Director/PDMR Shareholding

Legal & General Group PLC
02 November 2005

 
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 November 2005 each executive director
chose to contribute to purchase the following partnership shares:

                                Partnership Shares

C. R. R. Avery                  116
T. J. Breedon                   116
A. W. Palmer                    116
R. A. Phipps                    116
J. B. Pollock                   116
D. J. Prosser                   116

The Group matched these shares, on a one-to-one basis, up to £20 per month.
Accordingly, each executive director received 19 matching shares. The shares
were purchased at a price of 107.75p 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                     370,989                  217,945           272,836                   861,770
T. J. Breedon                      691,135                  343,059            78,660                 1,112,854
A. W. Palmer                       458,282                  311,122         1,494,107                 2,263,511
R. A. Phipps                       856,255                  324,153           400,187                 1,580,595
J. B. Pollock                      196,010                  140,633            30,408                   367,051
D. J. Prosser                    2,266,980                1,216,126         1,527,944                 5,011,050

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                    116
C. A. Davies                    116
I. A. Gibson                    116
C. C. Hatry                     116
G. J. Hoskin                    116

The Group matched these shares, on a one-to-one basis, up to £20 per month.
Accordingly, each Senior Manager received 19 matching shares, except for C. A.
Davies who received 18 matching shares. The shares were purchased at a price of
107.75p per share.

Non Executive Directors' purchases

On 1 November 2005 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 108p per share.

F. A. Heaton                        1,345
B. C. Hodson                        1,345
R. J. Margetts                      6,780
J. B. Morgans                       1,345
R. H. Schmitz                       1,345
H. E. Staunton                      1,798
J. M. Strachan                      1,345
D. A. Walker                        1,798

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

F. A. Heaton                         61,639
B. C. Hodson                         61,726
R. J. Margetts                      379,241
J. B. Morgans                       103,133
R. H. Schmitz                        69,000
H. E. Staunton                       77,212
J. M. Strachan                       46,150
D. A. Walker                        185,467






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