Director/PDMR Shareholding

Scottish & Southern Energy PLC
04 January 2006



The Company was notified on 30 December 2005 by Computershare Investor Services
plc, the provider of the all employee Share Incentive Plan ('SIP'), of the
following purchases on 30 December 2005 in the Company's ordinary shares:-

(a) that 34,929 shares were purchased and allocated at £10.155
    using participating employees' gross salary ('Partnership Shares').

(b) that the Company matched the Partnership Shares purchased by
    employees and purchased and allocated a further 23,407 shares at £10.155
    ('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
    employee, each month.

The purchases, referred to 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 percentage
               Partnership of       of issued  following      of shares in issue
               Shares      Matching class      notification   following
                           Shares                             notification

Colin Hood            13        5   0.000002%        24,835              0.003%
Director

Ian Marchant          13        5   0.000002%        73,101              0.008%
Director

Alistair
Phillips-Davies       12        5   0.000002%        20,437              0.002%
Director

Gregor
Alexander             13        5   0.000002%        12,965              0.002%
Director

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

Michelle              13        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               12        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           12        5   N/A        N/A            N/A
PDMR

Brian Smith            3        3   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


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