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23 Nov 2023 15:00
ABRDN UK SMALLER COMPANIES GROWTH TRUST PLC
RESULTS OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
Legal Entity Identifier (LEI): 213800UUKA68SHSJBE37
abrdn UK Smaller Companies Growth Trust plc (the "Company") hereby gives notification that at the Annual General Meeting of the Company held earlier today, 23 November 2023, all the resolutions as set out in the Notice of Annual General Meeting contained in the Annual Report for the year ended 30 June 2023 were duly passed. The proxy votes received in respect of the resolutions proposed at the meeting are shown in the table below:
| For and Discretionary | Against |
| Total Votes | ||
Resolution | No. of | % of | No. of | % of | Votes | (excluding Votes Withheld) |
Number | Votes | Votes Cast | Votes | Votes Cast | Withheld | |
1 | 28,773,538 | 93.24 | 2,085,157 | 6.76 | 6,085 | 30,858,695 |
2 | 30,573,851 | 99.25 | 230,805 | 0.75 | 60,124 | 30,804,656 |
3 | 30,475,190 | 98.97 | 316,484 | 1.03 | 73,107 | 30,791,674 |
4 | 30,830,503 | 99.92 | 23,885 | 0.08 | 10,393 | 30,854,388 |
5 | 30,680,966 | 99.67 | 101,808 | 0.33 | 82,006 | 30,782,774 |
6 | 30,627,044 | 99.48 | 160,315 | 0.52 | 77,422 | 30,787,359 |
7 | 30,679,179 | 99.62 | 118,399 | 0.38 | 67,202 | 30,797,578 |
8 | 30,595,191 | 99.46 | 166,749 | 0.54 | 102,841 | 30,761,940 |
9 | 30,617,867 | 99.51 | 149,658 | 0.49 | 97,256 | 30,767,525 |
10 | 28,668,710 | 92.97 | 2,166,810 | 7.03 | 29,260 | 30,835,520 |
11 | 30,776,329 | 99.78 | 68,142 | 0.22 | 20,309 | 30,844,471 |
12 | 30,712,097 | 99.61 | 119,272 | 0.39 | 33,411 | 30,831,369 |
13 | 30,332,609 | 98.48 | 466,925 | 1.52 | 65,246 | 30,799,534 |
14 | 27,242,469 | 88.30 | 3,609,138 | 11.70 | 13,174 | 30,851,607 |
15 | 30,727,399 | 99.63 | 115,120 | 0.37 | 22,262 | 30,842,519 |
16 | 30,492,317 | 98.96 | 318,954 | 1.04 | 53,509 | 30,811,271 |
Authority to Buy Back Shares
In relation to Resolution 14, to buy back shares, the limit on the number of Ordinary shares available to buy back is 12,474,394 as at 23 November 2023.
Full Text of Resolutions
The full text of the resolutions can be found in the Notice of the Meeting set out in the Annual Report for the year ended 30 June 2023, copies of which are available on the Company's website, www.abrdnuksmallercompaniesgrowthtrust.co.uk*. The Annual Report has been submitted to the National Storage Mechanism ("NSM") and is available for inspection at: https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism*.
* Neither the Company's website nor the NSM website nor the content of any website accessible from hyperlinks on those websites (or any other website) is (or is deemed to be) incorporated into, or forms (or is deemed to form) part of this announcement.
Enquiries:
Gordon Hay Smith
abrdn Holdings Limited
Company Secretary
Tel. 0131 372 2200