TIDMWEIR

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Weir Group PLC

21 March 2022

The Weir Group PLC

21 March 2022

2021 Annual Report and 2022 Annual General Meeting

The following documents have today been posted or otherwise made available to shareholders:

 
       Annual Report and Financial Statements for the period ended 
  1.    31 December 2021 (the "2021 Annual Report"); 
       Notice of 2022 Annual General Meeting; and 
  2. 
       Form of Proxy for the 2022 Annual General Meeting. 
  3. 
 

In accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.1, a copy of each of these documents has been uploaded to the National Storage Mechanism and will be available for viewing shortly at:

https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism .

The documents (except the Form of Proxy) are also available on the Company's website at

www.global.weir/investors/shareholder-information/agm/ and in hard copy to Shareholders upon request to Investor Relations, The Weir Group PLC, 1 West Regent Street, Glasgow, G2 1RW.

The Company currently intends to hold its 2022 Annual General Meeting (the "AGM") at the Company's Head Office, 1 West Regent Street, Glasgow, G2 1RW, on Thursday 28 April 2022 at 2.30pm.

The Company's full year results announcement of 2 March 2022 contained a management report as well as the audited financial statements which were prepared in accordance with the applicable accounting standards.

The 2021 Annual Report submitted to the National Storage Mechanism today also contains information regarding the Company's principal risks and uncertainties as at 2 March 2022 (being the date of the 2021 Annual Report) and a responsibility statement relating to the content of the 2021 Annual Report; an extract of this information is provided below as required under paragraph 6.3.5 of the DTR, however this material should be read in conjunction with and is not a substitute for reading the full 2021 Annual Report. Page numbers and cross-references in the following appendices refer to page numbers and cross-references in the 2021 Annual Report.

For further information, please contact:

Graham Vanhegan

Company Secretary

Telephone: 0141 308 3771

Graham Vanhegan

Chief Legal Officer and Company Secretary

APPICES

Appendix A: Principal risks and uncertainties as at 2 March 2022 (the date of the 2021 Annual Report)

A description of the principal risks and uncertainties that the Company faces is extracted in full and unedited form pages 74 to 80 of the 2021 Annual Report.

As in any business, there are risks and uncertainties which could impact the Group's ability to achieve its objectives in the future. The Group's risk management and assurance framework is designed to make this less likely by clearly identifying and seeking to mitigate these key risks.

The Board has conducted a robust assessment of the principal risks, alongside the Risk Appetite Statement set out on page 71 meeting the Board's responsibilities in connection with Risk Management and Internal Control details in the UK Corporate Governance Code. Each of the principal risks is assigned an owner from amongst the Board or Group Senior Management team and a detailed review of each principal risk has been completed in the year.

The Group's risk registers were reviewed and validity of the existing prior year principal risks were reassessed and consideration was given as to whether any new principal risks have emerged, or certain risks are no longer considered to be a principal risk. This review resulted in changes being made to the principal risks in 2021.

The identified principal risks were subjected to a detailed assessment based on the following considerations:

 
 --   Severity of each risk relative to the Group's stated risk 
       appetite; 
 --   Existence and effectiveness of actions and internal controls 
       which serve to mitigate the risk; 
 --   The overall effectiveness of the Group's control environment, 
       including assurance and any identified control weakness; 
       and 
 --   The extent to which each of the principal risks could impact 
       the Group's viability in financial or operational terms, 
       due to their potential effects on the business plan, solvency 
       or liquidity. 
 

The principal risks set out on pages 74 to 80 are those which we believe to have the greatest potential to impact our ability to achieve the Group's strategic objectives or which have the greatest potential impact on the Group's solvency or liquidity.

