Berkeley Group Holdings (The) PLC Annual Report and Accounts (0661H)

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Berkeley Group Holdings (The) PLC

30 July 2021

30 July 2021

The Berkeley Group Holdings plc

(the "Company")

Annual Report and Accounts

The Berkeley Group Holdings plc announces that the Company's 2021 Annual Report and Accounts has today been made available on the Company's website at the following location:

www.berkeleygroup.co.uk/about-us/investor-information/annual-report

In accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.1, a copy of the above document has been uploaded to the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available for inspection at:

https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism .

The Company's Annual General Meeting will be held on 3 September 2021 at 11.00 am. A copy of the 2021 AGM Notice will be issued on 2 August 2021.

The Company released its preliminary announcement of annual results for the year ended 30 April 2021 ("Final Results Announcement") on 23 June 2021. This information together with the information in the appendix to this announcement, which has been extracted from the 2021 Annual Report constitutes the materials required for the purposes of compliance with Disclosure Guidance and Transparency Rule 6.3.5R(2)(b) to be communicated to media in unedited full text through a Regulatory Information Service.

This announcement should be read in conjunction with and is not a substitute for reading the full 2021 Annual Report; page references in the appendix refer to page references in the 2021 Annual Report.

Ann Dibben

Company Secretary

The Berkeley Group Holdings plc

Tel: [phone]

LEI: 2138009OQSSLVVHQAL78

Media Enquiries:

Tim Robertson

Novella Communications

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APPENDIX

Statement of Directors' Responsibilities

The following responsibility statement is repeated here solely for the purpose of complying with DTR 6.3.5R. This statement relates to and is extracted from pages 156 and 157 of the 2021 Annual Report and Accounts. Responsibility is for the full 2021 Annual Report and Accounts and not the extracted information presented in this announcement and the Final Results Announcement.

Statement of Directors' responsibilities in respect of the Annual Report and the Financial Statements

The Directors are responsible for preparing the Annual Report and the Group and parent Company financial statements in accordance with applicable law and regulations.

Company law requires the Directors to prepare Group and parent Company financial statements for each financial year. Under that law they are required to prepare the Group Financial Statements in accordance with International Accounting Standards in conformity with the requirements of the Companies Act 2006 and applicable law and have elected to prepare the parent Company financial statements in accordance with UK accounting standards, including FRS 101 'Reduced Disclosure Framework'. In addition, the Group financial statements are required under the UK Disclosure Guidance and Transparency Rules to be prepared in accordance with International Financial Reporting Standards adopted pursuant to Regulation (EC) No 1606/2002 as it applies in the European Union.

Under company law the Directors must not approve the financial statements unless they are satisfied that they give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the Group and parent Company and of their profit or loss for that period. In preparing each of the Group and parent Company financial statements, the Directors are required to:

   --    select suitable accounting policies and then apply them consistently; 
   --    make judgments and estimates that are reasonable, relevant, reliable and prudent; 

-- for the Group Financial Statements, state whether they have been prepared in accordance with international accounting standards in conformity with the requirements of the Companies Act 2006 and International Financial Reporting Standards adopted pursuant to Regulation (EC) No 1606/2002 as it applies in the European Union;

-- for the parent Company financial statements, state whether applicable UK accounting standards have been followed, subject to any material departures disclosed and explained in the parent company financial statements;

-- assess the Group and parent Company's ability to continue as a going concern, disclosing, as applicable, matters related to going concern; and

-- use the going concern basis of accounting unless they either intend to liquidate the Group or the parent Company or to cease operations, or have no realistic alternative but to do so.

The Directors are responsible for keeping adequate accounting records that are sufficient to show and explain the parent Company's transactions and disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the parent Company and enable them to ensure that its financial statements comply with the Companies Act 2006. They are responsible for such internal control as they determine is necessary to enable the preparation of financial statements that are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error, and have general responsibility for taking such steps as are reasonably open to them to safeguard the assets of the Group and to prevent and detect fraud and other irregularities.

Under applicable law and regulations, the Directors are also responsible for preparing a Strategic Report, Directors' Report, Directors' Remuneration Report and Corporate Governance Statement that complies with that law and those regulations.

The Directors are responsible for the maintenance and integrity of the corporate and financial information included on the Company's website. Legislation in the UK governing the preparation and dissemination of financial statements may differ from legislation in other jurisdictions.

Directors' responsibility statement

Each of the Directors confirms that, to the best of each person's knowledge:

-- the Financial Statements, prepared in accordance with the applicable set of accounting standards, give a true and fair view of the assets, liabilities, financial position and profit or loss of the company and the undertakings included in the consolidation taken as a whole; and

-- the Company financial statements, which have been prepared in accordance with United Kingdom Accounting Standards, comprising FRS 101, give a true and fair view of the assets, liabilities, financial position and results of the Company; and

-- the Strategic Report, together with the Directors' Report, includes a fair review of the development and performance of the business and the position of the Group, together with a description of the principal risks and uncertainties that it faces, including those that would threaten its business model, future performance, solvency or liquidity.

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