Director/PDMR Shareholding

Scottish & Southern Energy PLC
04 October 2005


The Company was notified on 30 September 2005 by Computershare Investor Services
plc, the provider of the all employee Share Incentive Plan ('SIP'), that the
cash dividends paid on 23 September 2005 were re-invested and used to purchase
51,826 Dividend Shares at a price of £10.2378 per share.

The purchase was made pursuant to a regular standing order instruction with
Computershare plc for the re-investment of cash dividends into Dividend Shares.

The interests of Executive Directors/PDMR's of the Company in the transactions
were as follows:

Directors      Number     Percentage  Total holding    Total percentage of
               of         of issued   following        shares in issue following
               Dividend   class       notification     notification
               Shares

Colin Hood        28    0.000003%          21,818                     0.003%
Ian Marchant      28    0.000003%          73,031                     0.008%
Alistair
Phillips-Davies   27    0.000003%          16,683                     0.002%
Gregor
Alexander         28    0.000003%          12,895                     0.001%


PDMR's                        Number of Dividend Shares

Vincent Donnelly                        28
Michelle Hynd                            1
Paul Isgar                              28
Graham Juggins                          28
Anthony Keeling                         17
Ian Manson                              28
Mark Mathieson                          28
Robert McDonald                         28
James McPhillimy                        28
Adrian Pike                             11
Brian Smith                             12
James Smith                             28
Paul Smith                              28
Alan Young                              15




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