AGM 2012 results

You've been voting and we now have the results.

Thank you for your vote

We'd like to thank all our members who participated in the 2012 Annual General Meeting vote, and for the overwhelming support you have given to the Board's recommendations. This year over 143,000 members voted, which represents 16.29% of our eligible membership.

The table below shows the votes cast by proxy and at the meeting. All of the resolutions and elections were passed, receiving substantially more than the 50% endorsement required from members voting.

To ensure fairness and accuracy, the AGM vote was independently scrutinised by Electoral Reform Services, part of the Electoral Reform Society.

	For	Against	Withheld	% in favour
Ordinary resolutions
Annual Report & Accounts for the year ended 31 December 2011	140,913	1,404	860	99.0
Directors' Remuneration Report for the year ended 31 December 2011	129,388	10,955	2,822	92.2
Reappointment of Ernst & Young LLP as Auditors	138,402	3,469	1,303	97.6
Election of directors
Roger Douglas Burnell	135,923	5,157	2,093	96.3
Ian Scott Geden	136,658	4,483	2,032	96.8
David Alan Harding	136,327	4,854	1,995	96.6
Fiona Brown Smith	137,042	4,262	1,859	97.0
David Stewart	137,007	4,283	1,885	97.0