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HSBC Holdings PLC25 May 2007 HSBC Holdings plc Annual General Meeting 25 May 2007 At the Annual General Meeting of HSBC Holdings plc held on 25 May 2007, allresolutions were passed on a poll. The following table shows the votes cast on each resolution: Resolution Total Votes For* Total Votes Against Votes Withheld+ (%) (%) 1. To receive the Report and Accounts for 3,864,479,235 8,919,383 9,697,178 2006 (99.77) (0.23) 2. To approve the Directors' Remuneration 3,689,326,342 97,555,034 96,172,523 Report for 2006 (97.42) (2.58) 3. (a) To re-elect The Lord Butler a 3,821,854,383 54,773,594 6,390,274 Director (98.59) (1.41) (b) To re-elect The Baroness Dunn a 3,811,429,682 65,186,829 6,411,316 Director (98.32) (1.68) (c) To re-elect R A Fairhead a 3,868,782,235 9,708,695 4,535,972 Director (99.75) (0.25) (d) To re-elect W K L Fung a 3,816,457,837 59,990,498 6,580,256 Director (98.45) (1.55) (e) To re-elect Sir Brian Moffat a 3,816,081,722 60,292,153 6,650,750 Director (98.44) (1.56) (f) To re-elect G Morgan a Director 3,834,697,821 42,204,988 6,079,276 (98.91) (1.09) 4. To reappoint the Auditor at 3,839,835,491 10,313,830 32,872,395 remuneration to be determined by the Group Audit Committee (99.73) (0.27) 5. To authorise the Directors to allot 3,849,690,002 26,121,717 7,134,352 shares (99.33) (0.67) 6. To disapply pre-emption rights 3,846,012,397 26,934,800 10,064,563 (Special Resolution) (99.30) (0.70) 7. To authorise the Company to purchase 3,870,162,901 10,921,090 1,871,381 its own Ordinary Shares (99.72) (0.28) 8. To authorise the Directors to offer a 3,870,471,683 6,786,564 5,753,519 scrip dividend alternative (99.82) (0.18) 9. To authorise the Company to make 3,753,329,722 88,666,544 41,001,817 political donations and incur political (97.69) (2.31) expenditure 10. To authorise HSBC Bank plc to make 3,752,489,533 89,386,605 41,095,387 political donations and incur political expenditure (97.67) (2.33) 11. To authorise electronic communications 3,872,910,676 5,680,069 4,378,887 with shareholders in accordance with the Companies Act 2006 (99.85) (0.15) 12. To alter the Articles of Association 3,868,543,551 7,036,072 7,398,915 (Special Resolution) (99.82) (0.18) * Includes discretionary votes + A "vote withheld" is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation of the proportion of the votes for and against the resolution The total number of ordinary shares of US$0.50 each eligible to be voted at theAnnual General Meeting was 11,710,790,084. The scrutineers of the poll wereElectoral Reform Services Limited and Computershare Investor Services PLC. At the conclusion of the Annual General Meeting, R K F Ch'ien, S Hintze and HSohmen retired as Directors. There are no matters relating to the retirementsof R K F Ch'ien, S Hintze and H Sohmen that need to be brought to the attentionof the shareholders of the Company. At the conclusion of the Annual GeneralMeeting, Lord Butler, W K L Fung and Sir Brian Moffat have each served on theBoard for more than nine years and, in that respect only, do not meet the usualcriteria for independence set out in the UK Combined Code on corporategovernance. As announced on 2 January 2007, from the conclusion of the Annual GeneralMeeting Lord Butler ceased to be a member of the Nomination Committee, W K LFung ceased to be a member of the Remuneration Committee and Sir Brian Moffatceased to be Senior Independent Non-Executive Director, a member and Chairman ofthe Group Audit Committee and Chairman of the Nomination Committee. Also as announced on 2 January 2007, the following appointments became effectivefrom the conclusion of the Annual General Meeting: Simon Robertson, an independent non-executive Director since January 2006,became Senior Independent Non-Executive Director and a member of the NominationCommittee; Sir Brian Williamson, an independent non-executive Director since 2002, becamechairman of the Nomination Committee; James Hughes-Hallett, an independent non-executive Director since 2005, became amember of the Nomination Committee; Gwyn Morgan, an independent non-executive Director since October 2006, became amember of the Remuneration Committee; Rona Fairhead, an independent non-executive Director since 2004, became chairmanof the Group Audit Committee; and Stewart Newton, an independent non-executive Director since 2002, became amember of the Group Audit Committee. This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock ExchangeRelated Shares:
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