Director/PDMR Shareholding

Legal & General Group PLC
05 September 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 1 September 2006, each executive director
chose to contribute to purchase the following partnership shares:

                                             Partnership Shares
C. R. R. Avery                                               94
T. J. Breedon                                                94
A. W. Palmer                                                 94
R. A. Phipps                                                 94
J. B. Pollock                                                94

The Group matched these shares, on a one-to-one basis, up to £20 per month.
Accordingly, each executive director received 15 matching shares. The shares
were purchased at a price of 132.25p 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:-

        Name                         Shares           Shares in schemes or    Options          Total beneficial
                                                             plans                                    interests

C R R Avery                         632,871                 206,417           272,836                 1,112,124
T J Breedon                       1,010,858                 364,782            87,880                 1,463,520
A W Palmer                          530,621                 278,126         1,494,107                 2,302,854
R A Phipps                        1,197,052                 296,347           391,280                 1,884,679
J B Pollock                         271,858                 153,050            30,408                   455,316

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                                                 94
C. A. Davies                                                 95
I. A. Gibson                                                 94
C. C. Hatry                                                  94
G. J. Hoskin                                                 94

The Group matched these shares, on a one-to-one basis, up to £20 per month.
Accordingly, each Senior Manager received 15 matching shares.  The shares were
purchased at a price of 132.25p per share.  Differences are due to rounding from
previous allocations.

Non Executive Directors' purchases

On 1 September 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 134.25p per share.

F. A. Heaton                       1, 082
B. C. Hodson                       1, 082
R. J. Margetts                      5,455
R. H. Schmitz                       1,082
H. E. Staunton                      1,446
J. M. Strachan                      1,082
D. A. Walker                        1,446

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

F. A. Heaton                         72,891
B. C. Hodson                         72,978
R. J. Margetts                      438,102
R. H. Schmitz                        80,252
H. E. Staunton                       92,258
J. M. Strachan                       58,838
D. A. Walker                        210,513




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