Director/PDMR Shareholding

Legal & General Group PLC 04 July 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 July 2005 each executive director chose to contribute to purchase the following partnership shares: Partnership Shares C. R. R. Avery 109 T. J. Breedon 109 A. W. Palmer 110 R. A. Phipps 109 J. B. Pollock 109 D. J. Prosser 110 The Group matched these shares, on a one-to-one basis, up to £20 per month. Accordingly, each executive director received 17 matching shares. The shares were purchased at a price of 114.5p 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:- Shares Shares in schemes or Options Total beneficial plans interests Name C. R. R. Avery 365,754 217,276 272,836 855,740 T. J. Breedon 679,620 342,390 90,175 1,112,059 A. W. Palmer 458,282 310,454 1,494,107 2,262,716 R. A. Phipps 856,255 323,484 400,187 1,579,800 J. B. Pollock 196,010 139,964 30,408 366,256 D. J. Prosser 2,266,980 1,215,458 1,527,944 5,010,255 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 D. W. Binding 110 M. J. Bolton 110 G. J. Hoskin 110 I. A. Gibson 109 C. C. Hatry 109 The Group matched these shares, on a one-to-one basis, up to £20 per month. Accordingly, each Senior Manager received 17 matching shares. The shares were purchased at a price of 114.5p per share. Non Executive Directors' purchases On 1 June 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 114.5p per share. F. A. Heaton 1,268 B. C. Hodson 1,268 R. J. Margetts 6,395 J. B. Morgans 1,268 R. H. Schmitz 1,268 H. E. Staunton 1,696 J. M. Strachan 1,268 D. A. Walker 1,696 Following these awards, the non-executive directors' current beneficial interests in Group now stand at: F. A. Heaton 56,458 B. C. Hodson 56,545 R. J. Margetts 350,898 J. B. Morgans 97,952 R. H. Schmitz 63,819 H. E. Staunton 70,285 J. M. Strachan 39,540 D. A. Walker 178,540 This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock Exchange
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