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 2013 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 2013, tobe held in accordance with the rules of the Company's HMRC approved shareincentive plan. The shares were purchased at a price of 714.5 pence per share. Director/PDMR No. of Shares purchased Sue Amies-King 21 Neil Colman 21 Gary Dixon 22 Steve Fraser 21 Simon Gardiner 22 Russ Houlden 21 Gaynor Kenyon 20 Steve Mogford 22 Janice Smethurst 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".