 
 Principal Risks and Uncertainties 
 Covid-19 (Risk trend: No Change) 
 
  Risk of subsequent pandemic waves giving rise to further plant closures and heightened workforce 
  exposures both for the Group and its key customers and suppliers which could lead to a loss 
  of productivity and/or loss of life. 
 Why we think this is important          How we are mitigating the risk          Changes during 2021 
 
 Whilst the emergence of new variants    The Group's has continued to adapt      Key initiatives rolled out in the 
 such as Omicron are demonstrating       and innovate throughout 2021, whilst    last year have included the Group 
 significantly milder                    ensuring the constant                   providing vaccination 
 symptoms, the health and wellbeing      protection of our people and ability    support for all employees where 
 threat posed to the Group's people      to serve our customers safely and       possible, combined with a continued 
 and operations remains                  reliably.                               emphasis on mental health, 
 in the near-term, particularly in                                               which is a core element of the Groups 
 those countries with lower              Underpinned by the Groups vision of     recently launched Health and 
 vaccination rates.                      being a zero-harm workplace, our risk   Wellbeing framework. 
                                         mitigation focus 
                                         has remained on reinforcing our         Ongoing vaccination rollouts, booster 
                                         previously developed health and         programmes and heightening immunity 
                                         wellbeing workplace protocols           levels are all regarded 
                                         and COVID-19 specific response plans    as positive indicators that society 
                                         which are cognoscente of locality and   is likely to be better protected in 
                                         emerging local                          the future from further 
                                         authority restrictions.                 COVID-19 disruption. The Group 
                                                                                 however continues to adopt a cautious 
                                                                                 outlook, and this is 
                                                                                 reflected in the assessed risk as 
                                                                                 unchanged from the prior year 
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 Technology (Risk trend: No change) 
 
  Failure of the Group to embrace technology, innovate and continue to develop and invest in 
  both our core and next generation solutions and services for our customers, leaves the Group's 
  market leading positions and ability to deliver on growth ambitions exposed. 
 Why we think this is important          How we are mitigating the risk          Changes during 2021 
 
 We need to continue to drive            Continued investment in our             The Group's acquisition of Motion 
 innovation across the Group through     technology strategy aligned on smart,   Metrics, a market leading developer 
 investment in talent and                sustainable, efficient (SSE)            of innovative Artificial 
 collaboration with research partners,   priorities.                             Intelligence and machine vision 
 thus ensuring there is a sustainable                                            technology will significantly boost 
 and evolving product                    Use of new emergent technologies        our highly engineered, 
 offering leveraging new and adjacent    radar software / process with           digitally enabled mining products 
 technologies.                           embedded Artificial Intelligence        proposition to support our customers 
                                         (AI) scanning capability to assess      sustainability, productivity 
 Failure to achieve this could give      potential risks & opportunities.        and safety agendas. 
 rise to:                                                                        Risk movement 
                                         Strong governance around intellectual 
 An inability to give sufficient         property and new material/product       The impact and likelihood of this 
 priority to outer horizon technology    launches.                               risk is assessed to have not changed 
 leading to an under investment                                                  since last year. 
 / delayed development to meet our       Evolving WARC (Weir Advanced Research 
 medium-long term performance goals.     Centre) model with strategic 
                                         international research, 
 Failure to identify and mitigate        academic and technology scanning 
 potentially disruptive technology       partnerships and funding. 
 trends as they appear in 
 mining or adjacent industries and/or    Maturing of the Weir Innovation 
 failure to adapt at the required pace   Network (WIN) approach to further 
 to gain / sustain                       promote, celebrate and reward 
 market competitiveness.                 a culture of innovation. 
 
 Failure to leverage our deep 
 customer/market insights to develop 
 products and solutions which 
 meet the most strategic needs of our 
 customers and other stakeholders. 
 
 Failure to adapt our business model 
 to capture economic value / prevent 
 economic loss from 
 technological advances. 
 
 Failure to leverage new technology to 
 reduce costs/improve our own 
 operational performance, 
 resulting in increased costs and/or 
 lower responsiveness relative to our 
 peers. 
                                        --------------------------------------  -------------------------------------- 
 Value Chain Excellence (Risk trend: No Change) 
 
  Failure to achieve Value Chain Excellence improvements and the associated reduction in costs 
  and enhanced capital efficiency. 
 Why we think this is important          How are we mitigating the risk          Changes during 2021 
 
