Director Shareholding

Scottish & Southern Energy PLC
31 March 2005


The Company was notified on 31 March 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 28,273 shares were purchased at £8.89 using participating employees'
    gross salary ('Partnership Shares').

 b. that the Company matched the Partnership Shares purchased by employees and
    purchased a further 16,575 shares at £8.89 ('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.

 c. that the cash dividends paid on 24 March 2005 were re-invested and used to
    purchase 14,882 Dividend Shares

The 59,730 Partnership,Matching and Dividend Shares were allocated to employees
at £8.835.

The purchase was made pursuant to a regular standing order instruction with
Halifax plc for the monthly purchase of Partnership and Matching Shares and the
re-investment of cash dividends into Dividend Shares.

The interests of Executive directors of the Company in the transactions were as
follows:

Directors              Number of    Number     Number      Percentage   Total holding   Total
                       Partnership  of         of          of issued    following       percentage of
                       Shares       Matching   Dividend    class        notification    shares in
                                    Shares     Shares                                   issue
                                                                                        following
                                                                                        notification
                                       
                                       
                                                     
Colin                  14           5          11          0.000003%    21,651          0.003%
Hood

Ian                    14           5          11          0.000003%    64,572          0.008%
Marchant

David
Sigsworth              14           5          0           0.000002%    44,049          0.005%

Alistair
Phillips-Davies        14           5          10          0.000003%    11,248          0.001%

Gregor
Alexander              14           5          11          0.000003%    9,279           0.001%


The Company was also notified on 31 March 2005 of a dividend re-investment by Mr
Marchant's PEP Manager of 8 shares at a price of £8.845. The date of the
transaction was 30 March 2005.

Director          No of     Percentage  Total holding   Total percentage of
                  shares    of issued   following       shares in issue
                            class       notification    following
                                                       notification

Ian Marchant      8         0.00        64,580          0.008%




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