Director/PDMR Shareholding

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

                                             Partnership Shares

C. R. R. Avery                                               88
T. J. Breedon                                                88
A. W. Palmer                                                 89
R. A. Phipps                                                 88
J. B. Pollock                                                88

The Group matched these shares, on a one-to-one basis, up to £20 per month.
Accordingly, each executive director received 14 matching shares. The shares
were purchased at a price of 141.75p per share.  Differences are due to rounding
from previous allocations.

Following these awards, the executive directors had 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           Options          Total beneficial
                                           or plans                                   interests
                                                            
C R R Avery         632,871                 206,669           272,836                 1,112,376
T J Breedon       1,010,858                 365,034            87,880                 1,463,772
A W Palmer          530,621                 278,378         1,494,107                 2,303,106
R A Phipps        1,197,052                 296,599           391,280                 1,884,931
J B Pollock         271,858                 153,302            30,408                   455,568


PDMR Purchases

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                                                 89
C. A. Davies                                                 88
I. A. Gibson                                                 88
C. C. Hatry                                                  88
G. J. Hoskin                                                 88

The Group matched these shares, on a one-to-one basis, up to £20 per month.
Accordingly, each Senior Manager received 14 matching shares.  The shares were
purchased at a price of 141.75p per share.  Differences are due to rounding from
previous allocations.

Non Executive Directors' purchases

On 2 October 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 140.75p per share.

F. A. Heaton                       1, 032
B. C. Hodson                       1, 032
R. J. Margetts                      5,203
R. H. Schmitz                       1,032
H. E. Staunton                      1,379
J. M. Strachan                      1,032
D. A. Walker                        1,379

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

F. A. Heaton                         73,923
B. C. Hodson                         74,010
R. J. Margetts                      443,305
R. H. Schmitz                        81,284
H. E. Staunton                       93,637
J. M. Strachan                       59,870
D. A. Walker                        211,892


Legal & General Group Plc Dividend Reinvestment Plan ('the Plan')

Lloyds TSB Registrars have advised us that, in accordance with the terms of the
Plan, they acquired Ordinary shares of 2.5p each in the Group on 2 October 2006
at a price of 140.7604p on behalf of the following Group director:

C. R. R. Avery                                            9,376

Lloyds TSB Registrars (the ISA manager) have also advised that, in accordance
with the terms of the Plan, they acquired 121 Ordinary shares of 2.5p each in
the group on 2 October 2006 at a price of 142.75p per share on behalf of Mrs J.
C. Palmer, wife of A. W. Palmer, Group Director (Finance) of Legal & General
Group Plc.

Following the above reported transaction, the directors' beneficial interests in
the ordinary shares of the Group are:

C. R. R. Avery                                           1,121,752
A. W. Palmer                                             2,303,227


Lloyds TSB Registrars have today advised us that, in accordance with the terms
of the Plan, they acquired ordinary shares of 2.5p each in the Group on 2
October 2006 at a price of 140.7604p on behalf of the following Senior Managers:

Victoria Hoskin, wife of Gareth Hoskin                                     12



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