Director Shareholding

Scottish & Southern Energy PLC
30 September 2004


SIP

The Company was notified on 30 September 2004 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 24,140 shares were purchased at £7.80 using participating employees'
     gross salary ('Partnership Shares').

(b)  that the Company matched the Partnership Shares purchased by employees and
     purchased a further 13,984 shares at £7.80 ('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 38,124 shares (Partnership and Matching) were allocated to employees at
£7.66

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

The interests of Executive directors of the Company in the transactions were as
follows:
                                                                   Total
                                                                   percentage of
                             Number                                shares in
Directors       Number of    of        Percentage  Total holding   issue 
                Partnership  Matching  of issued   following       following                           
                Shares       Shares    class       notification    notification                            
                             
Colin 
Hood            16           5         0.000002%   13,595          0.002%

Ian             
Marchant        16           5         0.000002%   56,786          0.007%

David
Sigsworth       16           5         0.000002%   43,764          0.005%

Alistair        
Phillips-Davies 16           5         0.000002%   9,397           0.001%

Gregor
Alexander       16           5         0.000002%   8,053           0.001%

Deferred Bonus Scheme Maturity

Also, on 30 September 2004 the Company was notified by the Trustees of the
Scottish and Southern Energy Deferred Bonus Plan ('the Plan') that there were
the following changes in directors' interests in the Company's ordinary shares
('the Shares') arising out of the operation of the Plan.

Awards of Shares under the Plan can be unconditionally released to participants
following the third anniversary of grant ('the Maturity Date').

The following executive directors elected to call for the Shares set out below.
On 30 September 2004, sufficient Shares were sold at £7.791 to discharge income
tax and National Insurance contribution liabilities arising on their release
from the Deferred Bonus Plan Trust ('the Trust'). The remaining shares were
retained by the executive director.

                                          Shares sold at    
                                               £7.791 to       
Executive director      Shares released          satisfy         Balance
                        from the Trust    commission and         
                                                     tax     Certificate

Ian Marchant                     12,909            5,296           7,613

Colin Hood                       13,373            5,490           7,883

Alistair
Phillips-Davies                   2,855            1,174           1,681

Gregor
Alexander                         1,311              541             770

As a result of the transactions referred to above the Trust holds a total of
598,841 Shares representing 0.07% of the Company's issued share capital. The
intersts of the executive directors are now as follows:-:

Executive director                 Total holding            Total holding
                                  following this          as a percentage
                                    notification             of shares in
                                                                    issue
Ian Marchant                              64,399                   0.008%

Colin Hood                                21,478                   0.003%

Alistair

Phillips-Davies                           11,078                   0.001%

Gregor
Alexander                                  8,823                   0.001%

In addition, the executive directors are deemed for Companies Act purposes to be
interested in all the Shares held by the Trust.


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