Director/PDMR Shareholding

Legal & General Group PLC
03 March 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 March 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 15 matching shares. The shares
were purchased at a price of 130.50p 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:-

                             Shares          Shares in schemes or        Options          Total beneficial
                                                    plans                                     interests
        Name
C. R. R. Avery                     371,979                  218,413           272,836                   863,228
T. J. Breedon                      691,135                  343,527            78,660                 1,113,322
A. W. Palmer                       458,867                  311,590         1,494,107                 2,264,564
R. A. Phipps                       856,255                  324,621           398,632                 1,579,508
J. B. Pollock                      196,010                  141,101            30,408                   367,519

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                    96
I. A. Gibson                    96
C. C. Hatry                     96
G. J. Hoskin                    96
D.J. Prosser                    96

The Group matched these shares, on a one-to-one basis, up to £20 per month.
Accordingly, each Senior Manager received 15 matching shares, except C.A. Davies
who received 16 matching shares(due to rounding from a previous allocations) .
The shares were purchased at a price of 130.50per share.

Non Executive Directors' purchases

On 1 March 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 130.75p per share.

F. A. Heaton                        1,111
B. C. Hodson                        1,111
R. J. Margetts                      5,601
J. B. Morgans                       1,111
R. H. Schmitz                       1,111
H. E. Staunton                      1,485
J. M. Strachan                      1,111
D. A. Walker                        1,485

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

F. A. Heaton                         66,329
B. C. Hodson                         66,416
R. J. Margetts                      402,893
J. B. Morgans                       107,823
R. H. Schmitz                        73,690
H. E. Staunton                       83,484
J. M. Strachan                       50,840
D. A. Walker                        201,739






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