 If we fail to improve our value chain   Regular KPI monitoring of the value     Key mitigation initiatives in the 
 management, we risk:                    chain throughout the organisation.      year have centred on increasing our 
                                         Value Chain Excellence                  volume aggregation plans 
 Losing the opportunity to meet our      initiatives have been operating         to best costs countries and a 
 customer needs in terms of product      throughout the Group to drive value     reduction in selling, general & 
 volume, quality and                     chain improvements including            administrative (SG&A) expense 
 delivery, through a failure in          expanding production in best cost       as a percentage of sales through 
 internal and external supply chains     countries.                              greater utilisation of our shared 
 resulting in a low of reputation                                                services network. 
 and sales;                              The Group's forward purchase 
                                         commitments are being closely           Despite some short-term challenges 
 Failure to optimise our inventory       monitored to manage inventories         experienced in the areas of 
 thus inhibiting the Group investment    at levels appropriate to market         procurement and supply chain 
 strategy and creating                   conditions.                             disruption, these have not been 
 slow moving and obsolete inventory                                              deemed sufficiently material to 
 ultimately impacting our results;       Our credit risk management procedures   change the risk weighting 
                                         are under continuous appraisal and      since last year. 
 Failure to manage potential above       review. 
 inflationary increases in procurement 
 costs as commodity                      We regularly monitor market activity 
 prices increasing thereby reducing      to ensure we remain competitive. 
 our cost competitiveness and margins; 
 and                                     Improved demand planning and 
                                         forecasting including Sales and 
 Failure to develop organisational       Operations Planning within VCE. 
 capability to sustain and improve       Realising value from shared service 
 operational performance                 initiatives. 
 results. 
                                        --------------------------------------  -------------------------------------- 
 Climate (Risk trend: No Change) 
 
  Failure to adapt to and mitigate climate change and the associated impact on our current or 
  future business. 
 Why we think this is important          How are we mitigating the risk          Changes during 2021 
 
 Failure to manage this risk has         Sustainability Roadmap developed via    This risk was reclassified from 
 significant impacts on us, our          extensive multi-stakeholder             previously Environmental 
 customers and our supply chain.         materiality assessment encompassing     Sustainability to Climate Risk in 
 These impacts can be physical or        Environmental, Social & Governance      order to fully reflect the Group's 
 relate to the transition to a           (ES&G).                                 climate change agenda and the role we 
 low-carbon economy and they                                                     must play in reducing 
 can be both acute and chronic.          Two of the four Sustainability          our own footprint. 
 Physical risks include the potential    Roadmap priority areas focus on 
 impact of extreme weather               Environmental Sustainability.           Key activities in 2021 involved a 
 events on our operations. Failure to                                            quantitative review of the market 
 manage transition risks may have        Creating sustainable solutions: with    risks and opportunities 
 political and legal                     targets for increased sustainability    linked to the transition to a 
 implications following increased        impact of our products                  low-carbon economy, with the findings 
 Governmental focus, such as the costs   in use, sustainable design and supply   then integrated directly 
 of complying with carbon                and end-of-life stewardship for our     into the strategic planning process 
 prices.                                 products.                               and principal risk framework. 
 
 There are also wider implications of    Reducing our footprint: with targets    Execution of the Group's first ever 
 this risk including changes in          for CO2 reduction (both efficiency      sustainability linked public bond 
 revenue due to reduced                  and renewable supply                    placement, further strengthened 
 demand from declining market sectors,   optimisation), water stewardship,       our balance sheet and wider climate 
 loss of market share if we were not     waste elimination.                      commitments. 
 able to meet demand 
 for products with reduced energy and    We are continuing strong engagement     The impact and likelihood of this 
 water usage, negative impact on         with stakeholders in this area.         risk is assessed to have not changed 
 reputation leading to                                                           since last year. 
 increased cost of capital and failure 
 to attract talent into the 
 organisation. 
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 Safety, Health and Wellbeing (Risk trend: No change) 
 
  Failure to adequately protect our people and customers from harm presents a significant threat 
  to the physical and mental well-being of the Group's existing and available workforce leading 
  to a resultant impact on productivity and our ability to meet customer demands and expectations. 
 Why we think this is important          How are we mitigating the risk          Changes during 2021 
 
