Director/PDMR Shareholding

Legal & General Group PLC
04 December 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 3 December 2007, each executive director chose to contribute
to purchase the following partnership shares:

                                             Partnership Shares

C. R. R. Avery                                               97
T. J. Breedon                                                97
A. W. Palmer                                                 97
J. B. Pollock                                                97

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 128p per share.

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         710,669                 211,950           272,836                 1,195,455

T J Breedon       1,280,782                 405,415            87,880                 1,774,077

A W Palmer        1,023,441                 282,423           794,107                 2,099,971

J B Pollock         297,670                 171,874            30,408                   499,952

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                                                 98
C. A. Davies                                                 98
M. J. Gregory                                                98
G. J. Hoskin                                                 97

The Group matched these shares, on a one-to-one basis, up to £20 per month.
Accordingly, each Senior Manager, with the exceptions of M. J. Gregory, received
16 matching shares; M. J. Gregory received 15 matching shares.  Differences are
due to rounding from previous allocations.  The shares were purchased at a price
of 128p per share.

Non Executive Directors' purchases

On 3 December 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
127.4p per share.

F. A. Heaton                        1,140
R. J. Margetts                      6,228
R.H.P. Markham                      1,140
R. H. Schmitz                       1,140
H. E. Staunton                      1,524
J. M. Strachan                      1,140
D. A. Walker                        1,524

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

F. A. Heaton                         87,772
R. J. Margetts                      519,921
R.H.P. Markham                       16,091
R. H. Schmitz                        95,133
H. E. Staunton                      112,154
J. M. Strachan                       73,719
D. A. Walker                        277,493



Helen Forster
Assistant Company Secretary
4 December 2007


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