AGM Statement

RNS Number : 5399J

Severn Trent PLC

17 July 2013

Severn Trent Plc

(the "Company")

Results of the Annual General Meeting held on 17 July 2013

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 17 June 2013.

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 were passed as ordinary resolutions and resolutions 19 to 21 were passed as special resolutions.

The Meeting was attended by 194 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, 60.74% 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	144,883,957	99.97	43,803	0.03	144,927,760	60.67%	168,895
2	Declare a final dividend	144,944,628	99.99	12,183	0.01	144,956,811	60.68%	140,998
3	Approve Directors' remuneration report	136,949,431	96.14	5,501,205	3.86	142,450,636	59.63%	2,649,821
4	Reappoint Tony Balance	142,794,395	98.72	1,857,714	1.28	144,652,109	60.55%	447,382
5	Reappoint Bernard Bulkin	142,776,401	99.38	891,520	0.62	143,667,921	60.14%	1,429,799
6	Reappoint Richard Davey	143,976,889	99.38	894,296	0.62	144,871,185	60.65%	227,406
7	Reappoint Andrew Duff	142,242,075	98.18	2,639,709	1.82	144,881,784	60.65%	216,652
8	Reappoint Gordon Fryett	144,119,151	99.48	757,249	0.52	144,876,400	60.65%	222,887
9	Reappoint Martin Kane	142,887,180	98.78	1,764,252	1.22	144,651,432	60.55%	446,790
10	Reappoint Martin Lamb	144,018,941	99.41	858,946	0.59	144,877,887	60.65%	213,726
11	Reappoint Michael McKeon	143,007,940	98.71	1,875,398	1.29	144,883,338	60.65%	214,601
12	Reappoint Baroness Noakes	143,900,295	99.32	980,201	0.68	144,880,496	60.65%	217,000
13	Reappoint Andy Smith	142,783,911	98.71	1,870,012	1.29	144,653,923	60.55%	444,664
14	Reappoint Tony Wray	138,879,715	95.86	5,996,861	4.14	144,876,576	60.65%	222,015
15	Reappoint auditors	144,432,095	99.76	341,069	0.24	144,773,164	60.60%	321,737
16	Authorise directors to determine auditors' remuneration	144,513,967	99.84	237,145	0.16	144,751,112	60.59%	342,987
17	Authorise political donations	140,272,198	98.93	1,518,475	1.07	141,790,673	59.36%	3,305,100
18	Authorise allotment of shares	140,950,623	97.51	3,606,579	2.49	144,557,202	60.51%	519,512
19	Disapply pre-emption rights	143,262,619	99.27	1,058,769	0.73	144,321,388	60.42%	778,833
20	Authorise purchase of own shares	144,069,273	99.44	810,585	0.56	144,879,858	60.65%	216,872
21	Reduce notice period for general meetings	131,266,339	90.62	13,582,603	9.38	144,848,942	60.64%	246,439