Director/PDMR Shareholding

Scottish & Southern Energy PLC
01 December 2005


The Company was notified on 1 December 2005 by Computershare Investor Services
plc, the provider of the all employee Share Incentive Plan ('SIP'), of the
following purchases on 30 November 2005 in the Company's ordinary shares:-

(a)                that 36,925 shares were purchased and allocated at £9.93
using participating employees' gross salary ('Partnership Shares').

(b)                that the Company matched the Partnership Shares purchased by
employees and purchased and allocated a further 23,848 shares at £9.93
('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            12        5   0.000002%        24,817              0.003%
Director

Ian Marchant          12        5   0.000002%        73,083              0.008%
Director

Alistair
Phillips-Davies       13        5   0.000002%        16,736              0.002%
Director

Gregor
Alexander             12        5   0.000002%        12,947              0.001%
Director

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

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

Paul Isgar            13        5   N/A              N/A                 N/A
PDMR

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

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

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

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

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

James Smith           13        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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