Director/PDMR Shareholding

Legal & General Group PLC
03 May 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 2 May 2006 each executive director chose
to contribute to purchase the following partnership shares:

                                Partnership Shares
C. R. R. Avery                  90
T. J. Breedon                   90
A. W. Palmer                    90
R. A. Phipps                    90
J. B. Pollock                   90

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 139p 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                  618,527                205,967              272,836              1,097,330
T J Breedon                 1,010,858               364,332              78,660               1,453,850
A W Palmer                   530,348                277,676             1,494,107             2,302,131
R A Phipps                  1,183,307               295,897              405,025              1,884,229
J B Pollock                  271,858                152,600              30,408                454,866

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                    90
C. A. Davies                    90
I. A. Gibson                    90
C. C. Hatry                     90
G. J. Hoskin                    90

The Group matched these shares, on a one-to-one basis, up to £20 per month.
Accordingly, each Senior Manager, with the exception of C. A. Davies, received
15 matching shares. C. A. Davies received 14 matching shares. The shares were
purchased at a price of 139p per share. Differences are due to rounding from
previous allocations.

Non Executive Directors' purchases

On 2 May 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 139p per share.

F. A. Heaton                       1, 045
B. C. Hodson                       1, 045
R. J. Margetts                      5,268
J. B. Morgans                       1,045
R. H. Schmitz                       1,045
H. E. Staunton                      1,397
J. M. Strachan                      1,045
D. A. Walker                        1,397

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

F. A. Heaton                         68,389
B. C. Hodson                         68,476
R. J. Margetts                      413,282
J. B. Morgans                       109,883
R. H. Schmitz                        75,750
H. E. Staunton                       86,239
J. M. Strachan                       52,540
D. A. Walker                        204,494



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