AGM Voting Results

RNS Number : 7509K

Severn Trent PLC

20 July 2011

 

Severn Trent Plc

(the "Company")

Results of the Annual General Meeting held on 20 July 2011

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 26 May 2011.

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 174 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, have been 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, 54.14% of the issued share capital was voted and the percentages shown below are rounded to two decimal places.

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	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	128,581,826	99.98	30,802	0.02	128,612,628	54.14%	37,556
2	Declare a final dividend	128,468,903	99.89	146,647	0.11	128,615,550	54.14%	34,680
3	Approve Directors' remuneration report	115,494,097	91.16	11,194,469	8.84	126,688,566	53.33%	1,960,825
4	Reappoint Tony Ballance	127,144,636	98.93	1,381,373	1.07	128,526,009	54.10%	124,885
5	Reappoint Bernard Bulkin	126,569,026	99.10	1,147,501	0.90	127,716,527	53.76%	932,151
6	Reappoint Richard Davey	127,580,812	99.27	931,804	0.73	128,512,616	54.10%	136,932
7	Reappoint Andrew Duff	127,187,870	98.96	1,331,918	1.04	128,519,788	54.10%	128,909
8	Reappoint Gordon Fryett	125,449,796	97.61	3,070,069	2.39	128,519,865	54.10%	130,690
9	Reappoint Martin Kane	127,053,142	98.85	1,472,569	1.15	128,525,711	54.10%	123,997
10	Reappoint Martin Lamb	127,498,792	99.30	892,863	0.70	128,391,655	54.05%	257,368
11	Reappoint Michael McKeon	127,017,073	98.83	1,508,367	1.17	128,525,440	54.10%	124,444
12	Reappoint Baroness Noakes	127,752,695	99.40	768,465	0.60	128,521,160	54.10%	129,742
13	Reappoint Andy Smith	127,047,216	98.85	1,481,213	1.15	128,528,429	54.11%	122,253
14	Reappoint Tony Wray	123,626,493	96.18	4,915,976	3.82	128,542,469	54.11%	106,750
15	Reappoint auditor	128,031,499	99.58	539,264	0.42	128,570,763	54.12%	79,871
16	Authorise directors to determine auditor's remuneration	128,153,565	99.70	388,996	0.30	128,542,561	54.11%	107,760
17	Authorise political donations	126,257,925	98.54	1,871,885	1.46	128,129,810	53.94%	520,944
18	Authorise allotment of shares	126,217,113	98.68	1,687,378	1.32	127,904,491	53.84%	745,078
19	Disapply pre-emption rights	127,863,158	99.59	528,468	0.41	128,391,626	54.05%	259,853
20	Authorise purchase of own shares	127,867,288	99.50	639,629	0.50	128,506,917	54.10%	144,789
21	Reduce notice period for general meetings	119,977,227	93.37	8,517,382	6.63	128,494,609	54.09%	156,295

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 18 July 2011:  237,552,658 shares.

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