Annual Financial Report

Severn Trent Plc - Annual Report and Annual General Meeting

Severn Trent Plc (the "Company") released its preliminary announcement of
annual results on 29 May 2009 ("Final Results Announcement").

Further to that announcement, the Company can now confirm that the Annual
Report and Accounts for the year ended 31 March 2009 are available on the
Company's website at www.severntrent.com and that the 2009 Annual General
Meeting will be held at 2pm on 21 July 2009 at the International Convention
Centre, Broad Street, Birmingham B1 2EA.

The Company further confirms that it has submitted two copies of the following
documents to the UK Listing Authority:

  * Annual Report and Accounts 2009;
   
  * Shareholder Summary 2009;
   
  * Notice of Annual General Meeting ("AGM");
   
  * Form of Proxy, containing the Dividend Reinvestment Plan ("DRIP")
    application form; and
   
  * DRIP terms and conditions booklet.
   
These documents will shortly be available for inspection at the UK Listing
Authority's Document Viewing Facility, which is situated at:

Financial Services Authority

25 The North Colonnade

Canary Wharf

London

E14 5HS

Tel: [phone]

The Annual Report or Shareholder Summary, together with the Notice of AGM, Form
of Proxy (containing the DRIP application form) and DRIP terms and conditions
booklet were posted to shareholders on 17 June 2009.

These documents (with the exception of the Form of Proxy) are available on the
Company's website at www.severntrent.com.

The Annual Report and Accounts 2009 for Severn Trent Water Limited have also
been published and are available on Severn Trent Water's website at
www.stwater.co.uk.

The Appendix to this announcement contains additional information for the
purposes of compliance with the Disclosure and Transparency Rules and should be
read together with the Final Results Announcement. Together these constitute
the information required by DTR 6.3.5 to be communicated to media in full
unedited text.

                                   Appendix                                    

Directors' responsibility statement

The Annual Report and Accounts for the year ended 31 March 2009 contains a
responsibility statement in the form set out below:

"The directors are responsible for preparing the Annual Report, Directors'
remuneration 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. The directors are required by the IAS Regulation to prepare the
group financial statements under IFRSs as adopted by the European Union. The
group financial statements are also required by law to be properly prepared in
accordance with the Companies Act 1985 and Article 4 of the IAS Regulation.

International Accounting Standard 1 requires that IFRS financial statements
present fairly for each financial year the group's financial position,
financial performance and cash flows. This requires the faithful representation
of the effects of transactions, other events and conditions in accordance with
the definitions and recognition criteria for assets, liabilities, income and
expenses set out in the International Accounting Standards Board's `Framework
for the Preparation and Presentation of Financial Statements'. In virtually all
circumstances, a fair presentation will be achieved by compliance with all
applicable IFRSs. However, directors are also required to:

  * properly select and apply accounting policies;
   
  * present information, including accounting policies, in a manner that
    provides relevant, reliable, comparable and understandable information; and
   
  * provide additional disclosures when compliance with the specific
    requirements in IFRSs are insufficient to enable users to understand the
    impact of particular transactions, other events and conditions on the
    entity's financial position and financial performance.
   
The directors have elected to prepare the parent company financial statements
in accordance with United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice
(United Kingdom Accounting Standards and applicable law). The parent company
financial statements are required by law to give a true and fair view of the
state of affairs of the company. In preparing these financial statements, the
directors are required to:

  * select suitable accounting policies and then apply them consistently;
   
  * make judgments and estimates that are reasonable and prudent;
   
  * state whether applicable UK Accounting Standards have been followed,
    subject to any material departures disclosed and explained in the financial
    statements; and
   
  * prepare the financial statements on the going concern basis unless it is
    inappropriate to presume that the company will continue in business.
   
The directors are responsible for keeping proper accounting records that
disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the
company and enable them to ensure that the parent company financial statements
comply with the Companies Act 1985. They are also responsible for safeguarding
the assets of the company and hence for taking reasonable steps for the
prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities.

The directors are responsible for the maintenance and integrity of the
corporate and financial information included on the company's website.
Legislation in the United Kingdom governing the preparation and dissemination
of financial statements may differ from legislation in other jurisdictions.

We confirm that to the best of our knowledge:

  * the financial statements, prepared in accordance with International
    Financial Reporting Standards, give a true and fair view of the assets,
    liabilities, financial position and profit or loss of the company and the
    undertakings included in the consolidation taken as a whole; and
   
  * the business review, which is incorporated into the Directors' report,
    includes a fair review of the development and performance of the business
    and the position of the company and the undertakings included in the
    consolidation taken as a whole, together with a description of the
    principal risks and uncertainties that they face."