UUGRY United Utilities Group PLC (PK)

UNITED UTILITIES GROUP PLC

DIRECTORS' AND PDMR INTERESTS IN SHARES

United Utilities Group PLC ("the Company") announces that it received
notification on 15 September 2014 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 12
September 2014, 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 858.98
pence per share.

      Director/PDMR            No. of Shares
                                 purchased

      Sue Amies-King                21

     Jonathan Hodgkin               22

     Janice Smethurst               21

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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".