Director/PDMR Shareholding

Scottish & Southern Energy PLC
01 August 2006


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


(a)   that 30,431 shares were purchased and allocated at £12.14 per
share using participating employees' gross salary ('Partnership Shares').


(b)   that the Company matched the Partnership Shares purchased by
employees and allocated a further 22,029 shares at £12.14 per share ('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%      24,960               0.003%
Director

Ian Marchant          11        5    0.000002%      94,013               0.010%
Director

Alistair
Phillips-Davies       10        5    0.000002%      30,957               0.003%
Director

Gregor
Alexander             11        5    0.000002%      21,414               0.002%
Director

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

Michelle Hynd         10        5   N/A         N/A          N/A
PDMR

Paul Isgar            10        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        10        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           10        5   N/A         N/A          N/A
PDMR

Paul Smith            11        5   N/A         N/A          N/A
PDMR

Alan Young             8        5   N/A         N/A          N/A
PDMR






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