Morgan Sindall Group PLC

Pre-Annual General Meeting Information • Mar 21, 2011

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If you are in any doubt as to any aspect of the proposals referred to in this document or as to the action you should take, you should seek your own advice from a stockbroker, solicitor, accountant or other independent professional adviser.

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Morgan Sindall Group plc

(incorporated and registered in England and Wales under number 00521970)

Notice of Annual General Meeting

Notice of the Annual General Meeting of Morgan Sindall Group plc ('the Company') to be held at the offices of RBS Hoare Govett, 250 Bishopsgate, London EC2M 4AA on 5 May 2011 at 12.00 noon is set out at the end of this circular.

Whether or not you propose to attend the Annual General Meeting, please complete and submit a proxy form in accordance with the instructions printed on the enclosed form. The proxy form must be received by 12.00 noon on 3 May 2011.

Morgan Sindall Group plc

('the Company') (incorporated and registered in England and Wales under number 00521970)

Registered Office: Kent House 14-17 Market Place London W1W 8AJ

21 March 2011

To the holders of ordinary shares in the Company

Dear Shareholder,

Notice of Annual General Meeting

I am pleased to be writing to you with details of our Annual General Meeting ('AGM') which we are holding at the offices of RBS Hoare Govett, 250 Bishopsgate, London EC2M 4AA on 5 May 2011 at 12.00 noon. The formal notice of AGM is set out at the end of this letter on pages 3 to 5 of this document together with explanatory notes relating to the resolutions to be proposed at the AGM.

I very much hope that you will be able to join us at the AGM. Whether or not you are proposing to attend and vote, I would encourage you to fill in the proxy form sent to you with this notice and return it to our registrars as soon as possible or to vote online at www.capitashareportal.com. The registrars must receive your proxy by 12.00 noon on 3 May 2011.

The directors of the Company consider that all the resolutions to be proposed at the AGM are in the best interests of the Company and its shareholders as a whole. They will be voting in favour of them in respect of their beneficial holdings and unanimously recommend that you do so as well.

Yours faithfully,

John Morgan Executive chairman

Inspection of documents

The following documents will be available for inspection during normal business hours on any business day at Kent House, 14-17 Market Place, London W1W 8AJ and at the office of Slaughter and May, One Bunhill Row, London EC1Y 8YY from 21 March 2011 until the time of the AGM and at RBS Hoare Govett, 250 Bishopsgate, London EC2M 4AA from 15 minutes before the AGM until it ends:

• Copies of the executive directors' service contracts
• Copies of letters of appointment of the non-executive directors

Morgan Sindall Group plc Notice of Annual General Meeting

This year's annual general meeting will be held at the offices of RBS Hoare Govett, 250 Bishopsgate, London EC2M 4AA on 5 May 2011 at 12.00 noon. You will be asked to consider and pass the resolutions below. Resolutions 11 to 13 (inclusive) will be proposed as special resolutions. All other resolutions will be proposed as ordinary resolutions.

Ordinary resolutions

• 1. That the financial statements and the reports of the directors and the independent auditors for the year ended 31 December 2010 be received and accepted.
• 1. That John Morgan be re-elected as a director.
• 1. That David Mulligan be re-elected as a director.
• 1. That Paul Whitmore be re-elected as a director.
• 1. That Gill Barr be re-elected as a director.
• 1. That Geraldine Gallacher be re-elected as a director.
• 1. That the directors' remuneration report for the year ended 31 December 2010 be approved.
• 1. That Deloitte LLP be re-appointed as independent auditors of the Company from the conclusion of this meeting until the next general meeting at which accounts are laid before the Company.
• 1. That the directors be authorised to fix the independent auditors' remuneration.
• 1. That the directors be generally and unconditionally authorised to allot shares in the Company and to grant rights to subscribe for or convert any security into shares in the Company:
• (a) up to a nominal amount of £719,874.45 (such amount to be reduced by the nominal amount allotted or granted under paragraph (b) below in excess of such amount); and
• (b) comprising equity securities (as defined in section 560(1) of the Companies Act 2006 ('the Act')) up to a nominal amount of £1,439,748.90 (such amount to be reduced by any allotments or grants made under paragraph (a) above) in connection with an offer by way of rights issue:
• (i) to ordinary shareholders in proportion (as nearly as may be practicable) to their existing holdings; and
• (ii) to holders of other equity securities as required by the rights of those securities or as the directors otherwise consider necessary,

and so that the directors may impose any limits or restrictions and make any arrangements which they consider necessary or appropriate to deal with treasury shares, fractional entitlements, record dates, legal, regulatory or practical problems in, or under the laws of, any territory or any other matter, such authorities to apply until the end of the next annual general meeting of the Company (or, if earlier, until the close of business on 5 August 2012) but, in each case, during this period the Company may make offers and enter into agreements which would, or might, require shares to be allotted or rights to subscribe for or convert securities into shares to be granted after the authority ends and the directors may allot shares or grant rights to subscribe for or convert securities into shares under any such offer or agreement as if the authority had not ended.

