Director Shareholding

Scottish & Southern Energy PLC
02 December 2003

                             Directors Shareholding

The Company was notified on 1 December 2003 by a PEP Manager of the
re-investment on 26 November 2003 of tax credit on behalf of Mr I.Marchant
pursuant to a regular standing order in one share at a price of £6.5290

The interests of Ian Marchant are as follows:






Director      Number of shares    Percentage   Total holding    Total percentage
              purchased/          of issued    following        of shares in
              allocated           class        notification     issue following
                                                                notification




Ian Marchant       1              0.0000001%     54,033              0.006%








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