Director/PDMR Shareholding

UNITED UTILITIES GROUP PLC DIRECTORS' AND PDMR INTERESTS IN SHARES United Utilities Group PLC ("the Company") announces that it receivednotification on 18 March 2014 that the Trustee, Equiniti Share Plan TrusteesLimited, purchased ordinary shares of 5p each on behalf of the followingdirectors and persons discharging managerial responsibility on 17 March 2014,to be held in accordance with the rules of the Company's HMRC approved shareincentive plan. The shares were purchased at a price of 791.5 pence per share. Director/PDMR No. of Shares purchased Sue Amies-King 19 Neil Colman 19 Tony Conway 113 Gary Dixon 19 Steve Fraser 18 Simon Gardiner 18 Russ Houlden 19 Gaynor Kenyon 19 Steve Mogford 19 Janice Smethurst 19 Paula Steer 20 __________________________________________________________________________ Further information can be obtained from Jane Gilmore, Deputy Company Secretary44 1 925 237052 - United Utilities Group's ordinary shares trade on the London Stock Exchange andits ADRs, each equal to two ordinary shares, trade over the counter under theTrading Symbol "UUGRY".