Special resolutions

• 1. That if resolution 10 is passed, the directors be authorised to allot equity securities (as defined in the Act) for cash under the authority given by that resolution and/or to sell ordinary shares held by the Company as treasury shares for cash as if section 561 of the Act did not apply to any such allotment or sale, such authority to be limited:
• (a) to the allotment of equity securities and sale of treasury shares for cash in connection with an offer of, or invitation to apply for, equity securities (but in the case of the authority granted under paragraph (b) of resolution 10, by way of a rights issue only):
• (i) to ordinary shareholders in proportion (as nearly as may be practicable) to their existing holdings; and
• (ii) to holders of other equity securities, as required by the rights of those securities or, as the directors otherwise consider necessary,

and so that the directors may impose any limits or restrictions and make any arrangements which they consider necessary or appropriate to deal with treasury shares, fractional entitlements, record dates, legal, regulatory or practical problems in, or under the laws of, any territory or any other matter; and

(b) in the case of the authority granted under paragraph (a) of resolution 10 and/or in the case of any sale of treasury shares for cash, to the allotment (otherwise than under paragraph (a) above) of equity securities or sale of treasury shares up to a nominal amount of £107,981.17

such power to apply until the end of the next annual general meeting of the Company (or, if earlier, until the close of business on 5 August 2012) but, in each case, during this period the Company may make offers, and enter into agreements, which would, or might, require equity securities to be allotted (and treasury shares to be sold) after the authority ends and the directors may allot equity securities (and sell treasury shares) under any such offer or agreement as if the authority had not ended.

• 1. That, pursuant to section 701 of the Act, the Company be and is hereby generally authorised to make one or more market purchases (within the meaning of section 693(4) of the Act) of up to 4,319,247 of its own ordinary shares, representing an aggregate nominal value of £215,962.34 on the basis that:
• (a) the minimum price, exclusive of expenses, which may be paid for each ordinary share shall be the nominal value of that share;
• (b) the maximum price which may be paid for each ordinary share shall be the higher of (i) an amount equal to 105% of the average of the closing middle market quotations for an ordinary share, as derived from the London Stock Exchange's Daily Official List, for the five business days immediately preceding the day on which that ordinary share is contracted to be purchased and (ii) the higher of the price of the last independent trade and the highest current independent bid on the London Stock Exchange at the time the purchase is carried out in each case, exclusive of expenses; and
• (c) this authority will expire at close of business on 5 August 2012 or, if earlier, at the conclusion of the next annual general meeting of the Company (except in relation to the purchase of ordinary shares the contract for which is concluded before such date and which is to be executed wholly or partly after such date).
• 1. That a general meeting other than an annual general meeting may be called on not less than 14 clear days' notice.
• 1. That in accordance with section 366 of the Act, the Company and each company which is or becomes a subsidiary of the Company at any time during the period for which this resolution has effect be and is hereby authorised:
• (a) to make political donations to political parties and/or independent election candidates to which section 366 of the Act applies;
• (b) to make political donations to political organisations other than political parties; and
• (c) to incur political expenditure;

provided that: (i) the aggregate amount made or incurred by the Company and its subsidiaries pursuant to this resolution shall not exceed £25,000; and (ii) this authority shall expire on the earlier of the conclusion of the next annual general meeting of the Company and close of business on 5 August 2012.

