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Severn Trent PLC
16 July 2014 
 
Severn Trent Plc 
 
(the "Company") 
 
Results of the Annual General Meeting held on 16 July 2014 
 
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 16
June 2014. 
 
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 21 were passed as ordinary resolutions and resolutions 22 to
24 were passed as special resolutions. 
 
The Meeting was attended by 166 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, 58.63% 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                         140,434,308  99.98            34,415         0.02             140,468,723          58.63%                                           131,694         
 2   Approve Directors' remuneration report                   138,974,226  99.35            908,111        0.65             139,882,337          58.39%                                           719,294         
 3   Approve Directors' remuneration policy                   136,960,503  97.66            3,276,685      2.34             140,237,188          58.54%                                           362,862         
 4   Adopt the Long Term Incentive Plan 2014                  133,457,537  96.46            4,900,370      3.54             138,357,907          57.75%                                           2,243,043       
 5   Declare a final dividend                                 140,482,076  99.99            13,223         0.01             140,495,299          58.65%                                           107,624         
 6   Reappoint Tony Ballance                                  139,185,036  99.12            1,232,571      0.88             140,417,607          58.61%                                           181,054         
 7   Appoint John Coghlan                                     139,980,173  99.70            423,732        0.30             140,403,905          58.61%                                           194,680         
 8   Reappoint Richard Davey                                  139,706,494  99.50            706,327        0.50             140,412,821          58.61%                                           185,797         
 9   Reappoint Andrew Duff                                    138,448,791  98.60            1,971,809      1.40             140,420,600          58.61%                                           181,780         
 10  Reappoint Gordon Fryett                                  139,752,522  99.53            653,627        0.47             140,406,149          58.61%                                           195,158         
 11  Appoint Liv Garfield                                     133,262,790  94.91            7,153,729      5.09             140,416,519          58.61%                                           185,679         
 12  Reappoint Martin Kane                                    139,172,481  99.11            1,246,207      0.89             140,418,688          58.61%                                           183,038         
 13  Reappoint Martin Lamb                                    139,754,979  99.53            663,120        0.47             140,418,099          58.61%                                           183,446         
 14  Reappoint Michael McKeon                                 139,165,644  99.11            1,250,508      0.89             140,416,152          58.61%                                           184,983         
 15  Appoint Philip Remnant                                   139,929,573  99.66            475,121        0.34             140,404,694          58.61%                                           196,196         
 16  Reappoint Andy Smith                                     139,140,423  99.09            1,272,867      0.91             140,413,290          58.61%                                           187,593         
 17  Appoint Dr Angela Strank                                 139,999,993  99.70            416,233        0.30             140,416,226          58.61%                                           186,209         
 18  Reappoint auditors                                       135,541,011  98.56            1,978,176      1.44             137,519,187          57.40%                                           3,082,764       
 19  Authorise directors to determine auditors' remuneration  139,065,185  99.11            1,248,085      0.89             140,313,270          58.57%                                           289,575         
 20  Authorise political donations                            137,747,413  98.83            1,633,790      1.17             139,381,203          58.18%                                           1,219,350       
 21  Authorise allotment of shares                            137,930,831  98.48            2,126,275      1.52             140,057,106          58.46%                                           545,853         
 22  Disapply pre-emption rights                              137,872,002  98.32            2,358,353      1.68             140,230,355          58.54%                                           372,076         
 23  Authorise purchase of own shares                         139,846,420  99.58            591,723        0.42             140,438,143          58.62%                                           163,772         
 24  Reduce notice period for general meetings                128,064,867  91.21            12,341,308     8.79             140,406,175          58.61%                                           195,572         
 
 
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 14 July 2014: 239,565,711 shares. 
 
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