Severn Trent PLC

AGM Information • Jul 20, 2016

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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 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	146,137,294	99.91	135,003	0.09	146,272,297	62.07%	59,702
2	Approve Directors' Remuneration Report	142,619,806	98.26	2,527,085	1.74	145,146,891	61.59%	1,187,566
3	Declare a final ordinary dividend	146,115,458	99.99	12,347	0.01	146,127,805	62.01%	207,052
4	Appoint Emma FitzGerald	145,882,599	99.77	342,831	0.23	146,225,430	62.05%	109,027
5	Appoint Kevin Beeston	145,852,193	99.75	362,729	0.25	146,214,922	62.04%	118,135
6	Appoint Dominique Reiniche	145,879,854	99.77	340,069	0.23	146,219,923	62.05%	114,079
7	Reappoint Andrew Duff	144,366,771	98.72	1,867,534	1.28	146,234,305	62.05%	100,152
8	Reappoint John Coghlan	145,010,115	99.17	1,217,218	0.83	146,227,333	62.05%	107,090
9	Reappoint Olivia Garfield	145,862,062	99.74	376,024	0.26	146,238,086	62.05%	96,085
10	Reappoint James Bowling	145,883,786	99.76	343,880	0.24	146,227,666	62.05%	106,701
11	Reappoint Philip Remnant	145,353,686	99.40	877,008	0.60	146,230,694	62.05%	103,308
12	Reappoint Dr. Angela Strank	145,951,421	99.81	279,283	0.19	146,230,704	62.05%	95,647
13	Reappoint Deloitte LLP as Auditor	142,488,528	97.48	3,677,333	2.52	146,165,861	62.02%	167,572
14	Authorise the Audit Committee of the Board to determine the remuneration of the Auditor	143,519,918	98.52	2,149,368	1.48	145,669,286	61.81%	665,171
15	Authorise political donations	142,008,761	98.53	2,118,948	1.47	144,127,709	61.16%	2,206,307
16	Authorise allotment of shares	140,811,300	96.82	4,624,312	3.18	145,435,612	61.71%	898,845
17	Disapply pre-emption rights	145,341,297	99.82	257,451	0.18	145,598,748	61.78%	733,797
18	Authorise purchase of own shares	143,745,885	99.04	1,390,858	0.96	145,136,743	61.59%	1,190,466
19	Adopt new Articles of Association	144,951,923	99.91	125,035	0.09	145,076,958	61.56%	1,248,799
20	Reduce notice period for General 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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