Company Announcements

Result of AGM

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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.

 

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 For1

%2

Total votes against

 

%2

Total votes cast

Votes withheld3

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 days notice*

859,257,858

97.25

24,281,678

2.75

883,539,536

11,601

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. 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 

 

David Eveleigh

Group General Counsel and Company Secretary

 

27 April 2023


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