Director/PDMR Shareholding

Legal & General Group PLC
02 September 2005

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 1 September 2005 each executive director
chose to contribute to purchase the following partnership shares:

                                Partnership Shares
C. R. R. Avery                  112
T. J. Breedon                   112
A. W. Palmer                    112
R. A. Phipps                    111
J. B. Pollock                   112
D. J. Prosser                   112

The Group matched these shares, on a one-to-one basis, up to £20 per month.
Accordingly, each executive director received 17 matching shares. The shares
were purchased at a price of 112p 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                     365,754                  217,533           272,836                   856,123
T. J. Breedon                      679,620                  342,647            90,175                 1,112,442
A. W. Palmer                       458,282                  310,710         1,494,107                 2,263,099
R. A. Phipps                       856,255                  323,740           400,187                 1,580,182
J. B. Pollock                      196,010                  140,221            30,408                   366,639
D. J. Prosser                    2,266,980                1,215,714         1,527,944                 5,010,638



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                    112
C. A. Davies                    111
I. A. Gibson                    111
C. C. Hatry                     112
G. J. Hoskin                    112

The Group matched these shares, on a one-to-one basis, up to £20 per month.
Accordingly, each Senior Manager received 17 matching shares.  The shares were
purchased at a price of 112p per share.

Non Executive Directors' purchases

On 1 September 2005 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 112.5p per share.

F. A. Heaton                        1,291
B. C. Hodson                        1,291
R. J. Margetts                      6,509
J. B. Morgans                       1,291
R. H. Schmitz                       1,291
H. E. Staunton                      1,726
J. M. Strachan                      1,291
D. A. Walker                        1,726

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

F. A. Heaton                         59,020
B. C. Hodson                         59,107
R. J. Margetts                      363,816
J. B. Morgans                       100,514
R. H. Schmitz                        66,381
H. E. Staunton                       73,711
J. M. Strachan                       42,917
D. A. Walker                        181,966


Legal & General Savings Related Share Option Scheme

On 1 September 2005 C. A. Davies was granted 8,695 options over ordinary 2.5p
shares in Group at a price of 89.8p per share.




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