Annual General Meeting

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Annual General Meeting 2011

Our AGM was held at 2pm (UK time) on Tuesday 17 May 2011

Our 2011 Annual General Meeting (AGM) was held at the Edinburgh International Conference Centre, The Exchange, Morrison Street, EH3 8EE, Scotland on Tuesday 17 May at 2pm (UK time).


AGM guide 2011


The resolutions

The resolutions put to our Annual General Meeting on 17 May 2011 were all passed. The results are below:

The resolutions For Against Withheld
Resolution 1 - To receive and consider the Annual Report and Accounts for 2010 738,820,643 2,099,676 3,794,029
Resolution 2 - To approve the Directors' remuneration report 583,889,312 76,129,611 84,695,425
Resolution 3 - To declare a final dividend for 2010 740,381,069 371,489 3,961,790
Resolution 4 - To re-appoint PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as auditors 735,350,876 5,094,868 4,267,974
Resolution 5 - To authorise the Directors to set the auditors' fees 736,960,841 2,818,459 4,935,048
Resolution 6 -

A - To re-elect Gerry Grimstone
731,247,616 8,158,695 5,308,037
B - To re-elect Kent Atkinson 733,461,606 5,713,823 5,537,428
C - To re-elect Lord Blackwell 729,664,143 9,443,699 5,606,506
D - To re-elect Colin Buchan 731,655,979 7,463,217 5,595,152
E - To re-elect Crawford Gillies 720,380,734 6,526,709 17,806,905
F - To re-elect David Grigson 733,779,563 5,328,801 5,604,449
G - To re-elect Baroness McDonagh 731,346,591 7,853,476 5,513,215
H - To re-elect David Nish 704,449,708 34,848,044 5,416,596
I - To re-elect Keith Skeoch 733,833,034 5,374,201 5,507,113
J - To re-elect Sheelagh Whittaker 732,533,011 6,726,739 5,454,598
Resolution 7 - To elect Jacqueline Hunt

732,962,534 5,748,735 6,003,079
Resolution 8 - To authorise the Directors to issue further shares 726,350,498 13,616,241 4,747,609
Resolution 9 - To disapply share pre-emption rights 728,573,615 9,099,277 7,033,690
Resolution 10 - To give authority for the Company to buy back shares 733,722,600 6,378,003 4,611,481
Resolution 11 - To provide limited authority to make political donations and to incur political expenditure 672,949,659 62,367,714 9,396,975
Resolution 12 - To allow the Company to call general meetings on 14 days' notice 680,911,129 59,468,335 4,334,884
Resolution 13 - To adopt new articles of association 734,363,894 3,867,683 6,482,771
Resolution 14 - To approve the Standard Life Sharesave Plan 732,572,849 6,547,608 5,591,215

Issued share capital and total voting rights

On 4 March 2011 the Company's issued share capital consisted of 2,283,077,502 ordinary shares, carrying one vote each. No shares were held in treasury. Therefore, the total voting rights in the Company on 4 March 2011 were 2,283,077,502.