UNITED UTILITIES GROUP PLC: Director/PDMR Shareholding

UNITED UTILITIES GROUP PLC

DIRECTORS' AND PDMR INTERESTS IN SHARES

United Utilities Group PLC ("the Company") announces that it received notification on 18 December 2012 that the Trustee, Equiniti Share Plan Trustees Limited, purchased ordinary shares of 5p each on behalf of the following directors and persons discharging managerial responsibility on 17 December 2012, to be held in accordance with the rules of the Company's HMRC approved share incentive plan. The shares were purchased at a price of 703 pence per share.

Director/PDMR No. of Shares

purchased

Sue Amies-King 21

Neil Colman 22

Gary Dixon 22

Steve Fraser 21

Simon Gardiner 22

Russ Houlden 22

Gaynor Kenyon 22

Steve Mogford 22

Janice Smethurst 22

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Further information can be obtained from Jane Gilmore, Deputy Company Secretary 44 1 925 237052

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United Utilities Group's ordinary shares trade on the London Stock Exchange and its ADRs, each equal to two ordinary shares, trade over the counter under the Trading Symbol "UUGRY".

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