Director Shareholding

Scottish & Southern Energy PLC
01 June 2004


The Company was notified on 28 May 2004 of the following purchases of the
Company's ordinary 50p shares ('shares'):

 a. •Halifax plc, the provider of the all-employee Scottish and Southern Energy
    plc Share Incentive Plan ('SIP'), purchased 35,068 shares at a price of
    £6.96 and allocated them to employees at the same price.

        (b)the PEP manager, the Bank of New York, on 24 May 2004 reinvested the
        tax credit on the March 2004 dividend into the PEP's of David Sigsworth,
        his wife Lorna Sigsworth and Gregor Alexander.

These purchases were made pursuant to regular standing order instructions with
Halifax plc and the Bank of New York.
The interests of the Executive Directors following these transactions were as
follows:

Directors       Number of    Number of   Percentage  Total holding   Total
                SIP shares   shares      of issued   following       percentage of
                purchased/   purchased   class       notification    shares in
                             and                                     issue
                             reinvested                              following
                             into a                                  notification
                             PEP
                Allocated
Colin Hood             23                0.000003%         13,506           0.002%
Ian Marchant           23                0.000003%         54,160           0.006%
David
Sigsworth              23           9    0.000003%         43,356           0.005%
Lorna
Sigsworth
(spouse)                            8
Alistair
Phillips-Davie
s                      23                0.000003%          9,308           0.001%
Gregor
Alexander              23           1    0.000003%          7,942           0.001%
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