Result of AGM

RNS Number : 8531P

Standard Life UK Small.Co's Tst PLC

21 October 2021

 

STANDARD LIFE UK SMALLER COMPANIES TRUST PLC

RESULTS OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

Legal Entity Identifier (LEI):  213800UUKA68SHSJBE37

Standard Life UK Smaller Companies Trust plc (the "Company") hereby gives notification that at the Annual General Meeting of the Company held earlier today, 21 October 2021, all the resolutions as set out in the Notice of Annual General Meeting contained in the Annual Report for the year ended 30 June 2021 were duly passed. The proxy votes received in respect of the resolutions proposed at the meeting are shown in the table below:

	For and Discretionary		Against			Total Votes
Resolution	No. of	% of	No. of	% of	Votes	(excluding Votes Withheld)
Number	Votes	Votes Cast	Votes	Votes Cast	Withheld
1	38,663,012	99.83	65,390	0.17	74,388	38,728,402
2	38,370,304	99.25	289,479	0.75	143,007	38,659,783
3	38,672,911	99.84	62,089	0.16	67,790	38,735,000
4	38,590,279	99.76	91,563	0.24	120,947	38,681,842
5	38,381,623	99.29	272,592	0.71	148,574	38,654,215
6	38,539,138	99.74	98,602	0.26	165,050	38,637,740
7	38,397,274	99.27	282,375	0.73	123,141	38,679,649
8	38,585,128	99.75	97,347	0.25	120,315	38,682,475
9	36,514,085	94.33	2,193,248	5.67	95,457	38,707,333
10	38,618,504	99.76	94,408	0.24	89,877	38,712,912
11	38,618,759	99.72	108,573	0.28	75,457	38,727,332
12	38,549,111	99.57	166,744	0.43	86,935	38,715,855
13	36,557,875	94.42	2,161,820	5.58	83,095	38,719,695
14	33,127,233	85.60	5,573,884	14.40	97,872	38,701,117
15	38,543,547	99.60	156,720	0.40	102,523	38,700,267
16	38,338,148	99.00	386,720	1.00	77,922	38,724,868
17	38,164,235	98.65	521,031	1.35	117,523	38,685,266

Authority to Allot Shares

In relation to Resolutions 11 and 12, to allot new Ordinary shares and dis-apply pre-emption rights, the number of Ordinary shares available to allot is 9,754,801 as at 21 October 2021.

Authority to Buy Back Shares

In relation to Resolution 13, to buy back shares, the limit on the number of Ordinary shares available to buy back is  14,622,448 as at 21 October 2021.

Change of Name

In relation to Resolution 17, to change the name of the Company to "abrdn UK Smaller Companies Growth Trust plc", the Company will submit the appropriate documentation to Companies House and anticipates that the change of name will be effective within the next few days. A further announcement will be made by the Company at that time.

Full Text of Resolutions

The full text of the resolutions can be found in the Notice of the Meeting set out in the Annual Report for the year ended 30 June 2021, copies of which are available on the Company's website, www.standardlifeuksmallercompaniestrust.co.uk *. The Annual Report has been submitted to the National Storage Mechanism ("NSM") and is available for inspection at: https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism *.

* Neither the Company's website nor the NSM 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.

Enquiries:

Gordon Hay Smith

Aberdeen Asset Management PLC

Secretary

Tel. [phone]

 

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