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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.
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 |
| 97.66% | 2.34% |
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: authority for the Company to purchase its own shares
| 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.