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Exhibit 3

BRITISH AMERICAN TOBACCO p.l.c. (the "Company")

RESULTS OF VOTING AT THE 2024 ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
British American Tobacco p.l.c. (the ‘Company’) announces the result of voting on the resolutions at its Annual General Meeting (‘AGM’) held on Wednesday 24 April 2024 at the Hilton London Bankside, 2-8 Great Suffolk St, London, SE1 0UG. The full text of the resolutions, along with the explanatory notes, is set out in the Notice of Annual General Meeting dated 6 March 2024.

The table below sets out the results of the poll on each of the total of 18 Resolutions as stated in the Notice of Meeting dated 6 March 2024. All valid proxy votes (whether submitted electronically or in hard copy form) were included in the poll taken at the Meeting.  Each shareholder, present in person or by proxy, was entitled to one vote per ordinary share of 25p held.

Resolution
Votes For
% of votes cast
Votes against
% of votes cast
Votes Withheld
Votes cast in total
 Total cast as a %
of issued share capital
1. Receipt of 2023 Report and Accounts
1,559,437,174
99.92%
1,317,303
0.08%
3,805,932
1,560,754,477
69.96%
2. Approval of the 2023 Directors’ Remuneration Report
1,509,240,342
96.58%
53,407,399
3.42%
1,912,941
1,562,647,741
70.05%
3. Reappointment of KPMG LLP as Auditors
1,556,850,256
99.57%
6,795,887
0.43%
914,541
1,563,646,143
70.09%
4. Authority for the Audit Committee to agree the Auditors’ remuneration
1,560,713,936
99.90%
1,615,637
0.10%
1,014,365
1,562,329,573
70.03%
5. Re-election of Luc Jobin as a Director
1,531,219,660
98.02%
30,973,962
1.98%
2,363,416
1,562,193,622
70.03%
6. Re-election of Tadeu Marroco as a Director
1,557,735,694
99.65%
5,490,762
0.35%
1,330,583
1,563,226,456
70.07%
7. Re-election of Kandy Anand as a Director
1,549,504,697
99.19%
12,602,921
0.81%
2,449,099
1,562,107,618
70.02%
8. Re-election of Karen Guerra as a Director
1,556,517,530
99.66%
5,233,889
0.34%
2,805,620
1,561,751,419
70.01%
9. Re-election of Holly Keller Koeppel as a Director
1,525,141,299
97.65%
36,632,714
2.35%
2,783,025
1,561,774,013
70.01%
10. Re-election of Véronique Laury as a Director
1,557,724,282
99.74%
4,003,179
0.26%
2,829,578
1,561,727,461
70.00%
11. Re-election of Darrell Thomas as a Director
1,551,141,034
99.40%
9,411,952
0.60%
2,789,068
1,560,552,986
69.95%
12. Election of Murray S. Kessler as a Director
1,558,460,567
99.87%
2,084,492
0.13%
2,796,995
1,560,545,059
69.95%
13. Election of Serpil Timuray as a Director
1,550,667,488
99.37%
9,836,177
0.63%
2,837,854
1,560,503,665
69.95%
14. Authority to make donations to political organisations and to incur political expenditure
1,422,302,938
91.55%
131,343,301
8.45%
9,695,908
1,553,646,239
69.64%
15. Renewal of Directors' authority to allot shares
1,382,169,882
88.53%
179,159,404
11.47%
2,014,357
1,561,329,286
69.99%
16. Renewal of Directors’ authority to disapply pre-emption rights
1,399,468,962
89.65%
161,547,570
10.35%
2,327,110
1,561,016,532
69.97%
17. Authority for the Company to make market purchases of ordinary shares
1,550,414,809
99.27%
11,412,226
0.73%
1,516,608
1,561,827,035
70.01%
18. Notice period for General Meetings
1,474,384,914
94.37%
87,916,244
5.63%
1,042,484
1,562,301,158
70.03%


 
All resolutions were passed at the Company's AGM today with the requisite majority of votes.

Sue Farr and Dimitri Panayotopoulos stepped down from the Board as Non-Executive Directors at the conclusion of the Company's 2024 AGM. Ms Farr’s and Mr Panayotopoulos’s retirement from the Board follows the Company's announcement on 6 February 2024, as further set out in the Company's 2023 Annual Report and Form 20-F.

The number of ordinary shares in issue (excluding Treasury shares) at the close of business on Tuesday 23 April 2024 was 2,230,669,954.  Shareholders are entitled to one vote per share.  A vote withheld is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation of the proportion of votes ‘For’ or ‘Against’ a resolution. All valid proxy votes (whether submitted electronically or in hard copy form) were included in the poll.  Proxy appointments which gave discretion to the Chair have been included in the total votes ‘for’ the respective resolutions.

In accordance with Listing Rules 9.6.2R and 9.6.3R, copies of Resolutions 16 to 18 will be submitted to the Financial Conduct Authority and will in due course be available for inspection at https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism.


C Worlock
Assistant Secretary
British American Tobacco p.l.c.
24 April 2024


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