Director/PDMR Shareholding

Scottish & Southern Energy PLC
01 July 2005



The Company was notified on 30 June 2005 by Computershare Investor Services plc,
the provider of the all employee Share Incentive Plan ('SIP'), of the following
purchases in the Company's ordinary shares:-

 a. that 27,196 shares were purchased and allocated at £10.085 using
    participating employees' gross salary ('Partnership Shares').

 b. that the Company matched the Partnership Shares purchased by employees and
    purchased and allocated a further 13,446 shares at 10.085 ('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 month.

The purchase was 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 of the Company in the transactions were as
follows:

Directors       Number of    Number    Percentage  Total holding   Total
                Partnership  of        of issued   following       percentage of
                Shares       Matching  class       notification    shares in
                             Shares                                issue
                                                                   following
                                                                   notification
Colin                  12         5    0.000002%         21,704           0.003%
Hood

Ian                    12         5    0.000002%         64,633           0.008%
Marchant

Alistair
Phillips-Davies        12         5    0.000002%         13,197           0.002%
                       
Gregor
Alexander              12         5    0.000002%          9,332           0.001%



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