24 May 2024

Melrose Industries PLC (the "Company")

Change of Auditor

As approved by shareholders at the annual general meeting of the Company held on 2 May 2024, the Company has appointed PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as its new auditor. 

As required by section 519 of the Companies Act 2006 (the "Act"), upon ceasing to hold office as the Company's auditor, Deloitte LLP has provided a statement (the "Statement") to the Company confirming the reason for its resignation as follows:

The reason for our ceasing to hold office is due to expiry of maximum duration as statutory auditor of a public interest entity under section 494ZA of Companies Act 2006.

The Statement has been sent to the Company's shareholders as required by section 520(2) of the Act.

As required by Listing Rule 9.6.1R, a copy of the Statement together with the covering letter sent to shareholders has today been submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will be available for inspection shortly at https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism.

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