Director/PDMR Shareholding

Scottish & Southern Energy PLC
04 April 2006


The Company was notified on 3 April 2006 by Computershare Investor Services plc,
the provider of the all employee Share Incentive Plan ('SIP'), of the following
purchases on 31 March 2006 in the Company's ordinary shares:-


(a) that 32,511 shares were purchased and allocated at £11.37
    using participating employees' gross salary ('Partnership Shares').


(b) that the Company matched the Partnership Shares purchased by
    employees and allocated a further 22,933 shares at £11.37 ('Matching 
    Shares').  The Company gives employees 1 Matching Share for each Partnership 
    Share bought by them up to a maximum of 5 Matching Shares per employee, each 
    month.


The purchases, referred to above, were made pursuant to a regular standing order
instruction with Computershare Investor Services plc for the monthly purchase of
Partnership and Matching Shares.


The interests of Executive directors/PDMRs of the Company in the transactions
were as follows:

Directors      Number of   Number   Percentage  Total        Total percentage of
               Partnership of       of issued   holding      shares in issue
               Shares      Matching class       following    following
                           Shares               notification notification

Colin Hood            11        5    0.000002%      24,896               0.003%
Director

Ian Marchant          11        5    0.000002%      73,155               0.009%
Director

Alistair 
Phillips-Davies       11        5    0.000002%      20,498               0.002%
Director

Gregor Alexander      11        5    0.000002%      13,034               0.002%
Director

Vincent Donnelly      11        5          N/A         N/A                  N/A
PDMR

Michelle Hynd         11        5          N/A         N/A                  N/A
PDMR

Paul Isgar            11        5          N/A         N/A                  N/A
PDMR

Graham Juggins        11        5          N/A         N/A                  N/A
PDMR

Anthony Keeling       11        5          N/A         N/A                  N/A
PDMR

Ian Manson            11        5          N/A         N/A                  N/A
PDMR

Mark Mathieson        11        5          N/A         N/A                  N/A
PDMR

Robert McDonald       11        5          N/A         N/A                  N/A
PDMR

James McPhillimy      11        5          N/A         N/A                  N/A
PDMR

Adrian Pike           11        5          N/A         N/A                  N/A
PDMR

Brian Smith            3        3          N/A         N/A                  N/A
PDMR

James Smith           11        5          N/A         N/A                  N/A
PDMR

Paul Smith            11        5          N/A         N/A                  N/A
PDMR

Alan Young             9        5          N/A         N/A                  N/A
PDMR


The Company was notified on 4th April 2006 by Computershare Investor Services
Plc, the Company's Registrars, that the undernoted PDMR's had arranged for the
cash dividends paid on 24th March 2006 to be reinvested and used to purchase
further shares at a price of £11.45 per share.

PDMR                                                         Number of Shares

Paul Isgar                                                                 12

James McPhillimy                                                           33

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