Director/PDMR Shareholding

Scottish & Southern Energy PLC
11 October 2005


The Company was notified on 10 October 2005 by Computershare Investor Services
plc, the provider of the all employee Share Incentive Plan ('SIP'), of the
following purchases on 7 October 2005 in the Company's ordinary shares:-

(a)                that 33,487 shares were purchased and allocated at £10.20
using participating employees' gross salary ('Partnership Shares').

(b)                that the Company matched the Partnership Shares purchased by
employees and purchased and allocated a further 22,657 shares at £10.20
('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 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            12        5   0.000002%        24,782              0.003%
Director

Ian Marchant          12        5   0.000002%        73,048              0.008%
Director

Alistair
Phillips-Davies       13        5   0.000002%        16,701              0.002%
Director

Gregor Alexander      12        5   0.000002%        12,912              0.001%
Director

Vincent Donnelly      12        5   N/A        N/A            N/A
PDMR

Michelle Hynd         12        5   N/A        N/A            N/A
PDMR

Paul Isgar            12        5   N/A        N/A            N/A
PDMR

Graham Juggins        12        5   N/A        N/A            N/A
PDMR

Anthony Keeling       12        5   N/A        N/A            N/A
PDMR

Ian Manson            12        5   N/A        N/A            N/A
PDMR

Mark Mathieson        12        5   N/A        N/A            N/A
PDMR

Robert McDonald       12        5   N/A        N/A            N/A
PDMR

James McPhillimy      12        5   N/A        N/A            N/A
PDMR

Adrian Pike           12        5   N/A        N/A            N/A
PDMR

Brian Smith            4        3   N/A        N/A            N/A
PDMR

James Smith           12        5   N/A        N/A            N/A
PDMR

Paul Smith            12        5   N/A        N/A            N/A
PDMR

Alan Young            10        5   N/A        N/A            N/A
PDMR




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