Purchase of Own Securities

Scottish & Southern Energy PLC
11 March 2003


                         Scottish & Southern Energy plc

Scottish & Southern Energy plc announces that it purchased from Merrill Lynch
International for cancellation 200,000 of its ordinary shares on 11 March 2003
at a price of 604.5 pence per share.

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