By order of the Board

Mary Nettleship Company Secretary

Registered Office: Kent House 14-17 Market Place London W1W 8AJ

Registered in England and Wales No. 00521970

Notes

• 1. Members are entitled to appoint a proxy to exercise all or any of their rights to attend and to speak and vote on their behalf at the meeting. A proxy form, which may be used to make such appointment and give proxy instructions, accompanies this notice. A shareholder may appoint more than one proxy in relation to the annual general meeting provided that each proxy is appointed to exercise the rights attached to a different share or shares held by that shareholder. A proxy need not be a shareholder of the Company. To appoint more than one proxy you may photocopy the form accompanying this notice. Please indicate the proxy holder's name and the number of shares in relation to which he or she is authorised to act as your proxy (which, in aggregate, should not exceed the number of shares held by you). Please also indicate if the proxy instruction is one of multiple instructions being given. All forms must be signed and should be returned together in the same envelope. A failure to specify the number of shares to which each proxy appointment relates or specifying a number in excess of those held by you may result in the appointment being invalid. If you do not have a proxy form and believe that you should have one, please contact Capita Registrars on 0871 664 0300 (calls cost 10p per minute plus network extras (lines open 8.30am to 5.30pm Monday to Friday)) or email ssd@capitaregistrars.com. If calling from overseas please call +44 20 8639 3399.
• 1. To be valid any proxy form or other instrument appointing a proxy must be received by post or (during normal business hours only) by hand at Capita Registrars, PXS, 34 Beckenham Road, Beckenham Kent BR3 4TU no later than 12.00 noon on 3 May 2011.
• 1. Shareholders may vote electronically, by no later than 12.00 noon on 3 May 2011, by visiting www.capitashareportal.com. You will be asked to enter the Investor Code shown on your proxy card and agree to certain terms and conditions. CREST shareholders may lodge their proxy via the CREST system (see notes 9 to 12).
• 1. The return of a completed proxy form, other such instrument or any CREST Proxy Instruction (as described in note 10 below) will not prevent a shareholder attending the annual general meeting and voting in person if he/she wishes to do so.
• 1. Any person to whom this notice is sent who is a person nominated under section 146 of the Act to enjoy information rights ('a Nominated Person') may, under an agreement between him/her and the shareholder by whom he/she was nominated, have a right to be appointed (or to have someone else appointed) as a proxy for the annual general meeting. If a Nominated Person has no such proxy appointment right or does not wish to exercise it, he/she may, under any such agreement, have a right to give instructions to the shareholder as to the exercise of voting rights.
• 1. The statement of the rights of shareholders in relation to the appointment of proxies in paragraph 1 above does not apply to Nominated Persons. The rights described in that paragraph can only be exercised by shareholders of the Company.
• 1. To be entitled to attend and vote at the annual general meeting (and for the purpose of the determination by the Company of the votes they may cast), shareholders must be registered in the Register of Members of the Company at 6.00 pm on 3 May 2011 (or, in the event of any adjournment, on the date which is two days before the date of any adjourned meeting). Changes to the Register of Members after the relevant deadline shall be disregarded in determining the rights of any person to attend and vote at the meeting.
• 1. As at 11 March 2011, the last practicable day prior to the date of this notice, the Company's issued share capital consisted of 43,192,467 ordinary shares, carrying one vote each. Therefore, the total voting rights in the Company as at that date are 43,192,467.
• 1. CREST members who wish to appoint a proxy or proxies through the CREST electronic proxy appointment service may do so by using the procedures described in the CREST Manual. CREST Personal Members or other CREST sponsored members and those CREST members who have appointed a service provider(s) should refer to their CREST sponsor or voting service provider(s), who will be able to take the appropriate action on their behalf.
• 1. In order for a proxy appointment or instruction made using the CREST service to be valid, the appropriate CREST message ('a CREST Proxy Instruction') must be properly authenticated in accordance with Euroclear UK & Ireland Limited's specifications and must contain the information required for such instruction, as described in the CREST Manual (available via www.euroclear.com/CREST). The message, regardless of whether it constitutes the appointment of a proxy or is an amendment to the instruction given to a previously appointed proxy must, in order to be valid, be transmitted so as to be received by the Company's agent, Capita Registrars Limited (ID RA10), by 12.00 noon on 3 May 2011. For this purpose, the time of receipt will be taken to be the time (as determined by the time stamp applied to the message by the CREST Application Host) from which the Company's agent is able to retrieve the message by enquiry to CREST in the manner prescribed by CREST. After this time any change of instructions to proxies appointed through CREST should be communicated to the appointee through other means.
• 1. CREST members and, where applicable, their CREST sponsors, or voting service providers should note that Euroclear UK & Ireland Limited does not make available special procedures in CREST for any particular message. Normal system timings and limitations will, therefore, apply in relation to the input of CREST Proxy Instructions. It is the responsibility of the CREST member concerned to take (or, if the CREST member is a CREST personal member or sponsored member or has appointed a voting service provider, to procure that his CREST sponsor or voting service provider(s) take(s)) such action as shall be necessary to ensure that a message is transmitted by means of the CREST system by any particular time. In this connection, CREST members and, where applicable, their CREST sponsors or voting system providers are referred, in particular, to those sections of the CREST Manual concerning practical limitations of the CREST system and timings.
• 1. The Company may treat as invalid a CREST Proxy Instruction in the circumstances set out in Regulation 35(5)(a) of the Uncertificated Securities Regulations 2001.
• 1. Any corporation which is a member can appoint one or more corporate representatives who may exercise on its behalf all of its powers as a member provided that they do not do so in relation to the same shares.
• 1. A corporation must execute the form of proxy under its common seal or the hand of a duly authorised officer or attorney. The power of attorney or authority (if any) should be returned with the form of proxy.
• 1. In the case of joint holders, where more than one of the joint holders purports to appoint a proxy, only the appointment submitted by the most senior holder will be accepted. Seniority is determined by the order in which the names of the joint holders appear in the Company's register of members in respect of the joint holding (the first-named being the most senior).
• 1. If you submit more than one valid proxy appointment, the appointment received last before the latest time for the receipt of proxies will take precedence.
• 1. Under section 527 of the Act, members meeting the threshold requirements set out in that section have the right to require the Company to publish on a website a statement setting out any matter relating to: (i) the audit of the Company's accounts (including the auditor's report and the conduct of the audit) that are to be laid before the annual general meeting; or (ii) any circumstance connected with an auditor of the Company ceasing to hold office since the previous meeting at which annual accounts and reports were laid in accordance with section 437 of the Act. The Company may not require the shareholders requesting any such website publication to pay its expenses in complying with sections 527 or 528 of the Act. Where the Company is required to place a statement on a website under section 527 of the Act, it must forward the statement to the Company's auditor not later than the time when it makes the statement available on the website. The business which may be dealt with at the annual general meeting includes any statement that the Company has been required under section 527 of the Act to publish on a website.
• 1. Any member attending the meeting has the right to ask questions. The Company must cause to be answered any such question relating to the business being dealt with at the meeting but no such answer need be given if (a) to do so would interfere unduly with the preparation for the meeting or involve the disclosure of confidential information, (b) the answer has already been given on a website in the form of an answer to a question, or (c) it is undesirable in the interests of the Company or the good order of the meeting that the question be answered.
• 1. A copy of this notice, and other information required by s311A of the Act, can be found at www.morgansindall.com.
• 1. Under section 338 and section 338A of the Act, members meeting the threshold requirements in those sections have the right to require the Company (i) to give to members of the Company entitled to receive notice of the meeting, notice of a resolution which may properly be moved and is intended to be moved at the meeting and/or (ii) to include in the business to be dealt with at the meeting any matter (other than a proposed resolution) which may be properly included in the business. A resolution may properly be moved or a matter may properly be included in the business unless (a) (in the case of a resolution only) it would, if passed, be ineffective (whether by reason of inconsistency with any enactment or the company's constitution or otherwise), (b) it is defamatory of any person, or (c) it is frivolous or vexatious. Such a request may be in hard copy form or in electronic form, must identify the resolution of which notice is to be given or the matter to be included in the business, must be authorised by the person or persons making it, must be received by the Company not later than 24 March 2011, being the date 6 weeks before the meeting, and (in the case of a matter to be included in the business only) must be accompanied by a statement setting out the grounds for the request.
• 1. Any electronic address provided either in this notice or any related documents (including the form of proxy) may only be used for the limited purposes specified herein and not to communicate with the Company by electronic means or for any other more general purpose.

