Director/PDMR Shareholding

UNITED UTILITIES GROUP PLC

DIRECTORS' AND PDMR INTERESTS IN SHARES

United Utilities Group PLC ("the Company") announces that it received
notification on 19 June 2012 that the Trustee, Equiniti Share Plan Trustees
Limited, purchased ordinary shares of 5p each on behalf of the following
directors and persons discharging managerial responsibility on 18 June 2012, to
be held in accordance with the rules of the Company's HMRC approved share
incentive plan. The shares were purchased at a price of 659 pence per share.

Director/PDMR                  No. of Shares    
                                 purchased      
                                                
Neil Colman                         22          
                                                
Gary Dixon                          23          
                                                
Steve Fraser                        23          
                                                
Simon Gardiner                      23          
                                                
Russ Houlden                        23          
                                                
Gaynor Kenyon                       23          
                                                
Steve Mogford                       23          
                                                
Janice Smethurst                    22          
                                                
Paul Worthington                    23          

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Further information can be obtained from Jane Gilmore, Deputy Company Secretary
44 1 925 237052

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United Utilities Group's ordinary shares trade on the London Stock Exchange and
its ADRs, each equal to two ordinary shares, trade over the counter under the
Trading Symbol "UUGRY".