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National Express Group PLC

11 May 2022

NATIONAL EXPRESS GROUP PLC

Result of AGM - 11 May 2022

National Express Group PLC (the "Company") held its Annual General Meeting ("AGM") today at Glaziers Hall, 9 Montague Close, London Bridge, London SE1 9DD at 2.00pm. All resolutions at the AGM were put to the meeting on a poll and were passed with the requisite majority. The full results are detailed below.

As at 6.30pm on Monday 9 May 2022, the time by which shareholders who wanted to vote at the AGM must have been entered on the Company's register of members, there were 614,086,377 ordinary shares of 5 pence each in issue. Shareholders are entitled to one vote per share on a poll.

 
                                          VOTES FOR          VOTES AGAINST       % of      Number 
                                                                                  ISC     of votes 
                                                                                 voted    withheld 
                                       No. of        %       No. of       % 
            Resolution                  shares               shares 
                                    ------------  ------  -----------  ------ 
       To receive the 
        accounts of the 
        Company for the 
        year ended 31 December 
        2021 and the Directors' 
        and Auditors' Reports 
 1.     thereon                      496,298,521   99.98     75,327     0.02    80.83%   18,955,154 
      ----------------------------  ------------  ------  -----------  ------  -------  ----------- 
       To approve the 
        Annual Report on 
        Remuneration (advisory 
 2.     vote only)                   484,316,579   94.33   29,105,007   5.67    83.61%   1,907,416 
      ----------------------------  ------------  ------  -----------  ------  -------  ----------- 
       To re-elect Sir 
        John Armitt as 
 3.     a Director                   490,688,182   95.23   24,600,408   4.77    83.91%     40,412 
      ----------------------------  ------------  ------  -----------  ------  -------  ----------- 
       To re-elect Jorge 
 4.     Cosmen as a Director         507,409,950   98.47   7,886,997    1.53    83.91%     32,034 
      ----------------------------  ------------  ------  -----------  ------  -------  ----------- 
       To re-elect Matthew 
 5.     Crummack as a Director       509,260,812   98.83   6,028,220    1.17    83.91%     39,970 
      ----------------------------  ------------  ------  -----------  ------  -------  ----------- 
       To re-elect Chris 
 6.     Davies as a Director         514,220,021   99.79   1,079,265    0.21    83.91%     29,716 
      ----------------------------  ------------  ------  -----------  ------  -------  ----------- 
       To elect Carolyn 
 7.     Flowers as a Director        513,814,075   99.71   1,481,069    0.29    83.91%     33,858 
      ----------------------------  ------------  ------  -----------  ------  -------  ----------- 
       To re-elect Ignacio 
 8.     Garat as a Director          514,380,862   99.82    912,118     0.18    83.91%     36,022 
      ----------------------------  ------------  ------  -----------  ------  -------  ----------- 
       To re-elect Karen 
 9.     Geary as a Director          494,036,687   95.88   21,252,534   4.12    83.91%     39,760 
      ----------------------------  ------------  ------  -----------  ------  -------  ----------- 
       To re-elect Ana 
        de Pro Gonzalo 
 10.    as a Director                510,991,034   99.17   4,298,209    0.83    83.91%     39,759 
      ----------------------------  ------------  ------  -----------  ------  -------  ----------- 
       To re-elect Mike 
 11.    McKeon as a Director         514,357,364   99.82    935,934     0.18    83.91%     35,704 
      ----------------------------  ------------  ------  -----------  ------  -------  ----------- 
       To re-appoint Deloitte 
        LLP as the Company's 
 12.    auditor                      436,068,024   84.63   79,212,371   15.37   83.91%     48,607 
      ----------------------------  ------------  ------  -----------  ------  -------  ----------- 
       To authorise the 
        Directors to fix 
 13.    the auditor's remuneration   455,333,645   88.36   59,959,149   11.64   83.91%     34,337 
      ----------------------------  ------------  ------  -----------  ------  -------  ----------- 
       To authorise political 
 14.    donations and expenditure    514,852,261   99.92    436,510     0.08    83.91%     40,231 
      ----------------------------  ------------  ------  -----------  ------  -------  ----------- 
       To authorise the 
        Directors to allot 
 15.    shares                       503,647,133   97.74   11,645,669   2.26    83.91%     36,200 
      ----------------------------  ------------  ------  -----------  ------  -------  ----------- 
       To give the Directors 
        power to disapply 
        pre-emption rights 
 16.    - general                    513,504,586   99.69   1,575,167    0.31    83.88%    249,249 
      ----------------------------  ------------  ------  -----------  ------  -------  ----------- 
       To give the Directors 
        power to disapply 
        pre-emption rights 
 17.    - specific                   443,138,669   86.03   71,938,326   13.97   83.88%    251,986 
      ----------------------------  ------------  ------  -----------  ------  -------  ----------- 
       To authorise the 
        Company to purchase 
 18.    its own shares               496,534,755   96.37   18,713,698   3.63    83.90%     80,549 
      ----------------------------  ------------  ------  -----------  ------  -------  ----------- 
       To call General 
        Meetings (other 
        than AGMs) on 14 
 19.    clear days' notice           502,297,271   97.48   12,983,381   2.52    83.91%     20,076 
      ----------------------------  ------------  ------  -----------  ------  -------  ----------- 
       To adopt New Articles 
        of Association 
 20.    of the Company               514,710,165   99.89    556,631     0.11    83.91%     62,206 
      ----------------------------  ------------  ------  -----------  ------  -------  ----------- 
 

NOTES:

    1.   The 'For' vote includes those giving the Chairperson discretion. 

2. Votes 'Withheld' are not counted in the calculation of the proportion of votes 'For' or 'Against' a resolution.

3. Resolutions 1 to 15 were ordinary resolutions which required a majority of votes cast to be in favour.

4. Resolutions 16 to 20 were special resolutions which required at least 75% of votes cast to be in favour.

5. In accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.2R, copies of the resolutions passed as special business will shortly be available for inspection on the National Storage Mechanism at https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism

6. The voting results shown above are also available on the Company's website at https://www.nationalexpressgroup.com/investors/agm

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Company contacts:

Gillian Saunderson, Interim Company Secretary

Telephone +44 (0) 7506 642 348

Notes

Legal Entity Identifier: 213800A8IQEMY8PA5X34

Classification: 3.1 (with reference to DTR6 Annex 1R)

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