The AGM was held on 9 September 2009 at the Company's offices at 50 Pall Mall, London, each of the resolutions submitted to the meeting (as set out in the Notice of the Meeting dated 29 June 2009) was proposed and passed by the appropriate majority on a show of hands.

Accordingly, the following matters were approved:

Ordinary Business:

• 1. The Annual Report and Accounts of the Company for the period to 31 March 2009 were approved and adopted;
• 2. The Remuneration Report for the financial year ended 31 March 2009 was approved;
• 3. The auditors, Ernst and Young LLP, were re-appointed and the Directors were authorised to fix their remuneration;
• 4. John Curran was re-appointed to the Board;
• 5. Graham Chase was re-appointed to the Board; and
• 6. Clare Hollingsworth was elected to the Board.

Special Business:

• 1. The Directors were granted allotment authorities in respect of 211,640,000 ordinary shares of 10p each and 20,000,000 preference shares of 10p each; and
• 2. The Company was authorised to make market purchases and/or acquisitions of its own shares and to hold  shares in Treasury.

The proxy votes on each resolution were as follows:

Resolutions 1 to 7 were ordinary resolutions. Resolution 8 was a special resolution.

Votes 'For' include votes at the discretion of the Chairman. Votes 'Withheld' are not counted in the count of the total votes or the calculations of the percentages 'For' or 'Against' each resolution. Percentages are rounded to two decimal places. Total shares in issue at the date of the meeting were 317,467,036.

Two copies of the resolutions passed at the meeting concerning special business have been submitted to the UKLA, and will shortly be available for inspection at the UKLA's Document Viewing Facility, which is situated at: