Smiths : 2022 Annual General Meeting Voting Results

16 NOVEMBER 2022

SMITHS GROUP PLC

RESULT OF AGM & DIRECTORATE CHANGE

Smiths Group plc (the 'Company') announces that the following resolutions were duly passed at the Company's Annual General Meeting ('AGM') which was held at 11:00am on 16 November 2022. The results of the poll vote for each resolution are as follows:

		VOTES	% OF	VOTES	% OF	VOTES	VOTES	VOTES
		FOR	VOTES	AGAINST	VOTES	TOTAL	CAST AS	WITHHELD
			CAST		CAST		A % OF
			FOR		AGAINST		ISC
	Receive and adopt
	the Company's
	audited Annual
	Report & Accounts
	for year ended 31
1	July 2022	286,912,710	99.87	360,806	0.13	287,273,516	81.00%	6,814,324
	Approval of
	Directors'
	Remuneration
2	Report	282,175,313	96.01	11,719,764	3.99	293,895,077	82.86%	192,763
	Declare a final
	dividend of 27.3p per
3	share	294,051,979	100.00	5,034	0.00	294,057,013	82.91%	30,827
	Election of Richard
4	Howes as a Director	292,705,864	99.88	344,233	0.12	293,050,097	82.63%	1,037,743
	Election of Clare
	Scherrer as a
5	Director	291,306,032	99.07	2,737,509	0.93	294,043,541	82.91%	44,299
	Re-election of Sir
	George Buckley as a
6	Director	290,828,102	98.91	3,206,370	1.09	294,034,472	82.90%	53,368
	Re-election of Pam
7	Cheng as a Director	292,688,129	99.54	1,342,479	0.46	294,030,608	82.90%	57,232
	Re-election of Dame
	Ann Dowling as a
8	Director	293,621,341	99.86	417,626	0.14	294,038,967	82.90%	48,873
	Re-election of Karin
9	Hoeing as a Director	292,701,956	99.54	1,339,667	0.46	294,041,623	82.91%	46,217
	Re-election of Paul
10	Keel as a Director	293,876,862	99.95	154,638	0.05	294,031,500	82.90%	56,340
	Re-election of
	William Seeger as a
11	Director	292,397,741	99.45	1,627,437	0.55	294,025,178	82.90%	62,662
	Re-election of Mark
	Seligman as a
12	Director	288,953,064	98.27	5,080,326	1.73	294,033,390	82.90%	54,450
	Re-election of Noel
13	Tata as a Director	248,977,199	84.96	44,065,277	15.04	293,042,476	82.62%	1,045,364
	Re-appointment of
	KPMG LLP as
14	auditor	293,026,433	99.65	1,017,630	0.35	294,044,063	82.91%	43,777
	Authority for Audit &
	Risk Committee to
	determine the
	remuneration of the
15	auditors.	294,019,642	99.99	18,404	0.01	294,038,046	82.90%	49,794

	Authority to Directors
16	to allot shares	276,220,870	95.28	13,687,411	4.72	289,908,281	81.74%	4,179,559
	Authority to disapply
17	pre-emption rights	282,760,894	96.16	11,295,351	3.84	294,056,245	82.91%	31,595
	Additional authority
	to disapply pre-
18	emption rights	269,283,281	91.58	24,771,176	8.42	294,054,457	82.91%	33,383
	Authority to make
	market purchases of
19	shares	293,023,577	99.65	1,033,449	0.35	294,057,026	82.91%	30,814
	Authority to call
	general meetings
	other than Annual
	General Meetings on
	not less than 14 clear
20	days' notice	263,063,357	89.77	29,986,586	10.23	293,049,943	82.63%	1,037,656
	Authority to make
	political donations
21	and expenditure	285,769,712	98.45	4,491,389	1.55	290,261,101	81.84%	3,826,739

Notes

As at 6.30 p.m. on 14 November 2022, the Company's issued share capital consisted of 354,671,355 ordinary shares of 37.5p. The Company does not hold any ordinary shares in the capital of the Company in treasury, and therefore, the total voting rights in the Company as at the voting record time were 354,671,355.

Shareholders are entitled to one vote per share. Votes withheld are not a vote in law and are therefore not counted in the calculation of the percentages of the votes cast for and against a resolution. Where shareholders appointed the Chairman as their proxy with discretion as to voting, their votes were cast in favour of the resolutions and their shares have been included in the "votes for" column.

Resolutions 1 to 16 and 21 were passed as ordinary resolutions and resolutions 17 to 20 (inclusive) were passed as special resolutions.

In accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.2 copies of the resolutions (other than those resolutions comprising ordinary business) approved by shareholders will be uploaded to the National Storage Mechanism and will be available for inspection at https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism..

A copy of the voting results shown above will also be made available on the Company's website at www.smiths.com/investors/general-meetings.

DIRECTORATE CHANGE

As previously communicated Tanya Fratto did not seek re-election as a director at the AGM and as a result retired as a director of the Company at the conclusion of the AGM.

Sir George Buckley, Chairman, commented:

"On behalf of the Board, Management and our Shareholders, I would like to thank Tanya for her significant contribution and commitment to Smiths during her time on the Board".

There is no further information required to be disclosed pursuant to LR 9.6.13.

Enquiries

Jemma Spalton, Group Director of Communications and Investor Relations [phone]

[e-mail]

Matthew Whyte, Company Secretary [phone] [e-mail]

Smiths Group plc's LEI number is: 213800MJL6IPZS3ASA11

About Smiths Group

For over 170 years, Smiths Group has been pioneering progress by improving the world through smarter engineering. We serve millions of people every year, to help create a safer, more efficient and better-connected world, across four major global markets: Energy, General Industry, Security & Defence, and Aerospace. Listed on the London Stock Exchange, Smiths employs c.14,600 colleagues in over 50 countries. For more information visit www.smiths.com.