Result of AGM

abrdn UK Smaller Cos. Growth Trust

23 November 2023

 

ABRDN UK SMALLER COMPANIES GROWTH TRUST PLC

RESULTS OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

Legal Entity Identifier (LEI):  213800UUKA68SHSJBE37

abrdn UK Smaller Companies Growth Trust plc (the "Company") hereby gives notification that at the Annual General Meeting of the Company held earlier today, 23 November 2023, all the resolutions as set out in the Notice of Annual General Meeting contained in the Annual Report for the year ended 30 June 2023 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	28,773,538	93.24	2,085,157	6.76	6,085	30,858,695
2	30,573,851	99.25	230,805	0.75	60,124	30,804,656
3	30,475,190	98.97	316,484	1.03	73,107	30,791,674
4	30,830,503	99.92	23,885	0.08	10,393	30,854,388
5	30,680,966	99.67	101,808	0.33	82,006	30,782,774
6	30,627,044	99.48	160,315	0.52	77,422	30,787,359
7	30,679,179	99.62	118,399	0.38	67,202	30,797,578
8	30,595,191	99.46	166,749	0.54	102,841	30,761,940
9	30,617,867	99.51	149,658	0.49	97,256	30,767,525
10	28,668,710	92.97	2,166,810	7.03	29,260	30,835,520
11	30,776,329	99.78	68,142	0.22	20,309	30,844,471
12	30,712,097	99.61	119,272	0.39	33,411	30,831,369
13	30,332,609	98.48	466,925	1.52	65,246	30,799,534
14	27,242,469	88.30	3,609,138	11.70	13,174	30,851,607
15	30,727,399	99.63	115,120	0.37	22,262	30,842,519
16	30,492,317	98.96	318,954	1.04	53,509	30,811,271

Authority to Buy Back Shares

In relation to Resolution 14, to buy back shares, the limit on the number of Ordinary shares available to buy back is 12,474,394 as at 23 November 2023.

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 2023, copies of which are available on the Company's website, www.abrdnuksmallercompaniesgrowthtrust.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

abrdn Holdings Limited

Company Secretary

Tel. [phone]

 

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