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 2.00pm today.
In accordance with the national lockdown restrictions currently in place, the AGM took place as a closed meeting and was attended by the minimum necessary quorum of two shareholders. 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 2021 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 Monday 19 April 2021, being those eligible to be voted on at the AGM, was 1,213,449,676.
The table below shows the votes received for and against the Resolutions, representing a total of 75.77 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 | 902,637,217 | 99.81% | 1,722,265 | 0.19% | 904,359,482 | 15,055,900 |
| 2 | To approve the Directors' Remuneration Report | 894,864,671 | 97.33% | 24,521,239 | 2.67% | 919,385,910 | 29,472 |
| 3 | To approve the Directors' Remuneration Policy | 867,794,582 | 94.55% | 49,987,687 | 5.45% | 917,782,269 | 1,633,113 |
| 4 | To approve the Final Dividend of 1.4 pence | 919,384,381 | 100.00% | 28,430 | 0.00% | 919,412,811 | 2,572 |
| 5 | To elect Dame Sue Owen as a Director | 919,258,665 | 99.99% | 132,953 | 0.01% | 919,391,618 | 23,765 |
| 6 | To elect Tim Lodge as a Director | 919,252,594 | 99.99% | 129,932 | 0.01% | 919,382,526 | 32,857 |
| 7 | To re-elect John Rishton as a Director | 885,947,217 | 96.37% | 33,411,543 | 3.63% | 919,358,760 | 56,623 |
| 8 | To re-elect Rupert Soames as a Director | 903,666,972 | 99.83% | 1,501,482 | 0.17% | 905,168,454 | 14,246,928 |
| 9 | To re-elect Kirsty Bashforth as a Director | 903,662,505 | 99.83% | 1,502,058 | 0.17% | 905,164,563 | 14,250,819 |
| 10 | To re-elect Eric Born as a Director | 918,037,639 | 99.85% | 1,348,728 | 0.15% | 919,386,367 | 29,016 |
| 11 | To re-elect Ian El-Mokadem as a Director | 917,975,845 | 99.85% | 1,397,441 | 0.15% | 919,373,286 | 42,097 |
| 12 | To re-elect Lynne Peacock as a Director | 916,371,272 | 99.67% | 3,014,769 | 0.33% | 919,386,041 | 29,342 |
| 13 | To re-appoint KPMG LLP as auditor of the Company | 904,885,710 | 98.42% | 14,506,953 | 1.58% | 919,392,663 | 22,720 |
| 14 | To authorise the Audit Committee to determine auditor's remuneration | 919,244,479 | 99.98% | 140,638 | 0.02% | 919,385,117 | 30,266 |
| 15 | To authorise Directors to Allot Shares | 913,619,700 | 99.38% | 5,745,462 | 0.62% | 919,365,162 | 50,221 |
| 16 | To disapply statutory pre-emption rights relating to shares allotted in Resolution 15* | 918,993,314 | 99.96% | 367,330 | 0.04% | 919,360,644 | 54,739 |
| 17 | To disapply pre-emption rights in connection with an acquisition or specified capital investment* | 878,297,717 | 95.53% | 41,070,576 | 4.47% | 919,368,293 | 47,089 |
| 18 | To authorise the Company to purchase its own shares* | 897,765,129 | 97.73% | 20,817,607 | 2.27% | 918,582,736 | 832,646 |
| 19 | To authorise political donations | 802,671,151 | 87.39% | 115,823,334 | 12.61% | 918,494,485 | 920,898 |
| 20 | To enable a meeting other than an AGM to be held on not less than 14 clear days notice* | 881,563,723 | 95.92% | 37,516,996 | 4.08% | 919,080,719 | 334,664 |
| 21 | To approve the International Save As You Earn Plan 2021 | 917,116,262 | 99.75% | 2,278,319 | 0.25% | 919,394,581 | 20,802 |
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
21 April 2021
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