STANDARD LIFE UK SMALLER COMPANIES TRUST PLC
RESULT OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
Standard Life UK Smaller Companies Trust PLC (the "Company") hereby gives notification that, at the Annual General Meeting of the Company held earlier today, 8 October 2013, all the Resolutions, as set out in full in the Notice of Meeting contained in the Annual Report which was sent to shareholders on 6 September 2013, were duly passed.
The total number of proxy votes lodged was as follows:
|
For and Discretionary |
Against |
Votes |
Total Votes |
||
Resolution |
No. of |
% of |
No. of |
% of |
Withheld |
(excluding Votes Withheld) |
Number |
Votes |
Votes Cast |
Votes |
Votes Cast |
|
|
1 |
24,675,198
|
99.98
|
6,100
|
0.02
|
437 |
24,681,298
|
2 |
24,585,485
|
99.79
|
50,695
|
0.21
|
45,555
|
24,636,180
|
3 |
24,681,735
|
100.00
|
0
|
0.00
|
0
|
24,681,735
|
4 |
24,630,471
|
99.92
|
20,861
|
0.08
|
30,403
|
24,651,332
|
5 |
24,628,305
|
99.91
|
22,658
|
0.09
|
30,772
|
24,650,963
|
6 |
24,628,321
|
99.89
|
26,719
|
0.11
|
26,695
|
24,655,040
|
7 |
24,635,377
|
99.92
|
19,663
|
0.08
|
26,695
|
24,655,040
|
8 |
24,635,515
|
99.88
|
30,196
|
0.12
|
13,359
|
24,665,711
|
9 |
24,649,305
|
99.89
|
26,353
|
0.11
|
6,077
|
24,675,658
|
10 |
24,548,988
|
99.59
|
100,267
|
0.41
|
32,043
|
24,649,255
|
11 |
24,641,422
|
99.97
|
8,291
|
0.03
|
29,443
|
24,649,713
|
12 |
20,584,205
|
83.57
|
4,047,804
|
16.43
|
46,709
|
24,632,009
|
13 |
23,038,202
|
93.49
|
1,604,053
|
6.51
|
39,479
|
24,642,255
|
14 |
24,134,934
|
97.87
|
525,519
|
2.13
|
20,845
|
24,660,453
|
15 |
24,596,725
|
99.92
|
19,782
|
0.08
|
59,715
|
24,616,507
|
The Company's website is www.standardlifeinvestments.co.uk/its* from where the Annual Report and Notice of AGM may be downloaded.
A copy of the AGM resolutions which require to be lodged with the UKLA has been submitted to the National Storage Mechanism ('NSM') and will shortly be available for inspection at: www.Hemscott.com/nsm.do*
*Neither the NSM website nor the Company's website nor the content of any website accessible from hyperlinks on those websites (or any other website) is (or is deemed to be) incorporated into, or forms (or is deemed to form) part of this announcement.
For Standard Life UK Smaller Companies Trust PLC
Maven Capital Partners UK LLP
Secretaries