Exhibit 99.1
UNITED UTILITIES PLC
ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING – POLL RESULT
At the annual general meeting held on, 29 July 2005, at the Bridgewater Hall, Manchester, the following resolutions were duly passed and the result of the poll is shown below:
No. | | Resolution | | | Votes For | | | Votes Against | | | Votes Abstaining | |
1 | | Receiving the report and accounts | | | 429,515,954 | | | 188,922 | | | 2,600,159 | |
2 | | Declaring a final dividend | | | 432,252,237 | | | 13,022 | | | 39,776 | |
3 | | Approving the directors’ remuneration report | | | 429,611,685 | | | 2,075,841 | | | 617,509 | |
4 | | Reappointing David Jones | | | 431,358,271 | | | 639,246 | | | 307,518 | |
5 | | Reappointing Nick Salmon | | | 431,462,442 | | | 527,380 | | | 315,213 | |
6 | | Reappointing Tom Drury | | | 430,628,640 | | | 1,373,796 | | | 302,599 | |
7 | | Reappointing Sir Peter Middleton | | | 417,926,723 | | | 12,075,370 | | | 2,302,942 | |
8 | | Reappointing Norman Broadhurst | | | 424,956,422 | | | 2,553,725 | | | 4,794,888 | |
9 | | Reappointing Andrew Pinder | | | 429,366,682 | | | 633,189 | | | 2,305,164 | |
10 | | Reappointing the auditor | | | 418,822,555 | | | 8,594,742 | | | 4,887,738 | |
11 | | Remunerating the auditor | | | 430,303,583 | | | 1,809,312 | | | 192,140 | |
12 | | Authorising the directors to allot shares. | | | 427,060,020 | | | 4,790,015 | | | 455,000 | |
13 | | Disapplying statutory pre-emption rights | | | 427,317,242 | | | 4,298,929 | | | 688,864 | |
14 | | Authorising market purchases of its own shares by the company | | | 431,358,166 | | | 579,107 | | | 367,762 | |
15 | | Adopting new articles of association | | | 423,140,552 | | | 916,370 | | | 8,248,113 | |
16 | | Authorising the company to make donations to EU political organisations | | | 405,350,587 | | | 25,980,828 | | | 973,620 | |
17 | | Authorising United Utilities Water to make donations to EU political organisations | | | 405,206,803 | | | 26,120,812 | | | 977,420 | |
18 | | Authorising United Utilities Electricity to make donations to EU political organisations | | | 405,181,491 | | | 26,125,639 | | | 997,905 | |
19 | | Authorising Contract Solutions to make donations to EU political organisations | | | 405,161,887 | | | 26,148,184 | | | 994,964 | |
20 | | Authorising Vertex to make donations to EU political organisations | | | 405,147,933 | | | 26,159,871 | | | 997,231 | |
21 | | Authorising Your Communications to make donations to EU political organisations | | | 405,136,722 | | | 26,180,721 | | | 987,592 | |
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United Utilities’ ordinary shares trade on the London Stock Exchange and its ADRs, each equal to two ordinary shares, trade on the New York Stock Exchange under the Trading Symbol ‘UU’.