Severn Trent Plc (the "Company")
Results of the Annual General Meeting held 21 July 2009
at the International Convention Centre, Broad Street, Birmingham
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 28 May 2009.
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 11 and 15 and 16 were passed as ordinary resolutions and
resolutions 12 to 14 were passed as special resolutions.
The Meeting was attended by 142 shareholders.
In accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.2, two copies of the resolutions passed at
the Meeting, other than resolutions concerning ordinary business, have been
submitted to the UK Listing Authority and will shortly be available for
inspection at the Financial Service Authority's Document Viewing Facility,
which is situated at:
The Financial Services Authority
25 The North Colonnade
Canary Wharf
London
E14 5HS
In total, 57.44% of the issued share capital was voted and the percentages
shown below are rounded to two decimal places.
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Appendix A
Resolution 1: to receive the accounts and the reports of the directors and the
auditors for the year ended 31 March 2009
For Against Withheld
135,285,927 336,897 289,385
99.75% 0.25%
Resolution 2: to declare a final dividend in respect of the year ended 31 March
2009 of
41.05 pence for each ordinary share of 9717/19 pence
For Against Withheld
135,334,242 277,703 300,764
99.80% 0.20%
Resolution 3: to approve the Directors' remuneration report for the year ended
31 March 2009
For Against Withheld
124,391,356 3,035,770 8,484,603
97.62% 2.38%
Resolution 4: to reappoint Tony Ballance as a director
For Against Withheld
133.457,471 676,539 1,776,255
99.50% 0.50%
Resolution 5: to reappoint Sir John Egan as a director
For Against Withheld
134,768,135 791,151 353,451
99.42% 0.58%
Resolution 6: to reappoint Gordon Fryett as a director
For Against Withheld
135,064,195 475,635 372,979
99.65% 0.35%
Resolution 7: to reappoint Tony Wray as a director
For Against Withheld
131,444,016 2,700,963 1,767,841
97.99% 2.01%
Resolution 8: to reappoint Deloitte LLP as auditors of the Company and to
authorise the directors to determine their remuneration
For Against Withheld
135,282,002 295,310 335,055
99.78% 0.22%
Resolution 9: to authorise political donations
For Against Withheld
132,061,690 1,683,466 2,166,307
98.74% 1.26%
Resolution 10: to increase the authorised share capital
For Against Withheld
134,827,502 567,622 517,485
99.58% 0.42%
Resolution 11: authority to allot shares
For Against Withheld
123,088,486 2,950,957 9,873,166
97.66% 2.34%
Resolution 12: disapplication of statutory pre-emption rights
For Against Withheld
134,760,806 371,469 778,424
99.73% 0.27%
Resolution 13: authority for the Company to purchase its own shares
For Against Withheld
135,116,449 446,299 350,069
99.67% 0.33%
Resolution 14: reduce notice period for general meetings
For Against Withheld
132,911,238 2,619,753 381,757
98.07% 1.93%
Resolution 15: renew the Severn Trent Sharesave Scheme
For Against Withheld
135,057,499 469,336 384,265
99.65% 0.35%
Resolution 16: approve the Severn Trent Share Matching Plan
For Against Withheld
123,022,412 3,832,554 9,055,077
96.98% 3.02%
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.
ENDS