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Legal & General Group Plc

21 May 2014

Legal & general group plc

RESULTS OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING HELD ON 21 MAY 2014

Legal & General Group Plc announces that at its Annual General Meeting held today at The Honourable Artillery Company, Armoury House, City Road, London EC1Y 2BQ, all of the resolutions proposed in the Notice of the Meeting were passed by shareholders by means of a poll vote. All Board Directors were in attendance.

The votes cast were as follows:

 
Resolution                            For (1)                Against        Votes Withheld 
                                                                                  (2) 
----------------------------  -----------------------  -------------------  -------------- 
                              No. of shares(1)    %    No. of shares   % 
----------------------------  ----------------  -----  -------------  ----  -------------- 
Resolution 1 
 Receipt of financial 
 statements for the 
 year ended 31 December 
 2013                            4,270,290,440  99.99        102,928  0.01       6,959,648 
----------------------------  ----------------  -----  -------------  ----  -------------- 
Resolution 2 
 Declaration of a 
 final dividend of 
 6.9p per ordinary 
 share                           4,271,720,967  99.99         53,581  0.01       5,578,468 
----------------------------  ----------------  -----  -------------  ----  -------------- 
Resolution 3 
 Election of Lizabeth 
 Zlatkus as a Director           4,257,534,931  99.68     13,661,534  0.32       6,156,551 
----------------------------  ----------------  -----  -------------  ----  -------------- 
Resolution 4 
 Re-election of Mark 
 Zinkula as a Director           4,241,290,781  99.30     29,867,734  0.70       6,194,501 
----------------------------  ----------------  -----  -------------  ----  -------------- 
Resolution 5 
 Re-election of Lindsay 
 Tomlinson as a Director         4,257,480,778  99.68     13,685,539  0.32       6,186,699 
----------------------------  ----------------  -----  -------------  ----  -------------- 
Resolution 6 
 Re-election of Stuart 
 Popham as a Director            4,257,441,270  99.68     13,703,042  0.32       6,208,704 
----------------------------  ----------------  -----  -------------  ----  -------------- 
Resolution 7 
 Re-election of Julia 
 Wilson as a Director            4,257,601,378  99.68     13,573,505  0.32       6,178,133 
----------------------------  ----------------  -----  -------------  ----  -------------- 
Resolution 8 
 Re-election of Mark 
 Gregory as a Director           4,228,263,021  99.0      42,887,663  1.0        6,202,332 
----------------------------  ----------------  -----  -------------  ----  -------------- 
Resolution 9 
 Re-election of Rudy 
 Markham as a Director           4,255,400,535  99.63     15,724,911  0.37       6,227,570 
----------------------------  ----------------  -----  -------------  ----  -------------- 
Resolution 10 
 Re-election of John 
 Pollock as a Director           4,241,360,133  99.30     29,810,257  0.70       6,182,626 
----------------------------  ----------------  -----  -------------  ----  -------------- 
Resolution 11 
 Re-election of John 
 Stewart as a Director           4,186,285,325  98.01     84,928,480  1.99       6,139,211 
----------------------------  ----------------  -----  -------------  ----  -------------- 
Resolution 12 
 Re-election of Nigel 
 Wilson as a Director            4,257,314,257  99.67     13,892,661  0.33       6,146,098 
----------------------------  ----------------  -----  -------------  ----  -------------- 
Resolution 13 
 Re-appointment of 
 PricewaterhouseCoopers 
 LLP as auditors                 4,171,141,255  98.86     47,993,999  1.14      57,854,701 
----------------------------  ----------------  -----  -------------  ----  -------------- 
Resolution 14 
 To authorise the 
 Director's to fix 
 the Auditors' remuneration      4,229,536,055  99.02     41,655,274  0.98       6,161,487 
----------------------------  ----------------  -----  -------------  ----  -------------- 
Resolution 15 
 Approval of Directors' 
 Remuneration Policy             4,154,433,976  97.62    101,243,790  2.38      21,675,250 
----------------------------  ----------------  -----  -------------  ----  -------------- 
Resolution 16 
 Approval of Remuneration 
 Report                          4,196,919,449  98.72     54,395,176  1.28      26,045,069 
----------------------------  ----------------  -----  -------------  ----  -------------- 
Resolution 17 
 Approval of Performance 
 Share Plan                      4,126,523,870  96.92    131,297,767  3.08      19,531,379 
----------------------------  ----------------  -----  -------------  ----  -------------- 
Resolution 18 
 Authority to allot 
 equity securities               4,256,391,142  99.65     14,777,106  0.35       5,820,205 
----------------------------  ----------------  -----  -------------  ----  -------------- 
Resolution 19 
 Authority to make 
 political donations             4,229,951,827  99.07     39,794,234  0.93       7,611,690 
----------------------------  ----------------  -----  -------------  ----  -------------- 
Resolution 20* 
 Disapplication of 
 pre-emption rights              4,248,986,699  99.49     21,990,519  0.51       6,382,783 
----------------------------  ----------------  -----  -------------  ----  -------------- 
Resolution 21* 
 Authority to purchase 
 own shares                      4,268,033,226  99.92      3,554,689  0.08       5,763,899 
----------------------------  ----------------  -----  -------------  ----  -------------- 
Resolution 22* 
 Authority to call 
 general meetings 
 (other than an AGM) 
 on not less than 
 14 clear days' notice           3,968,643,983  92.91    302,888,247  7.09       5,828,782 
----------------------------  ----------------  -----  -------------  ----  -------------- 
 

Notes:

   1          The 'for' votes include those giving the Chairman 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          Voting was conducted by poll. 

5 The total number of proxy votes cast was 4,273,718,857 representing 72.22% of voting capital as at 19 May 2014. At the close of business on 19 May 2014, the issued share capital of the Company was 5,917,911,723 ordinary shares (no shares are held in Treasury).

   *           Denotes a Special Resolution. 

The full text of the resolutions can be found in the Notice of Annual of General Meeting which is available for inspection at the National Storage Mechanism http://www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/NSM and also on the Company's website at http://investor.legalandgeneral.com/agm.cfm

In accordance with Listing Rules 9.6.3(1) and 9.6.18 a copy of the resolutions passed (other than those concerning ordinary business) will shortly be submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will also be available for inspection at http://www.hemscott.com/nsm.do

 
 Name of person making notification:    Claire Singleton 
 Contact number:                        020 3124 2149 
 Date of notification:                  21 May 2014 
 

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