Director/PDMR Shareholding

Scottish & Southern Energy PLC 04 January 2006 The Company was notified on 30 December 2005 by Computershare Investor Services plc, the provider of the all employee Share Incentive Plan ('SIP'), of the following purchases on 30 December 2005 in the Company's ordinary shares:- (a) that 34,929 shares were purchased and allocated at £10.155 using participating employees' gross salary ('Partnership Shares'). (b) that the Company matched the Partnership Shares purchased by employees and purchased and allocated a further 23,407 shares at £10.155 ('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 holding Total percentage Partnership of of issued following of shares in issue Shares Matching class notification following Shares notification Colin Hood 13 5 0.000002% 24,835 0.003% Director Ian Marchant 13 5 0.000002% 73,101 0.008% Director Alistair Phillips-Davies 12 5 0.000002% 20,437 0.002% Director Gregor Alexander 13 5 0.000002% 12,965 0.002% Director Vincent Donnelly 13 5 N/A N/A N/A PDMR Michelle 13 5 N/A N/A N/A Hynd PDMR Paul Isgar 12 5 N/A N/A N/A PDMR Graham Juggins 13 5 N/A N/A N/A PDMR Anthony Keeling 12 5 N/A N/A N/A PDMR Ian Manson 13 5 N/A N/A N/A PDMR Mark Mathieson 12 5 N/A N/A N/A PDMR Robert McDonald 13 5 N/A N/A N/A PDMR James McPhillimy 13 5 N/A N/A N/A PDMR Adrian Pike 12 5 N/A N/A N/A PDMR Brian Smith 3 3 N/A N/A N/A PDMR James Smith 12 5 N/A N/A N/A PDMR Paul Smith 13 5 N/A N/A N/A PDMR Alan Young 10 5 N/A N/A N/A PDMR This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock Exchange

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