 Our commitments to a zero-harm          The Group's SHE charter sets out the    The Group's SHE charter was refreshed 
 workplace and environmental             guiding principles, priorities and      in 2021 and has been instrumental in 
 safeguarding are at the very core       actions, each of which                  empowering individuals 
 of our sustainability strategy and      play a vital role in supporting our     and teams to focus first on safe 
 purpose, with policies and processes    shared vision of achieving zero-harm    behaviours, proactively identifying 
 in place to ensure                      workplace where everyone                risks through safety 
 the continued health, safety and        of our people has a safe start, a       conversations and articulating 
 physical & mental wellbeing of all      safe finish and a safe journey home.    clearly what is expected and required 
 employees, customers and                                                        from us all to achieve 
 third parties.                          The Weir SHE management system then     our collective vision. 
                                         establishes a common set of standards 
                                         and expectations                        SHE also became an integral part of 
                                         for addressing risk throughout our      our employee engagement programme 
                                         operations globally.                    with pulse surveys undertaken 
                                                                                 to promote active participation in 
                                                                                 employees own and other's health, 
                                                                                 wellbeing and safety. 
                                                                                 The survey's findings led to the 
                                                                                 Group launching its new Health and 
                                                                                 Wellbeing framework focusing 
                                                                                 on the Culture & Leadership, Safety & 
                                                                                 Environment, Mental Wellbeing, 
                                                                                 Physical Wellbeing and 
                                                                                 Financial Wellbeing. 
 
                                                                                 The impact and likelihood of this 
                                                                                 risk is assessed to have not changed 
                                                                                 since last year. 
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 People (Risk trend: Increasing) 
 
  Failure of the Group to build an ever more inclusive and diverse culture, which gives rise 
  to an inability to attract and retain the very best workforce. 
 Why we think this is important          How are we mitigating the risk          Changes during 2021 
 
 Our people represent our biggest        Promotion of the Weir Group Values &    2021 saw the introduction Workday, 
 asset and so the ability of the Group   Behaviours, Code of Conduct and HR      the Group's new global HR management 
 to attract, develop                     Policies sets the                       system which forms 
 and retain talent and build             standards and expectations for all      an integral part of our ongoing 
 capability at the pace required is      our staff, reinforcing our stated       discovery programme designed to 
 fundamental to the delivery             commitment to attracting                modernise, standardise and 
 of the Group's strategic objectives.    and retaining the very best people.     digitise our HR processes to 
                                                                                 ultimately deliver an even better 
 Our ambition to foster an inclusive     High performer assessments are          employee experience. 
 and diverse workforce that              undertaken to identify and develop 
 increasingly reflects the diversity     our very best talent.                   In the key area of Inclusion and 
 of the markets in which we operate,                                             Diversity the Group launched its 
 is key to creating a purpose driven     Succession plans are in place and       global I&D education programme, 
 culture where we can                    periodically reviewed for all of our    which also included the creation of 
 all do the best work of our lives.      key management.                         I&D ambassadors, global online 
                                                                                 learning programmes and 
                                         Personal Development Plans are set      the promotion of affinity groups. 
                                         and reviewed for the effective 
                                         development of all of our 
                                         staff.                                  Given the prevailing competitive 
                                         We continue to offer competitive        labour market conditions which are 
                                         compensation and benefits packages.     manifesting themselves 
                                                                                 in labour shortages and increased 
                                         Inclusion and Diversity Training and    attrition rates in certain pockets , 
                                         Steering Committee.                     this risk was elevated 
                                                                                 during the year to reflect the 
                                                                                 potential short-term impediment to 
                                                                                 growth. 
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 Market (Risk trend: No Change) 
 
  Changes in key mining markets, including commodity prices and macro-economic conditions have 
  an adverse impact on customers' expenditure plans. Fundamental market structure changes could 
  alter the long-term economics of the business. 
 Why we think this is important          How are we mitigating the risk          Changes during 2021 
 
 Cyclical nature of the Group's end      Our aftermarket focused business        Completion of the Group first ever 
 markets, including continued exposure   model and enhanced focus on             sustainability linked public bond in 
 to oil sands, giving                    technology to reduce cost and           our 150-year history 
 rise to downturns and resultant         improve efficiency combine to           further strengthened our balance 
 pricing and operational pressures.      mitigate the risk of future down        sheet whilst also reaffirming our 
                                         turns.                                  commitment to reducing 
 Risk of credit markets tightening                                               our environmental impact by 30% by 
 limiting access to capital.             The Group's strategy planning process   the end of 2024. 
                                         utilises extensive market 
 Failure of the Group to maximise        intelligence to assist in               With key commodities remaining at 
 upturn opportunities and meet           forecasting opportunities and dips in   multi year highs the impact and 
 customer demands.                       markets.                                likelihood of this risk 
                                                                                 is assessed to have not changed since 
                                                                                 last year. 
                                        --------------------------------------  -------------------------------------- 
 Competition (Risk trend: No change) 
 
