UU. United Utilities Group Plc

UNITED UTILITIES GROUP PLC

DIRECTORS' AND PDMR INTERESTS IN SHARES

United Utilities Group PLC ("the Company") announces that it received
notification on 18 February 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 17 February
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 759.00 pence per
share.

      Director/PDMR            No. of Shares
                                 purchased

      Sue Amies-King                19

       Neil Colman                  20

       Tony Conway                  20

        Gary Dixon                  19

       Steve Fraser                 20

      Simon Gardiner                21

       Russ Houlden                 19

      Gaynor Kenyon                 19

      Steve Mogford                 20

     Janice Smethurst               19

       Paula Steer                  19

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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".