Purchase of Own Securities

Scottish & Southern Energy PLC
12 March 2003

                         Scottish & Southern Energy plc

Scottish & Southern Energy plc announces that it purchased from Merrill Lynch
International for cancellation 110,000 of its ordinary shares on 12 March 2003
at a price of 584.1 pence per share.

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