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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
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 13 July 2015: 239,242,700 shares.

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