  Increasing presence of low-cost competitors with improving quality in our end markets leads 
  to significant pricing pressure and margin deterioration. Disruptive technologies or new entrants 
  with alternative business models could also reduce our ability to sustainably win future business, 
  achieve operating results and realise future growth opportunities. Continuing threat from 
  third party replicators. 
 Why we think this is important          How are we mitigating the risk          Changes during 2021 
 
 Increasing presence of low cost         Horizon scanning for competitor         The Group's continued to focus on the 
 competitors with improving quality in   threats including patent searches and   development of technology solutions, 
 our end markets leads                   applications.                           it's aftermarket 
 to significant pricing pressure and                                             services proposition and emphasis on 
 margin deterioration. Alternatively,    Collaboration with customers on         total cost of ownership, delivered a 
 increased competition                   technology partnerships and field       series of active 
 forces a continual release of longer    trials.                                 product alliances with several key 
 wear life products resulting in                                                 customers. 
 maintaining market share                Technology solutions with 
 but cannibalising our sales volumes     differentiation on engineering          The impact and likelihood of this 
 with difficulty in realising            expertise, aftermarket service and      risk is assessed to have not changed 
 commercial benefits.                    total cost of ownership.                since last year. 
 
                                         Continued development of operational 
                                         efficiency and improvement plans. 
 
                                         Continued investment in core product 
                                         design, process and materials that 
                                         provide high value. 
                                        --------------------------------------  -------------------------------------- 
 Digital Strategy and Roadmap (Risk trend: No change) 
 
  Failure to exploit 'digitalisation' opportunities impacting the Group's ability to meet evolving 
  customer expectations. 
 Why we think this is important          How are we mitigating the risk          Changes during 2021 
 
 To meet the needs of our customers,     Building on work which has taken        T Digital risk has been fully 
 the ambitions of our business and the   place in preceding years a task force   reviewed and the associated key risk 
 expectations of                         of senior leaders from                  indicators have been updated. 
 an increasingly digital world, Weir     across the Group has been put in        Acquisition of Motion Metrics and 
 must prioritise and accelerate its      place to shape our digital vision and   appointment of Chief Data Officer 
 digital evolution.                      roadmap. This 3 month                   align to digital strategy 
 Failure to do so will negatively        programme is being complemented by      ambitions and help to further 
 impact Weir's market position along     additional work to increase 'digital    mitigate the associated risk. 
 with our ability to attract             fitness' across the 
 the people, skills and investment       business and assess our approach to     The impact and likelihood of this 
 needed to become a premium mining       digital talent recruitment.             risk is assessed to have not changed 
 technology business. If                                                         since last year. 
 we fail to implement a holistic,        Digital and IT leadership are also 
 digitalised ecosystem and culture       now embedded in the Group and 
 quickly and effectively                 Divisional strategic planning 
 competitors, who successfully embed     processes to ensure digitalisation is 
 digitalisation, will benefit and        given due consideration. 
 increase their market 
 share. 
                                        --------------------------------------  -------------------------------------- 
 Information Security and Cyber (Risk trend: No change) 
 
  Failure to adequately protect Weir Group from cyber enabled fraud and other information security 
  risks which can lead to operational disruption, reputational damage, regulatory fines and/or 
  financial impacts. 
 Why we think this is important          How are we mitigating the risk          Changes during 2021 
 
