| Voting for | Voting against | Voting withheld |
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Ordinary resolution 1
To receive, approve and adopt the Company’s audited financial statements for the year ended 30
September 2025 and the reports of the Directors and auditor thereon. | 44,911,944 | 1,336 | 43,692 |
Ordinary resolution 2
To declare a final dividend for the year ended 30 September 2025 of 13.33p per Ordinary Share in the capital of the Company to be paid on 20 March 2026 to shareholders who appear on the register at the close of business on 13 February 2026. | 44,952,345 | 1,195 | 3,432 |
Ordinary resolution 3
To re-elect David Brown as a Director of the Company. | 41,242,691 | 3,712,169 | 2,112 |
Ordinary resolution 4
To re-elect Shatish Dasani as a Director of the Company. | 44,673,150 | 281,780 | 1,682 |
Ordinary resolution 5
To re-elect Stephanie Hazell as a Director of the Company. | 44,559,697 | 394,753 | 2,522 |
Ordinary resolution 6
To re-elect Liz Barber as a Director of the Company. | 44,906,870 | 44,349 | 5,753 |
Ordinary resolution 7
To re-elect Paul Scott as a Director of the Company. | 44,948,792 | 6,081 | 2,099 |
Ordinary resolution 8
To re-elect Sean Wyndham-Quin as a Director of the Company. | 44,461,102 | 18,777 | 477,093 |
Ordinary resolution 9
To approve, on an advisory basis, the Annual Statement and the Annual Report on Remuneration as set out in the Directors’ Remuneration Report of the Company’s Annual Report and Accounts for the year ended 30 September 2025. | 43,729,699 | 1,218,000 | 9,1739 |
Ordinary resolution 10
To approve, on an advisory basis, the Directors’ Remuneration Policy, as set out in the Directors’ Remuneration Report of the Company’s Annual Report and Accounts for the year ended 30 September 2025. | 43,729,939 | 1,222,203 | 4,830 |
Ordinary resolution 11
To appoint Ernst & Young LLP as auditor of the Company. | 44,908,340 | 47,676 | 756 |
Ordinary resolution 12
To authorise the Audit and Risk Committee of the Board of Directors of the Company to determine the remuneration of the auditor. | 44,948,491 | 7,264 | 1,217 |
Ordinary resolution 13
THAT the Directors of the Company (the “Directors”) be and are generally and unconditionally authorised pursuant to and in accordance with Section 551 of the Companies Act 2006 (the “Act”) to exercise all the powers of the Company to allot shares in the capital of the Company (“Shares”) or grant rights to subscribe for or to convert any security into Shares (“Rights”) up to an aggregate nominal amount of £2,638,292, such authority to apply in substitution for all previous authorities pursuant to Section 551 of the Act to the extent unutilised and to expire at the end of the next Annual General Meeting of the Company or, if earlier, at the close of business on 29 April 2027 (unless renewed, varied or revoked by the Company prior to or on such date) but, in each case, save that the Company may make offers and enter into agreements before this authority expires which would, or might, require Shares to be allotted or Rights to be granted after this authority expires and the Directors may allot such Shares or grant such Rights pursuant to any such agreement as if this authority had not expired. | 38,862,123 | 6,089,301 | 5,548 |
Special resolution 14
THAT, subject to the passing of resolution 13, the Directors of the Company (the “Directors”) be empowered to allot equity securities... (a) in connection with an offer by way of a rights issue... (b) to the allotment of equity securities... (c) to the allotment of equity securities... such power to expire at the end of the next Annual General Meeting... | 43,027,342 | 1,923,542 | 6,088 |
Special resolution 15
THAT, subject to the passing of resolution 13, the Directors of the Company... (a) to the allotment of equity securities... (b) to the allotment of equity securities... such power to expire at the end of the next Annual General Meeting... | 37,429,748 | 7,518,306 | 8,918 |
Special resolution 16
To authorise the Company generally and unconditionally, for the purpose of section 701 of the Companies Act 2006 (the “Act”), to make one or more market purchases (within the meaning of section 693(4) of the Act) of Ordinary Shares in the capital of the Company provided that: (a) the maximum aggregate number of Ordinary Shares... (b) the minimum price which may be paid for such Ordinary Shares... (c) the maximum price (exclusive of expenses) which may be paid for an Ordinary Share... such power to expire at the end of the next Annual General Meeting... | 37,101,753 | 9,251 | 7,845,968 |
