Director/PDMR Shareholding

Legal & General Group PLC
04 January 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 January 2006 each executive director
chose to contribute to purchase the following partnership shares:

                                Partnership Shares
C. R. R. Avery                  102
T. J. Breedon                   102
A. W. Palmer                    101
R. A. Phipps                    102
J. B. Pollock                   102

The Group matched these shares, on a one-to-one basis, up to £20 per month.
Accordingly, each executive director received 16 matching shares. The shares
were purchased at a price of 123.25p 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:-

                                   Shares              Shares in schemes or   Options          Total beneficial
                                                             plans                                    interests
Name
C. R. R. Avery                     370,989                  218,187           272,836                   862,012
T. J. Breedon                      691,135                  343,301            78,660                 1,113,096
A. W. Palmer                       458,282                  311,364         1,494,107                 2,263,753
R. A. Phipps                       856,255                  324,395           400,187                 1,580,837
J. B. Pollock                      196,010                  140,875            30,408                   367,293

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                    101
C. A. Davies                    101
I. A. Gibson                    102
C. C. Hatry                     102
G. J. Hoskin                    102
D.J. Prosser                    101

The Group matched these shares, on a one-to-one basis, up to £20 per month.
Accordingly, each Senior Manager received 16 matching shares. The shares were
purchased at a price of 123.25p per share.

Non Executive Directors' purchases

On 3 January 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                        1,181
B. C. Hodson                        1,181
R. J. Margetts                      5,953
J. B. Morgans                       1,181
R. H. Schmitz                       1,181
H. E. Staunton                      1,579
J. M. Strachan                      1,181
D. A. Walker                        1,579

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

F. A. Heaton                         64,066
B. C. Hodson                         64,153
R. J. Margetts                      391,480
J. B. Morgans                       105,560
R. H. Schmitz                        71,427
H. E. Staunton                       80,458
J. M. Strachan                       48,577
D. A. Walker                        198,713






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