Director/PDMR Shareholding

TRANSACTIONS BY DIRECTORS AND PDMRS

DISCLOSURE PURSUANT TO DISCLOSURE AND TRANSPARENCY RULE 3.1.4R(1)(a)

UK SHARE INCENTIVE PLAN

The Company was notified on 5 July 2013 by Computershare Investor Services plc, the provider of the all employee Share Incentive Plan ('SIP'), of the following purchases on 5 July 2013 in the Company's ordinary shares:-

(a) that 44,843 shares were purchased and allocated at £15.978 per share using participating employees' gross salary ('Partnership Shares').

(b) that the Company matched the Partnership Shares purchased by employees and allocated a further 53,214 shares at £15.978 per share ('Matching Shares'). The Company gives employees 2 Matching Shares for each Partnership Share bought by them up to a maximum of 6 Matching Shares per employee, each month.

The purchase, referred to above, was made pursuant to a regular standing order instruction with Computershare Investor Services plc for the monthly purchase of Partnership Shares.

The interests of Executive Directors/PDMRs of the Company in the transactions were as follows:

SSE PLC SHARESAVE SCHEME

The Company also announces that, on 5 July 2013, it granted options over a total of 1,273,052 ordinary shares to employees under its all-employee savings-related share option scheme at an option price of £11.97 per ordinary share.

The interests of the Directors/PDMRs of the Company in this transaction are as follows: