Director/PDMR Shareholding

Scottish & Southern Energy PLC
01 June 2006


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

(a)  that 33,975 shares were purchased and allocated at £11.000 using 
     participating employees' gross salary ('Partnership Shares').
     
(b)  that the Company matched the Partnership Shares purchased by employees and 
     allocated a further 22,829 shares at £11.000 ('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%      24,928               0.003%
Director

Ian Marchant          11        5    0.000002%      73,187               0.009%
Director

Alistair              11        5    0.000002%      20,530               0.002%
Phillips-Davies       
Director

Gregor Alexander      11        5    0.000002%      13,066               0.002%
Director

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

Michelle Hynd         12        5   N/A         N/A          N/A
PDMR

Paul Isgar            12        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        12        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           12        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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