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 18 June 2014 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 17 June 2014, 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 890.5 pence per share.

      Director/PDMR            No. of Shares    
                                 purchased      
                                                
      Sue Amies-King                21          
                                                
       Neil Colman                  19          
                                                
       Tony Conway                  20          
                                                
        Gary Dixon                  20          
                                                
       Steve Fraser                 20          
                                                
      Simon Gardiner                20          
                                                
     Jonathan Hodgkin               20          
                                                
       Russ Houlden                 21          
                                                
      Gaynor Kenyon                 20          
                                                
      Steve Mogford                 19          
                                                
     Janice Smethurst               21          
                                                
       Paula Steer                  21          

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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".