Director/PDMR Shareholding

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

                                Partnership Shares
C. R. R. Avery                                               98
T. J. Breedon                                                98
A. W. Palmer                                                 98
R. A. Phipps                                                 98
J. B. Pollock                                                98

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 127.5p 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:-

   Name                               Shares            Shares in schemes or    Options          Total beneficial
                                                          plans                                    interests
   
C R R Avery                           630,956                 206,080           272,836                 1,109,872
                                    

T J Breedon                         1,010,858                 364,445            78,660                 1,453,963
                                  

A W Palmer                            530,348                 277,789         1,494,107                 2,302,244
                                    

R A Phipps                          1,183,307                 296,010           404,755                 1,884,072
                                  

J B Pollock                           271,858                 152,713            30,408                   454,979
                                    


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                                                 98
C. A. Davies                                                 98
I. A. Gibson                                                 98
C. C. Hatry                                                  98
G. J. Hoskin                                                 98

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 16 matching shares. The shares were
purchased at a price of 127.5p per share. Differences are due to rounding from
previous allocations.

Non Executive Directors' purchases

On 1 June 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 128.5p per share.

F. A. Heaton                       1, 130
B. C. Hodson                       1, 130
R. J. Margetts                      5,699
R. H. Schmitz                       1,130
H. E. Staunton                      1,511
J. M. Strachan                      1,130
D. A. Walker                        1,511

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

F. A. Heaton                         69,519
B. C. Hodson                         69,606
R. J. Margetts                      418,981
R. H. Schmitz                        76,880
H. E. Staunton                       87,750
J. M. Strachan                       55,466
D. A. Walker                        206,005






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