AGM Statement
QinetiQ Group plc
28 July 2006
QINETIQ GROUP PLC - Results of AGM held on 28 July 2006
Results of Poll
All Resolutions were passed.
RESOLUTION No. Votes % No. Votes % Votes Total Votes Number
For Votes Votes
For Against Against Cast Withheld
1. To
receive
Report 477,408,400 99.94 299,526 0.06 477,707,926 19,353
and Accounts
2. To
approve
Directors'
Remuneration
report 469,653,519 99.93 349,410 0.07 470,002,929 7,724,350
3. To
declare a
Final 477,654,359 99.99 62,291 0.01 477,716,650 10,629
Dividend
4. To
re-elect
Noreen Doyle
as a 475,792,503 99.63 1,762,034 0.37 477,554,537 172,742
Director
5. To
re-elect
Colin
Balmer as a 468,540,555 99.91 432,942 0.09 468,973,497 8,753,782
Director
6. To
re-elect Sir
John
Chisholm 466,791,720 99.26 3,502,868 0.74 470,294,588 7,432,691
as a
Director
7. To
re-elect
Graham Love
as 474,334,673 99.91 403,668 0.09 474,738,341 2,988,938
a Director
8. To
re-elect
Glenn
Youngkin as 468,575,472 98.10 9,081,564 1.90 477,657,036 70,243
a
Director
9. To
re-appoint
KPMG Audit
PLC 475,622,454 99.64 1,710,990 0.36 477,333,444 393,835
as auditors
10. To
authorise
the
Audit
Committee to
determine
the 475,854,572 99.62 1,806,099 0.38 477,660,671 66,608
auditors'
remuneration
11. To make
political
donations 470,153,239 98.44 7,438,691 1.56 477,591,930 135,349
12. To amend
the
Company's
Articles of 477,490,853 99.98 90,646 0.02 477,581,499 145,780
Association*
13. To
authorise
the
Company to
make market
purchases of
its own 477,435,220 99.96 170,702 0.04 477,605,922 121,357
shares*
*Special Resolutions
Please note that a vote withheld is not a vote in law and is not counted in the
calculation of the proportion of votes 'for' and 'against' a resolution.
The full text of the Special Resolutions passed at the AGM is as follows:
RESOLUTION 12
THAT the Articles of Association be and are hereby amended, such that the words
''Ordinary Share' means the ordinary shares of 1 and 1/3 pence each in the
Company's share capital' in Article 1(1) (under the section headed
'Preliminary') shall be replaced by the following:
''Ordinary Share' means the ordinary shares of 1 penny each in the Company's
share capital'.
RESOLUTION 13
THAT the Company be and is generally and unconditionally authorised to make
market purchases (within the meaning of Section 163(3) of the Companies Act
1985) of ordinary shares of 1 penny each of the Company provided that:
(a) the maximum number of ordinary shares hereby authorised to be
acquired is 65,056,502;
(b) the minimum price which may be paid for any such share is 1
penny;
(c) the maximum price which may be paid for any such share is the
higher of (i) an amount equal to 105% of the average of the middle market
quotations for an ordinary share in the Company as derived from The London
Stock Exchange Daily Official List for the five business days immediately
preceding the day on which such share is contracted to be purchased and (ii)
the amount stipulated by Article 5(1) of the EU Buy-back and Stabilisation
Regulation (being the higher of the price of the last independent trade and
the highest current independent bid for an ordinary share in the Company on
the trading venues where the market purchases by the Company pursuant to the
authority conferred by this Resolution 13 will be carried out);
(d) the authority hereby conferred shall expire on the date of the
next Annual General Meeting of the Company; and
(e) the Company may make a contract to purchase its ordinary shares
under the authority hereby conferred prior to the expiry of such authority,
which contract will or may be executed wholly or partly after the expiry of
such authority, and may purchase its ordinary shares in pursuance of any
such contract.
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