Holding(s) in Company

United Utilities PLC
8 March 2002

                              UNITED UTILITIES PLC

                  NOTIFICATION RECEIVED OF INTEREST IN SHARES

                                  8 MARCH 2002

We have received today a notification dated 7 March 2002, on behalf of CGNU plc
and its subsidiary, Morley Fund Management Ltd stating that the CGNU group were
interested in 16,781,154 shares in United Utilities PLC amounting to 3.02% of
the issued share capital.

The shares were registered in the names of the following holders:
Registered holder                                   Number of shares
BNY Norwich Union Nominees Ltd                      6,099,439
BT Globenet Nominees Ltd                            4,760
Chase GA Group Nominees Ltd                         5,478,020
CUIM Nominee Ltd                                    4,781,419
RBSTB Nominees Ltd                                  349,753
Hibernian Investment Managers Ltd                   67,763





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United Utilities' ordinary shares trade on the London Stock Exchange and its
ADRs, each equal to two ordinary shares, trade on the New York Stock Exchange
under the Trading Symbol 'UU'.







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