Director/PDMR Shareholding

UNITED UTILITIES GROUP PLC DIRECTORS' AND PDMR INTERESTS IN SHARES United Utilities Group PLC ("the Company") announces that it receivednotification on 19 August 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 18 August 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 874 pence per share. Director/PDMR No. of Shares purchased Sue Amies-King 20 Neil Colman 21 Gary Dixon 20 Steve Fraser 20 Simon Gardiner 21 Jonathan Hodgkin 20 Russ Houlden 20 Gaynor Kenyon 20 Steve Mogford 21 Janice Smethurst 20 Paula Steer 21 __________________________________________________________________________ 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".