RELX PLC
Result of Annual General Meeting
2024
The Company held its Annual General
Meeting at 9.30am today, Thursday 25 April 2024.
All valid proxy votes (whether
submitted electronically or in hard copy form) were included in the
poll taken at the meeting.
The table below shows the results of
the poll on all 20 resolutions.
|
|
Resolution
|
Votes For
|
%
votes cast for
|
Votes Against
|
%
votes cast against
|
Total votes cast (excluding votes withheld)
|
% of
issued capital voted (excluding treasury shares)
|
Votes Withheld
|
|
1.
|
Receive the 2023 Annual
Report
|
1,564,609,496
|
99.89
|
1,705,231
|
0.11
|
1,566,314,727
|
83.44
|
9,513,796
|
|
2.
|
Approve Directors' Remuneration
Report
|
1,513,406,755
|
96.05
|
62,241,449
|
3.95
|
1,575,648,204
|
83.94
|
180,316
|
|
3.
|
Declaration of 2023 Final
Dividend
|
1,574,204,019
|
99.91
|
1,387,977
|
0.09
|
1,575,591,996
|
83.94
|
236,527
|
|
4.
|
Re-appointment of
auditors
|
1,567,230,016
|
99.47
|
8,352,532
|
0.53
|
1,575,582,548
|
83.94
|
245,974
|
|
5.
|
Auditors' remuneration
|
1,574,141,212
|
99.94
|
985,576
|
0.06
|
1,575,126,788
|
83.91
|
701,734
|
|
6.
|
Elect Bianca Tetteroo as a
Director
|
1,575,263,972
|
99.98
|
323,480
|
0.02
|
1,575,587,452
|
83.94
|
241,071
|
|
7.
|
Re-elect Paul Walker as a
Director
|
1,517,127,897
|
96.52
|
54,717,288
|
3.48
|
1,571,845,185
|
83.74
|
3,983,337
|
|
8.
|
Re-elect Erik Engstrom as a
Director
|
1,574,803,897
|
99.94
|
895,755
|
0.06
|
1,575,699,652
|
83.94
|
128,871
|
|
9.
|
Re-elect Nick Luff as a
Director
|
1,570,451,370
|
99.67
|
5,137,624
|
0.33
|
1,575,588,994
|
83.94
|
239,529
|
|
10.
|
Re-elect Alistair Cox as a
Director
|
1,574,977,817
|
99.96
|
610,247
|
0.04
|
1,575,588,064
|
83.94
|
240,459
|
|
11.
|
Re-elect June Felix as a
Director
|
1,574,978,348
|
99.96
|
601,709
|
0.04
|
1,575,580,057
|
83.94
|
248,466
|
|
12.
|
Re-elect Charlotte Hogg as a
Director
|
1,575,291,318
|
99.98
|
282,445
|
0.02
|
1,575,573,763
|
83.94
|
254,760
|
|
13.
|
Re-elect Robert MacLeod as a
Director
|
1,530,451,710
|
97.14
|
45,127,547
|
2.86
|
1,575,579,257
|
83.94
|
249,265
|
|
14.
|
Re-elect Andrew Sukawaty as a
Director
|
1,575,289,814
|
99.98
|
286,831
|
0.02
|
1,575,576,645
|
83.94
|
251,878
|
|
15.
|
Re-elect Suzanne Wood as a
Director
|
1,528,967,044
|
97.04
|
46,617,946
|
2.96
|
1,575,584,990
|
83.94
|
243,532
|
|
16.
|
Authority to allot shares
|
1,483,226,283
|
94.14
|
92,327,090
|
5.86
|
1,575,553,373
|
83.94
|
275,147
|
|
17.
|
Disapplication of pre-emption
rights
|
1,562,026,576
|
99.56
|
6,968,815
|
0.44
|
1,568,995,391
|
83.59
|
6,833,132
|
|
18.
|
Additional disapplication of
pre-emption rights
|
1,555,208,863
|
99.12
|
13,800,147
|
0.88
|
1,569,009,010
|
83.59
|
6,819,513
|
|
19.
|
Authority to purchase own
shares
|
1,565,206,947
|
99.42
|
9,107,498
|
0.58
|
1,574,314,445
|
83.87
|
1,514,078
|
|
20.
|
Notice period for general
meetings
|
1,457,647,512
|
92.52
|
117,768,290
|
7.48
|
1,575,415,802
|
83.93
|
412,718
|
NOTES:
1. The 'For' vote
includes those giving the Chair discretion.
2. Votes 'Withheld' are
not a vote in law and are not counted in the calculation of the
percentage of votes 'For' or 'Against' a resolution.
3. Resolutions 17 to 20
are Special Resolutions.
4. At the close of
business on Tuesday, 23 April 2024 the total number of ordinary
shares in issue, excluding treasury shares, was
1,877,074,442.
5. The full text of the
resolutions can be found in the Notice of Annual General Meeting,
which is available for inspection at the National Storage
Mechanism https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism
and on the Company's
website at www.relx.com.
6. In accordance with
Listing Rule 9.6.2, a copy of the resolutions passed, other than
resolutions concerning ordinary business, will shortly be submitted
to the National Storage Mechanism for inspection at
https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism.