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RNS Number : 7688E

BAE SYSTEMS PLC

10 May 2017

BAE SYSTEMS plc

POLL RESULTS FOR AGM 2017

BAE Systems plc announces that all resolutions were passed by the requisite majorities on a poll at the Company's Annual General Meeting held on 10 May 2017.

 
   ORDINARY RESOLUTIONS       VOTES FOR     % VOTES      VOTES       TOTAL VOTES     % OF ISSUED     VOTES WITHHELD(2) 
                                             FOR(1)     AGAINST        VALIDLY       SHARE CAPITAL 
                                                                         CAST        VOTED(1,2,3) 
-------------------------  --------------  --------  ------------  --------------  ---------------  ------------------ 
 Resolution 1: 
  Report and Accounts       2,404,972,451   100.00%        61,087   2,405,033,538           75.55%           5,265,884 
-------------------------  --------------  --------  ------------  --------------  ---------------  ------------------ 
 Resolution 2: 
  Remuneration Policy       2,286,232,998    95.09%   118,030,799   2,404,263,797           75.52%           6,035,623 
-------------------------  --------------  --------  ------------  --------------  ---------------  ------------------ 
 Resolution 3: 
  Directors' Remuneration 
  Report                    2,322,287,980    97.25%    65,571,040   2,387,859,020           75.01%          22,440,400 
-------------------------  --------------  --------  ------------  --------------  ---------------  ------------------ 
 Resolution 4: 
  Payment of final 
  dividend                  2,405,049,413   100.00%        53,549   2,405,102,962           75.55%           5,196,459 
-------------------------  --------------  --------  ------------  --------------  ---------------  ------------------ 
 Resolution 5: 
  Re-election of 
  Sir Roger Carr            2,392,920,847    99.50%    11,989,493   2,404,910,340           75.54%           5,389,081 
-------------------------  --------------  --------  ------------  --------------  ---------------  ------------------ 
 Resolution 6: 
  Re-election of 
  Elizabeth Corley          2,397,321,403    99.69%     7,534,215   2,404,855,618           75.54%           5,443,804 
-------------------------  --------------  --------  ------------  --------------  ---------------  ------------------ 
 Resolution 7: 
  Re-election of 
  Jerry DeMuro              2,393,699,501    99.54%    11,175,221   2,404,874,722           75.54%           5,424,699 
-------------------------  --------------  --------  ------------  --------------  ---------------  ------------------ 
 Resolution 8: 
  Re-election of 
  Harriet Green             2,378,500,474    99.58%     9,983,468   2,388,483,942           75.03%          21,815,479 
-------------------------  --------------  --------  ------------  --------------  ---------------  ------------------ 
 Resolution 9: 
  Re-election of 
  Christopher Grigg         2,398,517,276    99.74%     6,339,103   2,404,856,379           75.54%           5,443,042 
-------------------------  --------------  --------  ------------  --------------  ---------------  ------------------ 
 Resolution 10: 
  Re-election of 
  Ian King                  2,393,567,340    99.53%    11,335,880   2,404,903,220           75.54%           5,396,201 
-------------------------  --------------  --------  ------------  --------------  ---------------  ------------------ 
 Resolution 11: 
  Re-election of 
  Peter Lynas               2,361,510,630    98.87%    27,026,221   2,388,536,851           75.03%          21,762,569 
-------------------------  --------------  --------  ------------  --------------  ---------------  ------------------ 
 Resolution 12: 
  Re-election of 
  Paula Rosput Reynolds     2,339,388,120    97.94%    49,107,253   2,388,495,373           75.03%          21,804,047 
-------------------------  --------------  --------  ------------  --------------  ---------------  ------------------ 
 Resolution 13: 
  Re-election of 
  Nicholas Rose             2,391,302,419    99.44%    13,562,686   2,404,865,105           75.54%           5,434,316 
-------------------------  --------------  --------  ------------  --------------  ---------------  ------------------ 
 Resolution 14: 
  Re-election of 
  Ian Tyler                 2,368,655,459    98.49%    36,206,506   2,404,861,965           75.54%           5,437,456 
-------------------------  --------------  --------  ------------  --------------  ---------------  ------------------ 
 Resolution 15: 
  Election of Charles 
  Woodburn                  2,393,776,224    99.54%    11,085,623   2,404,861,847           75.54%           5,435,504 
-------------------------  --------------  --------  ------------  --------------  ---------------  ------------------ 
 Resolution 16: 
  Reappointment 
  of Auditors               2,356,857,193    98.95%    24,939,521   2,381,796,714           74.82%          28,502,706 
-------------------------  --------------  --------  ------------  --------------  ---------------  ------------------ 
 Resolution 17: 
  Auditors' remuneration    2,402,277,093    99.89%     2,676,395   2,404,953,488           75.55%           5,345,933 
-------------------------  --------------  --------  ------------  --------------  ---------------  ------------------ 
 Resolution 18: 
  Political donations       2,360,775,586    98.62%    33,078,190   2,393,853,776           75.20%          16,445,645 
-------------------------  --------------  --------  ------------  --------------  ---------------  ------------------ 
 Resolution 19: 
  Authority to allot 
  new shares                1,960,051,137    81.73%   438,133,624   2,398,184,761           75.33%          12,114,659 
-------------------------  --------------  --------  ------------  --------------  ---------------  ------------------ 
 
 
   SPECIAL RESOLUTIONS       VOTES FOR     % VOTES      VOTES       TOTAL VOTES     % OF ISSUED     VOTES WITHHELD(2) 
                                            FOR(1)     AGAINST        VALIDLY       SHARE CAPITAL 
                                                                        CAST        VOTED(1,2,3) 
------------------------  --------------  --------  ------------  --------------  ---------------  ------------------ 
 Resolution 20: 
  Disapplication 
  of 
  pre-emption rights 
  (5%)                     2,350,642,098     97.75    54,084,234   2,404,726,332           75.54%           5,573,090 
------------------------  --------------  --------  ------------  --------------  ---------------  ------------------ 
 Resolution 21: 
  Authority to purchase 
  own shares               2,381,498,753     99.11    21,305,094   2,402,803,847           75.48%           7,495,573 
------------------------  --------------  --------  ------------  --------------  ---------------  ------------------ 
 Resolution 22: 
  Notice of general 
  meetings                 2,261,787,814     94.46   132,660,449   2,394,448,263           75.22%          15,847,009 
------------------------  --------------  --------  ------------  --------------  ---------------  ------------------ 
 

Notes:

   1.         The percentages above are rounded to two decimal places. 

2. A vote withheld is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation of the proportion of votes "for" and "against" a resolution.

   3.         The number of ordinary shares in issue on the share register at 6.30pm on 8 May 2017 was 3,467,440,044, of which the Total Voting Rights figure was 3,183,470,667. 

Copies of resolutions 18 - 22, being resolutions other than resolutions concerning ordinary business passed by the Company at the above AGM, have been submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available for inspection at www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/nsm

10 May 2017

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