The notes on the following pages give an explanation of certain of the proposed resolutions.

Resolutions 1 to 10 and 14 are proposed as ordinary resolutions. This means that for each of those resolutions to be passed, more than half of the votes cast must be in favour of the resolution. Resolutions 11 to 13 are proposed as special resolutions. This means that for each of those resolutions to be passed, at least threequarters of the votes cast must be in favour of the resolution.

Authority to allot shares (Resolution 10)

An ordinary resolution will be proposed to renew the directors' authority to allot share capital in the Company in accordance with section 551 of the Act. Paragraph (a) of this resolution would give directors the authority to allot shares or grant rights to subscribe for or convert any securities into shares up to an aggregate nominal amount equal to £719,874.45 (representing 14,397,489 shares). This amount represents approximately one third of the total issued share capital of the Company as at 11 March 2011, the latest practicable date prior to the date of this notice.

In line with guidance issued by the Association of British Insurers ('ABI'), paragraph (b) of this resolution would give the directors the authority to allot shares or grant rights to subscribe for or convert any securities into shares in connection with a rights issue, up to an aggregate nominal amount equal to £1,439,748.90 (representing 28,794,978 shares), as reduced by the nominal amount of any shares issued under paragraph (a) of this resolution. This amount (before any reduction) represents approximately two thirds of the total issued share capital of the Company as at 11 March 2011, the latest practicable date prior to the date of this notice.

