AGM Statement

RNS Number : 9623H

Severn Trent PLC

18 July 2012

 



Severn Trent Plc

(the "Company")

Results of the Annual General Meeting held on 18 July 2012

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 18 June 2012.

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 18, 22 and 23 were passed as ordinary resolutions and resolutions 19 to 21 were passed as special resolutions.

The Meeting was attended by 173 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, 59.44% 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	141,595,856	99.97	37,321	0.03	141,633,177	59.43%	81,435
2	Declare a final dividend	141,601,845	99.99	16,499	0.01	141,618,344	59.43%	97,673
3	Approve Directors' remuneration report	135,101,023	96.96	4,231,635	3.04	139,332,658	58.47%	2,383,537
4	Reappoint Tony Balance	140,059,911	98.93	1,507,961	1.07	141,567,872	59.41%	147,701
5	Reappoint Bernard Bulkin	140,698,999	99.39	868,986	0.61	141,567,985	59.41%	148,805
6	Reappoint Richard Davey	140,608,116	99.33	949,697	0.67	141,557,813	59.40%	157,540
7	Reappoint Andrew Duff	140,794,368	99.46	771,100	0.54	141,565,468	59.41%	150,023
8	Reappoint Gordon Fryett	140,959,741	99.58	596,721	0.42	141,556,462	59.40%	157,829
9	Reappoint Martin Kane	140,067,372	98.94	1,501,971	1.06	141,569,343	59.41%	144,608
10	Reappoint Martin Lamb	140,787,359	99.45	784,489	0.55	141,571,848	59.41%	144,180
11	Reappoint Michael McKeon	140,149,967	99.00	1,415,642	1.00	141,565,609	59.41%	150,415
12	Reappoint Baroness Noakes	140,765,940	99.44	798,396	0.56	141,564,336	59.40%	151,889
13	Reappoint Andy Smith	140,052,953	98.93	1,515,332	1.07	141,568,285	59.41%	147,282
14	Reappoint Tony Wray	136,306,830	96.28	5,262,973	3.72	141,569,803	59.41%	147,677
15	Reappoint auditors	141,472,153	99.91	130,153	0.09	141,602,306	59.42%	113,802
16	Authorise directors to determine auditors' remuneration	141,217,885	99.74	367,093	0.26	141,584,978	59.41%	131,174
17	Authorise political donations	137,226,753	97.41	3,651,471	2.59	140,878,224	59.12%	839,640
18	Authorise allotment of shares	137,531,018	97.55	3,452,740	2.45	140,983,758	59.16%	731,647
19	Disapply pre-emption rights	140,694,979	99.64	505,365	0.36	141,200,344	59.25%	515,185
20	Authorise purchase of own shares	140,983,891	99.60	572,692	0.40	141,556,583	59.40%	160,006
21	Reduce notice period for general meetings	128,950,126	91.10	12,593,056	8.90	141,543,182	59.40%	173,740
22	Declare a special dividend	141,492,719	99.90	139,543	0.10	141,632,262	59.43%	84,031
23	Renewal of Share Incentive Plan	140,462,182	99.26	1,053,342	0.74	141,515,524	59.38%	199,964

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 16 July 2012:  238,304,622 shares.

 

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