Result of AGM

Annual General Meeting held on Wednesday 19 July 2011             

                                 Poll Results                                  

Johnson Matthey plc (the "Company") announces that at today's Annual General Meeting all 
resolutions were passed on a poll. The result of the poll is set out below:

RESOLUTION                For          For        Against  Against  Votes         Votes  
                                       (%)*                (%)*     Total         Withheld 

                                                                                  
1. To receive Company's   146,313,100  100.00      2,183   0.00     146,315,283     78,157  
accounts for the year                                                             
ended 31 March 2011                                                               
                                                                                  
2. To receive and         139,383,301   99.34    931,022   0.66     140,314,323  6,079,117
approve the Directors'                                                            
Remuneration Report                                                               
                                                                                  
3. To declare a final     146,313,620  100.00        726   0.00     146,314,346     79,094  
dividend of 33.5p per                                                             
share on the ordinary                                                             
shares                                                                            
                                                                                  
4. To elect               145,827,037   99.69    459,809   0.31     146,286,846    106,127 
Mr A M Ferguson                                                                          
                                                                                  
5. To elect               144,367,853   98.69  1,912,769   1.31     146,280,622    112,151 
Mr T E P Stevenson                                                                         
                                                                                  
6. To re-elect            145,590,403   99.52    700,438   0.48     146,290,841    102,199 
Mr N A P Carson                                                                            
                                                                                  
7. To re-elect            145,791,933   99.66    492,666   0.34     146,284,599    108,441 
Sir Thomas Harris                                                                     
                                                                                  
8. To re-elect            145,717,446   99.61    569,303   0.39     146,286,749    105,706 
Mr R J MacLeod                                                                           
                                                                                  
9. To re-elect            145,585,147   99.52    702,297   0.48     146,287,444    105,596 
Mr L C Pentz                                                                             
                                                                                   
10. To re-elect           145,822,735   99.68    465,967   0.32     146,288,702    103,666 
Mr M J Roney                                                                             
                                                                                  
11. To re-elect           145,713,917   99.61    571,697   0.39     146,285,614    103,841 
Mr W F Sandford                                                                          
                                                                                  
12. To re-elect           145,885,303   99.72    402,671   0.28     146,287,974    105,066 
Mrs D C Thompson                                                                          
                                                                                  
13. To re-appoint KPMG    145,475,273   99.43    829,725   0.57     146,304,998     87,842  
Audit Plc as auditors                                                             
                                                                                  
14. To authorise the      146,206,137   99.93    103,839   0.07     146,309,976     81,601  
directors to determine                                                            
the remuneration of the                                                           
auditors                                                                          
                                                                                  
15. To authorise the      145,181,725   99.25  1,099,413   0.75     146,281,138    111,902 
Company to make                                                                          
political donations and                                                                  
incur political                                                                         
expenditure within                                                                      
certain limits                                                                          
                                                                                        
16. To authorise the      137,313,275   95.70  6,177,138   4.30     143,490,413  2,902,627
directors to allot                                                                
shares                                                                            
                                                                                  
17. To disapply the       145,934,996   99.76   354,185    0.24     146,289,181    103,859 
pre-emption rights                                                                
attaching to shares                                                               
                                                                                  
18. To authorise the      146,119,517   99.87   189,088   0.13      146,308,605     84,435  
Company to make market                                                            
purchases of its own                                                              
shares                                                                            
                                                                                  
19. To call general       138,766,223   94.84  7,546,582  5.16      146,312,805     80,235  
meetings other than                                                               
annual general meetings                                                           
on not less than 14                                                               
clear days' notice                                                                

* Figures shown are percentages of total votes cast excluding votes withheld.

** A vote withheld is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation
of the proportion of votes for or against a resolution.

For further information please contact Angela Purtill, Deputy Company Secretary
on [phone].