 Weir's global operations are heavily    We have an IT governance framework      We have invested in operational 
 reliant on its IT systems and           which oversees our technology           capabilities and skills to support 
 infrastructure. As the                  operations. The IS&T Control            the monitoring and resolution 
 scale, regularity and disruption of     Board provides assurance and            of cyber security incidents. These 
 cyber-attacks continues to increase     oversight of our security posture       improvements include the appointment 
 we must recognise                       across the business and approves        of a new Cyber Security 
 this risk and take steps to ensure      policy and control assessments in       Ops director to lead the 
 the business is protected against       relation to cyber risk and IT           transformation of our operational 
 them.                                   Security.                               cyber security capabilities. We 
                                                                                 have also partnered with a highly 
 In the last eighteen months, the IT     Security incidents are managed by the   skilled threat hunting team who will 
 Transformation programme has            cyber security operations team, and     look for issues which 
 delivered a number of improvements      any significant                         cybercriminals may be able to 
 to reduce the impact of cyber-attacks   cyber security incidents are reported   exploit. A number of additional 
 on our business.                        to the Group Executive. Internal and    control enhancements were also 
                                         external audit                          implemented following the cyber 
 Our Cyber Security Strategy sets out    activities are also regularly           security incident in September 2021. 
 a three-year programme of activities    undertaken to provide additional 
 to further improve                      governance around our control           Our Cyber risk underwent a thorough 
 our cyber defences and controls.        environment as well as highlighting     review following the ransomware 
                                         opportunities to make further           incident. The principal 
 One of the key objectives of the        improvements.                           conclusion was that our developed 
 cyber security strategy is to                                                   risk treatment remained the same and 
 increase our resilience and             An annual cyber security education      was further underpinned 
 reduce the impact of a cyber-attack     and awareness plan is in place to       by security control enhancements. The 
 in addition to the implementation of    ensure colleagues are                   completion of these initiatives, and 
 preventative measures.                  equipped with the knowledge and         the continued execution 
                                         awareness they need to use technology   of our approved Cyber strategy, will 
                                         safely and securely.                    significantly reduce the impact of 
                                                                                 any future cyber incident 
                                         The implementation of our IT            and as such the risk is assessed as 
                                         Transformation and the Cyber Security   remaining unchanged from the prior 
                                         Strategy roadmap are delivering         year. 
                                         improvements across multiple areas of 
                                         the business which in turn will help 
                                         to reduce the impact 
                                         of any future cyber incidents. 
                                        --------------------------------------  -------------------------------------- 
 Attempted Ransomware Incident 
 
  The attempted ransomware incident in September 2021 was a sophisticated, determined and prolonged 
  assault on our business. Our swift and robust response to the incident protected our infrastructure 
  and data, meaning we were able to continue meeting the needs of our customers throughout. 
 
  All Weir systems have now been restored and a number of improvements introduced in direct 
  response to lessons learned from the incident. 
 Political and Social (Risk trend: No change) 
 
  Adverse political action, or political and social instability, in territories in which we 
  operate may result in strategic, financial or personnel loss to the Group. 
 Why we think this is important          How are we mitigating the risk          Changes during 2021 
 
 Given the global nature of the Groups   Positive proactive engagement with a    The geopolitical risk landscape 
 operations we are exposed to an ever    range of Governments / elected          remained unsettled throughout 2021 
 changing political                      representatives and trade               and consequently involved 
 and social landscape which requires     and industry bodies allows the Group    the Group increasing its monitoring 
 constant monitoring. Adverse events     to contribute to policy decisions and   efforts in several jurisdictions. 
 may occur in the territories            address specific 
 in which we operate that may require    concerns.                               From political polarisation, to 
 us to act swiftly to continue to                                                failing states, to power 
 protect our people and                  Our strategic planning process allows   repositioning and rising fears of 
 property and adjust to regulatory       for a regular review of market          both traditional and cyber terrorism, 
 changes which have the potential to     attractiveness whilst                   the potential risks to the Group's 
 impact our competitiveness              also assisting in the forecasting of    international operations, 
 or have a negative impact on our        potential political and social          people and reputation were seldom 
 return on capital employed.             instability in the regions              higher, with the ongoing situation 
                                         in which we operate. A combination of   involving Russia and 
                                         risk horizon scanning, and              the Ukraine simply reinforcing the 
                                         third-party intelligence                volatility of the global landscape. 
                                         sourced from risk consultants allows    As a consequence this 
                                         the Group to maintain flexibility and   risk was elevated during the year. 
                                         develop appropriate 
                                         contingency and exit strategy plans. 
                                        --------------------------------------  -------------------------------------- 
 Ethics and Governance (Risk trend: No change) 
 
  Interactions with our people, customers, suppliers and other stakeholders are not conducted 
  with the highest standards of integrity and in accordance with Group Policies & Procedures 
  which devalues our reputation. 
   Why we think this is important        How are we mitigating the risk          Changes during 2021 
 
