HELICAL PLC

Declaration of Voting Results & Voting Rights Announcements • Jul 12, 2018

Helical plc (Company) Annual General Meeting - 12 July 2018

At the ninety eighth Annual General Meeting of Helical plc held on Thursday 12 July 2018, all resolutions set out in the Notice of Meeting dated 12 June 2018 were passed by Shareholders on a show of hands. Proxies were received by the Company from Shareholders in advance of the Annual General Meeting as follows:

		Proxy Votes Received
	Resolution	For the Resolution[i]	% For	Against the Resolution	% Against	Total Votes Validly Cast	Votes Withheld [ii]
1	To receive and consider the accounts and reports of the Directors and Grant Thornton UK LLP for the
	year ended 31 March 2018	92,667,512	100.00	0	0.00	92,667,512	0
2	To declare a final dividend of 7.0 pence per ordinary share.	92,667,512	100.00	0	0.00	92,667,512	0
3	To re-elect M. E. Slade as a Director	87,264,653	94.17	5,402,858	5.83	92,667,511	0
4	To re-elect R. J. Grant as a Director	92,296,521	99.60	370,990	0.40	92,667,511	0
5	To re-elect G. A. Kaye as a Director	90,397,816	97.55	2,269,696	2.45	92,667,512	0
6	To re-elect T. J. Murphy as a Director	90,326,353	97.47	2,341,159	2.53	92,667,512	0
7	To re-elect M. C. Bonning Snook as a Director	90,397,816	97.55	2,269,696	2.45	92,667,512	0
8	To re-elect S. V. Clayton as a Director	91,946,462	99.22	721,050	0.78	92,667,512	0
9	To re-elect R. R. Cotton as a Director	92,495,443	99.82	170,069	0.18	92,667,512	2,000
10	To re-elect M. K. O'Donnell as a Director	91,249,585	98.47	1,417,927	1.53	92,667,512	0
11	To appoint Deloitte LLP as auditor of the Company
		92,657,512	99.99	10,000	0.01	92,667,512	0
12	To authorise the Directors to set the remuneration of the auditors	92,644,340	99.97	23,172	0.03	92,667,512	0
13	To approve the Directors' Remuneration Report (other than the section containing the Directors' Remuneration Policy) for the year ended 31 March 2018	77,566,882	85.56	13,088,693	14.44	90,655,575	2,011,935
14	To approve the Director's
	Remuneration Policy	89,918,397	97.05	2,736,254	2.95	92,654,651	12,860

15	To authorise the operation of the Helical Annual Bonus Scheme 2018	91,055,513	98.26	1,611,998	1.74	92,667,511	0
16	To authorise the Directors to allot shares pursuant to section 551 of the Companies Act 2006	84,887,264	91.60	7,780,248	8.40	92,667,512	0
17	To authorise the Directors to dis-apply pre-emption rights pursuant to sections 570 and 573 of the Companies Act 2006[iii]	92,665,512	99.99	2,000	0.01	92,667,512	0
18	To authorise the Directors to dis-apply pre-emption rights pursuant to sections 570 and 573 of the Companies Act 2006 in addition to resolution 17[iii]	83,718,567	90.34	8,948,944	9.66	92,667,511	0
19	To authorise the Company to make market purchases of its Ordinary Shares pursuant to section 701 of the Companies Act 2006[iii]	91,183,116	98.41	1,471,223	1.59	92,654,339	13,172
20	To approve general meetings (other than annual general meetings) to be held on not less than 14 clear days' notice[iii]	90,990,221	98.19	1,677,291	1.81	92,667,512	0

Notes to the Disclosure:

As at the date of the meeting there were 118,610,741 ordinary shares of 1p each in issue.

In accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.2, copies of resolutions other than those concerning ordinary business passed at the Annual General Meeting have been submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and can be viewed at http://www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/nsm.

[i] Includes discretionary votes

[ii] A vote withheld is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation of the votes for or against a resolution

[iii] Special Resolution requires at least 75% of votes in favour

For further information please contact:

James Moss Company Secretary 020 7629 0113