Director/PDMR Shareholding

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

                                Partnership Shares

C. R. R. Avery                  99
T. J. Breedon                   99
A. W. Palmer                    99
R. A. Phipps                    99
J. B. Pollock                   99

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 125.75p 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              371,979           218,187           272,836            863,117
T. J. Breedon               691,135           343,416            78,660          1,113,211
A. W. Palmer                458,282           311,479         1,494,107          2,263,868
R. A. Phipps                856,255           324,510           398,632          1,579,379
J. B. Pollock               196,010           140,990            30,408            367,408

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                    99
C. A. Davies                    100
I. A. Gibson                    99
C. C. Hatry                     99
G. J. Hoskin                    99
D.J. Prosser                    99

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 125.75p per share.

Non Executive Directors' purchases

On 1 February 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 1.26p per share.

F. A. Heaton                        1,152
B. C. Hodson                        1,152
R. J. Margetts                      5,812
J. B. Morgans                       1,152
R. H. Schmitz                       1,152
H. E. Staunton                      1,541
J. M. Strachan                      1,152
D. A. Walker                        1,541

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

F. A. Heaton                         65,218
B. C. Hodson                         65,305
R. J. Margetts                      397,292
J. B. Morgans                       106,712
R. H. Schmitz                        72,579
H. E. Staunton                       81,999
J. M. Strachan                       49,729
D. A. Walker                        200,254






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