To receive the Annual Report and accounts for the year ended 31 December 2016.

To approve the Directors' Remuneration Report

To approve the Directors' Remuneration Policy

To elect Andrew Baddeley as a Director (Chief Financial Officer)

To re-elect as a Director Rupert Robson (Chairman of the Board and of the Nominations Committee).

To re-elect as a Director John Phizakerley (Chief Executive Officer)

To re-elect as a Director Angela Knight (Senior Independent Non-executive Director, member of the Audit, Remuneration and Nominations Committees).

To re-elect as a Director Roger Perkin (Independent Non-executive Director, Chairman of the Audit Committee and member of the Risk and Nominations Committees).

To re-elect as a Director Stephen Pull (Independent Non-executive Director, Chairman of the Remuneration Committee and a member of the Nominations Committee).

To re-elect Carol Sergeant as a Director (Independent non-Executive Director, Chairman of the Risk Committee and member of the Audit and Nominations Committees).

To re-elect as a Director David Shalders (Independent Non-executive Director, member of the Remuneration, Nominations and Risk Committees).

To re-appoint Deloitte LLP as auditor of the Company (to hold office from the conclusion of the meeting until the conclusion of the next general meeting at which accounts are laid).

To authorise the Audit Committee to fix the remuneration of the auditor.

To authorise the Company to make political donations

To authorise the Company to adopt a Long Term Incentive Plan

To authorise the directors to allot shares

To authorise the Disapplication of pre-emption rights

Additional authority to authorise the directors to disapply pre-emption rights

To authorise the directors to purchase own shares

To authorise the calling of general meetings (other than an AGM) on 14 clear days' notice

To authorise the Company to amend the Articles of Association