken at the meeting.

 

All resolutions as set out in the notice of Annual General Meeting (the
'Resolutions') were duly passed. The full text of each Resolution is contained
in the 2023 Notice of Annual General Meeting, which is available on the
Company's website, www.serco.com (http://www.serco.com) .

 

The total number of ordinary shares of 2 pence each (the 'Ordinary Shares') in
the capital of the Company (excluding shares held in treasury) on the
shareholder register at 6.30pm on Tuesday 25 April 2023, being those eligible
to be voted on at the AGM, was 1,121,994,782.

 

The table below shows the votes received for and against the Resolutions,
representing a total of 78.59 per cent of the total number of Ordinary Shares
(excluding shares held in treasury).

 

 Resolution                                                                            Total votes For(1)  %(2)   Total votes against  %(2)   Total votes cast  Votes withheld(3)

 1        To receive the Annual Report and Accounts                                    868,901,108         99.67  2,881,699            0.33   871,782,807       11,768,330
 2        To approve the Directors' Remuneration Report                                756,126,327         86.41  118,915,597          13.59  875,041,924       8,509,213
 3        To approve the Final Dividend of 1.92 pence                                  882,080,174         99.84  1,453,382            0.16   883,533,556       17,581
 4        To elect Mark Irwin as a Director                                            877,748,045         99.35  5,768,144            0.65   883,516,189       34,948
 5        To re-elect John Rishton as a Director                                       827,194,880         94.73  46,034,889           5.27   873,229,769       10,321,368
 6        To re-elect Nigel Crossley as a Director                                     873,492,466         98.86  10,030,614           1.14   883,523,080       28,057
 7        To re-elect Kirsty Bashforth as a Director                                   861,999,848         98.71  11,231,137           1.29   873,230,985       10,320,152
 8        To re-elect Kru Desai as a Director                                          876,641,800         99.22  6,880,429            0.78   883,522,229       28,908
 9        To re-elect Ian El-Mokadem as a Director                                     875,197,397         99.06  8,326,564            0.94   883,523,961       27,176
 10       To re-elect Tim Lodge as a Director                                          875,163,398         99.05  8,360,563            0.95   883,523,961       27,176
 11       To re-elect Dame Sue Owen as a Director                                      874,332,185         98.96  9,189,134            1.04   883,521,319       29,818
 12       To re-elect Lynne Peacock as a Director                                      800,229,565         90.57  83,291,855           9.43   883,521,420       29,717
 13       To re-appoint KPMG LLP as auditor of the Company                             870,123,080         98.48  13,386,629           1.52   883,509,709       41,428
 14       To authorise the Audit Committee to determine auditor's remuneration         883,312,019         99.98  220,711              0.02   883,532,730       18,407
 15       To authorise Directors to Allot Shares                                       807,906,063         91.44  75,588,379           8.56   883,494,442       56,695
 16       To disapply statutory pre-emption rights (first disapplication resolution)*  792,163,310         89.66  91,325,525           10.34  883,488,835       62,302
 17       To disapply pre-emption rights in (second disapplication resolution)*        775,688,178         87.80  107,793,220          12.20  883,481,398       69,739
 18       To authorise the Company to purchase its own shares*                         868,761,234         98.50  13,263,114           1.50   882,024,348       1,526,789
 19       To authorise political donations                                             782,664,522         89.63  90,530,146           10.37  873,194,668       10,356,469
 20       To enable a meeting other than an AGM to be held on not less than 14 clear   859,257,858         97.25  24,281,678           2.75   883,539,536       11,601
          days notice*
 21       To approve the California Appendix to the Serco Group plc ISAYE Plan 2021    879,492,409         99.55  3,932,376            0.45   883,424,785       126,352

1. Any proxy appointments which gave discretion to the Chairman have been
included in the "For" total.

2. Percentages are rounded to two decimal places.

3. A "vote withheld" is not a vote in law and is therefore not counted towards
the proportion of votes "For" or "Against" the resolution.

 

The voting figures will shortly be available on the Company's website at
www.serco.com (http://www.serco.com) . A copy of the special business
resolutions will be submitted to the UK Listing Authority and will, in due
course, be available for inspection at
https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism
(https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism)

 

David Eveleigh

Group General Counsel and Company Secretary

 

27 April 2023

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