Strategic Shareholder Climate and Risk Financial Financial Barclays PLC 16 report information sustainability report Governance review review statements Annual Report 2022 Section 172(1) statement How does the Board engage with stakeholders? Throughout the year, the Board engages directly and indirectly with stakeholders to ensure it has a How the Board has comprehensive understanding of the impact of the Group's operations on key stakeholders, as well as their interests and views. This engagement, both directly and through regular reports from individual business areas and key Group functions ensures the Board is well-versed on key issues to enable the regard to the views Directors to comply with their legal duty under Section 172(1). Read more on how Barclays engages with its + stakeholders on pages 21 to 22. of our stakeholders Engagement in action The Directors have acted in the way that they See pages 17 to 20 below to find out about how the Directors have had regard to the considered, in good faith, would be most likely to matters set out in Section 172 when discharging their duties, and the effect of those considerations in reaching certain decisions taken by them in the context of: promote the success of the Company for the benefit of its members as a whole and this section forms our Section 172 disclosure, describing how, in doing so, the Directors considered the matters set out in The Board’s Section 172(1)(a) to (f) of the Companies Act 2006. response to the Over-issuance of Securities by BBPLC Supporting our Responding customers, clients, to the impacts of colleagues and the Russian invasion communities through of Ukraine challenging times Say on Climate: Understanding the views of our shareholders and other stakeholders in relation to The Directors provide this statement setting out how they have our climate had regard to the matters set out in Section 172(1)(a) – (f) of the strategy Companies Act 2006 when performing their duty to promote the success of the Company under Section 172. For further details of the key activities of the Board in 2022, refer to + page 154 of our Governance report in Part 3 of the Annual Report.