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9 July 2026
Severn Trent Plc ("Severn Trent" or "the Company")
Results of the 2026 Annual General Meeting
The Company announces that the following resolutions were duly passed at the Company's 2026 Annual General Meeting ('AGM') which was held today at 10.00am at Severn Trent Academy, Garfield Park, St Martins Road, Finham, Coventry, CV3 6PR.
Resolutions 1 to 18 were passed as ordinary resolutions and resolutions 19 to 22 were passed as special resolutions. Full text of the resolutions is contained in the Company's Notice of 2026 AGM, which is available at www.severntrent.com.
Resolution | Votes for | For (% of shares voted) | Votes against | Against (% of shares voted) | Total votes cast (excluding withheld) | % of issued share capital voted | Votes withheld | |
1 | Receive the Annual Report and Accounts for the year ended 31 March 2026 | 254,917,023 | 99.99 | 20,113 | 0.01 | 254,937,136 | 84.47 | 173,874 |
2 | Approve the Directors' Remuneration Report | 251,047,005 | 98.62 | 3,508,484 | 1.38 | 254,555,489 | 84.34 | 555,521 |
3 | Approve the Directors' Remuneration Policy | 250,588,888 | 98.25 | 4,460,544 | 1.75 | 255,049,432 | 84.51 | 61,578 |
4 | Declare a final ordinary dividend in respect of the year ended 31 March 2026 | 247,398,125 | 96.99 | 7,682,516 | 3.01 | 255,080,641 | 84.52 | 30,369 |
5 | Re-elect Christine Hodgson CBE | 250,739,779 | 98.30 | 4,324,912 | 1.70 | 255,064,691 | 84.51 | 46,319 |
6 | Elect James Jesic | 254,115,234 | 99.63 | 945,552 | 0.37 | 255,060,786 | 84.51 | 50,224 |
7 | Re-elect Helen Miles | 253,872,824 | 99.53 | 1,189,587 | 0.47 | 255,062,411 | 84.51 | 48,599 |
8 | Re-elect Nick Hampton | 252,400,288 | 98.96 | 2,661,275 | 1.04 | 255,061,563 | 84.51 | 49,447 |
9 | Re-elect Tom Delay CBE | 251,881,316 | 98.75 | 3,181,033 | 1.25 | 255,062,349 | 84.51 | 48,661 |
10 | Re-elect Sarah Legg | 252,393,252 | 98.95 | 2,669,060 | 1.05 | 255,062,312 | 84.51 | 48,698 |
11 | Re-elect Sharmila Nebhrajani OBE | 252,416,858 | 98.96 | 2,647,406 | 1.04 | 255,064,264 | 84.51 | 46,746 |
12 | Re-elect Richard Taylor | 252,437,972 | 98.97 | 2,624,172 | 1.03 | 255,062,144 | 84.51 | 48,866 |
13 | Reappoint PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as Auditor of the Company | 255,018,907 | 99.98 | 53,007 | 0.02 | 255,071,914 | 84.52 | 39,096 |
14 | Authorise the Audit and Risk Committee to determine the remuneration of the Auditor | 252,460,045 | 98.98 | 2,605,914 | 1.02 | 255,065,959 | 84.51 | 45,051 |
15 | Authorise the Company to make political donations | 215,865,755 | 98.43 | 3,445,060 | 1.57 | 219,310,815 | 72.67 | 35,800,195 |
16 | Approve the amendments to the rules of the Severn Trent Plc Long Term Incentive Plan | 252,701,911 | 99.08 | 2,344,082 | 0.92 | 255,045,993 | 84.51 | 65,017 |
17 | Approve the amendments to the rules of the Severn Trent Plc Sharesave Scheme | 254,967,304 | 99.97 | 86,448 | 0.03 | 255,053,752 | 84.51 | 57,258 |
18 | Authorise the Directors to allot shares | 242,137,921 | 94.93 | 12,932,655 | 5.07 | 255,070,576 | 84.52 | 40,434 |
19 | Disapply pre-emption rights on up to ten per cent of the issued share capital. | 248,629,564 | 97.48 | 6,431,174 | 2.52 | 255,060,738 | 84.51 | 50,272 |
20 | Disapply pre-emption rights on up to an additional ten per cent of the issued share capital in connection with an acquisition or specified capital investment | 235,478,161 | 92.32 | 19,582,982 | 7.68 | 255,061,143 | 84.51 | 49,867 |
21 | Authorise the Company to purchase its own shares | 248,101,822 | 97.33 | 6,814,922 | 2.67 | 254,916,744 | 84.46 | 194,266 |
22 | Authorise the Directors to hold general meetings on 14 clear days' notice | 244,470,302 | 95.84 | 10,607,866 | 4.16 | 255,078,168 | 84.52 | 32,842 |
1. Any proxy appointments which gave discretion to the Chair 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. For the purposes of section 341 of the Companies Act 2006, as at 6:30pm (BST) on Wednesday 8 July 2026, the Company's issued share capital consists of 304,022,108 ordinary shares of 97 17/19 pence each with voting rights. The Company holds 2,218,618 shares in Treasury.
As required by the UK Listing Rule 6.4.2R of the Financial Conduct Authority ("FCA"), copies of resolutions passed by the Company other than resolutions concerning ordinary business have been submitted to the FCA via the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available to the public for inspection at https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism.
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