Director Shareholding

Scottish & Southern Energy PLC     
03 May 2005


The Company was notified on 29 April 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 27,124 shares were purchased at £9.385 using participating employees'
    gross salary ('Partnership Shares').

 b. •that the Company matched the Partnership Shares purchased by employees and
    purchased a further 16,563 shares at £9.385 ('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 43,687 Partnership,Matching and Dividend Shares were allocated to employees
at £9.42.

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

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                  13         5    0.000002%         21,669           0.003%
Hood

Ian                    13         5    0.000002%         64,598           0.008%
Marchant

Alistair
Phillips-Davies        13         5    0.000002%         11,266           0.001%

Gregor
Alexander              13         5    0.000002%          9,279           0.001%

The Company was notified by Alistair Phillips-Davies that his directors
shareholding was under declared by 1,896 shares which resulted from a prior
exercise of an all-employee Sharesave option by his wife. Taking account of this
transaction, his total shareholding is 13,162 which represents 0.002% of the
shares in issue.





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