Purchase of Own Securities

Scottish & Southern Energy PLC
17 November 2003





                         Scottish & Southern Energy plc

Scottish & Southern Energy plc announces that it purchased from Merrill Lynch
International for cancellation 500,000 of its ordinary shares on 17 November
2003 at a price of 639.16 pence per share.

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