   We are unwilling to accept            The Code of Conduct, supplemented       There were a number of areas of focus 
   dishonest or corrupt behaviour from   with Group policies on related          for the Group's compliance function 
   our people, or external parties       topics, provides a clear                in 2021 and these 
   acting on our behalf, whilst          framework for how we expect our         included the refreshing and updating 
   conducting our business. If we fail   business will be conducted.             our human rights policy and the 
   to act with integrity, we                                                     launch of an improved 
   are at risk of:                       Regular training and re-enforcement     gifts and hospitality register. 
                                         of principles is provided using a 
   -- Reputational damage leading to a   range of mechanisms                     The impact and likelihood of this 
   loss of business opportunity;         including Town Hall style sessions      risk is assessed to have not changed 
   -- Increased scrutiny from            and online and induction training.      since last year. 
   regulators; 
                                         The financial control framework is 
   -- Legal action from regulators       continually monitored for 
   including fines, penalties and        effectiveness. 
   imprisonment; 
                                         Internal Audit's remit includes 
   -- Exclusion from markets important   regular review of the anti-bribery 
   for our future growth;                and corruption and financial 
   -- Failure to meet required social    controls across the Group. 
   standards to maintain licence to 
   operate in our communities.           The Group compliance function designs 
                                         and administers our global compliance 
   We expect all areas of the business   programme and 
   to do the right thing and conduct     assists Internal Audit in monitoring 
   business in compliance                adherence to enhance global focus on 
   with applicable laws, Weir Group      compliance. 
   policies and procedures, and the 
   highest ethical standards.            An Ethics Hotline is available to all 
                                         members of staff and the public. 
                                         Reports are investigated 
                                         on a timely basis and summary reports 
                                         provided to the Group Executive and 
                                         Board. 
                                        --------------------------------------  -------------------------------------- 
 

Appendix B: Statement of Directors' Responsibilities

The Directors are responsible for preparing the Annual Report and the Financial Statements in accordance with applicable law and regulations.

Company law requires the directors to prepare financial statements for each financial year. Under that law the directors have prepared the Group financial statements in accordance with UK-adopted international accounting standards and the Company financial statements in accordance with United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice (United Kingdom Accounting Standards, comprising FRS 101 'Reduced Disclosure Framework', and applicable law).

Under company law, Directors must not approve the financial statements unless they are satisfied that they give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the Group and Company and of the profit or loss of the Group for that period. In preparing the financial statements, the Directors are required to:

   --      Select suitable accounting policies and then apply them consistently; 

-- State whether applicable UK-adopted international accounting standards have been followed for the Group financial statements and United Kingdom Accounting Standards, comprising FRS 101 have been followed for the Company financial statements, subject to any material departures disclosed and explained in the financial statements;

   --      Make judgements and estimates that are reasonable and prudent; 

-- Prepare the financial statements on the going concern basis unless it is inappropriate to presume that the Group and Company will continue in business.

The Directors are also responsible for safeguarding the assets of the Group and Company and hence for taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities.

The Directors are responsible for keeping adequate accounting records that are sufficient to show and explain the Group's and Company's transactions and disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the Group and Company and enable them to ensure that the financial statements comply with the Companies Act 2006.

The Directors are responsible for the maintenance and integrity of the Company's website. Legislation in the United Kingdom governing the preparation and dissemination of financial statements may differ from legislation in other jurisdictions. The Directors consider that the Annual Report and Financial Statements, taken as a whole, are fair, balanced and understandable and provide the information necessary for Shareholders to assess the Group's performance, business model and strategy.

Each of the Directors, as at the date of this report, confirms to the best of their knowledge that:

-- the Group financial statements, which have been prepared in accordance with UK-adopted international accounting standards, give a true and fair view of the assets, liabilities, financial position and profit of the Group;

-- The Company financial statements, which have been prepared in accordance with United Kingdom Accounting Standards, comprising FRS 101, give a true and fair view of the assets, liabilities, financial position and profit of the Company; and

-- The Strategic Report and the Directors' Report include a fair review of the development and performance of the business and the position of the Group and Company, together with a description of the principal risks and uncertainties that it faces.

In the case of each Director in office at the date the Directors' Report is approved:

-- So far as the Director is aware, there is no relevant audit information of which the Group's and Company's auditors are unaware; and

-- They have taken all the steps that they ought to have taken as a Director in order to make themselves aware of any relevant audit information and to establish that the Group's and Company's auditors are aware of that information.

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