Director/PDMR Shareholding

Legal & General Group PLC
05 July 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 3 July 2006, 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
R. A. Phipps                                                 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 16 matching shares. The shares
were purchased at a price of 129.5p 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      Options  Total beneficial 
                                    or plans                       interests
C R R Avery         630,956          206,192           272,836     1,109,984 
 
T J Breedon       1,010,858          364,557            78,660     1,454,075 
 
A W Palmer          530,348          277,901         1,494,107     2,302,356 
 
R A Phipps        1,183,307          296,122           404,755     1,884,184 
 
J B Pollock         271,858          152,825            30,408       455,091 
                  

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                                                 96
C. A. Davies                                                 97
I. A. Gibson                                                 96
C. C. Hatry                                                  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 exception of C. A. Davies, received
16 matching shares.  C. A. Davies received 15 matching shares.  The shares were
purchased at a price of 129.5p per share.  Differences are due to rounding from
previous allocations.

Non Executive Directors' purchases

On 3 July 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 129.5p per share.

F. A. Heaton                       1, 121
B. C. Hodson                       1, 121
R. J. Margetts                      5,655
R. H. Schmitz                       1,121
H. E. Staunton                      1,499
J. M. Strachan                      1,121
D. A. Walker                        1,499

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

F. A. Heaton                         70,640
B. C. Hodson                         70,727
R. J. Margetts                      424,636
R. H. Schmitz                        78,001
H. E. Staunton                       89,249
J. M. Strachan                       56,587
D. A. Walker                        207,504




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