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    REG-Tate & Lyle PLC Result of AGM <Origin Href="QuoteRef">TATE.L</Origin>

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    27/07/2017 14:40
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          Result of AGM    
        
          Tate & Lyle PLC    
          Result of Annual General Meeting 2017    
          Tate & Lyle PLC (the Company) announces that at its Annual General       Meeting (AGM) held earlier today, all resolutions contained in the       Notice of Annual General Meeting 2017 were duly passed.    
          The results of the poll held at the AGM are as follows:    
          
                      Resolution                                                    Total For(1)                                                    Total Against                                                    Votes withheld(2)                              
          
                                      No. of votes                                                    % of vote                                          No. of votes                                                    % of vote                                          No. of votes                              
          
                      1.                                                    Report and Accounts                                          302,726,123                                          99.31                                          2,089,093                                          0.69                                          31,290                              
          
                      2.                                          Remuneration Policy                                          295,458,658                                          97.16                                          8,622,530                                          2.84                                          79,662                              
          
                      3.                                          Remuneration Report                                          291,846,638                                          95.98                                          12,218,602                                          4.02                                          95,610                              
          
                      4.                                          Approve final dividend                                          304,015,599                                          99.95                                          138,451                                          0.05                                          6,800                              
          
                      5.                                          Elect Dr Gerry Murphy                                          299,673,979                                          98.60                                          4,245,176                                          1.40                                          241,695                              
          
                      6.                                          Re-elect Javed Ahmed                                          293,867,646                                          96.69                                          10,061,370                                          3.31                                          231,834                              
          
                      7.                                          Re-elect Nick Hampton                                          302,711,857                                          99.60                                          1,214,219                                          0.40                                          234,774                              
          
                      8.                                          Re-elect Paul Forman                                          302,464,741                                          99.80                                          602,634                                          0.20                                          1,093,475                              
          
                      9.                                          Re-elect Lars Frederiksen                                          303,352,564                                          99.81                                          578,466                                          0.19                                          229,820                              
          
                      10.                                          Re-elect Douglas Hurt                                          303,378,212                                          99.82                                          546,673                                          0.18                                          235,965                              
          
                      11.                                          Elect Jeanne Johns                                          303,473,020                                          99.85                                          455,277                                          0.15                                          232,553                              
          
                      12.                                          Re-elect Anne Minto                                          300,585,630                                          98.96                                          3,147,725                                          1.04                                          427,495                              
          
                      13.                                          Re-elect Dr Ajai Puri                                          303,510,189                                          99.86                                          414,685                                          0.14                                          235,976                              
          
                      14.                                          Re-elect Sybella Stanley                                          303,443,183                                          99.91                                          288,153                                          0.09                                          429,514                              
          
                      15.                                          Re-appoint auditors                                          289,852,178                                          95.09                                          14,957,144                                          4.91                                          37,184                              
          
                      16.                                          Approve auditors remuneration                                          303,341,934                                          99.52                                          1,460,024                                          0.48                                          44,548                              
          
                      17.                                          Authority to make political donations and incur political expenditure                                          299,239,720                                          98.78                                          3,700,196                                          1.22                                          1,906,590                              
          
                      18.                                          Authority to allot shares                                          292,443,507                                          96.42                                          10,864,593                                          3.58                                          1,538,406                              
          
                      19.                                          Authority to disapply pre-emption rights                                          303,361,021                                          99.54                                          1,391,929                                          0.46                                          93,556                              
          
                      20.                                          Additional authority to disapply pre-emption rights for an           acquisition or specified capital investment                                          295,417,810                                          96.94                                          9,318,520                                          3.06                                          110,176                              
          
                      21.                                          Authority to purchase own shares                                          302,092,984                                          99.12                                          2,673,191                                          0.88                                          80,331                              
          
                      22.                                          Authority in respect of notices for general meetings                                          276,953,763                                          91.34                                          26,243,307                                          8.66                                          1,649,250                              
        
          (1) Includes discretionary votes.    
          (2) A vote withheld is not a vote in law and is not       counted in the calculation of the proportion of votes For or Against       a resolution.    
          After ten years on the Board, Liz Airey, an independent Non-Executive       Director, did not seek re-election at the AGM and therefore ceased to be       a Director from the conclusion of the meeting.    
          On 27 July 2017, there were 465,684,612 ordinary shares (excluding       Treasury Shares) and 2,394,000 preference shares (which have limited       voting rights) in issue.    
          In accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.2R, copies of the resolutions passed       as special business at the AGM have been submitted to the National       Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available for inspection at: http://www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/NSM.    
          Claire-Marie OGrady
    Company Secretary
    27 July 2017    
        
          Tate & Lyle PLC

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