Land Securities Group PLC Voting results of Annual General Meeting (4852U)

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RNS Number : 4852U

Land Securities Group PLC

12 July 2018

12 July 2018

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 11 June 2018, were passed with the requisite majority by means of a poll.

Resolutions 1 to 18 were passed as Ordinary Resolutions and resolutions 19 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 
        2018 and the Directors' 
        and Auditors' Reports 
 1.     thereon                        564,126,799   99.93     418,282      564,545,081       538,377 
      ------------------------------  ------------  -------  -----------  ---------------  ------------ 
       To approve the Directors 
 2.     Remuneration Policy            561,169,530   99.42    3,262,536     564,432,066       651,391 
      ------------------------------  ------------  -------  -----------  ---------------  ------------ 
       To approve the Annual 
 3.     Report on Remuneration         553,919,786   98.14    10,511,217    564,431,003       652,454 
      ------------------------------  ------------  -------  -----------  ---------------  ------------ 
       To declare a final 
        dividend of 14.65 pence 
 4.     per Ordinary share             564,570,902   100.00     10,580      564,581,482       501,976 
      ------------------------------  ------------  -------  -----------  ---------------  ------------ 
       To elect Colette O'Shea 
 5.     as a Director                  560,578,344   99.30    3,970,615     564,548,959       533,281 
      ------------------------------  ------------  -------  -----------  ---------------  ------------ 
       To elect Scott Parsons 
 6.     as a Director                  560,272,858   99.24    4,273,798     564,546,656       535,584 
      ------------------------------  ------------  -------  -----------  ---------------  ------------ 
       To re-elect Robert 
 7.     Noel as a Director             560,743,930   99.33    3,805,170     564,549,100       533,140 
      ------------------------------  ------------  -------  -----------  ---------------  ------------ 
       To re-elect Martin 
 8.     Greenslade as a Director       559,866,988   99.17    4,683,163     564,550,151       532,089 
      ------------------------------  ------------  -------  -----------  ---------------  ------------ 
       To re-elect Christopher 
 9.     Bartram as a Director          559,521,373   99.11    5,028,861     564,550,234       532,099 
      ------------------------------  ------------  -------  -----------  ---------------  ------------ 
       To re-elect Edward 
        Bonham Carter as a 
 10.    Director                       559,533,440   99.11    5,016,363     564,549,803       533,748 
      ------------------------------  ------------  -------  -----------  ---------------  ------------ 
       To re-elect Nicholas 
 11.    Cadbury as a Director          563,114,530   99.75    1,434,128     564,548,658       533,675 
      ------------------------------  ------------  -------  -----------  ---------------  ------------ 
       To re-elect Cressida 
 12.    Hogg CBE as a Director         557,206,659   98.70    7,354,004     564,560,663       522,888 
      ------------------------------  ------------  -------  -----------  ---------------  ------------ 
       To re-elect Simon Palley 
 13.    as a Director                  559,395,616   99.09    5,154,394     564,550,010       532,323 
      ------------------------------  ------------  -------  -----------  ---------------  ------------ 
       To re-elect Stacey 
 14.    Rauch as a Director            559,826,946   99.16    4,723,505     564,550,451       531,882 
      ------------------------------  ------------  -------  -----------  ---------------  ------------ 
       To re-appoint Ernst 
 15.    & Young LLP as auditor         564,400,385   99.97     164,916      564,565,301       518,250 
      ------------------------------  ------------  -------  -----------  ---------------  ------------ 
       To determine the remuneration 
 16.    of the auditor                 564,030,710   99.91     483,600      564,514,310       569,241 
      ------------------------------  ------------  -------  -----------  ---------------  ------------ 
 17.   To make political donations     559,435,497   99.53    2,657,858     562,093,355      2,990,196 
      ------------------------------  ------------  -------  -----------  ---------------  ------------ 
 18.   To allot securities             502,417,392   89.00    62,097,524    564,514,916       568,634 
      ------------------------------  ------------  -------  -----------  ---------------  ------------ 
       To disapply pre-emption 
 19.    rights                         560,662,973   99.96     233,793      560,896,766      4,186,785 
      ------------------------------  ------------  -------  -----------  ---------------  ------------ 
       To disapply pre-emption 
        rights for purposes 
        of acquisitions or 
 20.    capital investments            526,142,339   93.80    34,753,414    560,895,753      4,187,797 
      ------------------------------  ------------  -------  -----------  ---------------  ------------ 
 21.   To purchase own shares          561,927,599   99.60    2,249,136     564,176,735       906,815 
      ------------------------------  ------------  -------  -----------  ---------------  ------------ 
 

* 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 12 July 2018:    741,459,785  Ordinary Shares of 10 2/3 p each 
   --      Number of votes per share:              One 
   --      Total number of votes cast:               564,581,482  Ordinary Shares (i.e.76.14% 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

Tel: [phone]

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