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A 'vote withheld' is not a vote under English law and is not counted in the calculation of votes 'for' and 'against' a Resolution.
At the date of the AGM the issued share capital of the Company is 419,418,082 ordinary shares. The total number of electronic poll votes received for the 2021 AGM represented approximately 79.4% (2020 - 81.3%) of the issued share capital of the Company.
Resolutions 14, 15, 16 and 17 were passed as Special Resolutions, copies of these Resolutions together with the new Articles of Association will shortly be available for inspection at the National Storage Mechanism, which is located at https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism