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ISSUED ON BEHALF OF RELX PLC

 

Result of Annual General Meeting 2022

The Company held its Annual General Meeting ("AGM") at 09:30am today, Thursday 21 April 2022.

All valid proxy votes (whether submitted electronically or in hard copy form) were included in the poll taken at the meeting.

The table below shows the results of the poll on all 20 resolutions.

 

 

 

Resolution

For

% votes cast For

Against

%

votes cast Against

Total votes cast (excluding votes withheld)

% of issued capital voted (excluding Treasury shares)

Withheld

 

Receive the 2021 Annual Report

1,491,275,770

99.78

3,335,597

0.22

1,494,611,367

77.45%

2,126,644

 

Approve Annual Remuneration Report

1,373,261,824

91.85

121,919,012

8.15

1,495,180,836

77.48%

1,557,175

 

Declaration of 2021 Final Dividend

1,493,177,822

99.77

3,425,530

0.23

1,496,603,352

77.56%

134,659

 

Re-appointment of auditors

1,485,348,662

99.26

11,062,875

0.74

1,496,411,537

77.55%

326,474

 

Auditors’ remuneration

1,493,500,529

99.81

2,876,603

0.19

1,496,377,132

77.55%

360,879

 

Re-elect Paul Walker as a Director

1,467,667,180

98.07

28,845,485

1.93

1,496,512,665

77.55%

225,346

 

Re-elect June Felix as a Director

1,494,824,919

99.89

1,589,342

0.11

1,496,414,261

77.55%

323,750

 

Re-elect Erik Engstrom as a Director

1,494,726,200

99.88

1,778,075

0.12

1,496,504,275

77.55%

233,736

 

Re-elect Wolfhart Hauser as a Director

1,440,131,331

97.78

32,721,119

2.22

1,472,852,450

76.33%

23,885,561

 

Re-elect Charlotte Hogg as a Director

1,495,251,731

99.92

1,159,739

0.08

1,496,411,470

77.55%

326,541

 

Re-elect Marike van Lier Lels as a Director

1,476,195,582

98.65

20,215,292

1.35

1,496,410,874

77.55%

327,137

 

Re-elect Nick Luff as a Director

1,488,575,157

99.47

7,933,794

0.53

1,496,508,951

77.55%

229,060

 

Re-elect Robert MacLeod as a Director

1,466,439,977

98.53

21,818,670

1.47

1,488,258,647

77.12%

8,479,364

 

Re-elect Andrew Sukawaty as a Director

1,494,740,397

99.89

1,660,132

0.11

1,496,400,529

77.55%

337,482

 

Re-elect Suzanne Wood as a Director

1,411,122,951

94.30

85,291,485

5.70

1,496,414,436

77.55%

323,575

 

Authority to allot shares

1,426,795,249

95.33

69,832,233

4.67

1,496,627,482

77.56%

110,529

 

Disapplication of pre-emption rights

1,485,969,136

99.54

6,889,235

0.46

1,492,858,371

77.36%

3,879,640

 

Additional disapplication of pre-emption rights

1,464,529,391

98.10

28,326,287

1.90

1,492,855,678

77.36%

3,882,333

 

Authority to purchase own shares

1,476,765,192

98.75

18,663,830

1.25

1,495,429,022

77.50%

1,308,989

 

Notice period for general meetings

1,406,037,769

94.13

87,690,996

5.87

1,493,728,765

77.41%

3,009,246

 

 

NOTES:

 

 

 

1.

The ‘For’ vote includes those giving the Chair discretion.

 

 

2.

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

 

 

3.

Resolutions 17 to 20 are Special Resolutions.

 

 

4.

At the close of business on Tuesday 19 April 2022 the total number of ordinary shares in issue, excluding Treasury shares, was 1,929,677,490.

 

 

5.

The full text of the resolutions can be found in the Notice of Annual General Meeting, which is available for inspection at the National Storage Mechanism https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism and on the Company's website at www.relx.com.

 

 

6.

As per Listing Rule 9.6.2 a copy of the resolutions passed, other than resolutions concerning ordinary business, will shortly be submitted to the National Storage Mechanism for inspection at https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism.