Legal & General Group Plc

Results of Annual General Meeting held on Thursday 18 May 2023

Legal & General Group Plc announces that at its Annual General Meeting held today at the British Medical Association, BMA House, Tavistock Square, Bloomsbury, London, WC1H 9JP all of the resolutions proposed in the Notice of the Meeting were passed by shareholders by means of a poll vote.

The votes cast were as follows:

Resolution

For 1

No. of shares1

%

Against

No. of shares

%

Votes Withheld 2

Resolution 1

Receipt of financial

statements for the year ended

31 December 2022

3,798,553,727

99.96

1,485,006

0.04

20,959,151

Resolution 2

Declaration of a final dividend

of 13.93p per ordinary share

3,782,325,570

99.01

37,670,998

0.99

1,003,836

Resolution 3

Approval of Climate Transition

Plan

3,642,505,939

97.70

85,840,659

2.30

92,651,286

Resolution 4

Election of Carolyn Johnson

as a Director

3,815,537,624

99.98

921,831

0.02

4,540,949

Resolution 5

Election of Tushar Morzaria

as a Director

3,761,562,417

98.98

38,761,527

1.02

20,666,460

Resolution 6

Re-election of Henrietta

Baldock as a Director

3,780,908,676

98.99

38,694,204

1.01

1,397,524

Resolution 7

Re-election of Nilufer von

Bismarck as a Director

3,784,650,208

99.09

34,936,112

0.91

1,404,084

Resolution 8

Re-election of Philip Broadley

as a Director

3,777,934,517

98.99

38,566,380

1.01

4,486,987

Resolution 9

Re-election of Jeff Davies as

a Director

3,808,556,209

99.71

10,950,710

0.29

1,456,965

Resolution 10

Re-election of Sir John

Kingman as a Director

3,773,325,565

99.21

30,114,336

0.79

17,550,503

Resolution 11

Re-election of Lesley Knox as

a Director

3,713,074,375

97.21

106,522,590

2.79

1,400,919

Resolution 12

Re-election of George Lewis

as a Director

3,780,998,339

98.99

38,562,797

1.01

1,419,282

Resolution 13

Re-election of Ric Lewis as a

Director

3,780,996,007

98.99

38,578,468

1.01

1,400,943

Resolution 14

3,780,826,844

98.98

38,776,576

1.02

1,381,984

Re-election of Laura Wade-

Gery as a Director

Resolution 15

Re-election of Sir Nigel

Wilson as a Director

3,817,786,030

99.95

1,784,206

0.05

1,420,168

Resolution 16

Re-appointment of KPMG

LLP as auditors

3,717,829,713

97.33

101,836,500

2.67

1,275,670

Resolution 17

To authorise the Audit

Committee, on behalf of the

Board to determine the

Auditors' remuneration

3,768,772,832

98.67

50,988,930

1.33

1,221,176

Resolution 18

Approval of Remuneration

Policy

3,646,065,245

95.46

173,407,374

4.54

1,515,264

Resolution 19

Approval of Remuneration

Report

3,655,778,819

95.71

163,680,654

4.29

1,524,911

Resolution 20

Approval of Directors' Fee

Limit

3,801,893,530

99.55

17,244,749

0.45

1,858,624

Resolution 21

Authority to allot equity shares

3,744,802,142

98.04

74,917,275

1.96

1,251,974

Resolution 22

Authority to allot shares in

respect of Contingent

Convertible Securities (CCS)

3,757,627,938

98.37

62,103,731

1.63

1,258,734

Resolution 23

Authority to make political

donations

3,752,720,857

98.24

67,411,927

1.76

850,153

Resolution 24*

Disapplication of pre-emption

rights

3,778,182,933

98.92

41,329,097

1.08

1,465,543

Resolution 25*

Additional authority to

disapply pre-emption rights

3,750,785,863

98.20

68,759,299

1.80

1,436,722

Resolution 26*

Additional authority to

disapply pre-emption rights in

connection with CCS

3,740,417,862

97.93

79,122,530

2.07

1,437,991

Resolution 27*

Authority to purchase own

shares

3,749,487,801

98.19

69,018,196

1.81

2,468,420

Resolution 28*

Authority to call general

meetings (other than an

AGM) on not less than 14

clear days' notice

3,521,329,890

92.19

298,312,413

7.81

1,332,114

Notes:

  1. The 'for' votes include those giving the Chair discretion.
  2. A vote 'withheld' is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation of the votes 'for' and 'against' each resolution.
  3. Votes 'for' and 'against' are expressed as a percentage of the votes received.

4 The total number of votes cast was 3,820,132,784 representing 63.95% of voting capital as at 16 May 2023. At the close of business on 16 May 2023, the issued share capital of the Company was 5,973,392,412 ordinary shares (no shares are held in Treasury).

  • Denotes a Special Resolution.

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