Pennon Group Plc has published the following regulatory news announcement:
RNS Number : 7019GPennon Group PLC20 July 2023

Pennon Group plc

Result of the Annual General Meeting held on 20 July 2023 at The Courtyard, Sandy Park, Sandy Park Way, Exeter, EX2 7NN at 11:00am

The Directors are pleased to announce that the shareholders of Pennon Group plc passed all the Resolutions which were set out in the Notice of Annual General Meeting dated 19 June 2023.

Voting on all Resolutions was conducted by way of a poll and the below table shows the percentage of issued share capital voted for each.

A copy of each of the Resolutions passed by the Company, other than resolutions concerning ordinary business, will be submitted and made available for inspection on the National Storage Mechanism athttps://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism

A copy of this announcement will be posted on the Company's website atwww.pennon-group.co.uk/investor-information/shareholder-services

RESOLUTION

VOTES

FOR

%

FOR

VOTES

AGAINST

%

AGAINST

VOTES
TOTAL

% SHARE CAPITAL VOTED

VOTES

WITHHELD

1.

To receive and adopt for the annual reports and accounts for the year ended 31 March 2023

196,723,264

99.99

20,134

0.01

196,743,398

75.29%

152,747

2.

To declare a final dividend in respect of the year ended 31 March 2023

196,637,643

99.87

253,338

0.13

196,890,981

75.35%

5,164

3.

To approve the Directors' remuneration report

181,593,096

98.51

2,752,131

1.49

184,345,227

70.54%

12,550,917

4.

To approve the Directors' remuneration policy

184,315,576

93.63

12,532,068

6.37

196,847,644

75.33%

48,501

5.

To elect Dorothy Burwell as a Director

196,790,370

99.96

72,829

0.04

196,863,199

75.34%

32,946

6.

To elect Loraine Woodhouse as a Director

196,792,499

99.97

66,724

0.03

196,859,223

75.33%

36,922

7.

To re-elect Gill Rider as a Director

195,068,588

99.09

1,800,797

0.91

196,869,385

75.34%

26,760

8.

To re-elect Susan Davy as a Director

196,483,322

99.81

376,567

0.19

196,859,889

75.33%

36,256

9.

To re-elect Paul Boote as a Director

196,709,030

99.92

160,801

0.08

196,869,831

75.34%

26,314

10.

To re-elect Jon Butterworth as a Director

196,317,755

99.72

541,416

0.28

196,859,171

75.33%

36,974

11..

To re-elect Neil Cooper as a Director

196,312,853

99.72

545,415

0.28

196,858,268

75.33%

37,877

12.

To re-elect Iain Evans as a Director

177,159,867

89.99

19,704,679

10.01

196,864,546

75.34%

31,599

13.

To re-elect Claire Ighodaro as a Director

196,318,352

99.72

545,879

0.28

196,864,231

75.34%

31,914

14.

To re-appoint Ernst & Young LLP as auditor of the Company

195,875,334

99.56

873,607

0.44

196,748,941

75.29%

147,204

15.

To authorise the Audit Committee to determine the remuneration of the auditor on behalf of the Board

196,735,361

99.93

140,130

0.07

196,875,491

75.34%

20,654

16.

To authorise the Company and its subsidiaries to make political donations up to a specified limit

196,270,017

99.69

605,269

0.31

196,875,286

75.34%

20,858

17.

To grant the Directors authority to allot shares

193,726,817

98.40

3,149,627

1.60

196,876,444

75.34%

19,701

18.

To consider and approve the Company's climate-related financial disclosures (as set out on pages 74-95 of the Annual Report)

174,174,189

90.25

18,816,575

9.75

192,990,764

73.85%

3,905,381

19.

To authorise the general disapplication of pre-emption rights

191,775,358

97.41

5,097,768

2.59

196,873,126

75.34%

23,019

20.

To authorise the disapplication of pre-emption rights in connection with an acquisition or specified capital investment

176,839,622

89.82

20,035,076

10.18

196,874,698

75.34%

21,447

21.

To authorise the market purchase of the Company's shares

196,055,618

99.62

738,680

0.38

196,794,298

75.31%

101,847

22.

To authorise that a general meeting, other than an AGM, may be called on not less than 14 clear day's notice

189,225,131

96.11

7,662,215

3.89

196,887,346

75.34%

8,799

Notes

i)The total votes cast in favour of each resolution include those giving the Chair's discretion.

ii)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.

iii)The total number of ordinary shares of 61.05p in issue at the meeting date was 261,310,967 ordinary shares, excluding 5,628 ordinary shares held in treasury. Therefore, the total number of voting rights in the Company as at today's date is 261,310,967 shares.

20 July 2023

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