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Severn Trent PLC
20 July 2016
Severn Trent Plc
(the "Company")
Results of the Annual General Meeting held on 20 July 2016
at the Ricoh Arena, Phoenix Way, Coventry CV6 6GE
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 23 May 2016.
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 20 were passed as special resolutions.
The Meeting was attended by 66 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
http://www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/.
In total, 62.07% of the issued share capital, excluding shares
held in treasury, was voted and the percentages shown below are
rounded to two decimal places.
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Appendix A
RESOLUTION VOTES FOR % OF VOTES VOTES AGAINST % OF VOTES VOTES CAST TOTAL VOTES VOTES
CAST CAST IN TOTAL CAST AS A % WITHHELD
OF ISSUED
SHARE
CAPITAL
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Receive the
Reports
1 and Accounts 146,137,294 99.91 135,003 0.09 146,272,297 62.07% 59,702
--- ------------- ------------ ----------- -------------- ----------- ------------ ------------- -------------
Approve
Directors'
Remuneration
2 Report 142,619,806 98.26 2,527,085 1.74 145,146,891 61.59% 1,187,566
--- ------------- ------------ ----------- -------------- ----------- ------------ ------------- -------------
Declare a
final
ordinary
3 dividend 146,115,458 99.99 12,347 0.01 146,127,805 62.01% 207,052
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Appoint Emma
4 FitzGerald 145,882,599 99.77 342,831 0.23 146,225,430 62.05% 109,027
--- ------------- ------------ ----------- -------------- ----------- ------------ ------------- -------------
Appoint
Kevin
5 Beeston 145,852,193 99.75 362,729 0.25 146,214,922 62.04% 118,135
--- ------------- ------------ ----------- -------------- ----------- ------------ ------------- -------------
Appoint
Dominique
6 Reiniche 145,879,854 99.77 340,069 0.23 146,219,923 62.05% 114,079
--- ------------- ------------ ----------- -------------- ----------- ------------ ------------- -------------
Reappoint
7 Andrew Duff 144,366,771 98.72 1,867,534 1.28 146,234,305 62.05% 100,152
--- ------------- ------------ ----------- -------------- ----------- ------------ ------------- -------------
Reappoint
8 John Coghlan 145,010,115 99.17 1,217,218 0.83 146,227,333 62.05% 107,090
--- ------------- ------------ ----------- -------------- ----------- ------------ ------------- -------------
Reappoint
Olivia
9 Garfield 145,862,062 99.74 376,024 0.26 146,238,086 62.05% 96,085
--- ------------- ------------ ----------- -------------- ----------- ------------ ------------- -------------
Reappoint
James
10 Bowling 145,883,786 99.76 343,880 0.24 146,227,666 62.05% 106,701
--- ------------- ------------ ----------- -------------- ----------- ------------ ------------- -------------
Reappoint
Philip
11 Remnant 145,353,686 99.40 877,008 0.60 146,230,694 62.05% 103,308
--- ------------- ------------ ----------- -------------- ----------- ------------ ------------- -------------
Reappoint
Dr. Angela
12 Strank 145,951,421 99.81 279,283 0.19 146,230,704 62.05% 95,647
--- ------------- ------------ ----------- -------------- ----------- ------------ ------------- -------------
Reappoint
Deloitte LLP
13 as Auditor 142,488,528 97.48 3,677,333 2.52 146,165,861 62.02% 167,572
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Authorise
the Audit
Committee of
the Board
to determine
the
remuneration
of the
14 Auditor 143,519,918 98.52 2,149,368 1.48 145,669,286 61.81% 665,171
--- ------------- ------------ ----------- -------------- ----------- ------------ ------------- -------------
Authorise
political
15 donations 142,008,761 98.53 2,118,948 1.47 144,127,709 61.16% 2,206,307
--- ------------- ------------ ----------- -------------- ----------- ------------ ------------- -------------
Authorise
allotment
16 of shares 140,811,300 96.82 4,624,312 3.18 145,435,612 61.71% 898,845
--- ------------- ------------ ----------- -------------- ----------- ------------ ------------- -------------
Disapply
pre-emption
17 rights 145,341,297 99.82 257,451 0.18 145,598,748 61.78% 733,797
--- ------------- ------------ ----------- -------------- ----------- ------------ ------------- -------------
Authorise
purchase of
18 own shares 143,745,885 99.04 1,390,858 0.96 145,136,743 61.59% 1,190,466
--- ------------- ------------ ----------- -------------- ----------- ------------ ------------- -------------
Adopt new
Articles of
19 Association 144,951,923 99.91 125,035 0.09 145,076,958 61.56% 1,248,799
--- ------------- ------------ ----------- -------------- ----------- ------------ ------------- -------------
Reduce
notice
period
for General
20 Meetings 130,613,625 89.98 14,550,384 10.02 145,164,009 61.60% 1,164,282
--- ------------- ------------ ----------- -------------- ----------- ------------ ------------- -------------
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 2016: 235,666,644
shares (which excludes treasury shares).
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