Director/PDMR Shareholding

Legal & General Group PLC
03 January 2008


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 2 January 2008, each executive director chose to contribute
to purchase the following partnership shares:

                                             Partnership Shares
C. R. R. Avery                                               96
T. J. Breedon                                                96
A. W. Palmer                                                 96
J. B. Pollock                                                96

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 130.5p 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
                                    710,669                 212,061           272,836                 1,195,566

C R R Avery
                                  1,280,782                 405,526            87,880                 1,774,188

T J Breedon
                                  1,023,441                 282,534           794,107                 2,100,082

A W Palmer
                                    297,670                 171,985            30,408                   500,063

J B Pollock

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                                                 95
C. A. Davies                                                 96
M. J. Gregory                                                96
G. J. Hoskin                                                 96



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
15 matching shares; M. J. Gregory received 16 matching shares.  Differences are
due to rounding from previous allocations.  The shares were purchased at a price
of 130.50p per share.

Non Executive Directors' purchases

On 2 January 2008, 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
131.60p per share.

F. A. Heaton                        1,103
R. J. Margetts                      6,029
R.H.P. Markham                      1,103
R. H. Schmitz                       1,103
H. E. Staunton                      1,475
J. M. Strachan                      1,103
D. A. Walker                        1,475

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

F. A. Heaton                         88,875
R. J. Margetts                      525,950
R.H.P. Markham                       17,194
R. H. Schmitz                        96,236
H. E. Staunton                      113,629
J. M. Strachan                       74,822
D. A. Walker                        278,968


Helen Forster
Assistant Company Secretary
3 January 2008


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