FirstGroup PLC — AGM Information 2022

Jul 27, 2022

FIRSTGROUP PLC

RESULT OF 2022 ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING (AGM) – 27 JULY 2022

FirstGroup plc (the 'Company') announces that, at the AGM held earlier today, all resolutions were passed by the Company's shareholders on a poll. The results of the poll are shown in the table below and will also be available on the Company's website.

	FOR		AGAINST		TOTAL	WITHHELD
	Number of	% of	Number of	% of	Number of	Number of
	Votes	Vote	Votes	Vote	Votes	Votes
1 To receive the Annual Report and
Financial Statements for the 52 weeks ended
26 March 2022	568,347,329 99.99		47,870		0.01568,395,199	1,097,252
2 To approve the Directors' Annual Report on
Remuneration	478,167,186 84.16				90,005,515 15.84568,172,701	1,319,750
3 To declare a final dividend of 1.1 pence per
ordinary share for the 52 weeks ended
26 March 2022	569,181,440 99.97		188,945		0.03569,370,385	122,066
4 To re-elect Sally Cabrini as a Director	554,023,238 97.38		14,884,512		2.62568,907,750	584,701
5 To elect Myrtle Dawes as a Director	568,511,956 99.94		364,865		0.06568,876,821	615,630
6 To elect Claire Hawkings as a Director	568,552,210 99.93		377,892		0.07568,930,102	562,349
7 To re-elect Anthony Green as a Director	568,511,668 99.94		359,337		0.06568,871,005	621,446
8 To re- elect Jane Lodge as a Director	566,542,600 99.59		2,345,668		0.41568,888,268	604,183
9 To re- elect Peter Lynas as a Director	563,187,636 99.00		5,711,734		1.00568,899,370	593,081
10 To re-elect Ryan Mangold as a Director	568,186,777 99.88		706,583		0.12568,893,360	599,091
11 To re-elect David Martin as a Director	561,139,812 98.63		7,806,036		1.37568,945,848	546,603
12 To elect Graham Sutherland as a Director	568,524,047 99.93		375,424		0.07568,899,471	592,980
13 To appoint PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as
auditors	568,611,046 99.91		526,982		0.09569,138,028	354,423
14 To authorise the Directors to determine the
remuneration of the auditors	568,737,443 99.94		361,599		0.06569,099,042	393,409
15 To authorise the Directors to allot shares	564,448,947 99.17		4,718,399		0.83569,167,346	325,105
16 To authorise the Directors to disapply
pre-emption rights	568,470,062 99.91		523,189		0.09568,993,251	499,200
17 To disapply pre-emption rights for acquisitions
or other capital investments	566,994,918 99.64		2,021,174		0.36569,016,092	476,359
18 To authorise the Directors to make market
purchases of the Company's shares	567,332,702 99.88		705,854		0.12568,038,556	1,453,895
19 To authorise the Company to make political
donations and incur political expenditure	566,402,103 99.68		1,823,384		0.32568,225,487	1,266,964
20 To authorise the calling of general meetings
on 14 clear days' notice	561,385,491 98.61		7,886,695		1.39569,272,186	220,265

Votes 'For' and 'Against' are expressed as a percentage of votes received. A 'Vote withheld' is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation of the votes 'For' and 'Against' a resolution. Votes were cast for a total of 569,492,451 ordinary shares of 5 pence per share, representing 75.92% of the total number of votes capable of being cast at the AGM. The Company's issued share capital as at today's date is 750,319,702 ordinary shares and the number of votes per share is one. The Company held 157,229 shares in Treasury, which do not carry any voting rights. Resolutions 1 to 15, and 19 were proposed as Ordinary Resolutions and resolutions 16 to 18 and 20 as Special Resolutions.

Contacts at FirstGroup:

Faisal Tabbah, Head of Investor Relations Stuart Butchers, Group Head of Communications David Blizzard, Company Secretary Tel: +44 (0) 20 7725 3354

Contacts at Brunswick PR: Andrew Porter / Simone Selzer, Tel: +44 (0) 20 7404 5959

Legal Entity Identifier (LEI): 549300DEJZCPWA4HKM93. Classification as per DTR 6 Annex 1R: 3.1.