Director/PDMR Shareholding

Scottish & Southern Energy PLC
02 March 2006


The Company was notified on 1 March 2006 by Computershare Investor Services plc,
the provider of the all employee Share Incentive Plan ('SIP'), of the following
purchases on 28 February 2006 in the Company's ordinary shares:-


(a)     that 31,249 shares were purchased and allocated at £11.5255 using
participating employees' gross salary ('Partnership Shares').


(b)     that the Company matched the Partnership Shares purchased by employees
and purchased and allocated a further 22,611 shares at £11.5255 ('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%      24,867      0.003%
Director
Ian Marchant          11        5    0.000002%      73,133      0.009%
Director
Alistair
Phillips-Davie
s                     11        5    0.000002%      20,470      0.002%
Director
Gregor
Alexander             11        5    0.000002%      12,997      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               10        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           10        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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