Result of AGM

Smiths Group PLC
20 November 2007

20 NOVEMBER 2007

SMITHS GROUP PLC - RESULT OF AGM

LISTING RULE LR 9.6.18 R

The Company is pleased to announce that all the resolutions proposed at the
Annual General Meeting held on 20 November 2007 were subject to polls and were
passed by the necessary majority.

Details of the results of the polls on the resolutions are shown below and will
be posted on the Company's website, www.smiths.com.  A summary of the questions
answered at the Meeting will be available on the Company's website shortly.


  Nos.   Resolutions                    Votes for          %        Votes                 Votes         Votes
                                                                  against        %        total      withheld
  1.     Adoption of Report and
         Accounts                     257,519,848      99.92      205,308     0.08  257,725,156     1,179,660
   
  2.     Approval of Directors  
         Remuneration Report          234,283,021      91.02   23,100,826     8.98  257,383,847     1,521,242
   
  3.     Declaration of final         257,719,574     100.00        6,350     0.00  257,725,924     1,179,082
         dividend

  4.     Reappointment of
         Mr D H Brydon as             256,168,639      99.41    1,526,042     0.59  257,694,681     1,205,742
         a director

  5.     Reappointment of
         Mr D J Challen as            256,715,596      99.62      973,302     0.38  257,688,898     1,208,550
         a director

  6.     Reappointment of
         Mr S J Chambers as           257,507,389      99.93      178,510     0.07  257,685,899     1,208,124
         a director

  7.     Reappointment of
         Mr P J Jackson as            256,366,747      99.49    1,324,113     0.51  257,690,860     1,203,163
         a director

  8.     Reappointment of
         Mr J Langston as             255,216,217      99.64      914,248     0.36  256,130,465     2,763,558
         a director

  9.     Reappointment of
         Mr D P Lillycrop as          255,215,243      99.64      921,362     0.36  256,136,605     2,765,151
         a director

  10.    Reappointment of
         Mr P H Loescher as           257,509,886      99.93      183,151     0.07  257,693,037     1,207,386
         a director

  11.    Reappointment of
         PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
         as auditor                   239,207,129      98.81    2,882,451     1.19  242,089,580    16,812,176
  
  12.    Auditors remuneration        255,094,472      99.22    2,012,499     0.78  257,106,971     1,788,385
  
  13.    Renewal of powers under
         Article 6 and section 80 of
         Companies Act 1985           256,030,469      99.83      425,498     0.17  256,455,967     2,438,056
  
  14.    Renewal of powers under
         Article 7 and section 95 of
         Companies Act 1985           256,396,334      99.98       60,841     0.02  256,457,175     2,439,887
  
  15.    Authority to make market
         purchases of shares          256,422,111      99.98       59,726     0.02  256,481,837     2,419,919




Notes:

(i)   The votes 'for' figures include those votes giving the Chairman discretion
      on casting the votes.

(ii)  A 'vote withheld' is not a vote in law and is not counted in the total
      number of votes cast on a resolution or in the calculation of the percentages of
      the votes cast for or against a resolution.

(iii) Resolutions Nos. 1 to 13 were ordinary resolutions.  Resolutions Nos. 14
      and 15 were special resolutions.

LISTING RULE LR 9.6.2 R

The Company has forwarded to the Document Viewing Facility of the UK Listing
Authority two copies of the resolutions not constituting ordinary business which
were passed at the Annual General Meeting.

The above-mentioned copies will shortly be available for viewing at the Document
Viewing Facility, at the address below, from 9:00 am to 5:30 pm on every weekday
except bank holidays.

Document Viewing Facility
UK Listing Authority
The Financial Services Authority
25 The North Colonnade
Canary Wharf
London  E14 5HS



Tel : [phone]

Printed copies may be obtained by writing to The Deputy Secretary, Smiths Group
plc, 765 Finchley Road, London NW11 8DS.




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