Director Shareholding

Scottish & Southern Energy PLC
01 March 2005


The Company was notified on 28 February 2005 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 27,898 shares were purchased at £8.765 using participating employees'
    gross salary ('Partnership Shares').

(b) that the Company matched the Partnership Shares purchased by employees and
    purchased a further 16,379 shares at £8.765 ('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 44,277 shares (Partnership and Matching) were allocated to employees at
£8.765

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            14          5         0.000002%    21,621           0.003%
Hood
Ian              14          5         0.000002%    64,542           0.008%
Marchant
David
Sigsworth        14          5         0.000002%    43,907           0.005%
Alistair
Phillips-Davie
s                15          5         0.000002%    11,219           0.001%
Gregor
Alexander        14          5         0.000002%    9,241            0.001%




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