Director/PDMR Shareholding

Scottish & Southern Energy PLC
02 May 2006


The Company was notified on 2 May 2006 by Computershare Investor Services plc,
the provider of the all employee Share Incentive Plan ('SIP'), of the following
purchases on 28 April 2006 in the Company's ordinary shares:-

     
(a)  that 31,964 shares were purchased and allocated at £11.2550 using 
     participating employees' gross salary ('Partnership Shares').

(b)  that the Company matched the Partnership Shares purchased by employees and 
     allocated a further 22,258 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%      24,912             0.003%
Director
Ian Marchant          11        5    0.000002%      73,171             0.009%
Director
Alistair
Phillips-Davies       11        5    0.000002%      20,514             0.002%
Director
Gregor
Alexander             11        5    0.000002%      13,050             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               12        5   N/A              N/A               N/A
Keeling
PDMR
Ian Manson            11        5   N/A              N/A               N/A
PDMR
Mark Mathieson        11        5   N/A              N/A               N/A
PDMR
Robert                11        5   N/A              N/A               N/A
McDonald
PDMR
James
McPhillimy            11        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           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






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