3rd May 2005 12:00
Scottish & Southern Energy PLC 03 May 2005 The Company was notified on 29 April 2005 by Halifax plc, the provider of theall employee Share Incentive Plan ('SIP'), of the following purchases in theCompany's ordinary shares:- a. •that 27,124 shares were purchased at £9.385 using participating employees' gross salary ('Partnership Shares'). b. •that the Company matched the Partnership Shares purchased by employees and purchased a further 16,563 shares at £9.385 ('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 43,687 Partnership,Matching and Dividend Shares were allocated to employeesat £9.42. The purchase was made pursuant to a regular standing order instruction withHalifax plc for the monthly purchase of Partnership and Matching Shares The interests of Executive directors of the Company in the transactions were asfollows: Directors Number of Number Percentage Total holding Total Partnership of of issued following percentage of Shares Matching class notification shares in Shares issue following notification Colin 13 5 0.000002% 21,669 0.003%Hood Ian 13 5 0.000002% 64,598 0.008%Marchant AlistairPhillips-Davies 13 5 0.000002% 11,266 0.001% GregorAlexander 13 5 0.000002% 9,279 0.001% The Company was notified by Alistair Phillips-Davies that his directorsshareholding was under declared by 1,896 shares which resulted from a priorexercise of an all-employee Sharesave option by his wife. Taking account of thistransaction, his total shareholding is 13,162 which represents 0.002% of theshares in issue. This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock ExchangeRelated Shares:
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