Severn Trent PLC

AGM Information • Jul 15, 2020

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Severn Trent PLC

15 July 2020

LEI: 213800RPBXRETY4A4C59

Severn Trent Plc

(the "Company")

Results of the Annual General Meeting held on 15 July 2020

At the Annual General Meeting of Severn Trent Plc held on 15 July 2020, all the resolutions set out in the Notice of Meeting were approved by the shareholders which were voted by way of a poll. The total number of votes received for each resolution is set out below.

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.

Resolutions 1 to 16 were passed as ordinary resolutions and resolutions 17 to 20 were passed as special resolutions.

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 https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism.

In total, 73% 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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	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 Report and Accounts for the year ended 31 March 2020	174,850,037	99.97	50,324	0.03	174,900,361	73.26%	647,526
2	Approve the Directors' Remuneration Report	173,538,547	99.27	1,267,563	0.73	174,806,110	73.22%	741,886
3	Declare a final ordinary dividend in respect of the year ended 31 March 2020	175,321,383	99.88	207,782	0.12	175,529,165	73.52%	18,832
4	Reappoint Kevin Beeston	175,309,074	99.92	148,885	0.08	175,457,959	73.49%	89,929
5	Reappoint James Bowling	175,320,085	99.92	146,881	0.08	175,466,966	73.50%	80,922
6	Reappoint John Coghlan	175,370,061	99.95	88,424	0.05	175,458,485	73.49%	89,403
7	Reappoint Olivia Garfield	175,390,928	99.96	72,364	0.04	175,463,292	73.50%	84,596
8	Appoint Christine Hodgson	175,382,562	99.96	76,600	0.04	175,459,162	73.49%	88,726
9	Appoint Sharmila Nebhrajani	175,351,501	99.94	105,318	0.06	175,456,819	73.49%	91,069
10	Reappoint Dominique Reiniche	175,206,076	99.86	249,451	0.14	175,455,527	73.49%	92,361
11	Reappoint Philip Remnant	174,675,615	99.56	779,682	0.44	175,455,297	73.49%	92,591
12	Reappoint Angela Strank	163,686,478	93.58	11,234,004	6.42	174,920,482	73.27%	627,406
13	Reappoint Deloitte LLP as Auditor of the Company	170,142,514	96.95	5,351,768	3.05	175,494,282	73.51%	53,605
14	Authorise the Audit Committee to determine the remuneration of the Auditor	175,282,702	99.88	214,378	0.12	175,497,080	73.51%	50,917
15	Authorise the Company and all companies which are subsidiaries of the Company to make political donations not exceeding £50,000 in total	160,735,549	98.09	3,122,285	1.91	163,857,834	68.63%	11,690,163
16	Renew the Company's authority to allot shares	162,893,282	92.82	12,597,718	7.18	175,491,000	73.51%	56,997
17	Disapply pre-emption rights on up to five per cent of the issued share capital	175,150,023	99.84	277,547	0.16	175,427,570	73.48%	120,318
18	Disapply pre-emption rights on up to an additional five per cent of the issued share capital in connection with an acquisition or specified capital investment	174,577,956	99.52	848,255	0.48	175,426,211	73.48%	121,676
19	Authorise the Company to make market purchases of its Ordinary Shares	171,520,109	97.78	3,899,502	2.22	175,419,611	73.48%	128,385
20	Authorise general meetings of the Company, other than Annual General Meetings, to be called on not less than 14 clear days' notice	167,218,047	95.27	8,293,250	4.73	175,511,297	73.52%	36,684

Notes

1.  Any proxy appointments which gave discretion to the Chair 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 (excluding shares held in treasury) at 13 July 2020: 238,739,638 shares.

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