Director Shareholding

Scottish & Southern Energy PLC
01 July 2004


The Company was notified on 30 June 2004 by Halifax plc, the provider of the all
employee Share Incentive Plan ('SIP'), of the following purchases in the
Company's ordinary shares:-

 a. that 24,727 shares were purchased at £6.825 and 19 shares were purchased at
    £6.7987 using participating employees' gross salary ('Partnership Shares').

 b. that the Company matched the Partnership Shares purchased by employees and
    purchased a further 13,100 shares at £6.825 and 5 shares at £6.7987
    ('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 37,851 shares (Partnership and Matching) were allocated to employees at
£6.845.

The purchase was made pursuant to a regular standing order instruction with
Halifax plc for monthly purchases of Partnership and Matching Shares for the
SIP.

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 Hood             18         5    0.000003%         13,529           0.002%
Ian Marchant           18         5    0.000003%         54,183           0.006%
David
Sigsworth              18         5    0.000003%         43,379           0.005%
Alistair
Phillips-Davie
s                      18         5    0.000003%          9,331           0.001%
Gregor
Alexander              18         5    0.000003%          7,965           0.001%
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