Severn Trent Plc - Result of AGM

Severn Trent PLC

06 July 2023

 

 

LEI: 213800RPBXRETY4A4C59

Severn Trent Plc

(the "Company")

Results of the Annual General Meeting held on 6 July 2023

At the Annual General Meeting of Severn Trent Plc held on 6 July 2023, all the resolutions set out in the Notice of Meeting were approved by the shareholders which were voted by way of a poll. The total number of votes received for each resolution is set out below.

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.

Resolutions 1 to 16 were passed as ordinary resolutions and resolutions 17 to 20 were passed as special resolutions.

In accordance with Listing Rules 9.6.1 and 9.6.2, a copy of the resolutions passed at the Meeting, other than resolutions concerning ordinary business, will be submitted to the UK Listing Authority and will shortly be available for inspection at the National Storage Mechanism, located at https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism.

In total, 79.59% of the issued share capital, excluding shares held in treasury, was voted and the percentages shown below are rounded to two decimal places.

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	RESOLUTION	VOTES FOR	% OF VOTES CAST	VOTES AGAINST	% OF VOTES CAST	VOTES CAST IN TOTAL	TOTAL VOTES CAST AS A % OF ISSUED SHARE CAPITAL	VOTES WITHHELD
1	Receive the Report and Accounts for the year ended 31 March 2023	201,440,909	99.98	32,824	0.02	201,473,733	79.86%	141,193
2	Approve the Directors' Remuneration Report	192,267,172	95.40	9,273,727	4.60	201,540,899	79.89%	74,027
3	Declare a final ordinary dividend in respect of the year ended 31 March 2023	192,581,433	95.54	8,981,749	4.46	201,563,182	79.90%	51,743
4	Reappoint Kevin Beeston	194,535,607	96.53	6,998,708	3.47	201,534,315	79.89%	80,611
5	Reappoint John Coghlan	200,609,106	99.54	924,395	0.46	201,533,501	79.89%	81,425
6	Reappoint Tom Delay	201,213,227	99.84	324,175	0.16	201,537,402	79.89%	77,524
7	Reappoint Olivia Garfield	201,456,401	99.96	79,326	0.04	201,535,727	79.89%	79,199
8	Reappoint Christine Hodgson	194,021,222	96.27	7,517,663	3.73	201,538,885	79.89%	76,041
9	Appoint Sarah Legg	201,467,047	99.97	66,074	0.03	201,533,121	79.89%	81,805
10	Appoint Helen Miles	201,335,147	99.90	194,485	0.10	201,529,632	79.89%	85,294
11	Reappoint Sharmila Nebhrajani	194,514,894	96.52	7,018,689	3.48	201,533,583	79.89%	81,343
12	Reappoint Gillian Sheldon	201,455,786	99.96	77,760	0.04	201,533,546	79.89%	81,380
13	Reappoint Deloitte LLP as Auditor of the Company	198,596,330	98.60	2,815,487	1.40	201,411,817	79.84%	203,109
14	Authorise the Audit and Risk Committee to determine the remuneration of the Auditor	200,339,042	99.40	1,211,976	0.60	201,551,018	79.90%	63,908
15	Authorise the Company and all companies which are subsidiaries of the Company to make political donations not exceeding £50,000 in total	184,716,720	97.73	4,289,213	2.27	189,005,933	74.92%	12,608,992
16	Authorise the Directors to allot shares	196,084,829	97.29	5,460,401	2.71	201,545,230	79.89%	69,310
17	Disapply pre-emption rights on up to ten per cent of the issued share capital	193,158,828	96.30	7,422,860	3.70	200,581,688	79.51%	1,032,852
18	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	184,363,137	92.11	15,788,400	7.89	200,151,537	79.34%	1,463,003
19	Authorise the Company to make market purchases of its Ordinary Shares	200,799,970	99.68	652,494	0.32	201,452,464	79.86%	162,076
20	Authorise general meetings of the Company, other than Annual General Meetings, to be called on not less than 14 clear days' notice	194,099,408	96.30	7,450,811	3.70	201,550,219	79.89%	64,321

Notes

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.  Issued ordinary share capital (excluding shares held in treasury) at 6 July 2023: 252,268,980 shares.

 

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