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AGM Information • Jul 21, 2016

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SSE PLC

21 July 2016

SSE PLC

RESULT OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

The Annual General Meeting of SSE plc took place in Perth today.  All 20 Resolutions, as set out in the Notice of Meeting, were passed by shareholders on a poll.

The following table shows the votes cast on each resolution:

	Resolution	For	% of votes cast	Against	% of votes cast	Total votes cast	% of Issued Share Capital Voted	Withheld
1.	Receive the Report and Accounts	665,488,042	99.93	465,444	0.07	665,953,486	66.09	6,028,101
2.	Approve the 2016 Remuneration Report	663,406,073	99.45	3,667,525	0.55	667,073,598	66.20	4,910,567
3.	Approve the 2016 Remuneration Policy	660,635,888	99.22	5,166,428	0.78	665,802,316	66.08	6,175,339
4.	Declare a final dividend	670,732,738	99.83	1,148,140	0.17	671,880,878	66.68	103,164
5.	Re-appoint Gregor Alexander	629,891,228	93.78	41,800,747	6.22	671,691,975	66.66	286,692
6.	Re-appoint Jeremy Beeton	670,193,423	99.78	1,485,193	0.22	671,678,616	66.66	305,202
7.	Re-appoint Katie Bickerstaffe	665,093,852	99.66	2,237,436	0.34	667,331,288	66.23	4,651,129
8.	Re-appoint Sue Bruce	669,101,220	99.62	2,568,931	0.38	671,670,151	66.66	315,729
9.	Appoint Crawford Gillies	668,434,056	99.53	3,180,739	0.47	671,614,795	66.65	366,888
10.	Re-appoint Richard Gillingwater	663,328,505	98.94	7,104,063	1.06	670,432,568	66.54	1,555,419
11.	Re-appoint Peter Lynas	666,703,803	99.26	4,945,211	0.74	671,649,014	66.66	333,374
12.	Appoint Helen Mahy	669,897,809	99.74	1,725,962	0.26	671,623,771	66.65	357,955
13.	Re-appoint Alistair Phillips-Davies	634,406,637	94.45	37,270,863	5.55	671,677,500	66.66	311,705
14.	Re-appoint KPMG LLP as Auditor	654,832,527	98.38	10,803,023	1.62	665,635,550	66.06	6,344,834
15.	Authorise the Audit Committee to agree the Auditor's remuneration	663,113,210	99.03	6,511,725	0.97	669,624,935	66.46	2,361,779
16.	Authorise the Directors to allot shares	658,229,799	98.01	13,393,822	1.99	671,623,621	66.65	360,404
17.	Special resolution to disapply pre-emption rights	668,686,062	99.59	2,730,488	0.41	671,416,550	66.63	568,302
18.	Special resolution to empower the Company to purchase its own Ordinary Shares	660,573,848	99.04	6,392,570	0.96	666,966,418	66.19	5,014,667
19.	Special resolution to approve 14 days' notice of general meetings	601,679,743	90.20	65,376,008	9.80	667,055,751	66.20	4,928,731
20.	Special resolution to approve the SSE plc Performance Share Plan 2016	656,376,632	97.99	13,440,192	2.01	669,816,824	66.47	2,163,614

A copy of the resolutions put to shareholders at the AGM (concerning items other than ordinary business) has been submitted to the Financial Conduct Authority and will shortly be available for inspection on the National Storage Mechanism (NSM) by accessing  the following link: - www.hemscott.com/nsm.do

Notes:

1.     A vote 'Withheld' is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation of the proportion of votes 'For' and 'Against' a resolution.

2.     There were 1,007,624,770 ordinary shares of 50 pence each in issue as at 21 July 2016.  Every shareholder has one vote for every ordinary share held.

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