Director/PDMR Shareholding

Scottish & Southern Energy PLC
01 November 2005


The Company was notified on 1 November 2005 by Computershare Investor Services
plc, the provider of the all employee Share Incentive Plan ('SIP'), of the
following purchases on 31 October 2005 in the Company's ordinary shares:-
     
(a)  that 36,419 shares were purchased and allocated at £9.81 using 
     participating employees' gross salary ('Partnership Shares').
     
(b)  that the Company matched the Partnership Shares purchased by employees and 
     purchased and allocated a further 23,553 shares at £9.81 ('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%        24,800              0.003%
Director

Ian Marchant          13        5   0.000002%        73,066              0.008%
Director

Alistair
Phillips-Davies       12        5   0.000002%        16,718              0.002%
Director

Gregor
Alexander             13        5   0.000002%        12,930              0.001%
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            13        5   N/A        N/A            N/A
PDMR

Graham Juggins        13        5   N/A        N/A            N/A
PDMR
Anthony

Keeling               13        5   N/A        N/A            N/A
PDMR

Ian Manson            13        5   N/A        N/A            N/A
PDMR

Mark Mathieson        13        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           13        5   N/A        N/A            N/A
PDMR

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

James Smith           13        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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