Land Securities Group PLC Result of AGM (2726F)

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RNS Number : 2726F

Land Securities Group PLC

11 July 2019

11 July 2019

Land Securities Group PLC (the "Company")

Voting results of Annual General Meeting

The Company announces the voting results of its Annual General Meeting ("AGM") held earlier today at 80 Victoria Street, London, SW1E 5JL. All resolutions, as set out in the Notice of Meeting dated 10 June 2019, were passed with the requisite majority by means of a poll.

Resolutions 1 to 17 were passed as Ordinary Resolutions and resolutions 18 to 21 were passed as Special Resolutions.

 
                RESOLUTION                VOTES        %        VOTES       TOTAL VOTES        VOTES 
                                           FOR*        FOR      AGAINST     FOR / AGAINST    WITHHELD** 
       To receive the accounts 
        of the Company for 
        the year ended 31 March 
        2019 and the Directors' 
        and Auditors' Reports 
 1.     thereon                        558,209,752   99.99      46,561      558,256,313       703,125 
      ------------------------------  ------------  -------  -----------  ---------------  ------------ 
       To approve the Annual 
 2.     Report on Remuneration         517,964,517   93.13    38,215,631    556,180,148      2,778,071 
      ------------------------------  ------------  -------  -----------  ---------------  ------------ 
       To declare a final 
        dividend of 11.65 pence 
 3.     per Ordinary share             558,528,283   100.00     7,156       558,535,439       423,999 
      ------------------------------  ------------  -------  -----------  ---------------  ------------ 
       To elect Madeleine 
 4.     Cosgrave as a Director         556,400,674   99.63    2,055,304     558,455,978       502,241 
      ------------------------------  ------------  -------  -----------  ---------------  ------------ 
       To elect Christophe 
 5.     Evain as a Director            558,365,492   99.98      88,645      558,454,137       504,083 
      ------------------------------  ------------  -------  -----------  ---------------  ------------ 
       To re-elect Robert 
 6.     Noel as a Director             555,488,675   99.82     986,201      556,474,876      2,483,192 
      ------------------------------  ------------  -------  -----------  ---------------  ------------ 
       To re-elect Martin 
 7.     Greenslade as a Director       556,702,303   99.69    1,754,281     558,456,584       501,485 
      ------------------------------  ------------  -------  -----------  ---------------  ------------ 
       To re-elect Colette 
 8.     O'Shea as a Director           557,376,839   99.81    1,080,752     558,457,591       500,478 
      ------------------------------  ------------  -------  -----------  ---------------  ------------ 
       To re-elect Christopher 
 9.     Bartram as a Director          536,742,187   96.11    21,715,066    558,457,253       500,815 
      ------------------------------  ------------  -------  -----------  ---------------  ------------ 
       To re-elect Edward 
        Bonham Carter as a 
 10.    Director                       516,727,666   92.53    41,728,497    558,456,163       501,905 
      ------------------------------  ------------  -------  -----------  ---------------  ------------ 
       To re-elect Nicholas 
 11.    Cadbury as a Director          555,009,079   99.38    3,444,052     558,453,131       504,937 
      ------------------------------  ------------  -------  -----------  ---------------  ------------ 
       To re-elect Cressida 
 12.    Hogg as a Director             553,889,313   99.53    2,590,136     556,479,449      2,478,619 
      ------------------------------  ------------  -------  -----------  ---------------  ------------ 
       To re-elect Stacey 
 13.    Rauch as a Director            468,013,205   94.79    25,726,523    493,739,728     65,218,340 
      ------------------------------  ------------  -------  -----------  ---------------  ------------ 
       To re-appoint Ernst 
 14.    & Young LLP as auditor         555,202,414   99.76    1,356,966     556,559,380      2,399,906 
      ------------------------------  ------------  -------  -----------  ---------------  ------------ 
       To determine the remuneration 
 15.    of the auditor                 556,968,524   99.72    1,555,213     558,523,737       435,550 
      ------------------------------  ------------  -------  -----------  ---------------  ------------ 
 16.   To make political donations     554,084,971   99.61    2,169,536     556,254,507      2,704,931 
      ------------------------------  ------------  -------  -----------  ---------------  ------------ 
 17.   To allot securities             507,441,774   90.86    51,021,145    558,462,919       496,518 
      ------------------------------  ------------  -------  -----------  ---------------  ------------ 
       To disapply pre-emption 
 18.    rights                         553,717,244   99.91     525,272      554,242,516      4,716,922 
      ------------------------------  ------------  -------  -----------  ---------------  ------------ 
       To disapply pre-emption 
        rights for purposes 
        of acquisitions or 
 19.    capital investments            524,183,395   94.58    30,057,111    554,240,506      4,718,931 
      ------------------------------  ------------  -------  -----------  ---------------  ------------ 
 20.   To purchase own shares          556,043,752   99.61    2,182,876     558,226,628       732,809 
      ------------------------------  ------------  -------  -----------  ---------------  ------------ 
       To adopt new articles 
 21.    of association                 556,151,328   99.99      76,028      556,227,356      2,730,713 
      ------------------------------  ------------  -------  -----------  ---------------  ------------ 
 

* Includes discretionary votes

**A vote withheld is not a vote in law and is therefore not included in the calculation of total votes For/Against

   --      Total voting rights at 11 July 2019:   741,462,011 Ordinary shares of 10 2/3 p each 
   --      Number of votes per share:              One 
   --      Total number of votes cast:               558,535,439 Ordinary shares (i.e.74.34% turnout) 

In accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.2, copies of the resolutions passed as special business will shortly be available for inspection on the National Storage Mechanism at http://www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/NSM.

A copy of the voting results shown above is also available on the Company's website at https://landsec.com/investors/shareholders-equity-investors/annual-general-meeting

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For further information, please contact:

Land Securities Group PLC

Tim Ashby

Group General Counsel & Company Secretary

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