Director/PDMR Shareholding

Legal & General Group Plc
02 April 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 1 April 2008, 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
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 127.8p 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                 212,552           272,836                 1,196,057

T J Breedon                1,280,782                 406,017            87,880                 1,774,679
                                     
A W Palmer                    93,967                 283,025           794,107                 1,171,099

J B Pollock                  297,670                 172,476            30,408                   500,554


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                                                97
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 and M.J.
Gregory, received 15 matching shares, C.A.Davies and M.J. Gregory received 16
matching shares. Differences are due to rounding from previous allocations.  The
shares were purchased at a price of 127.8p per share.

Non Executive Directors' purchases

On 1 April 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
127.6p per share.

F. A. Heaton                        1,234
R. J. Margetts                      6,218
R.H.P. Markham                      1,234
R. H. Schmitz                       1,234
H. E. Staunton                      1,713
J. M. Strachan                      1,234
D. A. Walker                        4,205

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

F. A. Heaton                         92,555
R. J. Margetts                      544,492
R.H.P. Markham                       35,936
R. H. Schmitz                        99,916
H. E. Staunton                      118,737
J. M. Strachan                       78,502
D. A. Walker                        287,328



Julie Seabrook
Assistant Company Secretary
2 April 2008



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