Director/PDMR Shareholding

Legal & General Group PLC
02 February 2007

Legal & General Group Plc

Legal & General Group Employee Share 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 Legal & General Group Employee Share Plan ('the Plan') on a
monthly basis.  On 1 February 2007, each executive director chose to contribute
to purchase the following partnership shares:
                                             Partnership Shares
C. R. R. Avery                                               79
T. J. Breedon                                                79
A. W. Palmer                                                 78
R. A. Phipps                                                 79
J. B. Pollock                                                79

The Group matched these shares, on a one-to-one basis, up to £20 per month.
Accordingly, each executive director received 13 matching shares. The shares
were purchased at a price of 158.5p per share.  Differences are due to rounding
from previous allocations.

Following these awards, the executive directors have beneficial interests in the
shares of the Group (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                 207,047           272,836                 1,122,130

                                  

T J Breedon                       1,010,858                 365,412            87,880                 1,464,150
                                    

A W Palmer                          530,742                 278,756         1,494,107                 2,303,605
                                  

R A Phipps                        1,197,052                 296,977           391,280                 1,885,309
                                    

J B Pollock                         271,858                 153,680            30,408                   455,946

The following Senior Managers also chose to take part in the Plan.  Each Senior
Manager chose to contribute to purchase the following partnership shares:

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

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 13 matching shares.  C. A. Davies and M. J. Gregory each
received 12 shares.  The shares were purchased at a price of 158.5p per share.
Differences are due to rounding from previous allocations.

Non Executive Directors' purchases

On 1 February 2007 the following non-executive directors of the Group purchased
the following ordinary shares of 2.5p each ('shares') in the Group at a price of
158.75p per share.

F. A. Heaton                          915
B. C. Hodson                          915
R. J. Margetts                      4,998
R. H. Schmitz                         915
H. E. Staunton                      1,223
J. M. Strachan                        915
D. A. Walker                        1,223

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

F. A. Heaton                         77,705
B. C. Hodson                         77,792
R. J. Margetts                      462,763
R. H. Schmitz                        85,066
H. E. Staunton                       98,695
J. M. Strachan                       63,652
D. A. Walker                        219,595




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