Director/PDMR Shareholding

Legal & General Group PLC
04 April 2006

 Legal & General Group Plc ('Group')

Legal & General Group Employee Share Plan ('the Plan')

In common with all eligible employees, each of the executive directors of Legal
& General Group Plc ('Group') have been invited to apply for partnership shares
under the Plan on a monthly basis. On 3 April  2006 each executive director
chose to contribute to purchase the following partnership shares:
                                Partnership Shares
C. R. R. Avery                  88
T. J. Breedon                   88
A. W. Palmer                    88
R. A. Phipps                    88
J. B. Pollock                   88

The Group matched these shares, on a one-to-one basis, up to £20 per month.
Accordingly, each executive director received 14 matching shares. The shares
were purchased at a price of 142.5p per share.

Following these awards, the executive directors have beneficial interests in the
shares of Legal & General Group Plc (comprising shares, shares held by trustees
within share schemes or plans and share options) as set out below:-

                                     Shares          Shares in schemes or     Options          Total beneficial
                                                              plans                                   interests
        Name
C. R. R. Avery                     371,979                  218,515           272,836                   863,330
T. J. Breedon                      691,135                  343,629            78,660                 1,113,424
A. W. Palmer                       458,867                  311,602         1,494,107                 2,264,666
R. A. Phipps                       856,255                  324,723           400,187                 1,579,610
J. B. Pollock                      196,010                  141,203            30,408                   367,621

The Following Senior Managers also chose to take part in the Employee Share
Plan.  Each Senior Manager chose to contribute to purchase the following
partnership shares:
                                Partnership Shares
M. J. Bolton                    88
C. A. Davies                    87
I. A. Gibson                    88
C. C. Hatry                     88
G. J. Hoskin                    88

The Group matched these shares, on a one-to-one basis, up to £20 per month.
Accordingly, each Senior Manager received 14 matching shares. The shares were
purchased at a price of 1.425p per share. Differences are due to roundings from
previous allocations.

Non Executive Directors' purchases

On 3 April 2006 the following non-executive directors of Legal & General Group
Plc ('Group') purchased the following ordinary shares of 2.5p each ('shares') in
Group at a price of 123p per share.
F. A. Heaton                       1, 015
B. C. Hodson                       1, 015
R. J. Margetts                      5,121
J. B. Morgans                       1,015
R. H. Schmitz                       1,015
H. E. Staunton                      1,358
J. M. Strachan                      1,015
D. A. Walker                        1,358

Following these awards, the non-executive directors' current beneficial
interests in Group now stand at:
F. A. Heaton                         67,344
B. C. Hodson                         67,431
R. J. Margetts                      408,014
J. B. Morgans                       108,838
R. H. Schmitz                        74,705
H. E. Staunton                       84,842
J. M. Strachan                       51,855
D. A. Walker                        203,097






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