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 July 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 July 2014, tobe held in accordance with the rules of the Company's HMRC approved shareincentive plan. The shares were purchased at a price of 880.5 pence per share. Director/PDMR No. of Shares purchased Sue Amies-King 20 Neil Colman 21 Gary Dixon 21 Steve Fraser 21 Simon Gardiner 20 Jonathan Hodgkin 21 Russ Houlden 20 Gaynor Kenyon 21 Steve Mogford 21 Janice Smethurst 20 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".