Director/PDMR Shareholding

Scottish & Southern Energy PLC
03 February 2006



The Company was notified on 2 February 2006 by Computershare Investor Services
plc, the provider of the all employee Share Incentive Plan ('SIP'), of the
following purchases on 1 February 2006 in the Company's ordinary shares:-


(a) that 32,911 shares were purchased and allocated at £10.83 using 
    participating employees' gross salary ('Partnership Shares').


(b) that the Company matched the Partnership Shares purchased by employees and 
    purchased and allocated a further 22,422 shares at £10.83 ('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%      24,851               0.003%
Director

Ian Marchant          11        5    0.000002%      73,117               0.008%
Director

Alistair
Phillips-Davies       12        5    0.000002%      20,454               0.002%
Director

Gregor
Alexander             11        5    0.000002%      12,981               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            4        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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