AGM Statement

Severn Trent Plc (the "Company")                        

  Summary of the Annual General Meeting held on 24 July 2007 at the National   
                  Motorcycle Museum, Solihull, West Midlands                   

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 20 June 2007.

The Meeting was attended by 144 shareholders.

All of the Resolutions were passed at the Meeting on a show of hands but,
detailed in Appendix A, are the proxy votes that were received from
shareholders prior to the meeting. In total, 48.97% of the issued share capital
was voted and the percentages shown below are rounded to two decimal places.

Resolutions 1 to 7 were passed as ordinary resolutions and resolutions 8 to 10
were passed as special resolutions.

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Appendix A

Resolution 1: to receive the Report of the Directors and the audited accounts

for the year ended 31 March 2007

For                 Against             Discretion          Abstentions        
                                                                               
113,995,752 shares  30,213 shares       734,719 shares      23,491 shares      
                                                                               
99.31%              0.03%               0.64%               0.02%              

Resolution 2: to declare a final dividend in respect of the year ended 31 March
2007 of 38.68 pence for each ordinary share of 97 17/19 pence

For                 Against             Discretion          Abstentions        
                                                                               
114,033,127 shares  7,755 shares        731,817 shares      11,476 shares      
                                                                               
99.35%              0.01%               0.64%               0.01%              

Resolution 3: to reappoint Sir John Egan as a Director

For                 Against             Discretion          Abstentions        
                                                                               
113,285,713 shares  646,484 shares      772,038 shares      79,940 shares      
                                                                               
98.69%              0.56%               0.67%               0.07%              

Resolution 4: to reappoint Tony Wray as a Director

For                 Against             Discretion          Abstentions        
                                                                               
113,465,336 shares  471,694 shares      767,094 shares      80,051 shares      
                                                                               
98.85%              0.41%               0.67%               0.07%              

Resolution 5: to reappoint Deloitte & Touche LLP as auditors of the Company and
to authorise the Directors to determine their remuneration.

For                 Against             Discretion          Abstentions        
                                                                               
111,644,294 shares  1,334,658 shares    765,447 shares      1,039,776 shares   
                                                                               
97.26%              1.16%               0.67%               0.91%              

Resolution 6: to approve the Directors' remuneration report for the year ended
31 March 2007

For                 Against             Discretion          Abstentions        
                                                                               
108,052,245 shares  2,143,312 shares    759,738 shares      3,828,880 shares   
                                                                               
94.14%              1.87%               0.66%               3.34%              

Resolution 7: authority to allot shares

For                 Against             Discretion          Abstentions        
                                                                               
113,672,974 shares  230,433 shares      777,837 shares      102,931 shares     
                                                                               
99.03%              0.20%               0.68%               0.09%              

Resolution 8: disapplication of statutory pre-emption rights

For                 Against             Discretion          Abstentions        
                                                                               
113,544,399 shares  270,011 shares      795,789 shares      173,976 shares     
                                                                               
98.92%              0.24%               0.69%               0.15%              

Resolution 9: authority for the Company to purchase its own shares

For                 Against             Discretion          Abstentions        
                                                                               
113,767,509 shares  152,948 shares      783,187 shares      80,531 shares      
                                                                               
99.11%              0.13%               0.68%               0.07%              

Resolution 10: approval and adoption of new Articles of Association

For                 Against             Discretion          Abstentions        
                                                                               
113,639,360 shares  176,488 shares      807,862 shares      160,465 shares     
                                                                               
99%                 0.15%               0.70%               0.14%              

ENDS