9 July 2026
Severn Trent Plc ("Severn Trent" or "the Company")
Results of the 2026 Annual General Meeting
The Company announces that the following resolutions were duly passed at the Company's 2026 Annual General Meeting ('AGM') which was held today at 10.00am at Severn Trent Academy, Garfield Park, St Martins Road, Finham, Coventry, CV3 6PR.
Resolutions 1 to 18 were passed as ordinary resolutions and resolutions 19 to 22 were passed as special resolutions. Full text of the resolutions is contained in the Company's Notice of 2026 AGM, which is available at www.severntrent.com.
Resolution Votes for For (% of shares voted) Votes against Against (% of shares voted) Total votes cast (excluding withheld) % of issued share capital voted Votes withheld | 1 Receive the Annual Report and Accounts for the year ended 31 March 2026 254,917,023 99.99 20,113 0.01 254,937,136 84.47 173,874 | 2 Approve the Directors' Remuneration Report 251,047,005 98.62 3,508,484 1.38 254,555,489 84.34 555,521 | 3 Approve the Directors' Remuneration Policy 250,588,888 98.25 4,460,544 1.75 255,049,432 84.51 61,578 | 4 Declare a final ordinary dividend in respect of the year ended 31 March 2026 247,398,125 96.99 7,682,516 3.01 255,080,641 84.52 30,369 | 5 Re-elect Christine Hodgson CBE 250,739,779 98.30 4,324,912 1.70 255,064,691 84.51 46,319 | 6 Elect James Jesic 254,115,234 99.63 945,552 0.37 255,060,786 84.51 50,224 | 7 Re-elect Helen Miles 253,872,824 99.53 1,189,587 0.47 255,062,411 84.51 48,599 | 8 Re-elect Nick Hampton 252,400,288 98.96 2,661,275 1.04 255,061,563 84.51 49,447 | 9 Re-elect Tom Delay CBE 251,881,316 98.75 3,181,033 1.25 255,062,349 84.51 48,661 | 10 Re-elect Sarah Legg 252,393,252 98.95 2,669,060 1.05 255,062,312 84.51 48,698 | 11 Re-elect Sharmila Nebhrajani OBE 252,416,858 98.96 2,647,406 1.04 255,064,264 84.51 46,746 | 12 Re-elect Richard Taylor 252,437,972 98.97 2,624,172 1.03 255,062,144 84.51 48,866 | 13 Reappoint PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as Auditor of the Company 255,018,907 99.98 53,007 0.02 255,071,914 84.52 39,096 | 14 Authorise the Audit and Risk Committee to determine the remuneration of the Auditor 252,460,045 98.98 2,605,914 1.02 255,065,959 84.51 45,051 | 15 Authorise the Company to make political donations 215,865,755 98.43 3,445,060 1.57 219,310,815 72.67 35,800,195 | 16 Approve the amendments to the rules of the Severn Trent Plc Long Term Incentive Plan 252,701,911 99.08 2,344,082 0.92 255,045,993 84.51 65,017 | 17 Approve the amendments to the rules of the Severn Trent Plc Sharesave Scheme 254,967,304 99.97 86,448 0.03 255,053,752 84.51 57,258 | 18 Authorise the Directors to allot shares 242,137,921 94.93 12,932,655 5.07 255,070,576 84.52 40,434 | 19 Disapply pre-emption rights on up to ten per cent of the issued share capital. 248,629,564 97.48 6,431,174 2.52 255,060,738 84.51 50,272 | 20 Disapply pre-emption rights on up to an additional ten per cent of the issued share capital in connection with an acquisition or specified capital investment 235,478,161 92.32 19,582,982 7.68 255,061,143 84.51 49,867 | 21 Authorise the Company to purchase its own shares 248,101,822 97.33 6,814,922 2.67 254,916,744 84.46 194,266 | 22 Authorise the Directors to hold general meetings on 14 clear days' notice 244,470,302 95.84 10,607,866 4.16 255,078,168 84.52 32,842 |
1. Any proxy appointments which gave discretion to the Chair 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. For the purposes of section 341 of the Companies Act 2006, as at 6:30pm (BST) on Wednesday 8 July 2026, the Company's issued share capital consists of 304,022,108 ordinary shares of 97 17/19 pence each with voting rights. The Company holds 2,218,618 shares in Treasury.
As required by the UK Listing Rule 6.4.2R of the Financial Conduct Authority ("FCA"), copies of resolutions passed by the Company other than resolutions concerning ordinary business have been submitted to the FCA via the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available to the public for inspection at https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism.
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