Director Shareholding

Scottish & Southern Energy PLC
31 December 2004


The Company was notified on 31 December 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 26,612 shares were purchased at £8.725 using participating employees'
    gross salary ('Partnership Shares').

 b. that the Company matched the Partnership Shares purchased by employees and
    purchased a further 15,877 shares at £8.725 ('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 42,489 shares (Partnership and Matching) were allocated to employees at
£8.74

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                  15         5    0.000002%         21,538           0.003%
Hood

Ian                    15         5    0.000002%         64,459           0.008%
Marchant

David
Sigsworth              15         5    0.000002%         43,824           0.005%

Alistair
Phillips-Davies
                       14         5    0.000002%         11,137           0.001%
Gregor
Alexander              15         5    0.000002%          9,156           0.001%


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