The authorities sought under this resolution will expire at the earlier of close of business on 5 August 2012 and the conclusion of the annual general meeting of the Company to be held in 2012.

The directors currently have no intention of issuing further shares or granting rights over shares other than in connection with the Company's employee share option and share incentive schemes. However, if the directors do exercise the authority granted by the resolution, the directors intend to follow ABI recommendations concerning its use (including as regards the directors standing for re-election in certain cases).

As at 11 March 2011, being the latest practicable date prior to the date of this notice, the Company held no shares in treasury.

Disapplication of pre-emption rights (Resolution 11)

This resolution will give the directors the authority to allot shares (or sell any shares which the Company elects to hold in treasury) for cash without first offering them to existing shareholders in proportion to their existing shareholdings.

As in previous years, this authority would be limited to allotments or sales in connection with pre-emptive offers or otherwise up to an aggregate nominal amount of £107,981.17 (representing 2,159,623 shares). This aggregate nominal amount represents approximately 5% of the total issued share capital of the Company as at 11 March 2011, the latest practicable date prior to the date of this notice. In respect of this aggregate nominal amount, the directors confirm their intention to follow the provisions of the Pre-emption Group's Statement of Principles regarding cumulative usage of authorities within a rolling three year period where the Principles provide that usage in excess of 7.5% should not take place without prior consultation with shareholders.

The authorities sought under this resolution will expire at the earlier of close of business on 5 August 2012 and the conclusion of the annual general meeting of the Company to be held in 2012.

Share repurchase authority (Resolution 12)

A special resolution will be proposed to authorise the Company to buy back its shares in the market, either for cancellation or to be held in treasury. Whilst the directors have no current intention of using this authority to make market purchases, this resolution provides the flexibility to allow them to do so in the future. However, the directors will exercise this authority only if they consider that to do so would be in the best interests of the Company, and of its shareholders, and expect such purchases to result in an increase in earnings per share.

Under the terms of the resolution, the Company will be generally authorised to make market purchases of up to 4,319,247 shares with an aggregate nominal value of £215,962.34, representing approximately 10% of the total issued share capital of the Company as at 11 March 2011, the latest practicable date prior to the date of this notice. The maximum price payable per share will be based on the market price of a share as set out in more detail in the resolution itself.

As at 11 March 2011, the number of outstanding options to subscribe for shares granted by the Company was 1,080,619 shares. This figure represents 2.5% of the total issued share capital of the Company at that date and would, assuming no further shares are issued, represent 2.8% of the total issued share capital if full authority to purchase shares (under the existing authority and that sought at the annual general meeting) was used.

The authority will expire at close of business on 5 August 2012 or, if earlier, at the conclusion of the annual general meeting of the Company to be held in 2012.

As at 11 March 2011, being the last practicable date prior to the date of this notice, no shares had been purchased and held as treasury shares or cancelled under the existing authority.

Changes made to the Act by the Companies (Shareholders' Rights) Regulations 2009 have increased the notice period required for general meetings of the Company (other than annual general meetings) to 21 days, unless shareholders approve a shorter notice period (which cannot be less than 14 clear days).

Resolution 13 will allow the Company to call general meetings (other than annual general meetings) on 14 clear days' notice. The resolution will be effective until the Company's next annual general meeting, when it is intended that a similar resolution will be proposed. The 14 clear days' notice period will not be used as a matter of routine, but only where the flexibility is merited by the business of the meeting and is thought to be in the best interests of the Company and of its shareholders as a whole.

Political Donations (Resolution 14)

Under section 366 of the Act, the Company is required to seek shareholders' authority for any political donations and/or political expenditure made by the Company in the European Union.

Although the Company does not make, and does not intend to make, donations to political parties within the normal meaning of that expression or to independent election candidates, the legislation is very broadly drafted and may catch activities such as funding seminars and other functions to which politicians are invited, supporting certain bodies involved in policy review and law reform and matching employees' donations to certain charities.

Therefore, in accordance with current best practice, the directors have decided to propose an ordinary resolution to authorise the Company to make certain types of political donations and/or expenditure as more particularly described in the resolution up to an aggregate amount of £25,000.

Morgan Sindall Group plc

Kent House 14–17 Market Place London W1W 8AJ 020 7307 9200 www.morgansindall.com