Director/PDMR Shareholding

Legal & General Group PLC
04 January 2007


Legal & General Group Plc

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

In common with all eligible employees, each of the executive directors of Legal
& General Group Plc ('the Group') has been invited to apply for partnership
shares under the Plan on a monthly basis.  On 2 January 2007, each executive
director chose to contribute to purchase the following partnership shares:

                                             Partnership Shares

C. R. R. Avery                                               78
T. J. Breedon                                                78
A. W. Palmer                                                 79
R. A. Phipps                                                 78
J. B. Pollock                                                78

The Group matched these shares, on a one-to-one basis, up to £20 per month.
Accordingly, each executive director received 12 matching shares. The shares
were purchased at a price of 159.5p per share.  Differences are due to rounding
from previous allocations.

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:-

Name                 Shares          Shares in schemes or        Options          Total beneficial
                                                    plans                                interests
                                    
                                    
C R R Avery           642,247                206,955              272,836                   1,122,038
                                
                                  
T J Breedon         1,010,858                365,320               87,880                   1,464,058
                                                            
                                    
A W Palmer            530,742                278,665            1,494,107                   2,303,514
                                                            
                                  
R A Phipps          1,197,052                296,885              391,280                   1,885,217
                                                            
                                    
J B Pollock           271,858                153,588               30,408                     455,854

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                                                 79
C. A. Davies                                                 78
I. A. Gibson                                                 78
M. J. Gregory                                                78
G. J. Hoskin                                                 78

The Group matched these shares, on a one-to-one basis, up to £20 per month.
Accordingly, each Senior Manager, with the exceptions of C. A. Davies and M. J.
Gregory, received 12 matching shares.  C. A. Davies and M. J. Gregory each
received 13 shares.  The shares were purchased at a price of 159.5p per share.
Differences are due to rounding from previous allocations.

Non Executive Directors' purchases

On 2 January 2007 the following non-executive directors of Legal & General Group
Plc ('the Group') purchased the following ordinary shares of 2.5p each
('shares') in the Group at a price of 158.5p per share.

F. A. Heaton                          916
B. C. Hodson                          916
R. J. Margetts                      4,620
R. H. Schmitz                         916
H. E. Staunton                      1,225
J. M. Strachan                        916
D. A. Walker                        1,225

Following these awards, the non-executive directors' current beneficial
interests in the Group now stand at:

F. A. Heaton                         76,790
B. C. Hodson                         76,877
R. J. Margetts                      457,765
R. H. Schmitz                        84,151
H. E. Staunton                       97,472
J. M. Strachan                       62,737
D. A. Walker                        218,372




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