AGM Statement

RNS Number : 1468T

Severn Trent PLC

15 July 2015

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