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Severn Trent Plc
(the "Company")
Results of the Annual General Meeting held on 15 July 2015
at the International Convention Centre, Broad Street, Birmingham, B1 2EA
The Directors are pleased to announce that the shareholders of Severn Trent Plc passed all the resolutions that were proposed at this year's Annual General Meeting, as set out in the Notice of Annual General Meeting dated 21 May 2015.
All of the Resolutions were passed at the Meeting on a poll. The total number of votes received for each resolution is set out below in Appendix A.
Resolutions 1 to 16 were passed as ordinary resolutions and resolutions 17 to 19 were passed as special resolutions.
The Meeting was attended by 135 shareholders.
In accordance with Listing Rules 9.6.1 and 9.6.2, a copy of the resolutions passed at the Meeting, other than resolutions concerning ordinary business, will be submitted to the UK Listing Authority and will shortly be available for inspection at the National Storage Mechanism, located at www.hemscott.com/nsm.do.
In total, 60.30% of the issued share capital was voted and the percentages shown below are rounded to two decimal places.
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Appendix A
RESOLUTION | VOTES FOR | % OF VOTES CAST | VOTES AGAINST | % OF VOTES CAST | VOTES CAST IN TOTAL | TOTAL VOTES CAST AS A % OF ISSUED SHARE CAPITAL | VOTES WITHHELD | |
1 | Receive the Reports and Accounts | 143,259,911 | 99.95 | 69,636 | 0.05 | 143,329,547 | 60.30% | 96,037 |
2 | Approve Directors' remuneration report | 141,380,753 | 99.00 | 1,431,919 | 1.00 | 142,812,672 | 60.08% | 607,663 |
3 | Approve Directors' remuneration policy | 140,177,341 | 97.99 | 2,881,449 | 2.01 | 143,058,790 | 60.18% | 367,934 |
4 | Declare a final dividend
| 143,325,896 | 99.99 | 17,603 | 0.01 | 143,343,499 | 60.30% | 82,163 |
5 | Appoint James Bowling
| 142,589,659 | 99.53 | 669,870 | 0.47 | 143,259,529 | 60.27% | 155,466 |
6 | Reappoint John Coghlan
| 142,567,340 | 99.51 | 708,466 | 0.49 | 143,275,806 | 60.27% | 150,667 |
7 | Reappoint Andrew Duff
| 141,668,104 | 98.91 | 1,567,870 | 1.09 | 143,235,974 | 60.26% | 191,553 |
8 | Reappoint Gordon Fryett
| 142,552,613 | 99.50 | 723,041 | 0.50 | 143,275,654 | 60.27% | 149,561 |
9 | Reappoint Liv Garfield
| 142,486,209 | 99.45 | 791,155 | 0.55 | 143,277,364 | 60.27% | 146,953 |
10 | Reappoint Martin Lamb
| 142,182,507 | 99.23 | 1,097,432 | 0.77 | 143,279,939 | 60.27% | 147,379 |
11 | Reappoint Philip Remnant
| 142,426,237 | 99.41 | 849,689 | 0.59 | 143,275,926 | 60.27% | 148,176 |
12 | Reappoint Angela Strank
| 142,660,361 | 99.57 | 613,972 | 0.43 | 143,274,333 | 60.27% | 144,533 |
13 | Reappoint Deloitte LLP as auditor
| 140,669,830 | 98.20 | 2,579,511 | 1.80 | 143,249,341 | 60.26% | 168,163 |
14 | Authorise the Audit Committee of the board to determine the remuneration of the auditor
| 141,349,319 | 98.66 | 1,913,985 | 1.34 | 143,263,304 | 60.27% | 163,107 |
15 | Authorise political donations
| 140,809,113 | 98.75 | 1,781,531 | 1.25 | 142,590,644 | 59.98% | 833,776 |
16 | Authorise allotment of shares
| 137,673,067 | 97.05 | 4,188,199 | 2.95 | 141,861,266 | 59.68% | 1,563,346 |
17 | Disapply pre-emption rights
| 139,534,792 | 97.51 | 3,558,295 | 2.49 | 143,093,087 | 60.20% | 324,069 |
18 | Authorise purchase of own shares
| 141,353,368 | 99.44 | 792,405 | 0.56 | 142,145,773 | 59.80% | 1,281,116 |
19 | Reduce notice period for general meetings
| 128,788,652 | 89.88 | 14,501,619 | 10.12 | 143,290,271 | 60.28% | 137,295 |
Notes
1. Any proxy appointments which gave discretion to the Chairman have been included in the "for" total.
2. A "vote withheld" is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation of the proportion of the votes "for" and "against" a resolution.
3. Issued ordinary share capital at 13 July 2015: 239,242,700 shares.