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AGM Information • Jul 19, 2018

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SSE PLC

19 July 2018

SSE PLC

RESULT OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

The Annual General Meeting of SSE plc took place in Perth today.  All 19 Resolutions, as set out in the Notice of Annual General 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	673,511,408	99.99	74,576	0.01	673,585,984	66.35	4,030,228
2.	Approve the 2018 Remuneration Report	645,891,826	97.25	18,247,804	2.75	664,139,630	65.42	13,484,571
3.	Declare a final dividend	677,376,446	99.97	181,335	0.03	677,557,781	66.74	66,421
4.	Re-appoint Gregor Alexander	669,608,518	98.84	7,849,319	1.16	677,457,837	66.73	165,891
5.	Re-appoint Sue Bruce	667,835,154	98.58	9,617,212	1.42	677,452,366	66.73	171,336
6.	Appoint Tony Cocker	675,135,790	99.66	2,287,797	0.34	677,423,587	66.73	200,089
7.	Re-appoint Crawford Gillies	668,166,988	98.63	9,276,169	1.37	677,443,157	66.73	180,571
8.	Re-appoint Richard Gillingwater	621,870,039	93.09	46,156,513	6.91	668,026,552	65.80	9,597,148
9.	Re-appoint Peter Lynas	664,998,078	98.16	12,438,093	1.84	677,436,171	66.73	187,201
10.	Re-appoint Helen Mahy	632,562,346	93.37	44,883,319	6.63	677,450,665	66.73	173,061
11.	Re-appoint Alistair Phillips-Davies	672,160,826	99.22	5,300,360	0.78	677,461,186	66.73	161,444
12.	Appoint Martin Pibworth	671,703,515	99.15	5,725,268	0.85	677,428,783	66.73	194,593
13.	Re-appoint KPMG LLP as Auditor	653,055,086	96.51	23,588,912	3.49	676,643,998	66.65	980,229
14.	Authorise the Audit Committee to agree the Auditor's remuneration	642,127,496	94.78	35,354,042	5.22	677,481,538	66.73	140,536
15.	Authorise the Directors to allot shares	672,118,076	99.21	5,353,093	0.79	677,471,169	66.73	143,149
16.	Special resolution to disapply pre-emption rights	673,551,510	99.43	3,858,586	0.57	677,410,096	66.73	211,056
17.	Special resolution to authorise the Company to purchase its own Ordinary Shares	669,920,306	99.07	6,299,694	0.93	676,220,000	66.61	1,404,227
18.	Authorise the Directors to renew the Scrip Dividend Scheme	677,310,464	99.97	179,874	0.03	677,490,338	66.73	131,608
19.	Special resolution to approve 14 days' notice of general meetings	613,411,952	90.99	60,753,488	9.01	674,165,440	66.41	3,458,287

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 1,023,008,915 ordinary shares of 50 pence each in issue as at 19 July 2018. This figure includes 7,811,381 ordinary shares which are held in treasury. Every shareholder has one vote for every ordinary share held. The voting rights on treasury shares are automatically suspended. The total number of voting rights in the Company was 1,015,197,534 as at 19 July 2018.

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