Director Shareholding

Scottish & Southern Energy PLC
01 September 2004


The Company was notified on 31 August 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 24,911 shares were purchased at £7.405 using participating employees'
    gross salary ('Partnership Shares').

 b. that the Company matched the Partnership Shares purchased by employees and
    purchased a further 14,211 shares at £7.405 ('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 39,122 shares (Partnership and Matching) were allocated to employees at
£7.385

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                  17         5    0.000003%         13,552           0.002%
Hood

Ian                    17         5    0.000003%         54,206           0.006%
Marchant

David
Sigsworth              17         5    0.000003%         43,402           0.005%

Alistair
Phillips-Davies        17         5    0.000003%          9,354           0.001%

Gregor
Alexander              17         5    0.000003%          7,988           0.001%

The Company was also notified on 31 August 2004, that Ian Marchant had 2537
options maturing in the Company's all-employee savings-related share option
scheme. The option price was £5.32.

The interests of Ian Marchant after this transaction are as follows:

Director    Matured      Percentage  Total holding   Total percentage of
            sharesave    of issued   following       shares in issue
            options      class       notification    following
                                                     notification
            
Ian          2,537      0.0003%         56,765           0.007%
Marchant



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