Director/PDMR Shareholding

Scottish & Southern Energy PLC
03 August 2005


The Company was notified on 2 August 2005 by Computershare Investor Services
plc, the provider of the all employee Share Incentive Plan ('SIP'), of the
following purchases in the Company's ordinary shares:-

 a. that 31,660 shares were purchased and allocated at £9.77 using participating
    employees' gross salary ('Partnership Shares').

 b. that the Company matched the Partnership Shares purchased by employees and
    purchased and allocated a further 20,829 shares at £9.77 ('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 an additional 248 shares were purchased at £9.77 to supplement the
    previous month's purchases and allocated pursuant to the SIP.

The purchases, referred to in paragraph (a) and (b) above, were made pursuant to
a regular standing order instruction with Computershare Investor Services plc
for the monthly purchase of Partnership and Matching Shares.
The interests of Executive directors/PDMRs 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 Hood             13         5    0.000002%   21,722           0.003%
Director

Ian Marchant           13         5    0.000002%   72,916           0.008%
Director

Alistair
Phillips-Davies        13         5    0.000002%   16,589           0.002%
Director

Gregor
Alexander              13         5    0.000002%   12,780           0.001%
Director

Vincent
Donnelly               13         5    N/A         N/A             N/A
PDMR

Michelle               12         5    N/A         N/A             N/A
Hynd
PDMR

Paul Isgar             12         5    N/A         N/A             N/A
PDMR

Graham Juggins         13         5    N/A         N/A             N/A
PDMR

Anthony
Keeling                13         5    N/A         N/A             N/A
PDMR

Ian Manson             13         5    N/A         N/A             N/A
PDMR

Mark Mathieson         12         5    N/A         N/A             N/A
PDMR

Robert
McDonald               13         5    N/A         N/A             N/A
PDMR

James
McPhillimy             13         5    N/A         N/A             N/A
PDMR

Adrian Pike            13         5    N/A         N/A             N/A
PDMR

Brian Smith             4         4    N/A         N/A             N/A
PDMR

James Smith            12         5    N/A         N/A             N/A
PDMR

Paul Smith             13         5    N/A         N/A             N/A
PDMR

Alan Young             10         5    N/A         N/A             N/A
PDMR

John Morea             12         5    N/A         N/A             N/A
PDMR



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