# FORM 6-K

SECURITIES
  AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington,
  D.C. 20549

# Report of
  Foreign Issuer

# Pursuant
  to Rule 13a-16 or 15d-16 of

# Securities
  Exchange Act of 1934

For the month
  of April 2004

| | ABBEY NATIONAL plc 
        (Translation of registrants name into English)
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Abbey National
  House, 2 Triton SquareLondon 
  NW1 3AN, England   
   (Address of principal executive offices)

Indicate
  by check mark whether the registrant files or will file annual reports under
  cover Form 20-F or Form 40-F.

Form 20-F . . . .X. . . . Form 40-F . . . .
  . . . .


Indicate
  by check mark whether the registrant by furnishing the information contained
  in this Form is also thereby furnishing the information to the Commission pursuant
  to Rule 12g3-2(b) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.

Yes
  . . . . . . . No . . .X. . . .

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#### ABBEY ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING AT THE BARBICAN, LONDON 
  ON 22 APRIL 2004

#### RESULTS OF THE POLLS

#### 

#### 

|    |  |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       |  |                    |  |             |  |       
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|    |  | Summary of
      the resolution                                                                                                                                                                                                                       |  | For the resolution |  | Against the |  | Result
|    |  |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       |  |                    |  | resolution  |  |       
|   
|   
|   
|   
|1   |  | To receive the
      Annual Report and Accounts for the
      year ended 31 December 2003 and the auditors'
      report on the accounts                                                                                                              |  | 585,342,321        |  | 1,740,409   |  | Passed
|2   |  | To approve the
      Directors' Remuneration Report                                                                                                                                                                                                   |  | 505,410,454        |  | 54,751,126  |  | Passed
|3   |  | To declare a
      Final Dividend of 16.67 pence for
      each ordinary share                                                                                                                                                                        |  | 589,141,402        |  | 776,608     |  | Passed
|4a  |  | To elect Priscilla
      Vacassin as a director                                                                                                                                                                                                       |  | 579,945,127        |  | 5,258,559   |  | Passed
|4b  |  | To elect Angus
      Porter as a director                                                                                                                                                                                                             |  | 580,190,344        |  | 5,012,949   |  | Passed
|4c  |  | To elect Tony
      Wyatt as a director                                                                                                                                                                                                               |  | 580,240,838        |  | 4,965,995   |  | Passed
|4d  |  | To elect Gerry
      Murphy as a director                                                                                                                                                                                                             |  | 582,174,193        |  | 5,131,154   |  | Passed
|4e  |  | To elect Geoffrey
      Cooper as a director                                                                                                                                                                                                          |  | 582,596,672        |  | 4,703,440   |  | Passed
|5a  |  | To re - elect
      Yasmin Jetha as a director                                                                                                                                                                                                        |  | 581,376,479        |  | 5,932,977   |  | Passed
|5b  |  | To re - elect
      Mark Pain as a director                                                                                                                                                                                                           |  | 581,674,814        |  | 5,631,227   |  | Passed
|5c  |  | To re - elect
      Leon Allen as a director                                                                                                                                                                                                          |  | 577,518,524        |  | 6,952,946   |  | Passed
|6   |  | To re - appoint
      Deloitte & Touche LLP as our auditors                                                                                                                                                                                           |  | 539,922,498        |  | 7,562,544   |  | Passed
|7   |  | To authorise
      the directors to set the fees we pay to the
      auditors                                                                                                                                                                         |  | 576,379,224        |  | 8,839,476   |  | Passed
|8   |  | To authorise
      the company and its subsidiary  
      Abbey National Charitable Trust Limited
      to make donations
      to European Union (EU) 
      political organisationsand incur EU political
      expenditure within specified limits |  | 541,306,861        |  | 25,369,721  |  | Passed
|9   |  | To renew the
      directors' authority to allot shares                                                                                                                                                                                               |  | 580,352,584        |  | 6,411,006   |  | Passed
|10  |  | To approve the
      Abbey Performance Share Plan                                                                                                                                                                                                     |  | 523,400,817        |  | 47,616,593  |  | Passed
|11  |  | To renew the
      authority for the company to buy
      back its own ordinary shares                                                                                                                                                                |  | 584,279,750        |  | 2,860,821   |  | Passed
|12a |  | To renew the
      authority for the company to buy
       back its own 8 5/8% sterling preference shares                                                                                                                                             |  | 584,651,438        |  | 2,665,860   |  | Passed
|12b |  | To renew the
      authority for the company to buy back
      its own 10 3/8% sterling preference shares                                                                                                                                             |  | 584,616,447        |  | 2,698,160   |  | Passed
|12c |  | To renew the
      authority for the company to buy
      back its own Series B dollar preference shares                                                                                                                                              |  | 584,668,945        |  | 2,647,311   |  | Passed
|13  |  | To renew the
      directors' authority to allot equity
      securities for cash                                                                                                                                                                     |  | 581,574,245        |  | 5,585,074   |  | Passed





# Notes:

|1. | Full details
      of the resolutions were set out in the Notice of the Annual General Meeting
      dated 25 February 2004.
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|2. | Resolutions 1 to 10 were Ordinary Resolutions. To be passed these required more
          than 50% of shareholders votes to be for the resolutions.
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|3. | Resolutions 11 to 13 were Special Resolutions. To be passed these required at
          least 75% of shareholders votes to be for the resolutions.
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|4. | Copies of all the resolutions passed have been submitted to the UK Listing
          Authority, and will shortly be available for inspection at the UK Listing
          Authoritys Document Viewing Facility, which is situated at:
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| | Financial
      Services Authority
      25 The North Colonnade
      Canary Wharf
      London
      E14 5HS
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| | Karen M Fortunato
      Company Secretary
      Abbey National plc
      23 April 2004
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|Results compiled by
      Electoral Reform Services Ltd
      Independence House
      33 Clarendon Road
      London N8 ONW
      Owen Thomas, Executive Director | 
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Abbey National plc. Registered
  Office: Abbey National House, 2 Triton Square, Regent's Place, London NW1 3AN.
  Registered Number: 2294747. Registered in England. 'Abbey' is a registered trademark
  of Abbey National plc.

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# SIGNATURES



Pursuant to the requirements
  of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this
  report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.

|                    |    | ABBEY NATIONAL plc                 
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|Date: 23 April 2004 | By | /s/ Shaun Coles                    
|                    |    | Shaun Coles Abbey
      Secretariat